A rant

A few minutes on facebook can be a laugh or two. While I'd much rather have live, in person interaction with people who have shared parts of my life with me, be they friends or relatives, that's not always possible. Say what you want about facebook, but it is a nice way of staying in touch with people who mean something to me.

What I can do without however, is the guilt-inducing pictures and status updates. You know what I'm talking about? I can do without pictures of any examples of animal cruelty and a tag line that says something like like this status/picture if you think animal cruelty should be a felony - give me a flippin' break already. Of fucking course I hate animal cruelty. If I witnessed this kind of thing out in the real world, and make no mistake here people, there is a real world out there, with real people doing real things, I would act on my senses to either stop it or see that the person responsible was brought to justice. Acting on what I know is wrong on behalf of a defenseless animal probably does not mean clicking the "like" button on a social networking site and posting it on my page to prove that I want something done about it.

The same goes for pictures of children with cancer or some other God awful disease that none of us think is fair, nor can we find a way to explain it. It's awful, it shouldn't be that way and of course it bothers us. It may be closer to home for some of us than others - it may be home for some of us. Enough with the fucking sad pictures that guilt you into hitting the fucking like button and thinking that doing so will result in anything good. It's as if someone is saying "Isn't this sad? Doesn't this make you sad? If you said 'yes, it makes me sad', hit the like button and post it on your wall to prove it. Fuck you. And if you're bothered by my dropping the f-bomb a few times in this post, fucking get over it - because this kind of passive, pseudo-activism does more than make me sad. It pisses me off.

It pisses me off that some idiot out there thinks it's a good idea to post something like this as some sort of way to get people to prove that they have a conscious, a heart or a sense of empathy. Give me a fucking break. What do the idiots who originate this crap expect me to think? That if I don't click the like button and/or put it on my wall that I don't have any of those attributes? I'm waiting for the day some brain donor posts something like "Like this sad photo/fact or facebook will delete your account for your lack of decency/empathy/heart" - fuck you. You wanna know why I'm okay with dropping f-bombs on this subject? Because it pisses me off that you're asking me if something sad and unjustifiable towards another human or an animal bothers me. Sometimes there are stupid questions. Stop fucking asking them.

What do you want me to think, that there's some blue and white facebook van driving around neighborhoods like the Publisher's Clearing House van, that if enough people like and share your fucking sad photo, it'll result in said van stopping by the sick child's home, the poor dog's street or the veteran's house and saving the day? Fuck you. I don't know about you, but the only place I've ever seen a Publisher's Clearing House van, is on television. Matter of fact, I don't know anyone, nor do I know anyone who knows anyone, who has ever seen this van. If I did ever see one of these vans, I'd follow the fucker and take pictures to prove it. I don't believe one even exists - nor do I believe that posting disturbing photos with a disclaimer demanding I click like and share proves anything or does any real good. I think the next time I see one of these disturbing picture posts, I'm going to share it with the disclaimer Click like and share this if you think the bonehead who posted this and says you should like and share this should be banned from facebook - facebook says if we get a bazillion likes they will ban this asshole and fine them a million dollars". Dammit! I gotta run - the Publisher's Clearing House Van is driving down my street. I have a conscious. I have a pretty big heart and a sense of empathy. Clicking like and/or sharing something on a social networking site is not something I need to do to prove that. Have a great day people!