exitstrategy

I have talked to many people and they all have a different take on Facebook status messages.  Some people just love them.  I like to know what people are doing at the exact moment that I sign on to Facebook, they say.  I want to share my feelings with the world, they say.  I am starved for attention, they say. My feelings on the status message is decidedly mixed.  I don’t mind learning that Jenna is eating sushi, or Bill is working yuck, or Mary is wondering why my cat can read my thoughts.  But lately I have noticed a proliferation of political status messages.  Bob is [insert statistic about the fighting in Gaza]; John is [insert statistic about the automobile industry]; Sara is [you get the gist].  I don’t have a problem with people expressing their political views.  In fact, I encourage it.  But there is something not quite right when you scroll down your statuses and its reads as follows: Molly is enjoying a soy latte, Eric wants to nap gadzooks (oy why I am fb friends with a guy who says gadzooks?); Sam is [3,000 rockets have fallen on Israel in the past _ days).  Perhaps there is a better way to express your political views than by sending statuses about those views to people who already are your friends and likely think the same way as you do.  Political expression is more appropriately done on blogs directed to the world at large, not just your own universe of friends.  You know, like exitstrategy.  I am sure many people who live outside of Fat Spinsta’s universe read this blog (and if not tell your friends people!!!  we must spread the word). Let’s agree to keep facebook as a tool to stalk old loves, not spread politics.  And with that, I am off to friend snaggle.  It’s me LOVER. 

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