That is the question isn't it? For as much as I post (some chide me as a post fiend) you'd think it doesn't take an effort. It does take a conscientious effort for the most part if I'm not sharing a funny / noteworthy post of someone else's.
So when I'm inspired or motivated to post, I write. But I have a general rule to not to write in anger or in a negative space. Of course, it's happened in the past and will continue on occasion. To understand, you must know when I started journaling my life but then returned to those pages years later I thought to myself I was unhappy and depressed. For all tense and purpose, the words were nothing but negative!
I continue to do what I do. Write, speak, and post when I'm inspired or when it's positive or at least relevant. That way my audience will read that I'm consistent, considerate, and funny. I've had several comments directed to me like "based on your FB pictures you look happy", "I FB stalked you seems like you're having a blast!"
I'm accomplishing what I set out to do.
How do I address those unsavory situations of life that involve but not including all death, heartache, anger, frustration, disappointment, and conflict resolution. I've been taught these situations are face-to-face, and usually resolved behind closed doors. You respect the friendship / relationship / family tie, and don't air your grievances on social media or on the street corner i.e. in street lingo you don't put them on blast. That being explained, that's why I don't post conflicts like that on Facebook, Twitter, etc.
To that end, I'm not trying to front an all-positive, all cheery, existence without the trials and tribulations. Not at all. It's about making that mature, adult decision to post or not to post.
This has been my C Note.
'los; out
My motivation, at least in the beginning, was to communicate and broadcast to my Dad and family in the Philippines because they signed up for Facebook after abandoning other social media websites such as Friendster etc. Then I had / have a Blogger account with several blogs. One is called C Notes. Why C Notes, you ask? 1) the title is vital, 2) multi-layered pun, and 3) versatile.
So when I'm inspired or motivated to post, I write. But I have a general rule to not to write in anger or in a negative space. Of course, it's happened in the past and will continue on occasion. To understand, you must know when I started journaling my life but then returned to those pages years later I thought to myself I was unhappy and depressed. For all tense and purpose, the words were nothing but negative!
Let's fast forward to 2015, and social media. There's a dichotomy of posts on FB. A large portion of "your" audience is passive / not engaging. So they want to know you're pursuing life, liberty and happiness yet your trials and tribulations should be kept to yourself. I think the explanation is that everyone has problems so they don't want to know about yours because it reminds them of their own (?) Not sure if that would withstand a litmus test. My proof is the counter posts of "instead of bad/negative posts I'm gonna fill Facebook with pictures of xyz" It's usually puppies, unicorns or bowls of cherries which we all eventually figure life or even Facebook isn't any of this.
I continue to do what I do. Write, speak, and post when I'm inspired or when it's positive or at least relevant. That way my audience will read that I'm consistent, considerate, and funny. I've had several comments directed to me like "based on your FB pictures you look happy", "I FB stalked you seems like you're having a blast!"
I'm accomplishing what I set out to do.
How do I address those unsavory situations of life that involve but not including all death, heartache, anger, frustration, disappointment, and conflict resolution. I've been taught these situations are face-to-face, and usually resolved behind closed doors. You respect the friendship / relationship / family tie, and don't air your grievances on social media or on the street corner i.e. in street lingo you don't put them on blast. That being explained, that's why I don't post conflicts like that on Facebook, Twitter, etc.
To that end, I'm not trying to front an all-positive, all cheery, existence without the trials and tribulations. Not at all. It's about making that mature, adult decision to post or not to post.
This has been my C Note.
'los; out
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