FB

While most of the time I love FB since it provides me a convenient way to waste time I should be using to finish my dissertation. And there is a slight stalkerish element to FB and I love that too. I had this dilemma of who to befriend a couple of years ago when I got FB, but then decided to just befriend everyone since I did not have enough brain space to really think or care about it back then. The problem with that decision is that I am confronted with a lot of stuff (opinions, hatemongering, bad research, complaining, oversharing, etc.) that I do not like or agree with. I have discovered you can hide their posts and I do this, but some of this stuff keeps coming through. So I am left wondering if in my old age I am becoming even less tolerant of people different from me? This is not to say I was a particularly tolerant person to begin with, just that I am maybe forced to confront it now that FB provides me with daily opportunities. To take this step further, what do I do with this new knowledge that I am intolerant? See, it's just so hard. Maybe my little plan to befriend everyone was a bad idea since the pay later situation I'm in as a result really sucks.