I had been mentally planning this angry rant about forced sharing on posts from Facebook. How Facebook seemed to be full of bullies. “If you don’t share this you are heartless” or “Repost or you will be poor your whole life.” or even “Share or Repost and Baby Jesus will bless you.” ~type things really bothered me this morning. All the way to the bus stop I was internally fuming about these posts. I have taken to unfollowing people that posts these.

Unfollow? What’s that? That’s where I keep you as a friend on Facebook, because I want you to get my messages that are for “Friends & Family” but I don’t read your posts, because they tend to annoy me. I had noticed that I never had this problem on Google+. Never had to unfollow or unfriend anyone on there, but I don’t follow many people there. But generally it is a much more positive experience there for me.

At this point I started to think back when FB started, how it was so novel that they took the functionality of “Yahoo-photos” and joined it with “LiveJournal”. There were no games, no memes, people didn’t take selfies every 10 seconds of their life. Life was pleasant. No, it was better than pleasant, it was good.

Some of you might not remember the websites I mentioned, so I’ll elaborate. Yahoo Photos was one of a few places you could upload pictures to the internet for other people to view. You had a limit of 1GB I believe, which was more than ANYONE needed. And you’d just send people the link to the album. This was the future or photo-sharing it was awesome. Yahoo no longer has a photo-sharing that I am aware of.

LiveJournal was and still is a place you can micro-blog (or write a journal) whenever you like and friends could read the posts. For a long time they did not have file storage for pictures, I believe that is no longer the case.

Anyways after this point of thinking about LiveJournal, I re-located my old LiveJournal (http://aetolus.livejournal.com) and read a few posts. This made me calm down, and remember some happier moments. I am reminded that I like to use my social media more to post things about my life, not to push an agenda, or to force people into feeling one way or another about topics. So I ask a favour of you all. Go to your own social media website, and review what YOU have posted in the last 6 months, or year. What does that tell people about you?

You can use Google+, Twitter, Facebook, LiveJournal whatever, but look over your old posts from this year and ask yourself, is this what I want the world to remember me by? Is this really me? If you can’t say yes, then maybe you should change your posting habits, and if you are 100% happy with what you post, then I happy for you. I will still unfollow you if you try to push an agenda on me through the social media of choice.