I have finally decided to give up posting anything on FaceBook.  It’s not worth it anymore.  I usually post things that I think are funny.   The things I post don’t always reflect my actual opinion.  Some things I post on purpose to play devils advocate.  I like to see if I can’t get people thinking.  Well, anymore everyone just takes everything so serious and gets offended.  So it’s just pretty useless to make light of something, be sarcastic, joke, like something, comment on something or share your opinion on anything.  I feel it’s only going to get worse as time goes on.

I just find it very interesting that people think that by posting something they are going to change everyone’s mind.  Instead of having a civil conversation on issues that are not agreed upon, everyone results to name calling and putting people down.  There is no respect for opinion.  The last I heard this was a free country and part of living in a free country is to have your own individual opinions.  You don’t have to like everyone’s opinion, but I think you should respect it.

The biggest issue I see is if people don’t agree with me, they will go on to tell me how stupid and uninformed or uneducated I am.  They will tell me that my opinion is wrong.  I don’t understand how someone can be wrong for their beliefs.  That’s kind of why people left Europe and came to the new world….at least that’s what I thought.  But it seems everyone has forgotten this.

Now….you have a group of people that do not want to understand what is going on.  They take short cuts in their “research” of what is going on in the world.  They take meme’s as truth.  They think that just because someone posted something that is worded in a factual context that it is in fact …well….fact.  You have people who bitch and moan about how wrong everything is and how corrupt government is, yet they will not vote.  They think that voting for a specific person for President is what is going to change the world we live in vs. their local government including their Representatives, Senators, and judges.  This is where the real change takes place.

I guess my point here is that whether or not you think someone’s opinion is right or wrong, it’s still their opinion and they are entitled to it.  if people want to base their opinions off of made up stuff…that is their right as well.  But I just hope when people are forming these opinions they are looking at all sides of the situation and listening to everyone so that it is a true opinion.