{"id":321,"date":"2015-05-11T16:15:46","date_gmt":"2015-05-11T16:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/?p=321"},"modified":"2015-05-11T16:21:33","modified_gmt":"2015-05-11T16:21:33","slug":"on-facebook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/thoughts\/on-facebook\/","title":{"rendered":"On Facebook"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I got this image from endoskeptic.com. Not trying to make any statement, just thought it was funny.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I was talking with some friends on the topic of things that annoy us about Facebook.<\/p>\n

One friend cited people who just use it as a venue to show off their luxurious lives and possessions. I couldn\u2019t relate. I know a few wealthy people, but they\u2019re pretty discreet about it\u2014even, in some cases, a little embarrassed.<\/p>\n

Someone else mentioned people who are always posting about their boring, normal lives. I stayed silent. I guess either my friends are all really interesting, or I don\u2019t find their normal lives boring. (I could go on about the phenomenon of contempt for \u201cnormals\u201d\u2014near the top of my list of things I can\u2019t stand about my own community\u2014but I feel that would be off-topic.)<\/p>\n

It was my turn to chime in. \u201cWhat about people who do nothing but post angry, embittered left-wing rants, all day, every day?\u201d<\/p>\n

Nobody else had any friends like that. I\u2019d say that describes about two-thirds of my Facebook feed at any given moment. I\u2019m not sure what that says about me, but I like my Facebook friends anyway.<\/p>\n

Speaking of Facebook, if you are a fan of the WP, please come and give your Likes to The World Provider Facebook page<\/a>. I\u2019ll be honest with you, I simply need to boost my number of followers to impress the kind of people who are impressed by this kind of thing. I promise not to over-post or do anything really annoying. It\u2019s all a part of my grand strategy to build the WP\u2019s slow-building rise to world domination\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was talking with some friends on the topic of things that annoy us about Facebook. One friend cited people who just use it as a venue to show off their luxurious lives and possessions. I couldn\u2019t relate. I know a few wealthy people, but they\u2019re pretty discreet about it\u2014even, in some cases, a little … Continue reading “On Facebook”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldprovider.net\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}