Comments | researchgrrrl: I like wasps a lot more than I like stupid people.

researchgrrrl

I like wasps a lot more than I like stupid people.

Jul 11, 2012 13:14

OMG. Anti-evolutionist troll, do not even try to play the Second Law of Theromodynamics card like you know WTF you're talking about, especially not with me. No, it does not prove that life cannot evolve because everything moves toward destruction and decay. A CLOSED system will ultimately head toward entropy. Life is an OPEN system. OPEN. ( Read more... )

suck it jackass, archaeology, neep

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fyrdrakken July 12 2012, 16:17:55 UTC

There are reasons I resisted Facebook for so very, very long, and nowadays I only have a few dozen friended. And I made a special point of never adding my schools or workplaces to my profile, and when I get a friend request from someone I went to high school with, I ignore it. (Including the one I was actually friends with in high school because she just kind of glommed on and never went away -- after we graduated, I only heard from her when she wanted something from me, so it was easy to let us drift apart. Though she still occasionally would try to call me, and she's actually friended my sister on FB.) So the upshot is the people who aggravate me the most on FB are family members and I have to kind of suck it up and deal. (Though I've avoided friending most of them -- four cousins and an aunt, aside from my parents and sister. And FB is my main line of contact with my sister.)

researchgrrrl July 12 2012, 22:33:53 UTC

For me, it's always primarily been a free gaming app for when I need mindless clicking for a little while. It has turned into a decent place to post articles that either amuse me or enrage me because the FB 'like' button has become so pervasive. (Sorry, tumblr remains backburnered save for pretty .gifs and .jpegs, usually featuring Sherlock or ferrets.) Of the few from that awful place who added me, most realized I'm even more of a kneejerk progressive and relentless researcher when it comes to social topics: most have removed me. :D There are three I'm actually happy to be in touch with: one lives in Korea now, another was one of my best friends (Wendy) and she lives in a major city with her wife and their darling children, and a third is sweet and surprisingly willing to have conversations about politics even though we lean in opposite directions. I think that leaves two or three others, and I expect them to drop this election cycle. (I think the only reason they haven't dropped me is because they did what I did with them ( ... )

fyrdrakken July 13 2012, 15:15:48 UTC

My FB friends fall into three categories: 1) People I no longer see in person or share any other social network with, that I'd really like to stay in contact with. (This group is the reason I got the account in the first place.) 2) LJ friends I added because they let me know where they were on FB when I was in that first burst of seeking out FB friends after creating my account. (Some of them are drifting into category #1, as they find themselves no longer on LJ as much.) 3) Family members. Just about everyone I ever shared a school with falls into the category of "people I don't see any reason to re-contact." (Aside from my freshman college roommate whom I've stayed friends with via e-mail, LJ and now FB). Former co-workers and ex-boyfriends, the same. This is why I have a grand total of 31 FB friends. (I counted yesterday ( ... )