The Great Unfriending

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Since when did Facebook begin to hold such power over us in our lives? It is a website, a phone app, yet it has the power to crush and humiliate.  I speak from personal experience.  In the last week, I have been unfriended by my dear sister in law for who knows what reason...We haven't shared a word on there for a few weeks.  I only noticed that I hadn't seen pictures of my niece in a while, so I went to her wall.  Guess what?  She was gone...No wall.  It makes me sad how easily people can dispose of you on Facebook.  Squishing you under their feet like a used cigarette.  I've been unfriended before by my husband's brother.  TWICE.  He just doesn't like me.  And when he decided he wanted to be my friend again, my husband councils me to just accept his friendship to avoid confrontation and trouble.  So there I am floating on the tides of other people moods.  And you know what?

I DON'T LIKE IT!

Recently I was involved in a Football discussion which turned personal.  What the crap?  I was supporting a decent Christian player who was being dogged because he was a Christian.  In another discussion, I was lambasted as a bigot and told I was full of hatred because I defended the sanctity and sacredness of a marriage between a husband and wife.  Anyone who knows me well, knows that I have a pure heart and that I RARELY jump into conversations that would be deemed controversial. I am very sensitive to criticism, drama and negativity.  I just felt passionately about what was going down. At this point, I regret my involvement because my self esteem has been crushed.

When did something that was such a positive thing in my life become so negative?  

So I am hereto unfriending Facebook and flipping it the bird effective the end of this week.  I want to be able to pass on contact information to those that truly matter first.

Facebook has become a thorn in my side.