Fandango’s One-Word Challenge : TORCH

I remember when Facebook was the new toy,  when they became the Torch  Bearers of a new way of communicating on the Net and like a lot of people, I really enjoyed it.

But after one of my friends responded to the death of my Nephew from a terrible neurological disorder-  a young man she KNEW as a child, with a sad face emoji to a message I had  sent her with his Memorial service details,I hated social media.

I still hate her for that, but I digress.

From that point on, I blamed social media for the way people were choosing to communicate with each other ( which was through emojis because some of us were too damn busy to write a word or express a thought in complete sentences) .

Facebook served the same function as writing on a bathroom wall and to this day I think people have lost sight of that.

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But lo- Facebook is trying to show it cares for us.

For some freaky reason Facebook was sending me these messages about Suicide Prevention and who I should contact if I needed help.

This went on for three days and then yesterday I get this notice from them about a picture I had posted:

That’s right. Facebook thought that I was encouraging the Living Dead to off themselves.

First of all.

They’re already dead.

Second of all, I don’t need Facebook to bubble wrap me for my own good. I sincerely doubt that a marketing tool cares if I live or die, so they need to step off and go back to what they do best- which encouraging people to post Memes about cats: