Today’s WP question is: In what ways do you communicate online?

Back when I was a Politician’s wife, my newly minted Facebook ( and Facebook was just becoming a ‘thing’ )  page took a lot of traffic in- of course it was being trolled by other Politicos who thought they could get into my head by seeing what I posted on Facebook.

I wasn’t stupid, so I went out of my way to post cat meme’s and Calvin and Hobbs comics and an ocean of non-sense because WHY NOT.

On the other hand, my blog- oh yes my blog was where I would tell you EXACTLY what I thought.I did it in prose and poetry and editorial posts. But for some reason people really did believe that they could ‘see into what I meant’ by what I posted on Facebook.

If I wrote ” the Democrats in my LD  first inclination is treat me like a slow witted mental defective,  but to play it safe   they pat me on the head and smile into my face  and tell me how smart I am because they want to impress my husband” – they didn’t think that was true or noteworthy or even insulting.

Oh no. They would look at a meme I posted  of a cat screaming into a dog’s face and think they had just gained some secret insight into my psyche and by extension husband’s mind.

So it was all of those years ago when I saw people quipping and tweeting and thinking that these one sided conversations that they were having with themselves I decided that Facebook, Tweets, texts were pointless and useless.

If I want to talk to someone, I will call them. If I want to express myself I write on my blog.

So that’s the easy answer. If I want to communicate on line, I do it on my blog.

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