I am CuTRis

While social media is a good way to keep up with friends and family, the amount of outside, unwanted, blatantly lying posts, and false stories, is astounding. Nearly everything is a lie. This is definitely on purpose. It's meant to make it nearly impossible to know what is true or false. It allows for the control of those who believe in the nonsense. Reality is being shaped by those who want control. Do a little research before you push the share button and spread more lies and hate.

Those who like to instigate social discord, are at work on social media (and the news media). Some of them are based in hostile foreign countries. Others, use the continuous fighting to gain power, without ever having to use logic. The continued dive into injustices of the past that none of us were originally here for, and that there are no great fixes for, seems less productive than if we focus on how we can unite and make things better in the present. If you and your best friend ONLY talk about the time that you wronged each other, you probably will not be best friends for very long. Stop allowing others to control you. All I need to do is look around, to see people of different races and backgrounds interacting with each other in positive ways. Some are friends, some are mixed race families, some are neighbors and some are just people being people. If you focus on the negative, you become a pawn of someone else's malevolence. If you choose to be positive and see the progress, ...

I have noticed a trend on social media, where an old picture is shown, and then there is a really cool story. But often, I question if that story is real. Also often, I can't find any other documentation from legitimate sources. Yet the comments are filled with messages from people who obviously believe this stuff. Social media may be cool in many ways, but it also seems to make people stupid.

FB is about to change your privacy. But you can stop them with this easy trick. Post this message on your wall. Then slap yourself in the head three times while doing a dance and singing Mary Had a Little Lamb. Then drink a beer while slapping yourself on the buttocks briskly. Make sure to do this soon, because time runs out at midnight!

As we try to teach our children about being kind, it seems that a lot of adults never learned this important skill. Or, maybe it's just too easy and alluring to some people, to become an Internet bully and reach out and hurt someone through social media. I have left the second Facebook group I ever joined, for the same reason I left the first. The conversation deviated from the group's subject, and it spawned attacks and bullying. I marvel at how viscous people can get behind the wheel of an automobile, and the ease of social media has created a bunch of adult bullies. My most recent transgression, was asking others to stop attacking each other. I know this was a risk on my part, but it is quite possibly the same thing I would have done if we were all in the same room face to face. Please be kind. There is too much hate and hurt. People who are hurting, are more likely to hurt others. We should be perpetuating joy and goodness instead.

It's sad when a fake social media posting causes people to start fires damage buildings and steal from stores. It's also criminal.

What About this is a Racial Attack? From what I can see, a Como Park High School teacher has been unfairly targeted for speaking the truth . In fact, I don't see anything that singles out any particular racial group in what he said! If you see yourself in the words, what does that tell you? If the truth is upsetting to you, what should you do about it? Should you "kill the messenger?" Should you fix your own issues or blame them on discrimination? This is utterly ridiculous and I have to think if people try to look past their misdirected anger, they will see that students have been allowed to break rules (and sometimes break teachers and staff) and ultimately, that will probably lead to more law breaking and incarceration in the future; will it not? When I worked in the detention room of a south suburban junior high, I had a very large special education student with a very bad attitude who was a regular in the detention room. He threatened to beat me up regularly too...

He was a sick and twisted man. He liked to gossip about the "sins" of others but he didn't see any of his own. He loved his sisters. Maybe he loved them too much. His attraction may have prevented a healthy relationship with a non-related woman. Well that and his inability to be responsible or get a job and earn an income. He slept late. He didn't like to work. He didn’t like to shovel or mow or do much except put pictures on his Facebook; because one day, he might be known as a great artist. He wasn't good at talking. His social skills were sub-par. His motivation nearly nonexistent. He let his parents support him and take care of him; decade after decade. But he still had lots of "advice" for others about marriage and raising children—of which he had done neither. He was talented. He could spot other people’s shortcomings and he was always right! He had computers and smartphones and cameras and Wi-Fi and Netflix and he didn't have to work for it! ...

I think that the best thing about Facebook is that you can see how boring and shallow most people are. If you knew someone in the past, you can look up their Facebook page. Some people keep it "private" and other people make everything public so the world knows how "great" they are. I like the men who publicize their hunting kills and riding their Harley and all that good "manly" stuff! Then there are the women who post pictures of themselves in bikinis or maybe they show everyone where they traveled and that they studied some other culture. The bottom-line, is, that if someone was self-absorbed and shallow years ago when you knew them, they probably still are—and Facebook gives them a great outlet. Even better, is Twitter ! I mean when you can tell the world that you just now ate a piece of toast or used the bathroom, how "great" is that?

That way they know when to break into your house.

What were you doing 10 years ago? Probably not wasting 8 hours per month on Facebook like you are today...