I'm shutting down Google+ for the night and quite possibly for the weekend. Why? This stupid #gifwars thing people are so proud of. This Adam Black guy said he doesn't like gifs and now everyone is mass trolling him. Having been mass trolled like this I can relate to him easily enough. Have an opinion and the collective might of Google+'s lower class denizens jump on a bandwagon. I just saw a post where someone wanted to jump on board and had to get clarification she was tagging the proper Adam Black. She wasn't even connected to him ! Nor was she a part of the original discussion. She just wanted to follow the herd. When I called her out of it she claimed, "one gif doesn't make a troll." Perhaps not, but she's contributing to a larger troll effort. One straw doesn't break the camel's back, but thousands will. So, tonight, Google+ disgusts me. It probably will tomorrow as well. And possibly Sunday. I gave up Google+ for two months this spring
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At one point, when my son was around eight, he announced he wanted to join the Boy Scouts. I wasn't stoked, but after asking around and determining the local troop wasn't too bad, I told him I'd take him to meetings if he was sure he wanted to join them. Then he started reading up on the organization and decided it wasn't for him. Yeah, I was sad he was opting out of a chance for socialization, but I was really proud of him too.
I told some Boy Scouts, once, that I couldn't buy their popcorn because the BS (still funny, ha ha ha) discriminated. The poor kid didn't understand, but his parents gave me dirty look.