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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I have a friend who's terrified of Google products (probably because she doesn't understand the technology).
Either way, information is information and I'm just passing it along.
It's like I told my DoD contractor bf in 1998 when he told me our house was bugged, "If they want to listen to the kids fight and us make love, have at it."
I developed this attitude when I was about six. We were Catholic. One day I realized that if angels watched us all the time, they watched us when we bathed and peed. I was freaked out for about a week. Hardly went to the bathroom. Then, I realized also that if they watched us, they were DAMNED PERVERTS and went on with my life not caring about the stupid angels.
And I never did drugs. Overcoming a childhood where I was nearly killed, beaten weekly, raped for years and called "the ugly little Indian bastard" by my half sibs was enough to survive.