Every now and then, Facebook posts ask to share posts asking :
Do You Love Your Mother?
Do You Love Your Father?
Do You Love Your Wife?
Do You Love Your Daughter?
And those posts go on to tell you to share if you answer yes.
I am always flummoxed because I don’t have any of these four in my life.
Why can’t people ask properly using the correct tense?
Or, is it that people who post these are totally insensitive to people like me?
I suppose the dark side of me wants the opposite of those questions which I never share or pass on. I particularly despise the ‘ share if you dislike cancer’ or whatever disease of the week. I do believe any participation in FB should optional, I hate being told what to do. Especially the saddo posts from people about no one caring for them if they don’t share. Seriously.
XO
WWW
wisewebwoman recently posted..Chaos Prevention List
I have just learnt that we can hide such posts from a response from Alan. I intend doing just that henceforth.
I still love my mother and father even though they passed away years ago. I don’t have a wife, and I love my daughter. Not much new there.
Cheerful Monk recently posted..Great Visit
Replace husband for wife and son for daughter and we are in the same boat.
Some of these ‘share’ offerings are an underhand way to to leave traces and and collect information on where the items land etc.
Grannymar recently posted..Sunday One liners ~ 36
I no longer have a Mother or father, never had a wife and my daughter knows I love her, No need for a Facebook jog to remind me.
Grannymar recently posted..Sunday One liners ~ 36
Exactly my sentiments too Grannymar.
You may well be right. All the more reason to skip them totally.
I hate those “share this if…” damn things!
Seems a new one of those things pops up every day and they all, for the most part, are intended to use intimidation and guilt to motivate their readers. Still others use them to promote their self-righteousness.
If I find one too irritating or annoying I immediately ‘hide’ it so I no longer have to look at it! 😕
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I like that idea of hiding it. Shall do so henceforth.
These people are probably not insensitive. They just don’t stop and think before they ask the question.
blessings ~ maxi
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Ever the devil’s advocate. You may well be right but such posts are annoying to me.
i unfriend people who post that s***.
nothing genuine about it
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Yes, I know how ruthless you can be on fb!
Talk about your beloved synchronicity, Ramana. Only the other day I was in two minds which ‘tense’ to use with reference to my grandmother. The past tense because she has been long dead – or the present tense. I decided for the present tense because, no matter how dead she is – rotted to her skeleton, i LOVE her.
And I hope that once I am out of the picture my son will say that he loves me. Even if it’s all in the past.
U
Ursula recently posted..How do you do
You have a point there Ursula and I have no quarrel with that. What I do object to is the implied emotional blackmail.
Just read all the other comments. Which I should have done first except they didn’t show up on my screen until now.
As to that most annoying “sharing” it’s an Americanism. One I hesitate to hold against Americans. But, yes, it does sound a little hollow.
I do agree with Alan’s and Grannymar’s – sharp as her needle – comments. There is fishing going on. “Thanks for sharing” as insincere as “have a good day”.
U
Ursula recently posted..How do you do
The fishing is another aspect to it.