The Facebook Friendship Facade

The Facebook community is a fickle old thing. 

So-called friends who ignore your posts, ‘overlook’ replying to your PM’s but yet spend more time visiting your profile page than you do.

The fraternity-like game of ‘let’s manipulate your popularity’ can make or break someone’s self esteem and their very will to survive. 

Playing out like a daily soap opera, Facebook is a moving, living human circus where one dimensional characters are elaborately created, fantasies exhausted and their best sides photographed. 

A backdrop that on one day can be the most fantastic source of support can rapidly switch into a modern day bear pit. Threats exchanged, people alienated, confidences broken and what was originally assumed to be an intimate platform for expressing individual frustrations and personal opinions lays the stage for the ultimate downfall.

All this and yet on average, only 10% of members on a typical friends list will actually comment or like one of their friends status updates.  

That to me says two things about the other 90%:

a)      They aren’t big lovers of technology.

Or

b)      They aren't big lovers of their Facebook ‘friends’.

Good Night, God Bless to Nev, Sweet Nev. xxx

I never had a dad.  Not a real one, anyway.

My ‘adoptive’ dad consisted of a complete dickhead who ‘accepted’ me as part of the parcel of getting my mother duffed up. 

My biological father?  What can I say?  Stick a pin in a map, maybe?

My 'legal guardian' believed in the old adage of kids should be 'seen and not heard' so I spent a hell of a lot of my youth staring out of my bedroom window.... And upon staring out of the window, I noticed a very smart looking family who used to walk by at the same time every single Saturday morning. 

That family would soon grow to have a very big influence on my life and introduce me to a man that was the nearest thing to a Father that I ever had. 

The Patriarch of a family that would over the years, comfort me, nurture me, feed me, house me, love me, cuddle me and give me the best gift that anyone could ever bestow on any other person on this Earth.

He gave me love. 

And because of that, he will shine forever brightly in my heart.

Words will never be enough to compensate nor describe his absence. 

Bless you and Lots of Love Nev. 

Xxxxx God Bless & Night Night sweet love. xxxxX