Hi everyone!
I have a life with my family outside of social media, and I have shit to do with that family.
I don't announce everything I do because frankly it's boring to everyone else and also none of your business.
If I leave a thread I'm engaged in it's because I have to do other things, and the Internet is the least important thing to me.
We good?
But here
I completed making dinner.
I made sure everyone had dinner.
I got in between the dogs trying to screw around during dinner.
I ate my dinner.
I got everyone settled.
I cleaned up the kitchen.
My kid was ready to watch our show. My younger kid wanted The Avengers on TV.
I hooked up my younger son and got a drink for my older son.
My husband, still working, came in to say goodnight.
We helped the dogs calm down.
#Household
I got the show 16 and I are watching loaded up on MAX.
Younger son ran in upset because his WiFi wasn't working.
I fixed it.
16 and I started to watch our show.
A dog started barking at a bunny in the yard.
Younger son flipped out due to fight or flight because suddenly barking.
I settled.
16 and I finally watched show.
I don't know what happens to people where they think a person is only online.
Oh man.
It's bizarre the way some people expect someone they're talking to online to immediately jump in response to anything they say.
It's such weird thinking: disconnected from reality but also wildly entitled.
@tyghebright
The entitlement is what makes me nope.
No thank you.
@tyghebright @Shelter I think people's attention spans have gotten shorter, and they've been trained to expect other people's attention faster and faster.
I first started noticing the impact when fax machines came out.
That's about right.
@Shelter You'd think people would know this and practice it. 💜
One. Would. Think.
I've got shit to do.
I can't babysit a thread and I never will.
In this house shit erupts and I have to handle it and then totally forget about the thread due to life happening.
I won't be called out for not continuing a thread.
@Shelter Just saw that,instablock.
Yeah I had followed but now block.
I'm too old and tired for this shit.
@Shelter My gut feeling?Something off with that account,deffo a wrong'un.
@FrankCannon
Any time a person responds to anyone with - "I see you didn't address, respond to -" it's a block.
Life is too fucking short for that nonsense.
@Shelter An attention seeker,all they're here for.
@FrankCannon
Yep.
Seems so.
The thing is that earlier today I hesitated to follow but did because I unfortunately care about people.
Every time I think about how much money I could make by being an uncaring twunt I shake myself and then move on with the caring.
@Shelter I know what you mean and I'm pretty empathetic myself but that account is just a long string of posts trying to generate sympathy and attention.I frankly very much doubt that they or their stories are genuine.
And yet my expanding yet broken heart cared.
It's a thing.
Thankfully I found out within 6 hours.
@Shelter I'm kind of lucky that after many years of experience in my past jobs I can smell a bad one pretty quickly.
I'm a mom.
That's not discrimination against you.
I just - mom.
@FrankCannon @Shelter Who was it? I’d like to know if it’s someone I would prefer to have muted or blocked, if what they post doesn’t work for me.
@Nimthiriel You'll very likely come across them at some point.I'm not much of one for naming and shaming. @Shelter
Same here.
I'm not willing to publicly shame a person
@Shelter Seen others do it,not my style.
@Nimthiriel
Been publicly shamed on the site that used to be Twitter because a person who I thought I trusted QTd me because they said not bathing was the most heinous thing, and I pointed out that disabled people often can't bathe
It was a dog pile
@Shelter That's the lowest of the low.Especially being generated by someone who'd gained your trust. @Nimthiriel
Star Trek !
I don't fandom anymore.
@Shelter Fandoms are the most toxic pits out there,I avoid them like the plague. @Nimthiriel
@Shelter Be hard pressed to say which of the big two are worse,Trek or Wars. @Nimthiriel
They are all equal with Doctor Who.
No one hates Wars, Trek, and Doctor Who as much as their fans.
@Shelter Wondered why I didn't see this happen. Turns out I blocked that account a long time ago. @FrankCannon
@stueytheround I'd never seen it until tonight.Had a nosey through their t/l........toxic. @Shelter
We are solid. That is what I assume. For example, I was about to close the laptop, but this was so well written and germane to my life, I stopped to appreciate your candor. 💜
I appreciate that because I used to write.
And I was really great.
But I also appreciate that we are on the same page, goddamn I hate that phrase.
@Shelter 💜
I have no doubt that you continue to be an amazing writer. Just on hold. Life happens on life’s schedule.
I'll get there.
Thanks.
absolutely ✌🏽🖖
anyone who doesn't understand that in real life as well as SM gets ignored by me.
This is a Woot
As it should be.
I was getting my kids into bed.
@Shelter Wow. It takes a special kind of twit to *demand* attention generally and in asynchronous media specifically.
Sigh. Some people's children...
Folks are exhausting.
I haven't played Animal Crossing since May and people are just now getting up at me going, "What's wrong?"
"NOTHING I'm just really tired and can't sit like I said before but HOW ARE YOU?"
Because I will not be pushed into engagement on anyone else's time.
Thanks.
Have a great weekend.