Facebook really changes it all, like watching a train wreck when you have neighbors that divorce.
As much as I always want both parents to be in the picture, even after divorce, I hate 'the divorce is ok, because we both still love the kids' like of thinking. In this case, the dad moved an hour away to be with his new lover. Every day a picture posted on Facebook of not him and his kids, but of his new life. He's just going to live it up I guess.
I have his feed hidden, and only checked again today. I look back at all those wonder photos of him and the kids with his wife, plus the wedding photos.
It's scary to see it happen so fast and easily.
I deactivated my facebook account. I feel so much more peaceful.
ReplyDeleteHa! I try to use mine for some good.
ReplyDeleteFacebook and Twitter can be great tools. And there are ways to avoid the negatively without even dropping anyone, by creating lists and groups that you check. The other people don't even have to know they are on the list (or, not on the list for that matter).
ReplyDeleteI have done this to deliberately avoid reading the updates from people I know who have been behaving foolishly by divorcing and doing things related to that. I'm there to support anyone who is hurting, but I will not glorify nor encouage breaking vows and making life miserable for children.
I'm also Facebook friends people on a local level, that I don't agree on multiple political issues. It allows myself always to be reminded I'm talking to another person, who isn't anonymous.
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