"Through it all, we learn;
we grow strong in faith;
we mature in
understanding.
The difficult times are often
the best teachers, and there
is
good to be found in all situations.
Reach for the good.
Be strong,
and don't give up."
(Pamela Owens Renfro)
"For 102 minutes on September 11, 2001, the world looked on in horror as terrorists flew hijacked passenger planes into New York City's mighty twin towers, destroying the iconic buildings and killing more than 2,700 people."**
"It didn't matter whether he was alone in the shower, or riding a crowded subway; Vanavah Thompson would hum the reggae tunes that he so loved. A native of Guyana, he came to New York City with his mother and two sisters in 1989. He sported dreadlocks halfway down his back, and sometimes tucked them into a striped knit hat like his favorite musicians. Mr. Thompson, 26, was a maintenance worker at the World Trade Center. But at night, he would sing and dance his way through the clubs of Brooklyn and Queens. "I feel that wherever he is right now, he'll sing to himself to keep strong," said his sister, Tsahai Thompson. The one that he always sang, she said, began with the wistful line: "Remember the days when people on the East Side used to go on the West Side and live in peace."***
**(www.history.com)
***(http://www.our9-11brothasandsistas.zoomshare.com)
I said "Bye Bye Facebook".
It was a long time coming. For one, it was so frustrating trying to access the site from my Droid X. It would take forever to load, then when it did load, the pictures never loaded and it was not "up to date" content.
It was my personal online digital "Scrapbook". To post things that made me proud or to post things that I thought were exciting and interesting, or to post just a plain old comment that I felt I wanted to share.
On July 17, while on a mini vacation visiting a friend, I got up early to let the dogs outside decided to check and see what was happening with my circle of friends. When it finally loaded on my phone, I was shocked to see that a few people who I had on a "restricted list" who are not allowed to see certain pictures on my profile, were posting "Like" and posting comments to those private pictures. Surely I had to be mistaken, and needed to get out my laptop to see if this was truly happening. After logging into my laptop, I checked the security features of those albums and sure enough some of the settings had been incorporated to allow "everyone" to view them.
To some people, this wouldn't be a huge issue because we only have friends on our pages, right? Wrong, trust is a huge issue with me. I take my privacy and security very seriously and never ever really trusted the clowns behind the biggest social networking site to know what each was associate was doing-why else would Facebook have all these quirky issues all the time? Right? This is the very reason I have groups of people set at different access levels, we all trust each of our friends differently.
After several minutes of trying to find the "DELETE PROFILE" option which was hidden within all the numerous facets of setting in Facebook, I found a "DEACTIVATE" written in very small light blue font at the bottom of one of the screens in some very hidden settings area. Of course it seemed they didn't want you to find it. Amazing to me how difficult it was to delete.
I like it.
I like it a lot.
I like it so much in fact I'm done with Twitter too.
I don't miss it at all, with the exception of hearing from some of my dear sweet friends and some family members who do great interesting things or getting the notice of a friend who is under the weather and being able to pay them a visit or send a nice "Get Well" message. I think I have enough good friends that they will inform me should the latter be an issue I'm sure.
If you want to know what is going on in my life, call me and I'll call you.
