I’m back in my cubby hole behind the Ranger again, looking at the clouds smeared across the blue morning sky. For the last few days I’ve been thinking about the lengths some people will go to not be themselves. Rather it’s the usual “make up shit just to look more exciting on social media”. Or the downright lying some do to just take advantage of you. It’s just hard for me to understand the reasons why they do it. As a writer I’ll always be guilty of a little (alright, maybe a lot) of embellishment. But does is that make a good excuse for being downright deceptive?
I reckon I shouldn’t question anyone’s motives other than my own. But it just bothers me to get so many likes and follows, just to find out they have some hidden agenda. Just state your business up front. If you got a ton of nudies to sell and you’re phishing for customers, then just say so. I don’t blame any one for trying to earn a living. But the ones that bother me to most are the ones that build-up a rapport with you, just to fulfill some agenda. I suppose I’m seen like an easy mark. Too many times someone will send me a DM and start a conversation. All the while being vague or inconsistent about themselves. Sadly this is when they try to set the hook, so they can reel you in. But when you refuse to take the bait, you usually end up getting cussed out and made to feel like you did something wrong.
Like I said this has been on my mind for a while now. I have an adult child (whom cannot be mentioned on the Internet), who has an almost paranoid fear of social media. To a point I can’t blame them, just from my own experience. So I guess I’m just too naïve in thinking there are still people out there with good intentions. Sadly through the world does it’s damnedest to prove me wrong. But just over my head, there’s a songbird singing a tune I’ve heard any number of times. And it calms my soul just a little to know that within all this natural wonder. That are still those with no hidden agendas with no malice towards another.
I reckon I shouldn’t question anyone’s motives other than my own. But it just bothers me to get so many likes and follows, just to find out they have some hidden agenda. Just state your business up front. If you got a ton of nudies to sell and you’re phishing for customers, then just say so. I don’t blame any one for trying to earn a living. But the ones that bother me to most are the ones that build-up a rapport with you, just to fulfill some agenda. I suppose I’m seen like an easy mark. Too many times someone will send me a DM and start a conversation. All the while being vague or inconsistent about themselves. Sadly this is when they try to set the hook, so they can reel you in. But when you refuse to take the bait, you usually end up getting cussed out and made to feel like you did something wrong.
Like I said this has been on my mind for a while now. I have an adult child (whom cannot be mentioned on the Internet), who has an almost paranoid fear of social media. To a point I can’t blame them, just from my own experience. So I guess I’m just too naïve in thinking there are still people out there with good intentions. Sadly through the world does it’s damnedest to prove me wrong. But just over my head, there’s a songbird singing a tune I’ve heard any number of times. And it calms my soul just a little to know that within all this natural wonder. That are still those with no hidden agendas with no malice towards another.
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