NO Filters!

Are there no filters left???? And I'm not talking about coffee filters or furnace filters, I mean people's lives, their mouths and their brains!

I am constantly surprised, maybe a bit shocked, by what people share. I grew up in a very quiet, private family. We didn't feel the need to broadcast everything. If we bought a new car we didn't share every detail of the shopping or purchasing process, we just showed up with a new vehicle-it's just a car, it's not that big of a deal. But that is certainly not the case now!

Holy cow people! With social media and the opportunity to broadcast (yes, that's the best way I can use to describe it) every and anything you want at the spur of the moment is a free for all. It seems like all filters are gone and whatever pops into people's heads comes shooting out of their thumbs or fingers and on to Facebook or Twitter. Technology is wonderful, but it seems all filters have disappeared with it.

And it's not so much the info is private, shocking or should be kept personal, its the fact that having this garbage take up our time is an utter waste of valuable time. Life if too short. And I don't want to know!!!

It's not just on social media though where the filters are gone...people talk, share and find the need to let other people know personal aspects of their lives if given the opportunity, at every opportunity. I don't care what you ate for breakfast or what you are wearing to workout in after work! Is it because of social media or because people have nothing else to do, or think people care, or need to hear or is it because we've become a society of materialist people. a ME society? I guess it could be all of the above.

I keep going back to a quote I heard Betty White, the actress, say when asked of she used facebook-"It seems like a terrible waste of time," was her comment. This from an 80+ age person who is still working and making people laugh and living life to the fullest. True! And yes I do waste time on social media-I admit it. I love to read and not so much about peoples lives but I follow pages from sources that relate or interest me.

I'm sure to some people I may seem cold or uncaring but life is too short. I've adopted the four question rule that I roll through my mind when I'm about to say something or when I'm feeling or bother by something-Will it matter in an hour? Will it matter in a day? Will it matter in a month? Or will it matter in a year? If I answer NO to any of these I let it go and move on. 

I know there is no way I can control what people say or think or post but I can continue to walk away and live life rather than listen, read or act that what is being said is important. If you had one week to live would you stand around and listen to someone else talk about how much they've exercised or what they ate for supper last night or something else mindlessly personal? If you come to talk to me about the cure for cancer you discovered in your basement, then I'll listen!! Or if you just need someone to listen, I'll listen!
Life is too short to waste on other people's unfiltered lives! TMI (too much information)!

Positive of the day: We had a peek of sunshine for the first time in a few days! Yay!!! : )