Questions

Posted on December 22, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Fun, mind your own business, Passwords, privacy, Questions, Silly, Social media, Thinking, WordsLeave a comment

Funny questions, why do they ask. Looking at social media I see questions like this quite frequently. Some people answer, others say it is a way of gathering information. I’ve started giving weird answers. My answer to this was: the rightious indignation of honey bees.

I like words so it’s fun to make up strange answers. Why should people know what I ate for lunch? Or which side of the bed I sleep on. Or how long ago I ate a biscuit? An hour ago…. There I go sharing personal information again… And my password for everything is not drowssap either!

Scrolling

Posted on October 3, 2021October 3, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged attention, held, Media, Poem, Poetry, Reading, Screen, scrolling, Social media, WritingLeave a comment

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I wish I could stop scrolling

Facebook, insta, twittering

Take my attention

And hold it fast

Glued to a screen

Twist my head

To get away

But I am it’s repast!

Typing stuff

Posted on August 10, 2020August 10, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Ache, Blogging, College work, Cramped, Life, Small space, Social media, Tired, TypingLeave a comment

My life is full of typing at the moment. College work and blogging, and then all my social media too. I guess that’s why my arms ache? I’ve only got a small space for my keyboard as I only have a tiny desk. An old wooden table with a hinged section screwed in place on the side but too rickety to use.

I could use the dictation mode on the computer but I think there is too much extraneous noise to use it.

Anyway back to boggled eyes….

Argument

Posted on May 4, 2020May 4, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Argument, Blocked, Disagree, Rude, Sharing, Social media, Swearing, Thinking6 Comments

What do you do when someone asks you to share something on social media and you disagree?

So you message back to say you cannot share it, the idea is wrong, it’s based on fake news. You attempt to say no politely, and point out reasons why you can’t agree.

The person messages back and after some patronising thoughts, swears at you.

You come back with more information from a reliable source. Another abusive reply.

I’ve known this person for several years. I have never been spoken to in that way by the person before. My thoughts are they must strongly believe what they are saying. They must care or they wouldn’t share. But what they are asking me to pass on makes no sense. After another exchange where they were rude and patronising again…

I blocked them.

Missing you

Posted on March 9, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Friends, Ghosted, Internet, Life, Missing, Presence, Sad, Social media, Thinking, Web, WordPressLeave a comment

I’ve recently heard the phrase ‘ghosting’ when people no longer communicate with you on the Internet. It is a deliberate act of cutting themselves off from you.

I understand that sometimes people need a break and if there have been problems with a friendship or relationship then ghosting is a non aggressive or non argumentative way of splitting up.

But then there is the situation where people go missing on the Internet. I miss a few people who have done that. Perhaps they have announced they will no longer be using a site, which is bad enough when you have enjoyed their presence over months or years. Or they simply vanish. After years of talk, maybe someone you met on line and became friends with. Suddenly there is a hollow, a hole where they used to be. And because they are on the Internet you have no real idea in the world where they are. A couple of friends decided to leave WordPress. I used to look forward to their posts. Is it selfish to miss them?

A long term friend passed away recently. Luckily a relative posted that this had happened. Her Facebook page is still there and someone sent a message purporting to be from her. That was worrying. I don’t know why anyone would do that.

To some extent I would prefer to be ghosted than to have someone taking over my friends identity.

People! Stupidity and lack of compassion.

Posted on February 24, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Bad people, Bad policies, Compassion, Hostile environment, Lack of compassion, Not in my name, Racism?, Sad, Social media, The world, Uncaring, Unfriendly, Xenophobia2 Comments

As I read social media, and the comments my friends make, I think how kind and good they are. And yet some of them are being bullied by eople in this country because they are not from here. They say things like the atmosphere has changed, and that they might leave and go back home!

This is I think part of the ‘hostile environment’ our country is perusing. Treating people like those from the Windrush generation as if they are second class citizens and deporting people only because of the colour of their skin!

Now with Covid19, it seems like they (right wing xenophobic people) have another excuse to bully incomers.

The world wasn’t split into countries by some infinite being. We are where we are mainly through luck. You don’t get to choose your place of birth.

I was bought up to think this country was caring, compassionate and fair. I don’t like the ugly way things are turning. I can say “not in my name” but can I get people to revert back to some sense? I don’t know….

Why use ‘woke’ as an insult?

Posted on January 31, 2020January 31, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Caring, Ideas, Life, Negativity, Sad, Social media, Thinking, Woke, Work together8 Comments

” In its modern-day, politicised context, ‘woke‘ is defined by the OED as ‘originally: well-informed, up-to-date. Now chiefly: alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice’.”

I’m guilty of being ‘woke’ I guess. I try and care about things, I’ve always questioned why people can’t get on. When I was a child in the 1960’s I remember I asked why people were nasty to brown people and not pink ones?

But recently ‘woke’ seems to be being used as an insult. Like you can be too ‘woke’ to be interested in helping others? Too caring? Why? Why is it OK to tell someone off because they are too politically correct, or disagree with populist ideas? The world seems to get more selfish by the day.

I don’t think everyone should agree with me, I can agree to disagree. But what do you do when someone constantly disagrees with you? Or dismisses what you say. Even when I’d agreed to disagree a person who I’m not naming kept digging. Recently they started to call me a snowflake and woke. I said I was pleased to be a snowflake as we can gather together and turn into a blizzard! I don’t want to stop being in touch with this person as it means I’m not totally in my own bubble. But I do wonder if I should unfollow them. The world seems to lack altruism, everyone is in it for themselves, hopefully the tide will turn.

Social Medusa

Posted on January 30, 2020 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Blogging, Internet, Life, medusa, Monster, Poem, Poetry, Social media, Stuck, Tired, TrappedLeave a comment

Social Medusa,

your tangled locks draw me in,

tugging my eyes to my phone,

turning me to stone.

Social Medusa,

release me soon,

I need to eat,

sleep, rest from your steely stare.

Social Medusa

rigid in your bright light

hand glued to device,

fingers poised,

eyes fixed,

ears closed to the world.

Bit of a makeover

Posted on January 22, 2019 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, Blog, Blogging, Change, Changes, Computer, Design, Facebook, Fun, Instagram, Learning, Life, Painting, Reflections, Social media, Twitter2 Comments

Things are changing on planet Mallaband-Brown so you might notice a few tweaks here and there thanks to my friend Mike from @staffsdesign.

I wanted to update my social media and make it easier for people to follow me. Being an artist has made me a lot happier and nows the time to try and make it work.

I didn’t realise amalgamating all my Web pages and sites would be so complicated and I’m so pleased to have had someone to sort everything out.

This is also a test to see whether it posts to my new Facebook page.

You should be able to follow me on the Internet at @mallabandbrown !