"Simplicity and repose are the qualities that measure the true value of any work of art. "
― Frank Lloyd Wright

Love Them Or Hate Them

Darn Social Media

Social media is an addiction for millions of people worldwide. Without social media, we as a nation of civilized people would sit around twiddling our thumbs. Now it's every day, all day. My kids come to visit me and the entire time they sit there with their faces glued to their cell phones. Now if I were on Facebook every day instead of 3 minutes a week (as I am now) I might care. But I hate social media in all its forms.

That darn "Six Degrees" started this mess, then came Myspace and Facebook. Myspace, which still has over 1 billion active and inactive registered users, has faded from its glory days, pushed to the side by Facebook.

A once popular community was Geocities. I was a member and community leader of one area in the Heartland (I can't remember which now). Yahoo purchased it and made changes, and somewhere around 10 years later shut it down. As a result, millions of people abandoned the websites they had spent untold hours creating. But then that's big business.

Once Yahoo closed Geocities, they started "Yahoo Experts," where I was a member too. I answered questions from people on a wide range of topics that dealt with some form of web design. That went on for a while, and Yahoo changed it to having their "experts" answering questions by phone. I dropped out and have been against any form of social media ever since.