Sidetracked Charley

  I ventured on to social networking after my head injury. I was told to practice what I did not want to lose. It was a short list: writing, painting, and photography. I suffered the CBT while teaching skiing; something I had done for more than ten years. But it was almost immediately clear I had skied my last day. But skiing was just a love I did almost like aerobics. It was exercise for my otherwise sedentary occupations; freelance writing and making Mardi Gras Masks. My injured brain was having issues with the masks. Writing, however, was easy to practice on a computer. And I already had editors willing to assist me to continue writing. It was Y!360 then. For me it was therapy. But I made friends while making progress. And when Y!360 crumbled because of an unstable platform I followed my friends to other platforms. Facebook seemed to be where people I knew went. Sure it was not perfect. You had to keep your posts to 140 characters at first and then to 400. But I compromised by k...

  I am in FaceBook Jail again. To be totally clear I do not belong to the Proud Boys, I did not storm the US Capital with a Confederate flag pole. But one time I typed Damn in a sentence. I am pretty sure since it was in response to my neighbor, the one who mistreats dogs it was her that complained. I assume that got me on some kid of FaceBook Naughty list because that was about the worst of any of my four sins. This time in response to a photo of a huge wasp/hornet next that took up a half of a large window I suggested I would just burn it down. If you have lived with those insects and are allergic to them you know how hard they are to get rid of. One neighbor of mine in NC tried a blow torch and almost burnt his house down. The sin of a century which got me tossed in jail before that was a comment about trading masks. I make masks. I think I was proposing I trade one of mine for one of hers she made. Different style. Absolutely no opportunity to explain myself. But God knows they...

  These seem very dark times. Maybe it is because the Capital Insurrection of January 6, 2021 has not been addressed, or that Trump only got a two year suspension for using Facebook as a weapon, or that I just went through my third slap from Facebook for far less than any of Trump's minions did. Or that this morning as I tried to set up a new Facebook identity so my stalker cannot find me and failed. Or that so many of my liberal friends are in the same place. It almost seems that there is a new campaign being hatched on Facebook. All the Trump supporters are reporting liberals for violation of community standards to get them banned forever. And then Facebook will be a total Confederate organization! I think we need a place to escape to now. This instant before Facebook takes over the world. It already has its original platform and Instagram and messenger. The last two is where all us jailed members escape to but Facebook wants to marry them all together so at one stroke, with no e...