Good day people.
I signed up on Facebook in 2008. My aim was to blog on
Facebook, then I found out that it was a great Birthday reminder. Soon enough,
I found out that I could get my daily devotional from a Facebook page I
stumbled on. It is an Open group and I didn't join the group for a few months,
though I visited daily to read my devotional.
Soon enough, a well-meaning friend added me to a
'Christian women' group. According to her, she said she thought I could benefit
from the quarterly prayer sessions, though she didn't tell me then why she
added me. Once in a while, I'll see some posts in my Newsfeed (usually posts by
my friends or posts on which my friends had commented on). Most of the posts I
saw had women bickering and all but I generally watched from a distance.
I remember a post that was analyzing the 'romantic' story
of a soldier that went to war and returned to meet his love waiting for him.
The comments were HILARIOUS! I realised that there were women out there just
like me, who could pick holes in the silly posts we see around. So, I started
paying more attention to the group.
I remember a post about a woman whose husband was a
wife-batterer. She claimed she had learned how to make her marriage work by
basically becoming dumb, dressing up in bum(p) sho(r)ts and shutting out those
that could potentially help her. The most hilarious part for me was that in her
10 point advice, "Put God first" was #10. And we were expected to
take her serious! I must have seen that post about 10 times before I left the
group.
I think I need to devote a post or two to that particular
group as it was a case of one day, one trouble in the group. I actually left
that group TWICE and went silent for a while in-between. I learnt great things,
met great people and had fun. I even contested for a non-vacant position.
Unfortunately, a few real relationships suffered as a result of my addiction to
the group. That was one reason why I left the group. The other reason I left
was that the group became directionless at some point. Just like in the day of
the judges, everyone did as they pleased while the group administrators looked
on helplessly. I learnt they've implemented Admin controls now but the feedback
I'm getting is that it is too little, too late...
There was some drama that ground the group for about a
week. In my opinion, Admin took a rash and high-handed decision. Only the main
actors know the actual details of what happened. I heard stories and
counter-stories. Anyway, it prompted me to look for another group. One of the
friends I made in Group 1 added me to Group 2 - a fantastic group that I
reluctantly left. I follow their page till date.
No comments:
Post a Comment