I love Facebook! I love interacting with my friends, family, and schoolmates. I love seeing pictures of my friends and their families that I probably would have never seen otherwise because of the miles that separate us. I love reading people's status updates. These daily posts can have me laughing out loud at times. Some days, I am humbled or encouraged by them. Some posts can have me heartbroken over something going on in their life. Yes, I think Facebook is for the most part a great part of most people's daily lives...... IF you know how to use FB correctly. I have probably been on FB three years now. In those three years, I have only dropped 2 people. The first one I dropped a couple of months ago was more of an acquaintance - someone I went to school with. I didn't really know her, but I accepted her friend request just the same. Wow, she had the mouth of a sailor. I finally couldn't take it anymore and dropped her. To be honest, I doubt she even noticed. The second one I dropped this week. This one is completely different. I have known her and her family for quite some time. This is a friend that attends church regularly. Her crime? Ruthless bashing of her ex husband while all her children are friends of hers on FB. I don't know the story of what went wrong between them and I don't care to know. It's none of my business. It is also none of my business of the problems they face as divorced adults trying to co-parent all their kids. I realize she probably needs to vent but she should choose a close friend and not a public forum like FB to call her ex husband sleazy names and telling all the drama between them. Maybe she blocks these posts from her children from seeing on her wall ( I sure hope so), but if I was a betting woman, I would bet not. Here's the thing - I don't care how flat the pancake is, there are always two sides to every story and she only tells hers. He may be as bad as she says he is, I don't know. What I do know is that NOTHING he did justifies running him down to her kids or on a public forum. When I read the post, I think less of her, not him. It is also not fair to the kids. I want to tell her to remember that SHE picked him out of 6 billion people on this planet to be the father of her children. They had no say so in the choice. If he is as sorry as she claims (and I seriously doubt it), then the kids will figure that out on their own. They probably don't want to hear it anyhow. And neither do I.
Let no corrupt communication proceed out of your mouth, but that which is good to the use of edifying, that it may minister grace unto the hearers
Ephesians 4:29
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