I have six pending requests on Facebook from members of my high school graduating class… What little info I can currently see reads thusly: conservative, Catholic, conservative/Christian, very conservative (emphasis mine)…
*sigh*
All six of them, the only one to ever invest any non-tormentor time would be Mr. Very Conservative.
huh.
I have posted a note, viewable by everyone. I do guess that means anyone coming across my account, even before friending me. I don’t know, well, because I know nothing about the thing and I have yet to see anything that looks like a public note on the site…
Anyway. It reads:
I enter into facebook kicking and screaming. I do so for the networking. the initial choice to sign up prompted specifically by the impending Join the Impact protest November 15th. In entering this place for its network, I realized the separate circles of my life will come crashing together. It is what it is and I cast my lot. I shall see how it all falls.
Activism is as much why I am here as anything else. I will endeavor to present myself wholly in this space, not just the pieces that show up here and there. Equal rights, GLBT concerns, HIV/AIDS, cancer, sex, gender and sexuality are all integral parts of my life. I will speak of them regularly.
It is time to see the world for all that is in it.
I take responsibility for the choices in my life, I expect those coming into it to do the same for themselves.
I am not part of the straight white male majority. I am not part of any majority in this country. I am engaged in the struggle for equality as promised to all US citizens. I will no longer sit and behave as others want. I am in the fight.
Pandora’s box has been opened. Time to face the fall-out.
I say, none of them bothered to read it.
Dear Ms. Manners,
Should I be compelled to add these people to my list? Do I create a major faux pas ignoring their requests…? Am I jumping to the conclusion that thier conservatism = ignorance…?
Thank you,
Overwhelmed by teh Facebook
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