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<<--- That's my dad - rather it is my iPad traced line drawing of a photo of him taken long before I was born. How does this lead into the topic, you ask? Well --     I have been an "artist" all of my life. MOST OF US HAVE. Most people begin to engage with some artistic activities VERY young, no matter where they are. Drawing with water on a rock or with a pencil or crayon, you get the picture here, I'm sure. Someone, somewhere just basically tells us it's not "good enough" and we quit. <shrug>      In these discussions regarding "social media" and "narcissism" that are being thrown around, let's agree that YOUR page on any platform SHOULD BE about YOU. If the people who follow you don't want to know about YOU, then why are they following your activities at all? It is just silly for me to expect your page to be about me, isn't it?      Yes, I am aware of the manipulations built into the software. I am a softwar...

  Yes, this topic has been covered to DEATH in this the "new normal." I am not the first or only to tackle it from this point-of-view, either, but here I go anyway. Here's a newsflash for you --- WE ALL GET OFFENDED BY THINGS!!! Everyone of us has some problem with SOME THING that is said or done at some point. It's okay. It's human. It's healthy, even to BE offended or feel offended at certain things. It spurs us to take actions that often make not only our own experiences, but those of other people genuinely better.      Unfortunately, it can also, LIKE ALL THINGS, spur us to take actions that do exactly the opposite, as well. There are dark and light sides to all things, though. All actions have an element of beneficial and/or unbeneficial. There trade-offs to every breath we take, literally.     The thing that I have to add to this particular topic is that I personally choose to own my own "offense" and not give that power to anyone else. YOU ...