Toot your Horn

I am all for the occasional "Pat yourself on the back" but people there is a fine line of patting yourself on the back and beating yourself into the ground. Everyone does not need to know every single detail of every great thing, or good deed you do. A once in awhile blog should cover it, not a daily out pouring of how wonderful you are! I mean seriously blow your horn and not your load of crap. Post after nauseating post of self righteous ME-ISMS makes my stomach roll. I eventually start to doubt that you have time to conquer the world and do all those good deeds while you spend every minute of your spare time jotting down all the fantastic things you do and post it all over social media and the web. I do tons of great things, but let’s face it folks I am human and I make tons of mistakes too, but I don't pound meaningless babble out on a blog post expecting to be worshipped. Instead, I post anything funny, embarrassing, happy, sad, and conquests that cross my mind randomly, and non-consistently to make someone get a laugh, or maybe a revelation, but I don't ever go around fishing for compliments. In fact I would rather be viewed as an Honest Introvert than fashioning myself after some pseudo-celeb that does all these wonderful things (on social media anyways). SHUT UP. Show me, don't tell me. Less blog, more action. However you want to put it. Just remember the next time you make your post of vanity all over social media, even super heroes had some sense of discretion. :)

I am all for the anonymous PAY-IT-FORWARD, because deeds like that come back to you, no matter who the gift is received from. Random acts of kindness go much further in my book, and I don’t feel the need to document it on social media. How about that? I can do good deeds without trying to get in the public eye.

HACKED

It's been AWHILE! I have been PHOTO HACKED! Can you believe after almost a year and a kind request for removal of my photos from a company I no longer work for, I go on the web and behold my photos, still plastered all over the web, social media and places I never even knew possible! The audacity. I call it life hacked. Need I mention I never signed a single piece of paper authorizing said pictures to be published? What a nightmare. I am proud to say the majority is gone, but there are still some stragglers, and I would just think a Decent person would respect ones wishes to remove these items. No. Still there. I wonder how many other people have been photo hacked? What moves did you make to get the straggling remains of your photos removed, what were your feelings of finding yourself on the web, photos you never posted of yourself on the web? I feel photo hacked. My feelings are, if I didn't post my photos to the web, then it goes without saying that YOU shouldn't. CATFISH much people? I implore you, if you have not already Google your name/image and make sure the things out there on you are thing you chose to post, and not something someone posted of you out of SPITE.