I hardly ever post on Facebook these days. It’s not because there’s nothing is going on, it’s just nothing I feel the need to share with the world. And believe me, posting to Facebook IS sharing with the world. Sure, I can set it to only post to my friends, but there is little difference between the two. Once it’s out there, it’s out there, in public where anyone can do anything with it, keep it, use it against you, or whatever. Post your favorite videogames and the game systems you have and you’re a potential target for robbery. Post details about your day-to-day and you’re a potential target for many more things. These days, literally anything can potentially get you in trouble, so you have to be very careful to pick and choose your words, posts and photos very very carefully. Post a simple photo of a vehicle and you need to blur the license plate out. Post a photo of your front door and you have to blur out the address numbers. Heck, post a photo of someone or a bunch of people and you need to get their verbal or written consent before posting the photo or you’re taking a risk there too. Everyone posts photos of everything and everyone these days though, so there’s also the ever-increasing chance that your photo just gets blended into the mix and no one even notices… Until maybe far down the road when it comes back to haunt you, perhaps even in a background check for a potential job, someone just out for revenge, or a deranged psychopath with weapons he has nothing better to use them on.

Wow, that got ugly real quick. I’m serious though, this is all the stuff that comes to mind every time I sit down to write something for my website. It’s ridiculous and I hate it, but that’s just the way it is. And as a result, you’ll almost always find only very carefully written and structured posts and photos here, everything curated, edited and sanitized so it’s safe for posting, yet sometimes crossing the line just a little in one or more areas, just because I know there’s only a few friends and family reading anyway. At this point, anyway.

Can you imagine me posting something that actually goes viral and gets millions of people visiting my site? Nope, me neither. I can dream though. Or nightmare. At least I can’t ever imagine posting anything anywhere near as unfiltered as President Trump has though. I guess being at the top gives you great responsibility, and what you choose to do with that responsibility is ultimately completely up to you. I don’t think most ‘mericans realized that until it was actually put to the test during this presidential term. No other president has ever dared to be so bold and transparent. Whether that’s a good thing or not, I don’t know.

Look at me being all political and shit. I really don’t know crap about this particular topic and just posting this makes me worry someone smarter might reply, prompting an actual conversation on the subject. Oh, the horror. Nah, it’ll never happen. This is my soapbox. I’m stepping down now.