Blocking People

Have you ever "blocked" someone on Facebook? Not just delete them from your friends list, but tell Facebook, that no, this person can not see what I'm doing through our mutual friends and I don't want to see what they're doing either. I've blocked two people in the last week. It wasn't like these friendships had recently ended either and there was some chance of reconciliation. No, these relationships had been buried for a good few months now. But I still kept seeing the people pop up. Out of something (anger, betrayal, negativity, I'm not sure) that I was feeling, I would hover over the little thing to make it bigger and see what this person was writing. Then, the thoughts would start up. All these thoughts that I had already dealt with. It's frustrating, to repeat the same thing over and over. So many smart people would say, "well, don't look at it." Ah huh, yep, hearing you. Except, well... I'm not that good at it. So I decided to block them. I can't see anything they write, that mutual friends might comment on. I can't see anything that they might post in the same Facebook page as me. And they can't see me. It's a wonderful, liberating feeling. That's the thing about Facebook... you might delete someone, but that person can still pop up, often on the worse of days. It might seem childish to you, but to me, it's keeping my sanity intact.

Tomorrow will be my first post of a series that I'm trialling.... tune in for it.

Rosalinda, xoxo