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Yes, FB started out as a way for my family to have a way to know that I was still alive (there is a history there that caused me to withdraw waaay back from a lot of my relatives after my parents passed). Now, FB is looking like a juvenile tool for young people (and immature older people) to 'express themselves'. But most of the stuff posted is unthinking claptrap.

A lot of this is due to indoctrination in college, and not a little indoctrination coming from their workplace (because they are teachers -- and they saw nothing wrong with the NJ school system admins praying for Gov. Christie's death in official e-mails, either -- just a joke, not hate!)

One even pedantically posted the Webster's definition of 'Pro*gress*ive' -- the adjective, not the pronoun -- not knowing one iota of the Progressive 'movement' throughout the early 20th century.

Emotion always counts more than reason, and on FB, it's all about how the 14-year-olds 'feel' -- I think because their critical thinking skills aren't all there yet.

But maybe that's just me. So I think the long-term solution is to unplug from FB and go somewhere else. ;-))

Oh, BTW, All day yesterday, National Review Online;s The Corner was consistently quicker to report and way more accurate than anything else I was reading, including FB.

ps. That sherriff in AZ has an agenda, and I tend to think that he was on the wrong side of the immigration law, too..