{"id":2544,"date":"2016-01-14T19:46:17","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T03:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wou.edu\/westernjournal\/?p=2544"},"modified":"2016-01-14T19:46:17","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T03:46:17","slug":"musings-from-a-woman-on-the-edge-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/musings-from-a-woman-on-the-edge-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Musings from a woman on the edge"},"content":{"rendered":"<pre>By: Katrina Penaflor \r\nmanaging editor<\/pre>\n<p>I\u2019m convinced my Facebook feed is just an increasing pile of things I never want to read about, but continue to look at on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>Facebook, in a sense, is like fast food. It sounds so good at first, it\u2019s super convenient, and it\u2019s absolutely amazing when you first start. Then, as time goes on and you consume more of it, like a lot more of it, it sort of makes you sick. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve definitely hit the side of overconsumption where Facebook is making me sick, or maybe I\u2019m just sick of Facebook.<\/p>\n<p>The other day I saw this post that was shared thousands of times, and at least five times by people I\u2019m friends with on Facebook that talked about splitting up the lottery winnings. Maybe you\u2019re familiar with it; it said something along the lines that if the 1.3 billion dollars was split evenly among all the people in the U.S. then everyone would get four million dollars.<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t even know where to start on addressing this. The math, first of all, couldn\u2019t be more inaccurate. And on a second note, when I read the comments beneath this post I was actually convinced that some people will believe anything they read online.<\/p>\n<p>And this madness of believing 1.3 billion divided by 300 million equals four million has actually become the norm for what I see online.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m constantly seeing things that leave me shaking my head and wondering why I\u2019m still reading post from people that I never interact with in real life. The \u201cunfollow\u201d or \u201cunfriend\u201d button is continually getting pressed. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m finding that the only good things I see on Facebook are those addicting Tasty videos that show me how to make pizza dips and Oreo stuffed donuts. Or pictures my cousin uploads of his new baby.<\/p>\n<p>So why do I keep logging on and reading what everyone has posted and shared? Why can\u2019t I pull myself away from what some would consider internet garbage?<\/p>\n<p>Maybe food videos and baby pictures are enough to keep me logging back on. Or maybe I\u2019m just stuck with the fear of missing out on something that\u2019s actually important.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m convinced my Facebook feed is just an increasing pile of things I never want to read about, but continue to look at on a daily basis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"modified_by":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wou.edu\/westernhowl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}