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I Won’t Grow Up

Cause growing up is awfuler
Than all the awful things that ever were!
I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up
No sir
Not I!
Not me!
So there!

I won’t Facebook

When I was a college freshman in 1969, there were still women’s colleges associated with Ivy League universities:  Columbia and Barnard; Harvard and Radcliffe; and in my case, Brown and Pembroke.  The freshman class had a book with head shots and names.  The Brown freshman book was informally known as the Beast Book, the Pembroke book as the Pig Book. Harvard had a similar thing. In 2003 Mark Zuckerberg developed a computerized version of the books called Facemash. The site used photos from the face books of the nine houses at Harvard, placing two photos next to each other and asking users to choose the "hotter" person. Sadly, this computerized version was a resounding success, the name was changed to Facebook and, as they say, the rest was history. It made a billionaire of Mark Zuckerberg and his early investor, Peter Thiel. Peter Thiel is arguably the most disgusting person on the earth and of course a self hater like Thiel would think that rating a person’s hotness was a great investment.

Facebook, and social media sites like it, have been used for good, but they are also have been used to spread hate and lies. Peter Thiel has used the wealth earned from this investment, to spread hate, bigotry and of course, the Big Lie. And as Paul Harvey once said, “Now you know the rest of the story.”  Post, if you must, to Facebook, but realize that by doing so, you are complicit.