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spread the happy
Jul. 1st, 2014 06:27 pmYesterday was a tough day, for a lot of reasons and for a lot of people. For me, it was the last day of the month, so the pressure was on to make last-minute sales and make my quota for June. I needed to make 13; I took 13 applications, but one can't be run until later this week so it won't count for June (the customer asked me to wait because he was waiting for a check from his customer).
When I got home, I found a tornado of fury on social media over the Supreme Court's decision on exemptions to the birth control clause of the healthcare law. I'm not going to get into that here; let's just say that Hobby Lobby (and all the other businesses involved) will never get so much as a dime from me. I won't support businesses that impose their narrow views on their employees, especially female employees, and when they're being obviously hypocritical about it. There's plenty of information out there about this, if you care to go down that road.
So I asked people on Facebook to tell me something good that happened to them, and a bunch of people commented on nice things from their day. And it made me feel better.
And then my cousin![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
grrlfriday was on All In with Chris Hayes last night, talking about the stealth experiment Facebook had done on thousands of people, trying to manipulate their feeds to be positive or negative. Not cool Facebook, not cool.
All of this performed some alchemy in my brain, and I decided that what we need is to manipulate Facebook ourselves, and post nothing but positive things for one day. I created an event, invited all my friends, and made it public so they could invite their friends, et cetera. Lo and behold, a bunch of them joined in. And invited their friends. And now people I don't know, who aren't connected to any of my friends, are doing this. Can I just tell you how awesome this is? How warm and fuzzy I feel? It's wicked awesome, and very warm and fuzzy.
If you'd like to join in, feel free! The link for the event is here. Tell your friends, if you like. Let's make Facebook a Happy Happy Joy Joy place, just for one day. We can all go back to griping on Saturday, if we wish. But I hope we don't.
The reason I picked Friday was not because it's a holiday, by the way. I have a few British and Canadian friends, and it's not a holiday for them. It's because it was far enough away to have time to spread the word, but not so far away that people would forget about it by the time it came around. :)
When I got home, I found a tornado of fury on social media over the Supreme Court's decision on exemptions to the birth control clause of the healthcare law. I'm not going to get into that here; let's just say that Hobby Lobby (and all the other businesses involved) will never get so much as a dime from me. I won't support businesses that impose their narrow views on their employees, especially female employees, and when they're being obviously hypocritical about it. There's plenty of information out there about this, if you care to go down that road.
So I asked people on Facebook to tell me something good that happened to them, and a bunch of people commented on nice things from their day. And it made me feel better.
And then my cousin
grrlfriday was on All In with Chris Hayes last night, talking about the stealth experiment Facebook had done on thousands of people, trying to manipulate their feeds to be positive or negative. Not cool Facebook, not cool.All of this performed some alchemy in my brain, and I decided that what we need is to manipulate Facebook ourselves, and post nothing but positive things for one day. I created an event, invited all my friends, and made it public so they could invite their friends, et cetera. Lo and behold, a bunch of them joined in. And invited their friends. And now people I don't know, who aren't connected to any of my friends, are doing this. Can I just tell you how awesome this is? How warm and fuzzy I feel? It's wicked awesome, and very warm and fuzzy.
If you'd like to join in, feel free! The link for the event is here. Tell your friends, if you like. Let's make Facebook a Happy Happy Joy Joy place, just for one day. We can all go back to griping on Saturday, if we wish. But I hope we don't.
The reason I picked Friday was not because it's a holiday, by the way. I have a few British and Canadian friends, and it's not a holiday for them. It's because it was far enough away to have time to spread the word, but not so far away that people would forget about it by the time it came around. :)
