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I've found myself being more and more withdrawn from social media lately. There is so much animus going on every time I open a page that it has kept me from wanting to even be online. I get that with the internet there will always be contention. Usually it is two opposing view points holding a pissing contest for attention. Just like on the playground in school one kid has to prove he's better than another by assailing another. I get that we all need our ego stroked and need to feel superior at something at some point in time, but I've seen more and more groups attacking individuals online and it has been a major turn off. I have no problem with groups attacking other groups, that's just the way life is, but the individual attacks I've seen really show me how juvenile some people can be. It's sad really. But it isn't the individual attacks. I think the whole social media scene has become poisoned by the rancor that some people harbor. Group thought abounds and the whole place is becoming more of a cesspool. I know I can't point a finger without one coming back at me, and I admit I spew forth my fair share of negativity, but I am working on it. To anybody that feels like I've been a cyber bully in the past, I'm sorry. That being said, I will still defend myself as unfledged as that may sound, but I vow to personally hold myself to higher standards than the group bashing I have taken part of in the past. This is also not to say I won't partaking in some locker room ribbing of others either, but the direct support of genuinely hateful attacks will be squashed. Sports teams, cars, etc. are still open season, so if you have a NASCAR sticker on your Ford, I'm probably gonna refer to you as in inbred hillbilly, but even inbred hillbillies deserve the right to be made fun of for their tastes, not who they are. As long as it stays good natured, we can still trade buying rounds at the end of the night. So, that being said, I might be dropping a few of you from my social circles, but I also might be adding a few I wouldn't have thought of before just because I'm trying to be a better person, not a bitter person.