{"id":4302,"date":"2020-07-08T11:35:08","date_gmt":"2020-07-08T16:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=4302"},"modified":"2020-07-08T13:19:30","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T18:19:30","slug":"fake-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/?p=4302","title":{"rendered":"FAKE FRIENDS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fake Friends are all over on facebook.<br \/>\nFake Friends are a trademark of facebook.<br \/>\nFake Friends is synonymous with facebook.<br \/>\nFake Friends come from facebook.<br \/>\nFake Friends are brought to you compliments of facebook.<br \/>\nFake Friends put you at risk on facebook.<br \/>\nFake Friends set dangerous traps on facebook.<br \/>\nFake Friends dilute real friends on facebook.<br \/>\nFake Friends hide on facebook.<br \/>\nFake Friends waste time on facebook.<br \/>\nFake Friends lurk on facebook.<br \/>\nFake Friends are not real on facebook.<br \/>\nFake Friends don&#8217;t &#8220;stick closer than a brother&#8221; on facebook.<br \/>\nFake Friends spoil old-fashioned, sensitive, real-life budding love (&#8220;I think he likes me&#8221;) on facebook.<br \/>\nFake Friends are just numbers on facebook.<br \/>\nFake Friends can&#8217;t touch on facebook.<br \/>\nFake Friends keep others from being real on facebook.<br \/>\nFake Friends don&#8217;t care on facebook.<br \/>\nFake Friends create more fake friends on facebook.<br \/>\nFake Friends condition everyone to be less real on facebook.<br \/>\nFake Friends hurt real friends on facebook.<br \/>\nFake Friends exact a high price for revealing authenticity on facebook.<br \/>\nFake Friends generate massive numbers of sheeple* on facebook.<br \/>\nFake Friends only care about the size of their &#8216;following&#8217; on facebook.<\/p>\n<p>*sheeple&#8212;people conditioned to &#8216;follow&#8217; other sheeple because they are &#8216;following&#8217; sheeple who are &#8216;following&#8217; somebody with lots and lots of sheeple &#8216;following&#8217; them, with the posted numbers to prove it, so they have to get on board with &#8216;following.&#8217;<br \/>\n&#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211;<br \/>\nYou might get the hint that I have a facetious bent toward disfavor of facebook.<br \/>\nI believe sincerely that facebook does a lot of harm, conditioning people to not be real, to diminish in-person relationships talking face-to-face, and to depend unwittingly on those controlling facebook to control major portions of their lives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fake Friends are all over on facebook. Fake Friends are a trademark of facebook. Fake Friends is synonymous with facebook. Fake Friends come from facebook. Fake Friends are brought to you compliments of facebook. Fake Friends put you at risk on facebook. Fake Friends set dangerous traps on facebook. Fake Friends dilute real friends on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational","category-political-cultural"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4302"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4311,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4302\/revisions\/4311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.awordforthought.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}