That's what they said?! #insertShockedEmoji

You know when you go to karaoke and you are no longer an ordinary language teacher (or whatever it is you do), but instead are in complete performance mode. So you've become Whitney Houston reincarnated, or if the Spice Girls got back together you'd maybe be 'Island Spice' or whatever, or possibly even those Macarena guys (though you don't really know if they're famous because you only know their Macarena song)...  But lemmie get to my point.

So you're at karaoke and in the middle of your grand performance, you see some words being highlighted on the screen that (until that moment) you had never before heard though this is one of your favourite songs and you've been singing "your bills all covered"  since you fell in love with BabyFace as a teenager LOL.  It's hands down one of theee most hilarious moments of my life!  Of course you don't let on to your 'audience' that you've been singing nonsense for over twenty years but in your head you're aghast.  And though in this instance your wrong lines fit this song seamlessly (well arguably), you can't help but think on some of the other songs where you'd misheard lines.  And you marvel at your momentary deafness because now, all you hear is the correct thing.

As a child, 'action songs' (songs that included gestures) were the 'it' of Sunday School.  An old favourite of mine was 'I am in the Lord's army'.  In my defence I'll insert that sometimes unfamiliarity with context can encourage the lyrical deafness one might experience.  And for a long time, having no understanding of the words infantry, cavalry and artillery is the reason behind my affirmation that, though:

"I may never march in an infanty
Ride on a calorie
Shoot with a tillery"

I was in the Lord's army... (at least that's the story I'm sticking to).

Still, my gestures were down pat, so I kinda sorta grasped the concept of the song.  So much so that  I even remember once sharing my extensive ignorance with another child by explaining that a calorie was a type of horse and a tillery a kind of gun #smh

Back home we have a saying "Def ayse gi liad trouble".  Thankfully now though fewer people can remain innocent of lying because we can check the lyrics online... Just have to hope whoever put it there had heard the correct thing in the first place.  LOLOL

Who Asked You Anyway?

#InDefenseOfAirportCheckins LOLOL

I've never FB checked in while at the airport...at least I can't recall ever doing so, but it's clearly not outside the realm of possibilities LOL

That being said, where do these authorities get off trying to mock people for what they choose to post?  But I guess since my line of argument is that people have the choice to post 'whatever', I've sorta made my whole line of argument moot huh?

Still, I press on LOL

Through no deliberate option of my own (damn you Facebook for trying to pretend to know my interests and interpreting my reading ONE article as a desire to read everything on the issue!), my newsfeed has recently been overrun with the counsel of social media etiquette pundits #insertSarcasticTone who've created memes and written articles in critique of the posting choices of others:
"16 Things You Should Never Post"
"Did You know you can fly from any airport..."
"12 Wedding habits that need to end already" (#10 was updating one's FB status at the altar lol - I didn't even know that was a thing) 
The general tone of these articles seem condemnatory and the writers all seemed to be asking 'Who Cares?'
As a response I simply say my belief that these critics don't understand the notion of social media.  In SM, everyone gets to be a star in his/her personal reality show; and like traditional TV shows, all one has to do is not watch the programs one doesn't like.

I've often had to 'unfollow' or 'hide' or just scroll on when I encounter posts I don't care about - It's that simple.  Because personalities differ, my desire for, and even definition of privacy is unsurprisingly different from that of another.  Therefore if someone reveals information about themselves that I know I'd never about myself, I continue scrolling if I'm not interested, and if I am... but maybe mi jus faas (I'm inquistive).

Naturally when it comes to safety or showing sensitivity that's a different conversation. Is there a possible threat to life if your location is disclosed?  Does taking pictures at an accident scene and posting them on your page risk the victims' loved ones being blindsided by the horror?  These are things that require censorship.  Advising someone against announcing an engagement or some other good news because there may be 'haters' (as one article suggested); or jeering someone for checking in because it may be interpreted as an attempt to be boastful (as suggested by another), is pure crap!  So what if someone hates on you because of envy?  You have tons of others cheering you on.  And frankly, I look forward to my friends and acquaintances sharing stuff - I want to be in the know!  Can you imagine having to tell every friend by DM that you just got promoted, or moved to another country or are about to get married? sheesh!

C'mon, give people a break!
Social media is a cheap and efficient way to follow what's going on in someone's life (or share what's going on with yours) without having the arduous task of calling them up every few days.  If someone posts falsehood, what do I care?  If I know the truth I give my computer/phone screen a raised eyebrow and enjoy the fiction LOL

But I guess another reality of social media is that everyone gets the opportunity to become an authority on whatever they choose, heck I'm writing this aren't I? LOL  Maybe if I dislike their criticisms so much then I should avoid reading their articles.