{"id":55841,"date":"2023-09-12T13:44:57","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T13:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55841"},"modified":"2023-09-12T13:45:13","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T13:45:13","slug":"social-media-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55841","title":{"rendered":"No thank you &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>I have reached my boiling point with these so-called social media &#8220;friends&#8221; who scour the Internet looking for people with whom they allegedly want to become acquainted.<\/p>\n<p>An individual who presented herself as an attractive young female asked if we could &#8220;chat.&#8221; I asked &#8220;her&#8221; what she wanted to talk about.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She&#8221; said she wants to &#8220;get to know&#8221; me better.<\/p>\n<p>I hit the ceiling. I responded with this: <em>&#8220;I have more than enough actual friends with whom I have trouble staying current. I don&#8217;t need or want any more Internet &#8216;friends&#8217; who have no interest in me. Look elsewhere. Good bye.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I probably shouldn&#8217;t have responded to this individual &#8230; but what the hell. I just had to get it off my chest.<\/p>\n<p>This is my way of saying, I suppose, to anyone on the hunt for pigeons to lure into some sort of Internet relationship that I ain&#8217;t your guy.<\/p>\n<p>My new life remains a work in progress. I intend to get it all sorted out in due course. I&#8217;ll just have to stipulate that it won&#8217;t be via any sort of &#8220;come on&#8221; from someone who more than likely is not the individual &#8220;she&#8221; purports to be.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have reached my boiling point with these so-called social media &#8220;friends&#8221; who scour the Internet looking for people with whom they allegedly want to become acquainted. An individual who presented herself as an attractive young female asked if we could &#8220;chat.&#8221; I asked &#8220;her&#8221; what she wanted to talk about. &#8220;She&#8221; said she wants &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=55841\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No thank you &#8230;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1676,4300],"class_list":["post-55841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-facebook","tag-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=55841"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55841\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55843,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55841\/revisions\/55843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}