Raising Heck and Hashtags

Ok so some if you may not agree with me or even give a hoot what I have to say, but I've got to say something.
First let me preface this with my love hate relationship with social media. I think it's amazing what facebook, twitter, and other sites have done for our lives; however, we have made it ok for people to be mean to others. I am really interested to see how the kids who are use to this stuff turn out as adults. I say all this as I am on a blog spilling my guts, so what do I know!!!
Ok here goes:
So a couple weeks ago a sweet old man, when asked in an interview what he thought about marriage and Christianity, gave his honest opining. I don't know if you've heard about this little restaurant called Chik-fil-A, but that sweet man was the CEO.  Ok, ok..so you've heard about this "controversy".  But can we stop for a minute and look at the facts? We live in AMERICA (you know freedom of speech)!!!! Freedom of speech lets everyone be able to say what they think! That means EVERYONE!! Gay, straight, happy, sad, mean, honest!!! I'm not going to put my feelings on here, I'm just going to say this.  IT'S A SANDWICH!!! Does it make me less of a Christian that I didn't go stand in line to eat or does it make me less of a supporter that I will be going to eat some nuggets dipped in Polynesian sauce sometime in the next month? Just a thought!!!! Either way does this have to be hashed out on social media for weeks at a time.  Especially when countries around the world are putting aside their differences and competing at the Olympics (have you been watching? USA USA USA).
Speaking of "hashing" things out, this is a public service announcement.  Do you know what a hashtag is? Do you know what a hashtag is really for? (Did you just notice that I ended each sentence with a preposition? Please don't judge me!) If you are new to the twitter world then you may not know what I'm talking about right now.  But, a hashtag is used for a lot of different stuff.  For instance you can sort comments into categories: #ramblingsofrealcraziness; use it for emergencies #boonevillefire; or my favorite you can be a smarty pants: #hilarious (you know, if something really isn't funny). BUT 2 hashtags are enough per tweet, instagram, or facebook status.  We don't need you to "hash" out your day through hashtags.  I know this is not a big deal, but I'm trying to save everyone some embarrassment here.  If you post a picture from your day out at the mall and want to hashtag it fine, but we get that you are #shopping, #spendingmoney, #mallatbarnescrossing, #clothes, #charlotterusse.  Why don't you just do ONE hashtag: #broke!
So I am done Raising Heck and Hashtags...
until next time
#stayclassy #getoffmynerves (do you see what I just did there!?)


I blocked out the ugly word!! Yay me!