Pardon My Soapbox Rant

"Sometimes in life the proper thing to do is to sit back and let other people worry about problems."
- A wise old man

My parents taught me that if you can't say anything nice, don't bother saying anything at all. This is pretty good advise but at a point I can no longer sit back and hold my tongue. You see if have had some thoughts on my mind for a while that I just haven't been able to move through. There are some issues that are not worth commenting on issues like:

• The Chik-filet debacle: I love chicken and the whole thing is a mess. Nuff said!
• Politics: Do you really want me to stand on my soapbox and tell you how I think the country would be. Heck no. God bless the people that want to run this county, as long as I get to keep running my little pool. I got no problems. Plus what do I know, I voted for Nader in 2000 (I mean the man did bring us seat belts standard in all cars, the guy is a lifesaver....literally)

But I quite frankly am tired of seeing E-cards, constantly every time I get on to any social media website. I mean I get them, they are snarky, and cleaver, and they show fancy people dressed up as aristocrats and they are saying abnoxious things. And truth be said I have laughed at more then a few of these little cards. But I am over it.

I believe the real change came the day Facebook purchased Instagram for 1 billion dollars. All of the sudden Pinstrest needed a way to compete so almost instantly these pictures started going up, and they are everywhere. At this point I believe I have read a E-card about everything.

Let me walk you though the lifecycle of the E-card experience:

1. Girl chilling on the Pintrest
2. Girl spots cleaver E-card
3. Girl realises that this particiular E-card was made for her and her besties
4. Girl posts said E-card on her facebook and tags all her besties on it.
5. E-card is spotted and reposted by 15,385 other girls experiencing the same feeling. 

I guess the thing that bothers me most about the eCard phenomenon is that I acutally like seeing my friends pictures. (not just because I am a Facebook/Twitter stalker) I like seeing my friends from long ago's children and vacation. And I hate it when the whole newsfeed is clogged up with snarky pictures somebody thought was cleaver.

Moral of the story: Post more pictures of your cute kids and vacations... I love them!