The Quiet Girl

 Facebook in the 2000s was fun. It was much better than the politics, serious-matter-laden social media platform of today. Back then, it was all about posting random things to make people laugh, listen to music, and play games. There was no pressure to post major accomplishments in your life to compare yourself to, just mindless entertainment. Here are a few of the things I remember seeing when I first got a Facebook in middle school:  Pieces of Flair-online "buttons" with pictures of your interests, such as cats, clarinets, or mountains, sometimes with funny sayings on them.  Classic Memes, Goth and Emo Memes. The pictures were not perfect. Once, a schoolmate posted a video of herself and a friend at home, in their pajamas, (with messy ponytails and no makeup ) making pancakes and tossing them across the kitchen from pan to plate. "The Ultimate Flapjack!" the girl said as she laughed.  Another friend in early high school (early 2010 by this point) posted pictures o

                                            =   The image presented on social media is not reality. Furthermore, it is not a reliable source of information when seeking the truth or the news. Well, many news companies are biased and I have even heard of people publishing "fake news," but social media is the all-time worst when it comes to seeking information. It has increasingly gotten worse as time has passed, to the point of being fake-ly ridiculous. I posted a post on this blog several years ago about my deleting of Facebook in order to get away from someone toxic, but also because I was tired of seeing people only posting their best moments and nothing else, not even the everyday tasks of their lives such as cooking, cleaning, or working on the car. I got a Facebook again shortly after that, and I only post my music, art, blog posts from here, hiking moments, and my cats Polly and Shadowfax. For many people, for a long time, social media was the main (or only) way they sa

                                                                                                                Adonyi Gabor from Pexels  I'm going to be honest, reading is not my favorite. It has to be a topic that really grabs me for me to get into the book. But with the current times I stumbled upon a book that my sister had read as a kid and enjoyed, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. She loved that book so much, she even did a book report on it and painted a large poster of a book going into a fire, with the introductory sentence, "It was a pleasure to burn." I decided to read the book and find out what it was about after hearing that it was about topics such as censorship and a social-media-centered world.                                                                                                                        Snapwire from Pexels The story is about a young fireman, Guy Montag, questioning why the world is the way it is, and why books have been forgotten