Diary of Heart & Soul

By Terri Collins Those who know me well know that I have a hate-love relationship with Facebook. They have seen me get on for a while, deactivate or delete my profile for a while, and then boom in a couple of months, there I am again.  Yes, I am wishy washy when it comes to Facebook. I know, I admit it. I promise I am not unstable, I just struggle between the good, the bad and the ugly of Facebook.  Honestly, I don't think I am alone in this struggle.  In this post I am going to share 25 things I hate about Facebook and well....a few things I love about Facebook.  So that this post will end on a good note, I am going to start with things I hate about Facebook and then close with the things that I love about it... 1)  Facebook is addictive & engulfs your time ... 2)  Facebook is a safe place for haters to spew hate ... 3)  Facebook is risky for exploitation ... 4)  Facebook is a play ground for hackers ... 5)  Facebook sometim...

By: Terri Collins Have you ever thought about the alikeness of Pandora's Box and Social Media? I have, often.  To me, social media is a very similar resemblance of Pandora's Box. The Wikipedia definition of Pandora's Box is; Pandora's box is an artifact in Greek mythology , taken from the myth of Pandora 's creation in Hesiod 's Works and Days . [1] The "box" was actually a large jar (πίθος pithos ) [2] given to Pandora (Πανδώρα, " all-gifted, all-giving "), [3] which contained all the evils of the world. Pandora opened the jar and all the evils flew out, leaving only " Hope " inside once she had closed it again. Today the phrase "to open Pandora's box" means to perform an action that may seem small or innocent, but that turns out to have severely detrimental and far-reaching negative consequences. Think about this; before social media we did not know much of what others, throughout the country an...