{"id":1603,"date":"2024-10-13T14:39:05","date_gmt":"2024-10-13T13:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2024-10-13T14:39:05","modified_gmt":"2024-10-13T13:39:05","slug":"it-isnt-stansted-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/2024\/10\/it-isnt-stansted-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"It Isn\u2019t Stansted Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Social Media is a funny old place.  I\u2019m slowly learning not to voice opinions on X (formerly known as Twitter) as there are some very nasty people out there. <em>Troll<\/em> is the term, I believe. Sometimes the most innocent comment can result in a tirade of bile from a stranger on the other side of the world.  Or just a few miles down A12.  I have recently learned to love <em>Mute <\/em>and <em>Block<\/em>.  Rather than dignify their comments with a reply and get into a to and fro of insults I just wipe them off the face of my X with great delight.  Block, block, block!  Mute, mute, mute! I find it rather therapeutic.  Life is dismal enough without the bleakness, insults and stupidity of some posts lowering my mood and upping my blood pressure as I flit in and out of X World.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Who do I block, you ask?  Well, there\u2019s quite a list: rabid left-wingers, rabid right-wingers, Djokovic fans, porn lovers, pedophiles, AGPs, obvious bots, WFP cancellation supporters, those who assume everyone agrees with them, Chris and Diane critics, Hamas followers, Just Stop Oil, to mention a few.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And people are free to block or unfollow me.  It\u2019s a free country after all.  At least it still is for the time being.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What I do object to is those who ANNOUNCE they are blocking or unfollowing you as happened to me recently.   I posted on my Facebook page (my personal one not my Author page) a criticism of the Government\u2019s decision to stop the Winter Fuel Allowance for all pensioners except those on pension credit.  I also said I thought Starmer\u2019s handling of the \u2018riots\u2019 was misguided.  Someone I barely know \u2014 we met at a writer\u2019s lunch about eighteen months ago and exchanged two sentences \u2014 jumped on to announce she was blocking me because of it.  Love, it isn\u2019t Stansted Airport.  You don\u2019t need to announce your departure.  Just unfollow, block or whatever.  I\u2019m astounded by her ego.  How smug!  Does she think anyone is bothered?  I\u2019m certainly not.  I wouldn\u2019t recognise her again if I passed her in the street.  I can live with her disapproval quite easily.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, I shall continue to post what I like on my own Facebook page.  And anyone who doesn\u2019t like it can block me.  Simples. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social Media is a funny old place. I\u2019m slowly learning not to voice opinions on X (formerly known as Twitter) as there are some very nasty people out there. Troll is the term, I believe. Sometimes the most innocent comment &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/2024\/10\/it-isnt-stansted-airport\/\">Continue reading <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1604,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1603\/revisions\/1604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elainespires.co.uk\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}