Somewhere Between Mundane Triviality and Perpetual Advertisements

It seems that most of the people on FaceBook are of one of two kinds:

• Those who explore the mundane trivialities of daily life to the point that your eyes glaze over while reading the status updates.
• Those who do nothing but advertise, and whose sole purpose in updating status is to advertise once again.

Of the two, I prefer the first. At least they are trying, and there is hope that they’ll grow out of it as they gain experience. The second type just don’t have a clue what people think when they read it. If they did, they’d find a softer approach.

Somewhere between the extremes, there is a balance. One I’m dead certain I have not found yet, I fear I am still wallowing in the realm of mundane trivialities! But it is one that I know I’ve found about once or twice a week.

It is interest, and value. It isn’t an ad – though sometimes it is an update on your latest project (but not all the time!). It isn’t what I had for breakfast, unless breakfast was out of the ordinary, like the first strawberries of the season that I can’t resist bragging over.

• It IS humor – the kind that happens in life each day.
• It IS wisdom – the little lessons taught in the triviality, without which, it is only triviality, with which, it is profound.
• It is interest – those things that happen that are out of the ordinary, and worth sharing.

Like I said, I only get it right every once in a while. But when I do, I know it.

I pay attention to those status updates that are interesting, give me value that isn’t an ad, and that make me chuckle. Those things I identify with, or consider worth my time to read.

Between the extremes indulged in by most FaceBook users, there is a narrow glimpse of the extraordinary. The thing that makes it worth hanging out there. I’m working on honing my skill at staying within its narrow confines.

And you?