Monday, April 23, 2012

Vow of FB Silence...

When you marry a soldier, there are certain things that come along with it. One of them involves keeping your mouth shut when it needs to be shut. When J is deployed, I try to stay away from any form of News.... TV, yahoo and so forth. Well here lately, avoiding the news doesn't even matter because I'm going to find out eventually through Facebook about the most recent attack, crash, or injury. Guess what people!!!?? I'd rather not know... and you have no place to be talking about it on Facebook of all places. ESPECIALLY if the incident happened in your own immediate company. Little comments like "freaking out about my soldier"... or "praying for my friend"... any of it will send your followers into an uproar. Just don't do it. Keep whatever information you have (that you shouldn't have in the first place mind you) private!!! This really hits a sore spot for me as I've seen loss with my own friends recently. And guess what... it's not your place to contact the person in question either. Do you really want your voice or face to be what she remembers when she found out?? Let the Army do it's job. There are trained officers that handle this stuff. The best thing to do during a blackout is to "KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT". I wouldn't even be posting random, curious, trivia like statements on FB. It does no one any good. If you need to talk it out, fine... do it in the privacy of your own home or a friends home. I'm taking a new vow this go around. If I see anyone posting little comments like that during a blackout or after recent news of an "incident"... they have no place on my friends list. Lets take a vow of silence ladies. We owe it to each other and especially to our men. It's the right thing to do. Just sayin...

6 comments:

  1. Great post Paige! You are so right. :)

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  2. So true.
    Same goes for counting down the days til your spouse returns from deployment... so silly and dangerous!

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  3. They need to start disciplining the soldiers that tell the spouses. The spouses don't have the same responsibility to keep their mouths shut as their soldiers. Let's get to the root of the problem.

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  4. I agree completely Sarah ;). But I also think that if we as spouses do end up with some information by accident... we should also keep that information private.

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