#fb groups

Hey friends!! I made a group page on FB to have a positive community to share links, builds, & to offer a positive place for everyone! I’ve shared the link before but wanted to share again in case anyone missed it! ♥️

Link:

The Awakened Network 2.0 - A space to connect with like-minds, Conscious aware individuals and geek out on fun topics. 😏🥰

I'm not sure I shouted this from the rooftops enough so I wanted to make sure my community, got the final memo - that our FB group: The Soul Tribe from over 9 years is closing (on the equinox) and we are officially migrating to a new space. While this move may seem drastic with over 6k in my group,

The truth - I'm a bit over FB groups, they stopped being what I originally created them for, within my own group and its been a chore, i don't have energetic real estate for anymore... #for real.

A group is meant to have community, connection, belonging, support, lifting others up, helping one another and instead its kinda been turning into a spam fest where no one is engaging, participating or connecting or EVEN staying on topic - over it. 🙅‍♀️

One of my core values about my website IS community, belonging, connection and divine supportive spaces to lift others up - if I feel misaligned within my own group, it's time for a shift!

Instead I've been slowly migrating to a new community space and changing some things behind the scenes.

You may already be in it but if you're not - here's your official welcome to the party invitation ;)

We will now be on our own official social network Platform called The Awakened Network. It is FREE to join.

You can request access to join Here:  https://theawakenednetwork.mn.co/share/-jDV2aPPobWYupn-?utm_source=manual

People were raging at me, threatening me with violence, saying all sorts of nasty things. Few hours later I made a response to that post saying it was me who wrote the original comment and tried to explain myself as well as I could. The person who made that post about my comment eventually responded, but seemed to just wanna mess around with me.

Then an fb friend of mine replied basically saying I'm a mentally unstable detrans woman, saying shit like "I know being detrans after having transitioned all the way is hard, but she has some serious issues that might go deeper than gender dysphoria" and "I'm really not trying to judge her too much because I know it can't be easy having to deal with gender dysphoria that you can't fix" which hit me really hard. Like it clenched my gut.

Moments later, I was banned from the group I had been a member of for three years. Just like that. I keep staring at the page, asking me if I want to join the group. I don't understand.

I managed to grab and save a few screenshots of that comment thread before the page glitched out.

Hi everybody! This might be an unusual post for me, but I wanted to share my experience with some groups on facebook and find out if anybody had as bad a time with them as I did.

One ill-fated morning, on my commute to work, I decided to join a few groups focused on plant id, gardening advice and wildlife gardening. These kind of groups tend to have a sizeable following and very active members, and I thought to myself I would surely learn something useful here and there and have a good time.

Now, painting everybody with the same brush is stupid and shallow, and I did learn a few things and got to meet interesting, well-intentioned people, BUT, I also discovered there’s an abyssal difference between those fb nature-related communities and the ones we have here. Let’s examine why in 3 handy points:

1- Disheartening lack of reading comprehension skills. Folks just don’t read questions, or don’t read them in full, or assume, or simply don’t understand, but still feel the need to type what they think. This causes extreme cluttering, with hundreds of pointless, repetitive, or negative comments. Paul has asked what cultivar of Cornus that is, he doesn’t need a millionth reply saying “dogwood”, go back picking your sweetpeas, Karen.  

2- Soul-crushing amount of misinformation and arrogance. Maybe also due to point 1, people think they are right, they will tell you, they aren’t willing to hear a different (informed) opinion and have no interest in changing their point of view. It doesn’t matter if you’re a professional, Susan will stare down at you from above her cup of tea, because she knows better. She came to fight and she’ll drag you.  

3- Carelessness towards nature/blind, militant activism. Interesting dichotomy. At one corner of the boxing ring we have Harold, who knows everybody says those chemicals are bad, but he needs that pesky dandelion off his lawn, or that aphid off his rose, so he’ll just douse the entire front garden with gallons of poison, with pleasure! At the opposite corner, biting hard into her teeth guard, there’s Marie, who strongly believes all humans (conservation scientists included) are inherently evil. All other creatures, even the worst invasive aliens, must be protected and nurtured at all costs, regardless of the situation. Mother nature knows best and will prevail anyway, she’s her right arm and will single-handedly save the planet. 

Guess who’s done with that bullshit??