(Not so) Cutesy drum crap...

[Jules]

Maybe it's past my bedtime, or maybe I should stop watching the mad drummer's but for whatever reason I feel like ranting about something.

I have lots of real friends on Facebook and also lots of people I don't know in real life. This seems to pertain more to people I know personally. But, from time to time, I get tagged in some sort of video or meme that I don't particularly endorse. I have settings to where I have to approve such tags, and for a reason. I have gotten tagged in videos of Dorothea Taylor before, because someone thought it was cute that she could play the drums. It's not cute at all. She is a highly accomplished drummer of over half a century and she plays rings around me. To find it cute is sexist, and I think it was a female that tagged me in the thing.

Another one is Mr. Bean playing air drums. As good of a sense of humor as I feel I have, I can't stand Mr. Bean and being associated with him playing wit drums albeit in a well choreographed way wasn't something I appreciated. Sometimes, I do appreciate being tagged in videos of child drummers, not for the sake of being tagged, but I have seen some great young drummers I may have missed.

Not really a point to this other than to signal a needed trip to the bed, I reckon. But, I slept half the day so why am I so tired and bitchy?

Can you relate to this, and am I overreacting when people tag me in this stuff?

[tcbetka]

I don't really do Facebook much anymore...except to sell stuff, lol. At the end of the day, I feel that Social Media is a cancer on society. In and of itself, it's fine...but it's what the "look at me" crowd does with it that turns me off. So I really just don't use it much anymore. Can't stand Instagram, although my drum guru talked me into getting on there a couple of months ago to follow (ironically) Jost Nickel and Carter McClean. But even still, I haven't been on that platform now in over a month.

I'm just not into arrogance or self-promotion--which actually might be to my detriment. But I have over 400 college credits, three college degrees including a doctorate, about 6 or 7 pilot licenses, an aircraft mechanic's license, and have played drums for well over 40 years. Who cares? All that and a dollar will get you a cup of coffer on "dollar coffee Wednesday" at McDonalds. So at this point I really just don't care what people think of me--and feel that I have nothing to prove. So I just don't go in for the "look at me...look at meeee!" crowd either.

So I feel your pain Jules. I definitely smell what you're cooking.