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You have heard me rant about the waste of time entailed in even a cursory perusal of Facebook. Because I’m easily confused by technology, I have always maintained that it is easier to correspond with friends by simple email. But, a radio friend wrote and pointed out that I had missed the point --- that Facebook was an opportunity for several people to exchange ideas. And his point was well taken. Yesterday I was sucked in by a Facebook letter from a relative in Sweden. As you probably know, the danger of looking at Facebook, or anything else on line, is that you might see something interesting and spend the next hour reading about it and that is what happened to me. Listen to the name of this book I stumbled upon: “How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America.” Just the title made me laugh and got me off to a great start for the day. And listen to these quotes...
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Intro and Outro
INTRO:You have heard me rant about the waste of time entailed in even a cursory perusal of Facebook.
OUTRO:Perhaps I enjoyed these small scraps of wisdom so much because I was reading things that I had already written myself, like this one: If you want to get rich selling pills, get out there and discover a new disease.
