Chelsea, as always-- thanks for your kind words and your thoughtful feedback!

But my "friends " paid little mind to things i found interesting or wanted to talk about.

That, in a nutshell, is what made it very easy for me to slowly withdraw from Farcebook. That and the eternal petty mudslinging during and after the election. I sometimes look around Steemit and wonder if the fact that the platform is "slightly difficult" to use serves as an ingenious "sort mechanism" to steer a more courteous and intelligent crowd this way... while keeping the worst of the knuckle draggers (yes, I just said that!) from being significantly interested in being here.

So let's keep plugging forward here... and do our part (individually) to keep the spamfest under control... or some semblance thereof. Thankfully, there's a growing community moment to put a lid on it.