Mass* Exodus from LDS Church on Pioneer Day.

* Well, hey, even just a single person has mass.

According to a local news station there was a mass of somewhere between 12 and 20 people that picked today to mail in their membership resignation letters to the LDS Church.  These people are doing this to show their support of Kate Kelly, who was recently excommunicated for refusing to give up her Ordain Women movement.

To be honest, I’m only posting on this subject because I wanted to make that “mass” pun.   And make fun of the news organization (Fox 13) that referred to 20 out of 15,082,028 as “mass”.

Why I get on Facebook.

I started my Facebook account as an assignment in one of the technology classes I took for my Master’s Degree.  It lay dormant for a couple years, until the last Presidential election, when I discovered there is a lot of funny stuff being passed around there.  I spend most of my time there scrolling through, looking for things like this and passing it on for my friends and family to see.

But blended into that humor, I also found a source of news.  Now, I take everything I see on Facebook with a grain of salt, so this is only a starting point.  Things like this make me curious and then I look into it further, in this case to find out that Cheerios got slammed for having a commercial with an interracial couple and their mixed-race daughter.  They also decided to continue airing the commercial.

And then there’s my creative/opinionated side.  The beauty of memes is that they are meant to be copied, adjusted, edited and then passed on.  I adjusted this one about Naval Bases and noise to fit our current debate about moving the Utah State Prison.

I also had to adjust this one, because although I agreed wholeheartedly with the basic premise, I felt it had a myopic view of the problem.

So that’s why I like my Facebook account.  For me, it’s a source of humor, information and inspiration for spewing my own opinions.