Glass half full

Yesterday I came across an article that has made me ever more aware of what I post on Facebook. I know that people are always telling you that what is out there in cyberspace is kind of like that famous slogan for Vegas:  What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. Except here, Vegas is the Internet and is searchable within seconds. If you posted it, it is in the ether forever. I don't want my grandchildren being able to Google their Lola and discover pictures of me doing less than Lola-like things. Oh man, but you know that is going to happen, don't you?

So anyway, back to the Facebook thing. A friend of mine posted on his Facebook some study that shows that if you post negative status updates, you're more likely to have low self esteem. And if you have low self esteem, much like real life, you'll drive people away from you. In contrast, people with high self esteem are more likely to post positive updates and win friends & influence people.

Being the slightly neurotic person that I am, I went back over my status updates to see if I'm coming across as a low self esteem type person.

Oh. Sh!t.

Actually, there is all kinds of psychosis going on here, isn't there? I mean, what kind of person goes over old Facebook posts to figure out what kind of self esteem she has? OMFG, I'm a grown woman! This is crazy, isn't it? Shouldn't I have the self reflection skills to figure that out myself? Lord knows I stare at my navel enough.

Of course, that's not going to stop me from evaluating my Facebook posts.

There are two possible outcomes for this course of action:

1. I'll post more positive status updates.
2. I won't post very much on Facebook at all.

And like most things, I am going to overthink this. Crap.