Only on Facebook
Woman in the Middle | March 15, 2015I joined a group on Facebook that is all about what is going on in my city. People post things like “Avoid the intersection at First and Main because it is blocked by an accident” or “Help me find my lost dog” or “Why is the police helicopter flying over my neighborhood?” But every once and awhile, you get an interesting post like this one: “445pm and hookers are already out on mission… smdh.” (BTW, smdh means “shake my damn head.” I had to ask Eldest Daughter.)
Needless to say, that got the conversation rolling! Everything from “Was that Mona?” (It apparently was) to “What?!? We have HOOKERS?” (Yes, we do!)
But it gets even better! Somehow, some way, the conversation on that post evolved from “we have hookers” to a whole discussion on the Native American meaning of our city’s name. How the heck did that happen? In real conversation, leaps can happen and you don’t really know how they occur. But on Facebook, you can actually trace the evolution of a conversation. But even though I was able to do that, I am still scratching my head as to how we got from hookers to the definitions for Native American terms.
Seriously, this could only happen on Facebook!!!
Is there a Native American term for hookers…………………..just wondering now you mentioned both in a post
Exactly, how did that happen????
I just read some information re: Twitter. Apparently, following the latest, most up-to-date on any given topic is Twitter’s specialty. Any you don’t even have to post anything. I’m thinking of starting an account. I wonder how safe it is to do that.