Is it time to say goodbye to Facebook?

Have you noticed that just recently a lot of companies are riding roughshod over us the consumer.  They tell us what we want, they tell us to pay more for services which frankly aren't worth the money.  They try to tell us what to listen to, what to eat, how to dress.  The most recent and vocal of these - 'you'll grow to love it - stop complaining' companies is Facebook.  FB has become a part of my life.  I use it to keep up with my friends all over the world.  I have the FB app, I check it all the time.  But get this FB I am the boss, I dictate our relationship or so I thought.  With each new update I renew my privacy settings.  But this last update - the one that sorts stories into an order of importance that's done by an algorithm is quite possibly the beginning of the end -for me at least.  FB wants to move in with me, it wants to tell all my friends what I'm watching or listening to.  It wants me to give it a timeline of my life long before FB was an idea for an exclusive ivy league network.  FB sit down and listen, its not you it's me.  I value my privacy, my guilty pleasures, my pandora playlist, youtube videos ect.  I'm announcing a trail separation.  If you haven't come to your senses in a month, I'm afraid it's over.

10/10 Moved the facebook app to the second screen on my iphone and found I don't feel compelled to check it.  I'm thinking I'll stay with FB but only at the weekends unless someone messages me direct.

When one size doesn't fit all

There's an old saying that 'sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me' which increasingly seems to hold less truth.  Listen to the media, pick up any magazine, or watch any talk show and they're all about how a person looks.  It's all about the size zero - but is that healthy?  Speaking as someone who never has been and never wants to be a size zero I would say not only is it an unhealthy obsession it's downright dangerous. My husband recently lost a lot of weight - around 70-75 llbs - it took him a year of diet and exercise to get to just under 200llbs.  That wasn't his target weight but he can maintain 200llbs and still eat normally.  According to his BMI he needs to lose another 10 llbs - only losing that much more would make him start to look skeletal..  With that dramatic a weight loss some people thought he was ill, our next door neighbour was convinced that he'd taken some slimming aid.  My BMI target is 120llbs I'm ten over that but if its a choice between counting every calorie to lose that extra poundage or eating normal healthy food and remaining a size 10 I know which I prefer.  Every body is different, we all have a golden ratio when it comes to weight our own personal number - your body will let you know what yours is.

Why do today's tennis players come with their own sound effects?

Lets get this out of the way up-front.  I love tennis, I've been to Queens Club and watched Wimbledon every year and I can't believe how long it has taken me to notice this.  If you google Murray v Nadal (US open semi final 2011) and compare it to say Stich v Edberg (Basel final 1993) there is one major difference - a lack of grunting.  Seriously, compare the two.  The Basel match you can't take your eyes off for a number of reasons - the players, the almost balletic shots and the grace, strength and power behind them they make their battle look effortless.  Murray v Nadal on the other hand you could be chasing a peanut across the floor and you'd still know who had just hit the ball because of their grunts, groans and moans.  The women are just as bad, Seles v Sabatini Miami 1991, Seles actually does a double grunt a sort of 'ahh- uhhh!' each time she hits the ball.  Sabatini just grunts.  Right up to date 2011 Wimbledon final Sharapova v Kvitova, Sharapova screams into her serve.  Compare this with Virginia Wade v Betty Stove Wimbledon 1977 final, not a grunt or a yell in sight. 
We know you're putting your all into each shot - just lose the sound effects.