{"id":1155,"date":"2020-07-23T11:41:23","date_gmt":"2020-07-23T11:41:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-photo-tour\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2020-07-23T11:41:23","modified_gmt":"2020-07-23T11:41:23","slug":"educate-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-photo-tour\/2020\/07\/23\/educate-yourself\/","title":{"rendered":"Educate Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1240\" src=\"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-photo-tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/educate-yourself.jpg\" alt=\"Saying &quot;Educate Yourself !&quot;can be a passive aggressive putdown...\" width=\"399\" height=\"278\" srcset=\"https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-photo-tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/educate-yourself.jpg 399w, https:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-photo-tour\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/educate-yourself-300x209.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 399px) 100vw, 399px\" \/>Educate yourself!<\/p>\n<p>This statement can be increasingly found on Facebook posts in response to someone simply having a different opinion. It usually comes at the end of a person&#8217;s post and is often patronizing and insulting in nature.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the person saying this often does not present a valid point of the subject matter at hand. There is usually an absence of facts, theories, concepts and knowledge. It is based more on emotion that reality.<\/p>\n<p>Putting others down never solves anything. The key to better dialogue on social media is through civility and respect for one another.<\/p>\n<p>Can we ever see a day when this camaraderie fully takes place on social media?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Additional reading:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/visitingnewengland.com\/blog-photo-tour\/2020\/06\/22\/waterfall-video\/\">Finding comfort at a waterfall in Westminster, Mass.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.visitingnewengland.com\/red-apple-farm-phillipston-ma.html\">Connecting with real life at a family-owned farm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Educate yourself! 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