Hey melatonin,
I often find myself feeling frustrated with just about everyone around me.. and my FB 'friends". I often post articles on my FB profile from SOTT, about EE breathing and Dot Connector and hardly anyone ever comments on what I feel is really important issues concerning all of us. But, if I post on my profile something totally irrelevant ie. 'I feel happy' then I'll get so many 'likes' and replies that it just blows me away. To me this indicates that none of my 'friends' are even looking at the important stuff that I am posting or they just brush it aside and pretend not to see it. In fact I have now gotten over the feeling of frustration and I realise sadly that all of these people are actually asleep and that they live in a totally different reality to myself and, even sadder in fact, we're not really friends after all. In fact, the more I learn and explore, the more distant those 'friends' are becoming.
Yes, I keep posting these articles, etc in the hope that maybe, just maybe this information will spark some sort of interest in someone who has mattered to me in my life enough to keep in touch though social networking. I live in hope, but without expectation. And yes, it did hurt, and was pretty upsetting to ponder this, but in the end I am secure with following my quest for truth, learning and putting the work into practice.
And I think that although I may never meet the people on this forum, and although we come from far and wide, this is the closest many of us are to get to interacting with like minded folk where we can sit in on discussions that matter.