Loving People And Using Things

How do you use social media?

To a lot of people, sites such as Facebook, MySpace, Twitter and so on represent a way to connect with others, keep up with current events and to learn new things.

Others still use these platforms to help get over feelings of loneliness, isolation and do on.

These are quite worthwhile uses of this medium, and to my mind are quite positive, provided they don’t actually replace “real life” relationships.

Unless you happen to be like one of my best friends online and met the love of your life on the internet like she did!

These thoughts started going through my mind after receiving a whole mess of marketing material on a social networking site recently.

I had actually been knocking back friend requests from certain people, simply because they looked as though all they wanted to do was market their products.

I don’t mind checking out other peoples’ products or websites, and might even recommend them to others, but if that is all they do, and don’t actually relate or interact, then I really couldn’t be bothered!

I’ve been thinking of an old song by BJ Thomas for a while, and I found a reference to it on Philosophy Of Seph

I found the song on YouTube, and thought that the whole thing flowed pretty well together!

Using Things And Loving People, The Lyrics:

Using things and loving people
That’s the way it’s got to be
Using things and loving people
Look around and you can see
That loving things and using people
Only leads to misery
Using things and loving people
That’s the way it’s got to be

Being loved is in the giving
All we have is what we share
Loving life is for the living
You have to have a heart to care
And loving things and using people
Only leads to misery
Using things and loving people
That’s the way it’s got to be

So put your hand inside my hand
I don’t know where the road will lead
We may not find the things we want
But we will find the things we need
And all we need is love

Using things and loving people
Brings you happiness I’ve found
Using things and loving people
Not the other way around
‘Cause loving things and using people
Only leads to misery
Using things and loving people
That’s the way it’s got to be

For you and me
For you and me

Written by: Hal David & Archie P. Jordan
Sung by: BJ Thomas

B. J. Thomas (Billy Joe Thomas) was born August 7, 1942, in Hugo, Oklahoma.

He’s an American singer best known for his hits in the 1960s and 1970s.

His first commercial success was with a group called the Triumphs in 1966 with a cover of Hank William’s “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry”.

Thomas released a solo album by the same name that year, and had further success with “Hooked on a Feeling” in 1968!

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