I have found most people on facebook are.....I avoid my real life friends and family online.
I don’t do facebook.
Of course you are not alone.
I practically worship freedom, and the right to live as I choose. The Golden Rule is to allow others the same freedom. If acquaintances and friends and family post their own opinions online, how they feel, vote, or think, I respect it and stay away.
If it’s an issue on which they have facts wrong and there is something non threatening that I can maybe steer them to, without putting them down or starting a fight, sometimes I do it and sometimes I don’t.
Some people whom I adore are I believe misguided about politics or the world. They get their info from tainted sources. But if you say this, they will say that you get YOUR info from tainted sources. And then there you are.
Enjoy the people you enjoy for what you enjoy them for. Let them be them.
Your coworkers and acquaintances just leave alone.
Yes. My family and I stay away from politics. It’s not worth the hard feelings.
Been there, done that.
I was just told by a friend that Guiliani wears mascara and another one said “he was speaking for the president” when he dissed Obama. What can you say to this?!
Never had that problem, because I’ve NEVER used Facebook.
I don’t believe I’m missing anything. I’ve never been the social type anyway.
I use Facebook to stay in touch with family - only. When a family member posts something offensive (such as a positive comment on Barack Obama), I lose the desire to stay in touch, and I block them. I don’t benefit from hearing details on why a few of my relatives hate America (fortunately only three out of over 100 have crossed that terrible line and mentioned voting for or supporting the communist).
I have found most people on facebook are..... One of my niece's is married to a former marine who claims to have PTSD even though he was a office desk jockey reading emails and never saw combat. He even has a service dog. His disability payment is nice and all he does is sit around the house playing video games while my niece works full time. On facebook they have been posting pictures of him at activities put on by the Wounded Warrior Project. I have to really bite my tongue every time I see his lazy mug.
I have friends who don’t share my philosophical framework in real life and often the same people on facebook. When they talk their stuff (that I’ve heard a billion times, used to live in the SF Bay Area) I just Unfollow them on Facebook. Their stuff doesn’t show up on my wall, I can check in on them if I want to, and I haven’t Unfriended them.
My wife, however, loves Facebook because she can converse with a lot of other relatives, mostly females, and learn about events happening in the family. I have scant interest in those mundane sorts of things.
Yes.
Get new friends?......
Once I see that a friend or family member has a liberal take on some issue, I quietly stop following them on Face Book. They never know and I live a calm life.
I see it all day long.
Most of it I ignore but on rare occasions I tell them ‘You’re smarter than that.’ This statement keeps it from getting confrontational but also lets them know they are falling prey to lazy internet memes and mass media myths.
The use of private messages can be used instead of embarrassing a friend in public. Sometimes my brother posts stuff after one too many.
I am still waiting for my trip to Disneyland from Bill Gates and Walt Disney Jr., my 30 million dollars from a Nigerian banker, my hard-drive to evaporate because I didn’t forward an email to 50 people while I am baking cookies from a stolen Niemen Marcus recipe. I don’t have time for facebook.
Never been on Facebook; never will be.
The very first time I heard about Facebook and learned the “concept” behind it, I called it “a government monitored, if not government controlled, personal information mining operation”.
I solved this by not having friends