“You must be young.”
I feel young, but 45 has come and gone for me.
I live in the Metropolitan NY area and went to high school in a wealthy largely Jewish neighborhood in the Philadelphia suburbs. Thus many of my “Facebook Friends” thought they were oh-so-clever posting “Being Liberal” memes every day.
To me this is like going to a high school reunion and handing out political tracts. I never had any desire to discuss politics on Facebook. I was glad just to see pictures of people’s kids and read about their vacations. I ended up feeling like I either had to argue with the endless barrage of Leftist B.S. or I would be agreeing with it by default.
I have a similar problem with an immediate family that's ultra-liberal & my religious community. I try to ignore the idiot posts from the former while concentrating on the latter.
I've had to "unfriend" a few, liberal or conservative, who were just too annoying, period. One person showed a picture of her rash; another complained constantly about her (now ex-, I wonder why) husband. It just got to be too much.
Free Republic has it right, which is why I love it here.