[ShandaLear]

Sorry for the vanity, but I an anticipating giant waves of conservatives being defriended by liberals as we draw close to the midterms. Just wanted you all to be prepared for the fallout. :-)

[joesjane]

That is AWESOME, I think my new goal is to see how many of my friends will do the same however I think over 95% are super conservative like me. This just made my day, thaks.

BTW, sorry you were defriended :-(

[sappy]

i was thinking about defriending some acquaintances for the opposite resason.

[the invisib1e hand]

Funny about this. I was looking for a screen shot from the movie "Brazil" of a government poster that reads, "Don't Suspect A Friend, Report Him!"

So I hunted around on google images for a while and the few links that I thought looked hopeful took me to....removed Facebook pages.

Ha! Imagine that.

Anyway, the whole theme for me is how citizenship is becoming "virtual" and how easily one can become marginalized, a "non-person," as it were. Of course, as another poster pointed out, Facebook's (and hence, this generation's) definition of "friend" is woefully inadequate. Pity them.

Let's see if I can find one about the "Ministry of Information..."

[Blood of Tyrants]

A former acquaintance of mine during my Navy days befriended me on facebook. Being extremely liberal, he would make snotty comments about my and a mutual friend’s conservative comments. When I engaged him privately and destroyed every one of his stupid arguments (like Republicans want to pay no taxes at all and dissolve the government), he couldn’t take it and de-friended me. I still send him messages on FB but he ignores them.

Oh, turns out he lied about being a homosexual when he enlisted and at least twice on his re-enlistments (they still asked when he enlisted). He was busted for drug usage once and claimed to dislike the military but stayed in because of the guaranteed government paycheck.

I don’t miss him and never did like him much because he was pretty much an insufferable ass.

[KosmicKitty]

Don't worry. This kid didn't have any friends on facebook.

But if you end up like this, don't say we didn't warn you.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks ShandaLear. Chances are they weren't your friend in the first place.

I was defriended on Facebook today. Reason given was that my republishing of negative Obama articles was causing this person extreme duress.

I've defriended one person (someone I didn't know in real life) at least once due to their idiotic politics, and it's likely that I'll be dumping at least one more (that one is someone I actually used to work with, who *used to* have a sense of humor, now it appears she could co-host the View).

[radiohead]

When I see a bunch of liberal crap from my friends, I hide their comments. If I want to go back and talk to them, I do, but I don’t need to see their ‘Support Obama’ BS every time I get my news.

I’ve re-met a few people from high school and college. Folks change (in my case), or they never do (in many of their cases), and I’m not going to defriend someone who isn’t conservative; they’ve been living their lives and I’ve been living mine and they are free to defriend me or hide my comments. That said, I don’t need to see every mindless liberal utterance that they make.

[EDINVA]

Back in ‘08, my brother and a cousin were getting on each other’s nerves as the election approached, so they agreed not to talk/email/whatever until the elections were well over. I think it took till Thanksgiving for them to communicate again. People just get too emotional and irrational about their politics. (present company included)

[Publius6961]

giant waves of conservatives being defriended by liberals as we draw close to the midterms. Just wanted you all to be prepared for the fallout. :-)

I am totally like, not worried?
I don't have any "friends" with IQs under 70.

That would just about cover all Obama supporters, and their stupid "feelings.".

[ThomasThomas]

What I liked about facebook is that I found out that most of my friends from high school are conservatives. I have lost touch with many of them. My class had over 900 in it and I poked around with friends of friends pages and brought true hope for me. Not the fake stuff.’

[catnipman]

Facebook is a total waste of time. I joined only to stay in contact with old friends. Never ever read anyone’s posts, which seem to me to tend towards things like “My dog took a poop in my front yard this morning! Yea!!!”.

As far as I can tell facebook posts are nothing but a bunch of narcissistic drivel. And don’t get me started on the morons that spend their life playing “Farmville”, “Dipshitville”, etc.

I was stunned to find out how much time so many of my idiot relatives were wasting on facebook. I guess facebook is fine for those who have no real life in the first place. My idiot relatives included.

[imskylark]

I have de-friended liberals. I post anti-Obama articles and they don’t want to discuss, they throw out personal attacks. This Billy-Bob doesn’t take that thar too good. ;-)

[NYCslicker]

You have successfully culled your Facebook friends to the group I like to call “Those Who Can Hang.” Dont’ worry. It will happen again.

This raises another important question: Why do you have liberals as friends to begin with?

[Commander8]

I was forced to de-friend some moron who called me a racist because I didn’t accept Barack Obama as my personal Lord and Saviour.

[SaraJohnson]

I have lost two liberal friends. They were old friends who “progressed” to be flamers. Neither one had kids.

I’m pretty careful not to make friendships with liberals because before long you find out your whole world view and values are opposite. It is a waste of time and effort.

[riri]

Why have friends who are aiding and facilitating the destruction of your way of life and your children’s future anyway? That’s a big hurdle for me.

[Do Not Make Fun Of His Ears]

You forced them to choose between truth and delusion. They made their own choice. :-)

I publish, too, without fear, if what I am saying is the undeniable truth.

And if they leave because of tat, they weren’t a friend anyway. Good riddance!!!!

[Lazamataz]

I’ve dropped facebook ‘friends’ who were Dem or Libs. They are the enemy.