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Anyone else done with Facebook?
facebook ^ | 6/4/2017 | self

Posted on 06/04/2017 10:21:18 AM PDT by Smedley

After so many years, I recently closed down my FB account. Too many people, good or nominal to begin with, become total %&*@!%&^ on social media. Its the computer anonymity, I believe, in many cases. That said, I now have three relatives I am no longer on speaking terms - and why? Because they could not keep their petty insults in check. Few people in FB are ever persuaded by logical arguments and polite discourse.


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To: Smedley

I’ve been on FB since 2009 and I have no problem with it. I have some friends and relatives who post things that I totally disagree with and I just let them spew. If I was to argue with their views on things, we would probably get into a huge fight online so I just move on and let them speak their mind.


41 posted on 06/04/2017 10:55:04 AM PDT by murron
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To: BunnySlippers

I make them unfriend me by calling them on their BS.


42 posted on 06/04/2017 10:56:39 AM PDT by ican'tbelieveit
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To: Smedley

I quit using it in 2015.


43 posted on 06/04/2017 10:56:55 AM PDT by MrEdd (MrEdd)
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To: lilypad

You said it’s disappointing with the liberal crap and the Trump insults. I’ve got FB people like that. It’s shocking that these people, most with brains and skills, keep posting propaganda from the coup. But I don’t unfriend them. I ignore them and eventually their idiot posts get posted on my FB page less frequently.


44 posted on 06/04/2017 11:01:26 AM PDT by grania (Deplarable and Proud of It!)
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To: Smedley

I closed mine down right after the election. Several of my friends simply lost their minds... and manners.


45 posted on 06/04/2017 11:02:19 AM PDT by Tallguy
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Unfortunately it is the ONLY way my mother will use to commumicate with me.


46 posted on 06/04/2017 11:02:45 AM PDT by dsrtsage (One half of all people have below average IQ. In the US the number is 54%)
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To: rockinqsranch
Don't do it.

It will suck you in and waste your time; your privacy will cease to exist. And that was true back when FB was still unknown. To paraphrase an overused cliche - What goes on Facebook, stays on FB. Even after you 'quit'.

Stay out of Facebook.

47 posted on 06/04/2017 11:03:22 AM PDT by pigsmith
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To: Smedley

Agreed. What was a great way to keep in touch with distant family and friends has been contimated and is now a vehicle for evil. People are nasty to one another, lies are spread, idolatry is rampant. I can honestly say I hate all social media. I long for the days when there was no internet.


48 posted on 06/04/2017 11:04:52 AM PDT by Angels27
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To: Smedley

I almost never go on Facebook anymore. Several years now. I haven’t deleted my account or unfriended anyone. I guess I keep it in case one of my “friends”. DIE.


49 posted on 06/04/2017 11:06:07 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Smedley

Has its good and lots of bad. You can limit who sees your political posts by choosing the audience and making specific political friend lists. I have good online friends that I know are on the other side politically, so I dont get into it with em and block em from my pol posts.

Don’t like the snooping and info gathering. But my biggest pet peeve is how phony ppl tend to be online. Some friends I know only post their happiest moments “Look at our new car, our lovely vacation etc” meanwhile I know personally their real lives are total sh*tstorms. I think there have been studies about how social media leads to depression in some people due to everyone showing off how falsely happy they are...

Its an easy site to hookup from though. lol


50 posted on 06/04/2017 11:06:26 AM PDT by Bruiser78
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To: Fungi

‘A lot of us never started, never will....’

Count ME as a “never starter.” I’ve no interest in it whatsoever.


51 posted on 06/04/2017 11:06:56 AM PDT by Old Grumpy
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To: Smedley

I was never on it so no problem for me.


52 posted on 06/04/2017 11:08:27 AM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: Smedley

Never started to begin with. From what i see of the wife’s traffic, mostly idiocy, and she will not let me see the political crap that goes by. Knows my temper.


53 posted on 06/04/2017 11:09:46 AM PDT by doorgunner69
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To: ameribbean expat
ROTFL! I Nominate your post "Best Of The Day"!

54 posted on 06/04/2017 11:11:54 AM PDT by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: BunnySlippers

Facebook perhaps has its uses, but “friendly” discourse is not one of them. There is no anonymity on Facebook, and people who are careless about what they put up there may find themselves subject to a lot of abuse they could just as well have done without.

Maybe videos of cats caught in predicaments IS the highest and best use of Facebook. But just about everything else either has to be kept bland and uncontroversial, or is best limited to just saying “Hi”, or passing along innocuous jokes.

And you can get burned on those, too.


55 posted on 06/04/2017 11:12:29 AM PDT by alloysteel (Don't worry, nothing is going to be OK. Positive assumption of negative outcome.)
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To: Smedley

I have a FB account so I can look at stuff there only - I never post or comment. Only wish I’d completely fabricated what little personal information I enterewhen I first signed up. I use FB but prevent it from using me.


56 posted on 06/04/2017 11:14:13 AM PDT by bigbob (People say believe half of what you see son and none of what you hear - M. Gaye)
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To: Smedley

I don’t have a Facebook problem, nor a Twitter problem.

Guess why?


57 posted on 06/04/2017 11:14:44 AM PDT by adorno (w)
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To: Smedley

Closed mine years ago
Get Emails still
lately they are telling me that someone tried to re-activate my account
Then they send me updates of who did what says what etc
Scams ... I looked and I am still de-activated
You can NEVER LEAVE
I hate that


58 posted on 06/04/2017 11:16:04 AM PDT by TexasTransplant (They used to get away with it. Not anymore.)
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To: rockinqsranch

DON’T once you put your data in, you are in forever
You can De-activate your account but it doesn’t go away and it really sucks


59 posted on 06/04/2017 11:19:06 AM PDT by TexasTransplant (They used to get away with it. Not anymore.)
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To: pigsmith

Bump and Agree 100%


60 posted on 06/04/2017 11:19:57 AM PDT by TexasTransplant (They used to get away with it. Not anymore.)
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