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.
FB is only as good as your friends. Mine tend towards calm and don’t actually discuss politics much.
about 5 months ago.
my “friend” list did not even notice.......
it was painless, and dare I say.....liberating....(use that word in a very strict sense...lol)
5 years without Facebook. It was a very wise decision. Facebook is full of dumb shit, a total waste of time.
A lot of us never started, never will....
I ONLY go on face book anymore when FR is down...contacted family, friends across America, trucker drivers, bikers, I’m not on Farce Book anymore...
Feels so good!!!
I’ve unfollowed several people on FB for the reasons you’ve mentioned. I have no intention of telling them I’ve unfollowed. They may or may not notice.
I unfollowed all the political bullies and rarely see anything bothersome now. The ads have gotten worse but that just means scroll past. I keep up with a lot of friends and promote my music performances there. I couldn’t buy the promotion I get there, it’s been very helpful.
It’s still a great resource, you just have to stay in control of it.
Nine months or so ago. Never miss it.
Facebook removed too many privacy features. Not safe with so many messed up people. Need those features back.
I have never touched Facebook and I never will for the obvious reasons other Freepers list. Do not touch Google either. They want to spy on us and use it to elect socialists and Marxists.
“it was painless, and dare I say.....liberating....(use that word in a very strict sense...lol)”
Occasionally, I have something interesting to share. Encounter with a black bear the other day, for example. That said, certain family members - sister-in-law, uncle, niece - all became too unbearably insulting on a daily basis. I felt bad after laying into my uncle, but he is too thick-headed to realize you don’t need to be an insulting prig on a daily basis, and half his relatives are conservatives.
Supposedly they can’t tell they’ve been unfollowed.
I’ve unfollowed many and never heard a thing about it.
I thought long, and hard about joining FB a number of years ago when friends, and associates approached me to join.
Still thinking about it.
“I unfollowed all the political bullies and rarely see anything bothersome now.”
I’d blocked about 100 people, unfollowed just as many
Never had it. Never will. Nothing but a vehicle for Schmuckerberg to manipulate women’s catecholamines and make them angry at men.
Schmuckbook is for losers. Schmuckbook is about who you went to high school with. Twitter is about who you wish you went to high school with.
I hated high school. Love my Twitter feed.
Its impossible to have a real discussion on FB, it is really a place for one-liners. So I really don’t try to persuade anyone there. If someone is really annoying, you just “unfollow” them so you don’t have to see their dumb posts. If you want to check in on them, you still can. But you don’t have to see their stuff involuntarily.
Never started.
“Schmuckbook is about who you went to high school with.”
Oddly enough, my high school friends are nearly to a person polite and thoughtful. I wish half my family were as polite and thoughtful.
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