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.
I browsed facebook and found cousins that were leftists.
No thanks. They are all strangets too me and I prefer it that way.
I have a fake log in but only for rare spy missions.
'How to pick up Jewish chicks': Vile antisemitic picture shows human remains on a shovel - but Facebook refused to remove it.
Source: theage
Facebook has been accused of "enabling vicious Jewish hatred" after telling users an image depicting human remains on a shovel below the tag line "How to pick up Jewish chicks" did not breach its standards
Ditched it several years ago. Haven’t missed a thing, except maybe the discomfort in realizing the idiocy of the FB population.
I never started FB to begin with.
Tried a couple months when it just started out. Was “friended” by high school people. There was a reason I wasnt friends with them in highschool and FB just confirmed why. Anyone else I want to talk to I pick up the phone or send a letter. Cancelled facebook and don’t care a bit. I don’t want to put a penny in that feculant Zuckerberg’s pocket anyway.
I get it but, in a way, if not for Facebook, you wouldn’t really even KNOW the truth about your liberal jerk relatives and you’d still be wasting your time talking to them civilly. At least now you know.
I dumped fb last week.
I've been on the outs with much of my family for the last couple of decades, due to me making my final and very outspoken break from all things Democrat during Bill Clinton's second term.
At first, family members just considered that I was being my usual iconoclast self, and that it was a rebellious phase I'd get through. As long as they perceived that I was still nominally 'on the team', they were somewhat understanding, and would at least engage me in civil debate.
Once they realized I had truly and permanently shifted to the right, the veil of civility, tolerance, and understanding, disappeared like a puff of smoke.
In 2008, the knives really came out. A small number of my friends and relatives shot me to pieces in Facebook exchanges during that election. I'd guess about half a dozen de-friended me there, and a similar number cussed me out via email. Not a single one of those people has spoken to me since.
I find it sad that one side of the political divide has become so filled with hate and anger, that they're now incapable of even having a civil discussion or debate with the other side. Even when some of those people are their own relatives.
My third great grandfather and his brother fought on opposite sides in the Civil War. It appears my family (and much of America) has reached that breaking point again.
They keep blocking me every time I make a comment about muslims they won’t allow me to send, nothing nasty.
“I closed mine down right after the election. Several of my friends simply lost their minds... and manners.”
Their minds are still lost
I don’t go there much so I’d have zero withdrawal. I hate it, I hate that it is Zuckerberg’s platform first of all, and we support him by using it. And this last election, all libs and leftists felt free to spew the meanest things about Trump and his supporters, which allowed me to learn how many dear friends and acquaintances despised people like me (actually, how gullible they were to suck down all the media lies), so I felt I didn’t belong on that hateful place. No one hates like the libs.
But I am still on there — there are school and neighborhood groups that literally could save a life or make life easier. There are a few good people who don’t make me feel their hate. I just go there maybe once or twice weekly for a few minutes to check the important groups or to see one photo or something. I sure as hell wouldn’t waste time “Reading a feed.” I want to read what is important to me.
I never allowed ANY family members. And I don’t think they wanted me. My kids hate Facebook and my siblings and cousins are extremely gullible libs (but I repeat myself).
I agree, post of the day on FB! Well said, AE.
And what I love about Twitter is you don’t have to follow a feed. I don’t want to waste time on that. But I use twitter happily EVERY day. When I need it. A terror attack? Search the location and see the latest from people on the scene. In all languages. A police action in your area, a storm or quake? Info faster than anywhere else from right on the scene. Watching a great live show or sports? Join your fellow fans or critics and see what everyone is saying. Just search for what you want, or whom you want. Get your news from the horse’s mouth.
Best social media platform yet.
The only time I’ve ever looked at FB was then, too - when FR was down. It was good to be able to keep up to some degree. Will never join FB, though.
No one I know of went for this millennial fad.
You’ve already stockpiled the books you want to read in retirement? Great idea! I just hope you don’t lose your eyeglasses like Burgess Meredith did in “The Twilight Zone”. That would be a bummer.
I did not close my account, but I stopped posting and regularly checking in about 10 months ago. It was bothering me to see so many friends and family talk about politics so much. People have forgotten how to behave. I haven’t missed it at all. About the only time I do check in is when my son’s band is touring, and it’s a way for me to see how they’re doing. I know I’m missing out on some things that would keep me up to date with my friends and family’s lives, but my mood is a bit better.
I don’t think there are many who have missed me. There were a few who sent messages and asked, and I just told them I had to take a break from it. I haven’t had the urge to post anything since last July. I am way better off not reading the hate every day, too.
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