Posted on 04/01/2020 7:46:13 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Fake book is for women to chat with. Gossip about and spy on each other
Nothing more
I have used it to reconnect with old skydiving friends and some old friends from my days in the Canal Zone. There are some great threads on Drag Racing and any aircraft you can name-—there is an X-Planes thread for people who like those models, from the Bell X-1 to the X-15 and such.
There is a lot of people on bookface that I suspect rode the short bus to school
On the other hand...
There is a bunch there that make me laugh so hard with the memes they post, I just come in to see what they do next
If you use FB to espouse politic views, then don’t be shocked to find opposition.
I keep FB to stay in touch with family and a few friends. Most of whom are sane politically.
I prefer Facebook and Twitter over this site. My speech is far less restricted there.
Took me a couple of seconds to notice the gun and it was right there where I was looking.
The trick is to have no more than 10-12 Facebook "friends."
In my case, that's my immediate family and three or four boyhood buddies.
I sympathize with the OPs sentiments, though I would describe my experience differently. There are one or two hardcore, virulent, vocal leftists in my family, who constantly post trivial (i.e., insubstantial) anti-Trump memes. When I attempt to engage them in polite discourse, pointing out that the memes (**best Perry Mason voice**) make claims based on facts not in evidence; are irrelevant, incompetent, and immaterial; are riddled with fallacies; etc., they reply with ad hominem attacks and threats (equivalent to the argumentum ad baculum) of the withdrawal of affection ("How could you defend such a man?!" "I expected more of my brother!", etc.).
Then, the rest "pile on."
Given the choice, most people will choose the "path of least resistance," which means agreeing with the majority - also because it "feels good" to be so righteous and generous (with other people's money).
Regards,
GEEZE don’t dare go on some threads here or you will get the same treatment unfortunately there are a whole lot of people here also that have jumped on the hysteria bandwagon so tread carefully!!
I use it for family and laughs. The thing that gets me is the advertising, wife just looked at landscape supplies online and now I’m getting ads for what she looked at. Look up stuff for the boat? There’s ads for boat stuff on Facebook for a week, she gets them too.
Keep in mind, you can “cancel” your facebook account or “delete” your facebook account. If you cancel it, you can go back a year later, sign in and it gets reactivated. If you delete it, it’s permanent.
All my fb friends are family and are doing what they always do. Trying to one up each other in bragging about how wonderful their life is. Oh look at me, I’m special. No look at me, I’m more special. Bunch of 50 something’s acting like they’re still in HS playing the popularity game. I just check in to make sure no one died.
I left or rather turned right and departed from FB immediately upon retirnement from the State Department for a variety of reasons. One of which was the State Department’s outreach on FB and how American and the Obama Admin used FB for its own neferious uses.
... but I use FB to keep up with distant friends. It is excellent for that purpose. I don’t do politics on FB and unfollow people that get overly political.
Same.
Exactly. AS I said, it’s a tool. Use it as such and you won’t have any problems. Get involved in all the drama and you’ll be sucked into the quagmire. :)
I use FB and Twitter all the time.
Not for socializing but just for venting on the Media sites, since they have knocked off the comments section.
It is really tough to get off FB.
I deactivated mine and FB themselves reactivated it.
I had to kill it off again.
For other topics...History, Current Events, Politics... I have my community FB page Northern Sentinel.
I also bought the domain name, northernsentinel.net but haven't gotten the website off the ground yet.
I also run a community page that was started by a US Army man who when deployed again to Afghan, gave the site to me.
Its genesis was the Zimmerman/Martin encounter.
I followed and chronicled the story through the investigation to the conclusion of the trial.
At its peak, there were some 900+ members.
It has a somewhat clumsy title, which I keep out of respect for the originator of the page, of... Save George Zimmerman from racial onslaught
After the trial and the dust had settled a bit I wondered what I could do with the page...what good I could do with it and its following.
The primary focus was taken away from GZ and instead focused on two things.
Existent examples of racism whenever/wherever it raises its head but more importantly on stories of people of all backgrounds and colors coming together to do good.
The number of followers slowly declined as racists of all sorts found their ideas unwelcome, but still maintains 659 members.
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