I pick my battles on Facebook. I have a high school friend who is a paid Democratic propagandist but makes so many logical fallacies, I like to let him trip himself up and let others see it clearly.
Another high school friend is a thinking liberal and when I engage with him, I know I need to have my facts and logic in tip top shape. He and I have mutually benefited from our online discussions. My hope is that others reading come away with at least the knowledge that there’s more to the story than what they see in silly posts people share that are pure liberal propaganda.
I am selective about who receives my Facebook posts and specify a group of friends when posting hot topics. Nobody from work is on that group and the people I know are more happy being ignorant are excluded as well. However, if they comment that they voted, then they get included like it or not!
One more thing about Facebook versus news site forums.
I’m not anonymous on Facebook. People there are people I’ve known for 35 years. When liberals try to portray Tea Party Conservatives as heartless, dumb lunks that don’t believe in science, the people who would be willing to believe that stereotype see me weigh in and have difficultly with their resulting cognitive dissonance.
Over the years, even my NJ teacher friends have come to learn that “taxing the rich” will not result in the promises made by politicians to suddenly come true. Though there is still the occasional emotional outburst! :-)