Has anyone here who uses Fakebook NOT been unfriended by a “tolerant” Liberal so called Friend?
My experience.
I respond to ridiculous statements by using Facts.
The responses contain personal attacks against me.
I call them out.
They unfriend me.
Rinse, repeat.
I have started referring to my liberal acquaintances as catfish.
As I tell them, “ You are like a catfish bottom feeding in the Fake News River, gobbling up every piece of liberal/progressive BS that comes floating by and and then regurgitating it on FB.”
From then on, I greet their posts with , “Hello Catfish.”
Indeed. I finally stopped using FB for anything political during 44. It’s only for social interactions now.
Unless they tell you first, how would you know?
I've never unfriended anyone on facebook. However, I have blocked a lot of people, including family members. I don't need to see their inane bs.
I wish FR had a "block" feature so I could eliminate deliberately ignorant fools.
I tried the “gentle” approach with my sister in law. It did not work. Someone had posted something about the rioting that was going on in Berkeley at the time, when antifa was finding it’s sea legs. A very civil conversation among several ensued. She had written something along the lines of rioting happening after Obama was elected. All I wrote back was asking very politely where the proof was of it, as I must have missed it. I asked her for news articles, videos etc. She did not respond but I found out weeks later that she unfriended me because I was “too political.” It really made no material impact on my life at all and in fact laughed about it with my wife.
We now have not spoken to her for a year and a half because we were at dinner one night and my son was relating the story of his Boy Scout survival camp out wherein a rattlesnake had invaded their camp and the boys killed it. She made this snide comment, “So much for leaving only your footprint behind.” I then said to her, it was a rattlesnake, what were they supposed to do? Let it hang out with them? Several days later she called my wife to complain that I had “attacked” her. Now, I didn’t raise my voice, I didn’t yell, but I was clearly irritated. My wife responded to her, don’t be ridiculous, nobody got attacked. I heard the whole exchange. My wife told her to grow up. Since then she will not talk to us.
Total. Snowflake.
Some of these people simply do not know how to process someone disagreeing with them on even the most basic level.
I told my wife she is going to have a tough road ahead of her in life.