Do you accept Facebook Friends who are Repugs or Conservatives?

[samsingh]

Every now and then i get requests from people in the same user groups on Facebook to become friends. Some of them identify themselves as repugs or conversative. Should i accept these requests?

[Deep13]

1. only if I already know them. nt

[peace frog]

13. Yep

If they are already my friends in RL (and none are teabagger types), I friend them on Facebook. Now, some of their friends are another story. ;-)

[wndycty]

2. Yes tons, the majority of whom I know from childhood, college. . .

. . .and some of my former students.

[crikkett]

3. Wow. How do you know?

And no, not unless I already knew the person.

[stray cat]

4. I don't disown family members or friends on that basis

I would really lose out

[Common Sense Party]

5. Do you know them?

I don't friend anyone I don't know--I could care less what political persuasion they have.

[abelenkpe]

6. Only if you like to argue

I wouldn't. But maybe that's just me.

Good luck either way!

:)

[no_hypocrisy]

7. I'm not going to parse my friends along party lines.

OTOH, telling me that Palin was a smart and fun candidate leaves me cold. You're still my friend but the rapport is strained.

[Brickbat]

8. I friend only people I know. I have not turned down long-lost childhood friends because of the

political or religious path they've found themselves on.

[GreenPartyVoter]

9. Yes. I married into a conservative evangelical family and have many friends who are

also part of that group. Pretty much the only liberals in my life are here on DU. :D

[Lorien]

10. If I already know them, usually

I have over 350 FB friends and I'd guess that of those, maybe 25 are repugs.

[Burma Jones]

11. Sure, if I already know them....

If they get too strident about their RW politics, or get otherwise teabaggy, they get their posts ignored.

[murray hill farm]

12. Yep!

That is what I do too! Even relatives! If they get ugly in their political posts especially.

[spiritual_gunfighter]

14. I have a couple

They are people from high school and they are pretty nice. I did defriend someone when they called Obama a Muslim.

[secondwind]

15. don't. see below.

I post from time to time on The Heritage Foundation, just to keep the discourse on an even keel, although I am seriously outnumbered. I have noticed that my FB posts are popping up on GOOGLE, whenever I post on DU asking for someone to debunk or whatever.....don't know why that happens, but I wish I could change that.

Anyone know how to change this?

[Lex]

21. Familiarize yourself with the basics of Facebook privacy.

Read #3 here: http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/02/facebook-privacy/

[pnwmom]

25. Go to you "settings." Specifically your "privacy settings."

If you only want your postings to be seen "by friends," you can set it that way. If you choose "by everyone" that means it can be googled.

[Xenotime]

16. no.

[GMA]

17. I don't know the politics of most of my facebook friends,

nor do I care. I would never base, nor end, a friendship solely on political views. I remain convinced that there is much more that binds us than divides us, assuming we're not always out to find reasons to be divided.

[Iggo]

18. What is Facebook?

[pnwmom]

24. It's an Internet site where you can post a page about yourself and

link to the pages of current and old friends and acquaintances. I've found some old high school friends that way.

[Iggo]

30. Sorry. I was trying to act dumb.

I forgot to put a lame face in my post.

;) or :P or :eyes: or :crazy:

Thanks for answering soberly and calmly and not going "What?!?!?! What kind of idiot doesn't know what Facebook is?!?!?!"

You rock!:hi:

[pnwmom]

33. The thought crossed my mind that you were joking.

But I didn't want to laugh at you if you weren't!

:hi:

[YOY]

19. Conservatives? Or true fucking idiotic Tea-bagging dittoheads?

Because I have unfriended the latter as well as Ron Paul fans who don't know when to pull the plug.

[Bucky]

20. You can never have too many friends

And Republicans are the reason why.

[KamaAina]

22. I'd do it if Republican Stepdad ever took the Facebook plunge

not bloody likely, though.

[pnwmom]

23. I don't friend strangers. But if longtime friends or relatives

happen to be of the wrong party, so be it. Maybe they'll learn something, because my politics can come out in my posts.

[Marr]

26. Do people really want to live in this much of a bubble?

We're talking about friends on a social networking site-- not marriage. I've got several Republican friends, and my favorite relative is a Republican. We just don't talk politics unless we feel like arguing.

I'll tell you what's blown me away on Facebook: the number of people I knew in highschool who've since become hardcore religious fundamentalists. I bet a good 1/5th of them are into Jesus up to their eyeballs. I mean, that kind of people who can't speak more than two sentences without mentioning god.

I sometimes unfriend them because they spam everything up with their constant thanking of Jesus for every god damned little thing that happens.

[proud2BlibKansan]

32. Honk if you love Jesus

Text while driving if you want to meet him.

[alcibiades_mystery]

27. Yes, but I hide their status updates if they are too obnoxious for me

:-)

[Stevenmarc]

28. Your're kidding me? You've actually come here to ask people who you should Facebook?

You do realize that you have the ability to remove someone from your friend list if they annoy you. Or here's a concept, if you think they are going to annoy you, don't friend them at all, it's called free will.

[proud2BlibKansan]

29. No

[Bitwit1234]

31. ONLY IF THEY ARE RELATIVES

You can pick your friends, but you are stuck with your relatives.

[Stinky The Clown]

34. What is "facebook"?

[Bonhomme Richard]

35. Yes but I don't let them get away with posting bullshit.

They are called on it and now they all double check themselves before they post. I actually found it kinda comical.

[tammywammy]

36. Yes, I have many friends that are conservatives. n/t

[Tailormyst]

37. Only if they are family.

Otherwise I doubt it would end well.