I just "unfriended" a FB acquaintance

[lapislzi]

for posting "Vote for Scott Brown" in giant capital letters. Told him why, too.

Fuck, that felt good.

[dionysus]

1. sometimes ya gotta do what ya gotta do....

[BrklynLiberal]

14. yep.

[dionysus]

24. i manageto not talk politics with or ignore the very few republicans i associate with

especially when it's a family member.

[BrklynLiberal]

25. I try to do that...but sometimes people just cannot help themselves and open their big traps.

Once they start..I cannot sit by and not add my 2cents... :(

[Sanity Claws]

2. It might have been more effective if you asked him why.

A lot of people are being brainwashed by the corporate media.

[Ninga]

3. I believe that those kind of people have a self-inflated importance of what they think they

know.

People imagine that they are smart and clever and create scenarios in their minds to justify their decisions. The result of which, is that they end up voting against their own self interests.

[lapislzi]

4. I couldn't.

It was the last straw in a long series of simmering RW crap. He had to go. Fortunately, we are in NY, so he's fairly neutralized.

[Motown_Johnny]

5. I can't go to my Facebook account because of a couple "friends" are RW nuts

In the real world they are friends of friends and/or former co-workers but I can't bring myself to unfriend them.

FB needs a different setting for acquaintances, not everyone should be a friend.

Oh well, FB is pure narcissism anyways. No wonder it is a ruled by the teabagers

[mwb970]

6. Are you getting some benefit from Facebook?

I set up an account just for fun but I kept hearing from people from my past that I didn't care about and didn't weant to communicate with so I got rid of it. Having right-wing crap flung at me would just have made it that much worse. What's the upside? Is it better for kids?

[Motown_Johnny]

11. a little, but not much

on rare occasions I am able to make contact with people I have not heard from and am able to communicate easily with people over things like the death of a mutual friend.

The most interesting thing is seeing what the people I went to collage with (20 years ago) are doing now.

I almost never go there anymore. Every couple of months I check in and just try to ignore the RW crap.


The one good experience was responding to a post by a nut case that he was praying for the House vote on HCR to fail. My response was "since your prayers failed, it must mean that God wants Health Care Reform". That was fun.

[lapislzi]

7. My FB experiences have almost unilaterally positive

I've built myself a nice cozy circle of lefties, and that's how I like it. Republicans need not apply. I keep a couple of locals around just to keep an eye on them, but my FB configuration is about 90% Democratic/Progressive.

[Lex]

9. Easy. Just hide their status updates from your feed.

Takes 1 second to do.

Also you can hide your status updates from them too, if you want. That way you can keep them as friends without having to argue with them or whatever.

http://www.allfacebook.com/2009/12/facebook-privacy-new/

[Cheap_Trick]

12. You can hide their status and remarks from showing up on your page without unfriending them. nt

[newtothegame]

17. "Ruled by the teabagers"

Based on what? November 4, 2008, FB was nothing but uploaded pictures of people's ballots showing they "made history" with their vote.

[melm00se]

20. Click

"hide". they stay as friends but you don't see their comments

[HillWilliam]

8. I have two pages

a regular personal page where I don't care what anyone thinks and a fan-page for my business. My fan-page is necessarily a little more circumspect, but if someone un-friends me, I really don't care. I have un-friended before for rw crap appearing in my feed.

BTW, the "Hide" feature is a handy thing. If you don't want to un-friend someone, you can hide them from your feed. Problem (mostly) solved.

And if a DU-er cares to friend me (and a few have), lefties welcome.

[Bluebear]

10. "Vote for Scott Brown! Massachusetts needs some balance!"

wrote someone's friend of a friend on facebook...

I replied:

One month after the September 11th attacks, Scott Brown was one of only three Massachusetts State Representatives to vote against a bill to provide financial assistance to Red Cross workers who had volunteered with 9/11 recovery efforts.

That is all I need to know.

:)

[Tailormyst]

13. I decided to stay off facebook today after seeing loved ones voting for him

Sometimes friendships and relationships are better off staying far away from religion and politics.

[AlinPA]

15. I got an email from a guy I met last summer with some teabagger stuff in it in capital

letters and thought "before email, what would you think of someone who sent a one page letter with twenty or so words in capital letters to 20 or 30 of his correspondents"?

[Clintonista2]

16. I like to argue with those people

Because it's great when you corner them with those pesky facts and they stop replying to you all together. I had one on facebook who was a high school aquantance who turned out to be a RW jesus freak. A very uninformed one at that. By the time I was through with her she decided to never again make the mistake of posting her wingnut views on FB :rofl::rofl:

[FunkyLeprechaun]

18. I'm leaning that way

One of my friends in MN has a Scott Brown poster as his profile picture.

He's deaf like me and I can never understand his hatred for the Dems, as the Democratic party has given us deaf people many opportunities (ADA, etc).

[invictus]

19. Good for you!

:thumbsup:

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[lapislzi]

22. He wasn't really a friend

More of an acquaintance with common interests (I'm "friends" with a large stable of theatre people whom I don't know particularly well, but you never know when you're going to have a casting call and need one of them). However, he's a damn fine actor whom I'll never be able to use again.

At least he now knows what a line in the sand looks like.

[bamacrat]

23. i did it too right after the election because...

A girl I was "friends" with, I had a class with her in high school and she was a dumbass then, posted that its ok that Obama was elected because remember that we had to have a Carter to get a Regan. So that was what she told herself to make it ok. I almost threw up. About to unfriend a dude I like because he said Obama showed a lack of responsibility because he said he taught his daughters morals and how to do things right. And that he didnt want them punished with a baby at an early age or an STD. He took offense with this because babies are not punishments. Guy said Obama should have said consequences. Cmon, what is the difference? Jail is the consequence of murder, and a punishment. He is an uber christian fundamentalist. But always been nice but I feel a friend deletion in his future. I also have another one that is a huge Ron Paul guy says he is great. Definitely deleting him.

[MissDeeds]

26. I don't have a FB account

but my husband does. Three of my dumb relatives are "friends of Glenn Beck". Needless to say, they have been "unfriended" - and not just on a social network. :grr:

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[Arkana]

28. I defriended someone

because I posted "Vote Martha Coakley on Jan 19" and she got her stupid, bitchy, 50+ spinster catlady friends to all gang up on me with angry, misspelled Tea Party-esque rhetoric.