I am sick of hearing about your facebook conversations

[anigbrowl]

I have a facebook account. I don't use it too frequently but I think it's quite a fine service. Sometimes I have arguments with people on there about politics, but very rarely as I'm selective about who I maintain links with and do not respond to blanket emails, chain letters, etc. Generally I don't even read them, but rather insta-delete them.

Lately it seems like there are 10 threads a day of the form 'a right winger said something horrible on facebook, oh noes'. There is a democratic community on Facebook. Connect with it. Stop running over to DU to breathlessly tell everyone about the latest thing that happened to you on Facebook.

I swear, it's like the daily update on every little thing that happened in the schoolyard during recess. That's something parents have a duty to be interested in, but it is inappropriate for adults to do the same thing about their facebook experience. Put on your big boy or girl pants and deal with your facebook problems on fucking Facebook.

I am not opposed to the mention of the place, or even reports some especially gripping dynamic taking place on there. But the endless threads consisting of 'some nobody said something stupid on fb, how should I respond' are becoming truly pathetic.

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[anigbrowl]

14. Welcome to DU.

[MindandSoul]

19. Thank you! so nice to know that EVERYONE is so tolerant here!

[anigbrowl]

22. I don't do helpless, I'm afraid. It's disempowering and encourages bullies.

Learning to debate with an unfriendly opponent, do simple research, and not allow yourself to get suckered into arguments you don't understand are essential survival skills in politics. Reposting every upsetting thing that appears on one's facebook wall is partly what helps conservative memes to spread around the net in the first place.

Chain letters and random garbage from FB are like dog dirt on shoes - life's a lot more pleasant for everyone if you scrape it off before coming indoors.

[MindandSoul]

38. Well, I'm not a big fan of facebook myself. . .try to avoid it!

But it is a personal choice, and who are we to tell others what they can and cannot post???

[Tailormyst]

63. Suggesting she needs Prozac is against DU rules (and an immature, shitty way to behave)

[havocmom]

2. BRAVO! If we wanted to read twitter

we would sign up for twits ;)

[apocalypsehow]

3. Lower left hand corner; second button from the left. Problemo Solvemo.

:thumbsup:

[anigbrowl]

10. Except I have to open the thread to hide it

It's not just the fact that they clutter up the topic list. It's that every time I do look at one of these threads, there's a 90% chance the content consists only of 'got in argument, can't do own research, what should I say heeeeelllp meeee'. Keee-rist. If you can't handle an argument on Facebook, maybe you should just not take part, or else learn to do basic research.

It's the self-inflicted helplessness that gets up my nose. DU is not the Facebook Emergency Rescue.

[apocalypsehow]

21. Seriously, you got me all wrong: I don't post OP's about FB or any of that jazz.

Just trying to do my neighborly duty and offer a little friendly advice. :hi:

[anigbrowl]

23. Oh no, I didn't think you were. Sorry if I gave the opposite impression.

[GreenPartyVoter]

26. No, you don't. The little x-in-a-box at the end of every subject header in a forum allows

you to ignore a thread without opening it. :)

[liberalhistorian]

43. Yes, but then whatever else would

he/she have to complain about? :sarcasm:

[anigbrowl]

54. (tinker tinker) Aha!

I have a little adblocking plugin running that automatically kills multiple hotlinks on a single page, and was preventing them for displaying at all. Thanks, that is really useful!

[GreenPartyVoter]

61. Any time! *wave*

[Born_A_Truman]

76. Ah, no.

There is a hide thread before you even open one. It's the little boxed X at the end of the thread title. I use it often.

[MadBadger]

4. I dont have an issue with this, posting freepers reaction to everything..thats what I cant stand.

[Electric Monk]

5. Can you summarize that in a tweet?

O8)

k&r

[Amerigo Vespucci]

20. "i m sick of u?"

I think I got it right...

:rofl:

:toast:

[Walk away]

6. I'm not on face book and I'm here every day. I have never seen one of these posts.

They must come up in the middle of the night.

[etherealtruth]

11. Really?

I check in ( sometimes only briefly) just about every day. Over the course of the last few weeks I have noted a flurry of those posts. I've never actually clicked on them, because like the author of the OP, I don't care.

[Walk away]

44. Maybe it's "supermarket syndrom". I am staring at them but I just can't see them.

This happens to me at Shop Rite all the time.

[anigbrowl]

55. fnord :-)

[anigbrowl]

13. Give it 24 hours and you will notice them everywhere. Sorry :-/

I guess it's one of those things that once it's pointed out to you it's suddenly impossible to unsee.

[frustrated_lefty]

7. My Facebook friend says you are Mr. Poopy-pants!

General chat is what it is.

[Cronus Protagonist]

8. That reminds me about something that happened on FaceBook earlier today

Yet ANOTHER friend posted a photo of his lunch via his cell phone camera. I have news for some of you people - you know who you are: Your lunch is NOT interesting to anyone else! sheesh! :)

[enuegii]

49. At least they didn't post before and after pictures, I hope.

Wouldn't surprise me, though.

[Marr]

9. Haha...

It's true... I don't get the relevance of Facebook conversations either, but it certainly does seem to inspire a lot of posts.

[proud2BlibKansan]

12. Block thread is your friend

And fyi, I am sick of the 'I am sick of _______ ' threads.

[depakid]

15. Facebook is probably the best method for outing the stupid that was ever invented

Seems like every week I see some bonehead or another get in some sort of trouble over matters they've put on the net.

[holiday]

16. i can understand

but honestly for some reason I love hearing the conversations with right wingers threads lol. I don't know why?

[Kali]

31. yeah I confess I like to take a look at the stupidity

and when I get tired of it: off to more intellectual conversation in the Lounge!:rofl:

[Starry Messenger]

17. Like.

:thumbsup:

[Xipe Totec]

18. Reminds me of my dumpster diving days in the open forums nt

[The Straight Story]

24. It's called sharing - people do that with each other (nt)

[NeedleCast]

25. K&R

[Catshrink]

27. Despair.com t-shirt about social networking

Says it all



http://www.despair.com/somevedi.html

[katandmoon]

28. K&R. Thank you. I'm sick of it too.

[iamtechus]

39. ditto n/t

[K8-EEE]

29. I love facebook!! n/t

[K8-EEE]

30. I love facebook!! n/t

[madinmaryland]

32. Last time I checked this is a "discussion board", where things (and that is anything)

are discussed. I don't recall this being anigbrowlunderground.com

There is something called the "hide thread" function that works really well, as does just plain not looking at the thread.

[liberalhistorian]

45. Oh, but then whatever else would

he/she have to lecture us poor ignorant peons about? :sarcasm:

[anigbrowl]

56. So you keep saying...

[Zomby Woof]

33. Hide the fucking thread

Or put the offender on ignore.

[JimWis]

34. I am on facebook right now chatting with my son. Multi-tasking.

I have some high school and old military buddies on there who are right wing nuts. I just block them, and then go in occasionally to see their posts. I just ignore the political ones, and reply to their normal everyday posts. But the blocking keeps me from seeing their junk on the home page.

[Stinky The Clown]

35. Hint: Self control

If a subject bothers you, don't click on it.

[Duke Newcombe]

36. I'm de-friending you....NOW!!! n/t

[calico1]

65. .....

:rofl:

[TexasObserver]

37. I unrecommend any thread about facebook or Free Republic (except this one).

I don't give a damn what some asswipe on Farcebook said.

I don't need to go to freeperland to know they're idiots, either.

I don't find the "I had an argument today with some right winger and told him blah blah blah" interesting. First of all, arguing with them is a complete waste of time. Second, reading about it is an even bigger waste of time.

Any conversation that is "then I said, then she said, then I said, then she said" is inherently annoying and unnecessary.

[SidDithers]

68. I like the way you think...

:applause:

Sid

[arcadian]

40. It's just networks networking.

meta-networking

[brooklynite]

41. Sorry...I was busy updating my status. What were you all saying?

[liberalhistorian]

42. Really? You HAVE heard of the hide thread

and ignore features? And you HAVE heard of the revolutionary new technique of Not-Clicking-On-Thread-Titles-You-Don't-Care-About? Those will really help, I assure you.

No one is forcing you to read or even look at the threads. And if others want to do so, what business or concern is it of yours? And we're supposed to be grateful that you're "not opposed to mention of the place", as if you were one of the administrators?

The Hide Thread feature wants to be your friend. Maybe you should let it.

[WolverineDG]

46. "Hide" is your friend

as I say often enough on FB.

dg

[The Midway Rebel]

47. Wait till I tweet my pals on FB and MSpaz bout this DU thread. OMFG!

It must be Friday night at DU.

[omega minimo]

48. Bad night in The Lounge, anigbrowl?

there, there.

[Canuckistanian]

50. Yeah!

And get off our lawns!

[nc4bo]

51. Sorry anigbrowl but since you grouped together these FB users together - here's the latest (R) lie

my Independ..err Republican "friend" is sharing on her page:

THIS IS UNBELIEVABLE!!! WE ARE ALL IN FOR A RUDE AWAKENING!!
Is this for real?
THIS IS THE 2ND OFFICIAL WHO HAS OUTLINED THESE PARTS OF THE CARE BILL
Subject: : Judge Kithil of Marble Falls , TX - HB3200 highlighted pages most egregious
Please read this........ especially the reference to pages 58 & 59

JUDGE KITHIL wrote:
"I have reviewed selected sections of the bill, and find it unbelievable that our Congress, led by Speaker Nancy Pelosi, could come up with a bill loaded with so many wrong-headed elements."
"Both Republicans and Democrats are equally responsible for the financial mess of both Social Security and Medicare programs."
"I am opposed to HB 3200 for a number of reasons. To start with, it is estimated that a federal bureaucracy of more than 150,000 new employees will be required to administer HB3200. That is an unacceptable expansion of a government that is already too intrusive in our lives. If we are going to hire 150,000 new employees, let's put them to work protecting our borders, fighting the massive drug problem and putting more law enforcement/firefighters out there."


JUDGE KITHIL continued: "Other problems I have with this bill include:
** Page 50/section 152: The bill will provide insurance to all non-U.S. residents, even if they are here illegally.

** Page 58 and 59: The government will have real-time access to an individual's bank account and will have the authority to make electronic fund transfers from those accounts.

** Page 65/section 164: The plan will be subsidized (by the government) for all union members, union retirees and for community organizations (such as the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now - ACORN).

** Page 203/line 14-15: The tax imposed under this section will not be treated as a tax. (How could anybody in their right mind come up with that?)

** Page 241 and 253: Doctors will all be paid the same regardless of specialty, and the government will set all doctors' fees.

** Page 272. section 1145: Cancer hospital will ration care according to the patient's age.

** Page 317 and 321: The government will impose a prohibition on hospital expansion; however, communities may petition for an exception.

** Page 425, line 4-12: The government mandates advance-care planning consultations. Those on Social Security will be required to attend an "end-of-life planning" seminar every five years. (Death counceling.)

** Page 429, line 13-25: The government will specify which doctors can write an end-of-life order.

HAD ENOUGH???? Judge Kithil then goes on:

"Finally, it is specifically stated that this bill will not apply to members of Congress. Members of Congress are already exempt from the Social Security system, and have a well-funded private plan that covers their retirement needs. If they were on our Social Security plan, I believe they would find a very quick 'fix' to make the plan financially sound for their future."

Honorable David Kithil
Marble Falls , Texas

All of the above should give you the point blank ammo you need to support your opposition to Obamacare. Please send this information on to all of your email contacts

Basically told her to blow it out her butt and go to http://www.whitehouse.gov/realitycheck/ for a reality check.

The stoopid LOVES FB for some reason or other and have no problem whatsoever displaying sharing their stoopid for all to see.

:puke:

[jmm]

52. There's no reason to single out Facebook.

Some of the threads we use to see about Republican spam emails, conversations with right wing relatives/coworkers, etc have been replaced by Facebook threads simply because it's another way people communicate. The substance of people's posts about their personal lives hasn't changed.

[Liberal_in_LA]

53. K&R

[tammywammy]

57. It's the Social Media Revolution.

Get used to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIFYPQjYhv8

[donheld]

58. Too bad, So sad

[Control-Z]

59. Please refrain

from telling the rest of us how and what to post here on DU.

"Stop running over to DU to breathlessly tell everyone about the latest thing that happened to you on Facebook."

snip

"Put on your big boy or girl pants and deal with your facebook problems on fucking Facebook."

Seriously, anigbrowl, I can only assume you haven't yet mastered (or grown out of) your big boy pull-ups. Are you even aware that a mature, "grown-up" stage follows. One that doesn't include believing the world revolves around any one of us exclusively, or what we think. It is actually a good and productive phase (sorry, though, no cute, catchy jingles to inspire those who need that extra boost of encouragement).

But, trust me, if you reach that milestone, where you no longer need your "big boy" pants and a lolly, you may just find intelligent, well educated adults exchanging ideas, bouncing concerns and questions off each others. Even questioning ourselves. All with the expectation of civility, and sincere and reasonable responses from the members who choose to participate.

[Violet_Crumble]

60. You'll never guess what happened to me on Facebook this week!

After catching up with a cousin I hadn't talked to in years, I started following some pages set up by trolls about the http://canberratimes.com.au/news/local/news/general/driver-was-on-bail-for-car-theft/1783424.aspx">deaths of four people (three innocent, one the driver of the stolen car) and learnt how to speak like the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogan">bogans who were glorifying the driver of the stolen car. Let me try some out on you now. I find it flows easily off the keyboard and is a very eloquent form of communication. Here goes! oy ya fukin wankers if u talk about me & my mates talking boot facebook ima gonna smashya kuntz up! so go and get an edhukashun and leaf us all aloone! fuk yeah!!!!!

Ahem, will I be needing to translate that for the non-bogans amongst us?

[madinmaryland]

70. Could you translatate that into NARWHALIAN???

FUCK YEAH!!

[bigtree]

62. damn, now I wish I had one to talk about

. . . but this all sounds awfully arrogant and rude to me . . . of all the different subjects that file around on this board, I'm not sure what the relevance to us is of YOUR personal objection to these posts.

The complaint just reeks of the 'schoolyard during recess' conversation that you compared the Facebook conversations to.

[calico1]

64. I don't care for a lot of threads....

I just ignore them.

:shrug:

[Cetacea]

66. I am glad for the "crosshairs" revelation

[anigbrowl]

81. Oh me too. I'm not like 'never mention fb again' or anything .nt

[Xenotime]

67. Nobody is forcing you to read them.

[TransitJohn]

69. K&R

Me too. Use facebook for your facebook conversations.

[thotzRthingz]

71. while I understand your complaint, I disagree with it...

I personally do not *DO* FB, Twitter, or any number of other johnnie-come-lately social networking sites. I have my own domain (loaded with tons of capabilities... such as CHAT, BLOG, BB/Forums, etc.) but do NOT use it for such things... although I do maintain a bookmark list of sorts, for family and friends (as well as creating "web pages/sites" for others). I also do not own a Cellphone, PDA, MP3-player, etc., etc., etc.

However; just because I don't do any of the above, that doesn't mean that I do not recognize the fact that there is a whole other ALTERNATE universe of people who DO such things.

Reading here on DU (and on other forums which I frequent) about the latest Tweet / FB entries... I can SKIP the posts (unless the subject line says something very meaningful to me). I've been online (administering, hosting, moderating, and participating in CHAT, on BBs, and in FORUMS) since the early 1990s and I'm pretty selective about what where and when I will spend my time... I think others should be afforded the same degree of choice. That is to say: they can read my missives, or ignore me... and turn about is quite fair play... but essentially telling them to STFU, is beyond my level of civility.

Have a nice day!

[L0oniX]

72. Fuckbook?

[dionysus]

73. and you click these threads because..............

:shrug:

[LWolf]

74. My only reason for using facebook

is to maintain contact with friends and family out of state. It's not a political tool for me, and I get irritated at all of the "junk" that even my friends are always sending me; I have 39 requests for various things that I've never responded to.

[walldude]

75. So everyone on DU should bend to your will

because... why? Can you give a valid reason you should be allowed to censor what's on DU? :rofl:: rofl: :rofl:

[anigbrowl]

80. Er, no...

If I thought stuff ought to censored I would have said so, or called for Skinner and the mods to adopt such a policy. Nice straw man though.

[liberal_at_heart]

77. some people just enjoy confrontation and arguing but then they gripe about it

They have to be right and they have to make everybody else think exactly the way they think(which use to be a republican characteristic but more and more seems to be a characteristic among democrats as well). You are so right anigbrowl. If someone is so offended by what someone says they should be more selective in who they allow to be their friend.

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[Strelnikov_]

79. Oh . . .. my n/t