How bad is being political on Facebook right now?

[mrgorth]

I'm a pretty big Facebooker and several of my "friends" are wing-nuts. I haven't blocked or de-friended them yet but I see myself getting drawn into the same debates there as on every other damned site. Life is political.

[rurallib]

1. just remind them they don't have the votes or the president to veto

health care.

[mrgorth]

2. Yes

The "you lost" reply is one of my favorites. :)

[Aramchek]

22. I just drop into each of their posts and add "and Obama wins,,,again"

[itsrobert]

3. I'm having good discussions on the Air Force facebook

about DADT. There's some nuts. But some of the comments have been progressive.

[lonestarnot]

4. I always tell my kid his socks are political. He gets mad.

:evilgrin:

[vaberella]

23. I'd get mad too...leave us our dreams. Parents...they're there to torture us.

:rofl:

[MissMarple]

5. Everything has a political element, at some level. Well, maybe not the parent/child relationship.

At first. With your acquaintances, be kind, be civil, move on. Just don't back them into a corner, they'll just get ugly and be recalcitrant.

[grantcart]

45. My dad told me "Better dead than red" which always left me wondering just

how far left I would have to be to be better dead than.

And he was the warm loving parent in the relationship (not kidding either).

[Mojambo]

6. I can handle the politics, but if one more person posts about their darling child or adoring spouse.

I'm going to puke and block/de-friend them. Not necessarily in that order.

[Drunken Irishman]

7. Not me. I have absolutely zero right-wing FB friends.

Or I do and they're too afraid to say anything.

[firedupdem]

15. Me too....I get NO drama!

I read some of my other friends pages and they are bantering back and forth with these crazies. Not me...

[Drunken Irishman]

16. Most who disagreed with me deleted me after a Palin joke I put up.

haha

[grantcart]

46. Which reminds me of how funny it is when Pat Buchannan is when he

says "Everyone I talk to is against this bill".

Pat I would condemn this bill to hell if you were on the plane sitting next to me if it were to shut you up.

[zulchzulu]

8. Just Hide their comments... don't defriend them...

They have to know you're a Socialist Nazi Commie Liberal Pinko Atheist with a Gay Agenda by now...

:hi:

Join us!

[Dappleganger]

28. Good idea.

[nutsnberries]

9. sucks.

i can't stand seeing what people i used to like actually think these days.

[Jennicut]

10. I don't have to deal with that....I refuse to partake in that Facebook nonsense.

Posting pics of myself...yuck. My husband has one. That is enough for both of us.

[smalll]

18. Me too. It seems like way too much work - friending, de-friending, filtering, etc. etc. -- plus,

I have parents who know how to use a computer! Facebook? Well as G.H.W. Bush used to say "Na Ga Da -- Wouldn't be prudent!"

[Jennicut]

25. My husband complained to me the other day that he is tired of being friended by people he

barely knows. I just laughed at him.

[Thrill]

11. I've blocked at least 10 people on my list who had joined a group called

10,000,000 to Repeal Obamacare. They're off my list. No time for the dumbasses

[Alcibiades]

14. Me, too n/t

[mrgorth]

12. I think

it's jumped the shark.;)

[Dappleganger]

13. I'm keeping the comments only on the games for now...

it's understandable that some people are gonna be angry--they're RW world is crashing around them as the socialists baby-snatchers with their death squads move in!

I've had to unfriend two or three (have a big mafia), hide a few relatives and just laugh at everyone else's comments. Love to see them squirm at the unknown.

[madamesilverspurs]

17. Haven't been there that long, lucky so far.

About half of my 'friends' are liberals/progressives/Democrats; the other half are basically apolitical, but they're not seeing anything that is atypical for the way I've always lived. That said, there are a couple on the periphery who are starting to get a bit annoying with their doom and gloom, but they're significantly outnumbered.

--

[nini]

19. I hide all my nieces and nephews except 1

They're all a bunch of anti-abortion freaks and it's all I can do to not rip their freaking heads off.

[PhD]

20. What a pretty picture you paint of family harmony

[nini]

32. bite me

really.. bite me - family harmony is a 2 way street

[maryellen99]

26. I've had to hide 2 of my hubby's cousins

When one joined "I hate when I wake up that Barack Obama is President" and when his 16 year old brother joined Obama-One Big Ass Mistake America.

[vanboggie]

21. I joined Facebook to post my businesses

But soon found I couldn't keep my mouth shut about politics, so I need to put up a real FB business page far away from my individual profile.

It's only the acquaintances who join batshit crazy groups like three of them joined today - 304,059,724 against Obama's Healthcare takeover and some other anti-Obama-anti-healthcare group. I usually hide the wingnuts at that point so I don't have to see that crap on my page. Today, though, I started ranting in the status line and when I was on character 1251, I discovered the status box won't hold more than 400 characters. Grrrr... So tonight my status line simply says, "Uninformed hysteria really pisses me off." I really don't care if those types un-friend me anyway :)

[GreenPartyVoter]

24. I avoid politics and religion on there. If they post stuff, I let my eyes glaze over and

it goes away. LOL

[budkin]

27. Most common falsehood on FB: THE BILL IS UNCONSTITUTIONAL!1!!

[missmel224]

29. I have been arguing with some real morons

for the past few days. It bothers me that people are so ignorant. I end up just deleting people from my friends list that were on there for games.

[Strawman]

30. Not as bad as I thought it would be

I have a politics list to limit the people I bug with my views to those who care about politics. Not many conservatives on there other than the couple that I know I can argue with and keep things civil. I suspect my conservative friends limit publication of their wall posts and exclude me. I've gotten into it with one person on a friend's wall.

Could also be that they are in shock or deflated by their loss. Or maybe they are being careful about predicting doom now that this has actually passed because they know deep down what they have been saying is probably bullshit.

[missmel224]

31. Wish I could find more

liberal friends on FB. Unfortunately all the people I have added for certain games seem to be ignorant assholes.

[stevenleser]

33. This is my current Facebook status:

HCR points for doubters #1 - Is it OK for people with pre-existing conditions to be unable to buy health insurance or get those conditions covered? #2 - Is it a good thing that without reforms, HealthCare costs are going to be 30% of GDP in a decade or two? #3 Democrats would have been happy to work with GOP on this, b...ut Republicans wanted to make political points by killing the bill instead of offering suggestions.

[lovekendyl]

34. :)

Like it

[vaberella]

35. It's bad, I'm about to dump people on my facebook.

[missmel224]

36. I had to do the same.

If anyone is interested in adding me just search my email ([e-mail]) I need some people on my side!

[vaberella]

40. Adding you. n/t

[missmel224]

41. thanks!

[New Earth]

43. you can hide people's statuses you know

if you don't want to see certain posts. can't hide their comments on your own page though :/

[vaberella]

47. Hah, I didn't know that. n/t

[Phx_Dem]

37. My sister's a wingnut and the first time she makes a hateful statement on

Facebook, she's defriended.

Sister or not, she's not going to foul my Facebook page with her wingnut bullshit.

[missmel224]

38. I know how you feel.

I have an Aunt who I love to death but she actually watches Glenn Beck! I cringe when I think about it.

[donco6]

39. Ha! I love posting the most liberal stuff I can find.

It weeds out the dumbasses when they defriend ME. Saves me keystrokes . . .

[New Earth]

42. absolutely horrible

just got into an argument yesterday with MY BARTENDER lol. I was furious about the things people were saying after the bill passed, I mean crazy repubs....talking about end of the world, end of our country, etc, so I posted my own little rant as my status, and someone that works at the bar I go to on Fridays started ranting back at me, then somehow it turned personal into my being on unemployment with no job, blah blah it got out of hand and now we're still trying to make up. :eyes:

[tallahasseedem]

44. I have never seen...

anything like I have been seeing today. It almost makes me want to dump the entire thing.