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MineralMan

(146,288 posts)
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 01:24 PM Sep 2020

I'm going to suggest something shocking: Sign up on Facebook!

Then, go to this Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/joebiden

2,891,568 people already follow that page. Add yourself to the list of followers of our next President. Show your support. Make the numbers grow.

You needn't do anything else on Facebook, but do, please, support Joe Biden there.

Thanks!

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I'm going to suggest something shocking: Sign up on Facebook! (Original Post) MineralMan Sep 2020 OP
Time to OWN the Cons/Trumpers StClone Sep 2020 #1
Done Green Line Sep 2020 #2
Thank you! MineralMan Sep 2020 #4
OK, what the heck. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2020 #3
Exactly. We can use Facebook in our own ways. MineralMan Sep 2020 #6
Done. Aristus Sep 2020 #5
Will do, yortsed snacilbuper Sep 2020 #7
No thank you. lagomorph777 Sep 2020 #8
The top 10 Facebook pages are right wing pages JonLP24 Sep 2020 #9
Funny. I've never seen any of them. MineralMan Sep 2020 #14
I said it is fine if you go there JonLP24 Sep 2020 #16
Started following the day it was created Sugarcoated Sep 2020 #10
Yup. Me, too. MineralMan Sep 2020 #15
Just did it! Alliepoo Sep 2020 #11
Done SweepPicker Sep 2020 #12
What MM said! obamanut2012 Sep 2020 #13
I did and sent 25 invites to my friends. Mossfern Sep 2020 #17
Already got notified that Mossfern Sep 2020 #19
I was already following Bettie Sep 2020 #18
Send follow invites Mossfern Sep 2020 #20

MineralMan

(146,288 posts)
4. Thank you!
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 01:31 PM
Sep 2020

We all need to stand up and be counted as supporters.

We can't just hide behind our doors and not tell people who we will vote for on November 3, or earlier.

We need to put ourselves out there and make it clear.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,686 posts)
3. OK, what the heck.
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 01:30 PM
Sep 2020

I have an account containing no information and that I never post on, plus a musical organization that I'm an administrator for; I figure my Facebook footprint is therefore negligible so I don't feel guilty about having one. So I went to Biden's page, signed up and kicked in a few more bucks. Yes, Facebook sucks but I'm willing to use it for this.

MineralMan

(146,288 posts)
6. Exactly. We can use Facebook in our own ways.
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 01:33 PM
Sep 2020

Joe Biden is doing that. He's on Facebook.

We should do the same thing on Twitter, YouTube, and anywhere else Joe Biden has an account. It's the least we can do. Truly the least.

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
8. No thank you.
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 01:55 PM
Sep 2020

I appreciate our sanitation workers, but I am in a high risk group and cannot risk contact with raw sewage.

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
9. The top 10 Facebook pages are right wing pages
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 02:13 PM
Sep 2020

It is fine if you go there but there is no way I'm ever going back to that hellsite. Biden needs a page there because there are so many people there. It doesn't mean Facebook is a good company.

MineralMan

(146,288 posts)
14. Funny. I've never seen any of them.
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 03:00 PM
Sep 2020

You know that you have to go to them, right? Why would I do that?

I follow several groups on Facebook, mostly special interest groups. I have about 50 friends who show up in my feed. It's nice to see what they're up to. As I do on every site I visit, I ignore everything that pops up that doesn't interest me.

It's not a "hellsite" for me. It's just another social media venue I use for particular purposes, while ignoring everything else.

Like DU. I read LBN and GD daily, and post on those forums. I go directly to those pages' thread lists, and don't visit the DU home page or any other pages in the tabs at the top of the screen. I don't use DU Mail. I read and post only in those two forums.

I don't pay anything for Facebook. I donate to DU, though, once a year, to maintain my star status.

I don't care whether you use Facebook or not, frankly, and I'm surprise you care whether someone else uses it or not.

But Joe Biden has a page on Facebook. You can find his ad videos there, among other things. It's handy when I want to see what the campaign is up to on any given day.

JonLP24

(29,322 posts)
16. I said it is fine if you go there
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 03:03 PM
Sep 2020

My problems are with the company, not the users. Right wing pages have more engagement yet conservative cries of censorship are very loud. The website helps them in their information war against Democrats. It may even be more effective than Fox News (Hannity is one of the top 10 pages) and talk radio.

Mossfern

(2,494 posts)
17. I did and sent 25 invites to my friends.
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 03:09 PM
Sep 2020

I don't really do face book except for my Master Gardener's page and a few others, but I've got a bunch of "friends" and I will send more friend requests to Joe's page to all of those who I think won't be offended...which means most of them.

Mossfern

(2,494 posts)
20. Send follow invites
Thu Sep 17, 2020, 04:39 PM
Sep 2020

to your friends who will also follow.
Ask them to send invites to their friends - it works.

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