I may have to delete my Facebook page.

[liberalnarb]

I friended a bunch of family (not close) friends with out thinking about how they're right wingers. Now all I get in my goddamn feed is pro tRump shit!

[MariaThinks]

1. i like your tag graphics

[MADem]

2. You can block that stuff. There's a little thing you can click on

that will make that stuff go away.

I have a relative who loves animals--I love animals too, but I don't like seeing "Send a donation" posts with photos of abused animals constantly and this relative would constantly forward that crap. I fiddled w/the settings to get rid of it.

[liberalnarb]

6. Ah, there we go! You can unfollow them but stay "friends".

[liberal N proud]

8. Just block their content

Eventually it all goes away.
If it's really bad, unfriend them

[thelordofhell]

3. Go to their name and then go to the box that says "Following"

Then choose the "Unfollow" option......Viola!! No more stupid right winged posts.........

[liberalnarb]

9. Got it, got it.

That's better.

[arcane1]

10. "Unfollow" rocks! As does limiting the audience for one's own posts.

[liberalnarb]

13. Do they know if you unfollow?

[arcane1]

15. As far as I know, they don't.

If there is a way to tell if your post appears on someone's timeline, I'm not aware of it. I unfollow damn near every high-school former classmate that friended me, but they still see my stuff and occasionally comment

[herding cats]

16. Nope.

It's the secret, polite way to manage things like this.

Unlike unfriendimg them.

[Warpy]

18. If that doesn't work well enough

There's a widget on Chrome to remove tRump from Farcebook.

If I had a Farcebook account, I'd be using it on Chrome for the duration for just this reason.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/remove-donald-trump-from/hhokbihnhhfghkbmihlgfcoafhkghdej?hl=en

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

28. I use FB Purity Chrome add on.

It has text filter option that you can use to auto-hide any posts from your feed with certain words in it. You can hide Donald Trump but also anything else you don't want to see with it. I use it to hide political and religious posts that I don't want to see. Works great for me. I normally check facebook on my chromebook. Of course, it won't do you any good if you use a different browser or different machine to check facebook than the one you installed it on.


https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fb-purity-for-facebook/ncdlagniojmheiklojdcpdaeepochckl?hl=en

[yeoman6987]

27. No. But they'll know if you unfriend them. Just unfollow.

[Siwsan]

4. I discovered the 'restricted list' on Facebook, and use it LIBERALLY

I had friended some people from my (far too long ago) past, and didn't realize they had developed lunacy. So rather than just unfriending them, I put them on the restricted list. They still show up as friends but never see what I post, and I never see what they post but the exist under the delusion that we are still 'friends'.

[phylny]

23. I have to do this with my daughter's

mother-in-law. Lunatic.

[BlueNoMatterWho]

5. I feel your pain. Trump supporters everywhere on FB.

[gopiscrap]

7. unfriend them and then if they

harass you, report them both to Facebook and the cops

[Hoyt]

11. Yeah, I somehow friended a bunch of white wingers from 45 years ago that keep dumping that

crud on me. I make sure to post rebuttals to them and the white wing site it came from, like Hannity, Brietbart, various "patriot"/militia sites, etc. The next high school reunion should be a war, should I decide to go which is unlikely.

[villager]

12. Just "unfollow" those fuckers, block their updates, etc, as others here have suggested. nt

[MerryBlooms]

14. I've unfollowed a few, but only unfriended one.

The one I unfriended was a friend of a friend. I was wondering why my news feed was suddenly filled with negative shit... it was her toxicity oozing into my feed. Gone. Done. Life's too short to waste your time on energy vampires.

[ribrepin]

17. I feel your pain

I have gone to certain people's Facebook page and unfollowed them. I don't have to worry about them getting all insulted that I unfriended them and they think I'm still seeing their witty crap.

[Greybnk48]

19. Save unfriend for when you've really had enough of their Trump porn.

Unfollow for now and stay friends. I just had to unfriend several high school friends from 50 years ago for trolling me with right wing shit and alerting my posts if I said anything against Trump. I've gotten banned twice recently because of them. No loss at this point.

[Egnever]

20. I find it completely crazy to use facebook.

They are insidious and track you if you let them far more closely than any NSA. People seem horrified by the NSA yet will give their entire lives to facebook. Every like you do is recorded and categorized for future references forget about all the content in the posts you make and all the replies within those posts.

I just feel like if you don't like the NSA you should be horrified by facebook.

I get it is fun to keep up with friends and family but holy crap...and then sometimes it isn't even fun cause you get feeds full of trump garbage.

[kimbutgar]

21. Just click in th right hand corner of their links to unfollow

[L. Coyote]

22. You just need to learn to use Facebook. I've plenty of family of every persuasion, so political

and I have to unfollow them or the newsfeed is simply intolerable. It is good to know what they are up to and see the latest lies. Wow, blatant lying sure isn't on their taboo list. I'm related to some people that must have had lead in their schools, no easier way to say it.

[LaydeeBug]

24. or you could change a few minds. ;) nt

[Night Watchman]

25. Wish I Could Delete Facebook, Period

I find it less than useless, with the exception that too many websites won't even acknowledge your goddam existence if you don't have an account!

[seabeckind]

30. Unfortunately that opens up your identity

to the wackos.

I just don't bother commenting on any site that uses FB.

My local rag switched to FB and the next thing I knew they had sent a msg questioning my existence. FB wanted me to send a copy of my DL to prove my identity.

Not a chance.

[yeoman6987]

26. Just unfollow them. It's the best way and you keep your page

Why let them dictate? Don't let them win.

[FLPanhandle]

29. I have a number of family member who are conservatives

It really doesn't bother me. Sometimes I correct a post or lie if it's too egregious. Otherwise, what the hell.

I'm not going through life living in a bubble or "safe zone". I'm a grown up, and I can handle it.

[Cresent City Kid]

31. That's what I do

I have family on both sides posting political stuff, many who avoid politics altogether. I prefer to see everything and stay tuned in to what's being said and thought about whether I agree or not.

[LanternWaste]

32. You equate a benign and passive avoidance of frustrating idiocy on Facebook as "living life in a bub

You equate a benign and passive avoidance of frustrating idiocy on Facebook as "living life in a bubble?"

[FLPanhandle]

33. Yes, because that's what it is.

Going through life actively avoiding ideas/thoughts/people that you disagree with or annoy you is, by definition, living in a bubble.