Anyone here ever post on Facebook?

[kentuck]

During the campaign, did you notice how much vulgar, indecent, Trump-like crap was on Facebook? There were these fake photos of Hillary shaking hands with Saddam Hussein, naturally photo-shopped from another photo we had seen in the past. And a burnt body being dragged thru the street which was said to be Chris Stevens after Benghazi, and numerous other examples.

When you saw those photos, did you ignore them or "unfriend" the person that made them? They did not care if someones feelings were hurt or if anyone was offended. They kept shoveling this crap out on Facebook.

But, friends that I looked for to post honest and informative posts seldom would post such filth as the Trump supporters. Personally, I would seldom respond to the filth. I would just ignore it. But I did not "unfriend" the posters that I had known for many, many years. In hindsight, perhaps I should have called everyone of them out? I should not have tried to communicate the truth to any of them. They were not deserving of our friendship, in my opinion.

[theaocp]

1. To avoid anger at wasting time on fb

I unfriended everyone and use it only as an information aggregate now. A few people have asked to be my friend again but I'm not searching out anybody.

[JimBeard]

2. I unfriended my sister

[csziggy]

3. I've only started posting on Facebook in the last week or so

Mostly "liking" articles that I think have important information.

Few people see what I post - mostly my husband. I have not added many friends on FB. In fact I unfriended a sister in law since I got tired of getting updates on her stupid games. I only joined FB to follow posted information from two non-political organizations I am involved with, so I don't use it for political reasons.

For me the internet is to gather data, not as a social experience. I prefer the nearly anonymous experience of a message board like DU over the new social media like FB where everybody knows your name.

[True Dough]

4. I "unfriended" and "unfollowed"

several people due to the sort of things you mentioned and also any indications of xenophobia/homophobia. No regrets.

[MFM008]

5. I unfriended

Every thing/ one that supported maggot.

[KG]

6. i dig facebook, gives this bit a loner some space between me and real world. didn't see much of that

kinda stuff coz i long ago unfriended any idiot americans.

[m-lekktor]

7. I saw no pro Trump stuff, I had no Trump friends. Any anti Hillary memes I saw were from the left

and nothing about Benghazi.

[duffyduff]

8. I always hid those posts or unfollowed the posters.

No need to "unfriend" them.

[Little Star]

17. That's what I do.

[JimBeard]

34. Until they post to my page. My page is MINE and my puney 38 friends.

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. I reluctantly joined last year

to keep up with distant family connections.
I use my real name, but do not accept many friend requests, and when I see garbage I delete it and block the poster.
Turns out there are a lot of local sellers who use Facebook, and I have found a few bargains.

[greatauntoftriplets]

10. A Trump-humping cousin unfriended me because she didn't like what I posted.

She also made snarky comments about my content, though I just rolled my eyes when she posted things like photos of the Trumps captioned that they would bring "class" back to the White House.

My sister later unfollowed her but stayed friends since the cousin was a childhood hero.

[MountCleaners]

11. I subscribed to Americans for Trump

....to see what they were saying, because what was coming out of that group was obnoxious. One guy called Whoopi Goldberg a "negro", and I couldn't keep silent. I asked if all Trump supporters were racist. The guy who responded to me used the "n" word and complained that people couldn't use that word anymore. I couldn't take all of the hate anymore and unsubscribed. The group was full of racism!

[HeartachesNhangovers]

12. I use Facebook to post personal stuff to friends ...

and relatives: trip photos, mutual friend/relative photos, birthday greetings. I never look at or forward non-personal information.

My wife set it up for me, so it's possible that she blocked all the "news", since I told her that I wasn't interested in any of that.

[Skittles]

13. fuck fb

no, I will never post on that piece of crap site

[HeartachesNhangovers]

14. Just because they're selling every bit of personal info ...

they can scrape from your posts, photos, location, profile, friends, etc to the highest bidder?

That's the deal with Facebook. It's not like people don't know that going in.

[kentuck]

15. Who would bid on such info?

How would they use it?

[HeartachesNhangovers]

16. Targeted advertising: insurance companies, credit

card issuers, debt consolidation scam artists, swampland salespeople, people who compile and sell lists of potential consumers. The internet is all about selling info to help legitimate and illegitimate businesses reach the people most likely to buy / take the bait.

[Skittles]

18. my opinion of someone increases greatly

if I find they were never sucked into the fb borg

[pangaia]

19. I use fb to stay in touch with friends, professional contacts (sometimes the same),

Professional goings on, etc. As far as I know I have no trump supporting friends... or "friends."
I do not make any political posts. Only 2x has anyone ever made a political comment on my wall and both times I deleted them.

I am a member only of groups in my profession, and a few outside interests.
I am the administrator of one professional group.

For me the site is very useful.

[gulliver]

20. Facebook is evil.

Too much of a good thing.

[ileus]

21. I hid whatever page they were coming from.

I'm yet to "unfriend" anyone on FB.

[Maru Kitteh]

22. I unfriended MANY. I did some calling out of conservatives advocating big govt., Xtians advocating

religious discrimination, etc., but for the most part, I just stayed away.

[Nwgirl503]

23. Calling them out is tantamount to spitting upwind

I unfriended many people pre-election day. The ones who've popped up the few times I've posted or responded to someone else's posts tell me I did the right thing. (Not to mention the crazies who I don't even know who've tagged me in anti-HRC posts or gone stalker cray-cray.)

I'm all for passionate debate and rational discourse. In my experience, his supporters (or just people who thought HRC was a crook) were incapable of that. If the first thing someone posted or replied started with "libtards" "killary" or the like, I didn't even bother. There's no sense. The kool-aid is running in their veins and no amount of rationality is going to seep in.

[femmocrat]

24. I updated my account to keep up with the Women's March.

I was desperate when DU was down, so I went snooping on FB and found local people saying "we should rent a bus" to the march ..... so I joined them. It has been like a lifeline for me.

[treestar]

30. Yes, I found other liberals on

there by following some liberal groups. I figure I would rather talk to liberal strangers than people I know who are morons! I even made a couple of Facebook friends from the liberal groups.

[HockeyMom]

25. I unfriended my husband's cousin (California Attorney)

since I could not take all of his Trump BS. Sorry, Cuz, you are in the WRONG State! One other FB friend as well who was a Trump supporter in Michigan. So now I only have my daughters (live 1,000 miles away), their spouses and in-law family members but they are all Democrats on the same page.

I do have another "friend" on FB who is a Vet, Independent, and lives in Philly. He is not a Trump fanatic and mostly talks about Vets issues, decades gone by, and Big City Living. I honestly do not know who he voted for but he is a liberal social issues supporter. Fine with me.

[zippythepinhead]

26. I am an icon on facebook

My FB profile picture was voted one of the best pictures of 2016 at FB.

I have thousands of friends, most of them are from all around the world.

I'm a white liberal, btw.

[cwydro]

28. You're an icon?

Oh please send me a link.

[zippythepinhead]

31. okay

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=606505186183131&set=yo.100004709641932.2016.www_timeline.&type=3&theater

[Buckeye_Democrat]

35. Bear Bryant lives!

He's just in hiding with a different hat!

(Kidding. I like that picture too!)

[zippythepinhead]

36. thanks

Appreciate that.

[cwydro]

27. i guess I'm lucky.

Not seen a single one of those kind of posts.

But I've chosen my FB friends wisely..

[treestar]

29. I unfriended people

I don't like politics on FB or at least I didn't, and unfriended any right winger who brought their right wing crap into my feed, or unfollowed them.

With the exception of my nephews who can spout right wing crap, but they are just dunderheads. I feel comfortable teaching them that the stuff they put up is wrong.

[LeftInTX]

32. I don't do politics on facebook.

Mainly family and friends. I follow a bunch of gardening stuff and a few Armenian issues. That is all. The gardening stuff is pretty addictive.

[sarah FAILIN]

33. I called them out with proof.

After the election I announced that all Trump voters were missing something in their core that made them decent people and that I was shocked there were so many. I the unnfriended them all. I don't need to have that negativity in my life.
One I sent a message to first. Both her son's are gay and we had kept the Alabama fb on fire with our posts supporting gay marriage at one point. I told her I could not believe she was supporting a party that was determined to discriminate against her children and that was why I was deleting her.

[Different Drummer]

37. My enjoyment of Facebook has gone up a good bit since

I discovered a few tricks. First of all, I fill my feed up by subscribing to pages on subjects in which I have an interest. I also am a member of many groups and have made a lot of friends with liked-minded people that way. Politics very rarely comes up on any of these pages and in any of these groups, although I am a member of one particular liberal group.

Another trick I've found is adjusting friend levels of various people. For example, anyone who I add as a friend starts out as a close friend. Post some mindless right-wing nonsense and you get scaled back to a friend. If, somehow, the nonsense still gets through after I do that, you've been demoted to acquaintance status. The latter isn't something I've had to resort to very often.

As a last resort, I have had to unfollow a few people--the guy who posted the meme, "We need men and women on the Supreme Court who follow the Bible. Like and share if you agree." comes to mind. This happened after the Supreme Court legalized marriage equality nationwide.

I never unfriend, although other people have not always felt the same way about me. Once, I was in a discussion thread with a friend of mine and we were talking about how classless we thought all the attacks on Hillary were. It didn't register with me at the time that he had set his feed to public and a couple of right-wing nut job Trumpians who I've known most of my life took exception to what I said and unfriended me. Since then, I've unfortunately had to be very careful about what I say where and have trained myself not to react to any political discussions where the feed is set to public.

There doesn't seem to be a good way to be totally insulated from the Republican garbage that shows up on Facebook. For example, if Friend A posts something they found on the Fox News page, I can block the Fox News page (and have done so in the past) but if Friend B comes along and posts something from the Fox News page, I see it. The only remedy to this that I know of is to unfollow/block/unfriend the offending party.