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L. Coyote

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

Reply to liberalnarb (Original post)

Tue Jun 21, 2016, 11:26 PM

Jun 2016

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.

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I may have to delete my Facebook page. [View all] liberalnarb Jun 2016 OP

i like your tag graphics MariaThinks Jun 2016 #1

You can block that stuff. There's a little thing you can click on MADem Jun 2016 #2

Ah, there we go! You can unfollow them but stay "friends". liberalnarb Jun 2016 #6

Just block their content liberal N proud Jun 2016 #8

Go to their name and then go to the box that says "Following" thelordofhell Jun 2016 #3

Got it, got it. liberalnarb Jun 2016 #9

"Unfollow" rocks! As does limiting the audience for one's own posts. arcane1 Jun 2016 #10

Do they know if you unfollow? liberalnarb Jun 2016 #13

As far as I know, they don't. arcane1 Jun 2016 #15

Nope. herding cats Jun 2016 #16

If that doesn't work well enough Warpy Jun 2016 #18

I use FB Purity Chrome add on. Zing Zing Zingbah Jun 2016 #28

No. But they'll know if you unfriend them. Just unfollow. yeoman6987 Jun 2016 #27

I discovered the 'restricted list' on Facebook, and use it LIBERALLY Siwsan Jun 2016 #4

I have to do this with my daughter's phylny Jun 2016 #23

I feel your pain. Trump supporters everywhere on FB. BlueNoMatterWho Jun 2016 #5

unfriend them and then if they gopiscrap Jun 2016 #7

Yeah, I somehow friended a bunch of white wingers from 45 years ago that keep dumping that Hoyt Jun 2016 #11

Just "unfollow" those fuckers, block their updates, etc, as others here have suggested. nt villager Jun 2016 #12

I've unfollowed a few, but only unfriended one. MerryBlooms Jun 2016 #14

I feel your pain ribrepin Jun 2016 #17

Save unfriend for when you've really had enough of their Trump porn. Greybnk48 Jun 2016 #19

I find it completely crazy to use facebook. Egnever Jun 2016 #20

Just click in th right hand corner of their links to unfollow kimbutgar Jun 2016 #21

You just need to learn to use Facebook. I've plenty of family of every persuasion, so political L. Coyote Jun 2016 #22

or you could change a few minds. ;) nt LaydeeBug Jun 2016 #24

Wish I Could Delete Facebook, Period Night Watchman Jun 2016 #25

Unfortunately that opens up your identity seabeckind Jun 2016 #30

Just unfollow them. It's the best way and you keep your page yeoman6987 Jun 2016 #26

I have a number of family member who are conservatives FLPanhandle Jun 2016 #29

That's what I do Cresent City Kid Jun 2016 #31

You equate a benign and passive avoidance of frustrating idiocy on Facebook as "living life in a bub LanternWaste Jun 2016 #32

Yes, because that's what it is. FLPanhandle Jun 2016 #33