Stupid Facebook Posts

[Lumpy1106]

30 day snooze feature. There should be 3 dots in the upper right of the post. click on that, scroll down and snooze the offender. If after 30 days their posts are still full-missing-child (or anti-vax, or whatever you can't stand), THEN unfriend.

 

[RamblingMad]

I expect FB to get more and more ridiculous throughout this year. I might take a Q4 break from it to control my sanity. I’m not going to unfriend anyone.

 

[Bianca and Bernard]

A friend keeps posting on Facebook about missing children, and the kids have usually already been found. If she'd just click on the link before she shares it, she'd see there's no reason to post. She did it earlier this week and I politely pointed out that the kiddo had been found, and that the information was on the link she had posted. Someone with half a brain would've figured out that maybe she should read her own link, but no, she just did it again, and this time her link clearly said that the baby had been found in December. If she does it again, three strikes and she gets unfriended. Any other solutions?

I had a friend that I had to unfriend on FB over her posts. She would share everything, even things that were totally bogus (like the get $50 off $50 purchase at Publix...really? Like that would be a real thing?). And her FB page would get hijacked at least every other month from her clicking on crap to share and bam...in comes the virus that allowed them to get on her stuff. The main reason, though, was because her political sharing posts are opposite of my opinions. I'm not going to state the political opinions here, cause it's against the rules. But I will say that there is a difference between being a good person 7 days a week and being a good person on Sundays, and being a good person 7 days a week means treating others with humanity and respect.

Ignored another for the same thing, and it's sad, because we have been friends since 1985ish. I just ignore her stuff, but I did message her and tell her that I was ignoring her page until she got her head out...well, you know the rest. But since we go way back, I can tell that kind of thing and it doesn't affect the rest of our friendship.

 

[loves to dive]

My oldest and best friend tends to lean a totally different way than I do politically and in regards to religion. She is always posting those two things and I just scroll through. I don't like or unlike them. There was one post that was slightly offensive to me, it was political and I seriously debated unfriending her because I just couldn't wrap my head around her thought process. But I got over it. She does post things about family and other friends that I do care about so I just scroll on by. Which is what I do to any posts that have to do with politics or religion. Both are too much of a hot button for too many people and my thoughts and feelings on them are just that, mine.

 

[Turn the Page]

The political stuff really grinds my gears. There are several people I am strongly considering unfollowing or even unfriending and not even until just after the election, I mean for good, because the posts never stop. It isn't even the fact that their beliefs are different than mine it's that they are constantly posting fake stuff as gospel. I can't tell you how many times I have posted links showing they are false and they argue with me about how they're true. It just never ends.

If you want to post political stuff that is your prerogative but at least make sure it's actually true.

 

[here757]

I have a friend that reposts fake news all the time..
When I asked why he does it.. he replied cuz everyone eles does...
I just can’t

 

[Melissa55]

The political stuff really grinds my gears. There are several people I am strongly considering unfollowing or even unfriending and not even until just after the election, I mean for good, because the posts never stop. It isn't even the fact that their beliefs are different than mine it's that they are constantly posting fake stuff as gospel. I can't tell you how many times I have posted links showing they are false and they argue with me about how they're true. It just never ends.

If you want to post political stuff that is your prerogative but at least make sure it's actually true.

I have unfriended people that I politically disagree with but also people that I politically agree with just because of their inability to express themselves with kindness. The part that irritates me on both sides is the name-calling and baseless attacks against people who actually fundamentally agree on things, they just have different opinions on the resolutions. For instance, I don't know anyone who thinks school shootings are good, but people have radically different opinions on how to solve the issues. That's fine. People can disagree, and that doesn't make people a beeping beep beep.

I personally unfollow anyone whose feed is more than 50% reposts (so basically my husband's entire extended family). I like to keep up with how my friends are actually doing, so that's the content I follow on social media.

 

[Luv Bunnies]

A guy I knew in high school sent me a friend request last year. He wasn't my favorite person, but I thought I'd give him a chance. I'm friends with a guy that I didn't like when we worked together, but now he's awesome. People can change. Not the high school guy. He's the same blow-hard, full-of-himself, I'm always-right-and-everyone-is-always-wrong person he was before. But now, he's into politics. He reposts everything related to his views and if anyone tries to challenge him, he comes up with some ridiculous comeback. I don't have time for that so I unfriended him. He's so focused on himself, he probably didn't even notice I was no longer on his friends list.

I have a cousin who is kind of similar. He reposts memes and statements that match his political views. Half the time I'm not sure he even understands what he's posting. I don't need to see all that stuff but...he's family. I don't feel like I can unfriend him without causing hurt feelings. All of my cousins are connected on Facebook and I don't think it would be nice to unfriend one over political views. I think it would cause hurt feelings. So, I just scroll on by his posts. I do like or comment on some of his non-political posts.

 

[jormom1030]

I think she is my dad!!!!!!

 

[DisneyHardin]

One more thing: the only other thing my aunt posts over and over is that schools should still teach cursive. I teach 4th grade in the town we both live in. I’ve told her (again, politely) that we DO teach cursive and never stopped, but she still posts about it on a daily basis.

YES!!!! And the ones that say the Pledge of Allegiance should be put back in schools. We say it every morning at our school.

 

[Turn the Page]

I have unfriended people that I politically disagree with but also people that I politically agree with just because of their inability to express themselves with kindness. The part that irritates me on both sides is the name-calling and baseless attacks against people who actually fundamentally agree on things, they just have different opinions on the resolutions. For instance, I don't know anyone who thinks school shootings are good, but people have radically different opinions on how to solve the issues. That's fine. People can disagree, and that doesn't make people a beeping beep beep.

I personally unfollow anyone whose feed is more than 50% reposts (so basically my husband's entire extended family). I like to keep up with how my friends are actually doing, so that's the content I follow on social media.

I post very little on facebook. The vast majority of my activity is sharing or reposting things but it is almost never political. It is generally a funny parenting meme or something like that. Posting fake political crap on facebook never changed any minds and accomplishes nothing but increases the gap between us.

 

[jdb in AZ]

Then there's the marketing that isn't supposed to happen. My niece is always talking about her skin-care sales. If she weren't a relative I'd report her. Instead, she's another one of those "unfollowed" souls.

 

[Katie Dawn]

I reply to posts with Snopes links showing its not true on a regular basis. And I don't know why I keep doing it because I know the person will keep posting this stuff. I guess I hope that one of their friends will see it and decide not to share it, but that's pretty unlikely too.

 

[Turn the Page]

I reply to posts with Snopes links showing its not true on a regular basis. And I don't know why I keep doing it because I know the person will keep posting this stuff. I guess I hope that one of their friends will see it and decide not to share it, but that's pretty unlikely too.

I do that sometimes but am often told snopes is biased and they don't believe it.

 

[tarheelmjfan]

I post very little on facebook. The vast majority of my activity is sharing or reposting things but it is almost never political. It is generally a funny parenting meme or something like that. Posting fake political crap on facebook never changed any minds and accomplishes nothing but increases the gap between us.

I agree & would say the same thing about real political posts.

 

[ZTator]

Well along the same lines , I had a friend that continuously posted animal abuse posts, it would literally tear my nerves up and as much as I tried to just by pass them it was no uses, most times I seen enough to ruin my day. One night I was skimming fb and she had a post for " immediate help need" several horses that have been abused were being re-homed , they need immediate help finding homes . I quickly called around to my farming neighbors , got the whole thing set up to re-home these poor animals and when I called the number to let them know we could transport, there was a recording that stated "if you were calling about the horses the notice was over 5 years old and the horses have long since been re-homed." Wasn't long after that I got off fb completely and haven't been back there for years. I feel much healthier that way hahaha .

 

[mousefan73]

A friend keeps posting on Facebook about missing children, and the kids have usually already been found. If she'd just click on the link before she shares it, she'd see there's no reason to post. She did it earlier this week and I politely pointed out that the kiddo had been found, and that the information was on the link she had posted. Someone with half a brain would've figured out that maybe she should read her own link, but no, she just did it again, and this time her link clearly said that the baby had been found in December. If she does it again, three strikes and she gets unfriended. Any other solutions?

I have a friend like this too. Weekly reposts missing kid alerts. . Every time it’s teens who ran off and are found by the time she shares. I get the good intention but I skip over these now, so these postings are not effective in drawing my attention.

 

[mousefan73]

I hate that too.
I will get on my soap box though about missing children and adults posts.
Be suspicious of any of those authentic looking missing children and adult posts, where the phone number is anything but 9-1-1 or the Police Department. Never call anyone but authorities if you spot a missing person,......or an allegedly missing person.
Sadly, in our world there are too many people who try and work the system. I deal with this regularly when people want us to report their loved one as missing on the news. We will ONLY do it if the police make the request, NOT the family. About 20 years ago we had a guy calling asking us to help him find his "cousin". He called all the TV stations. Fortunately, we call checked. It wasn't his "cousin", is was a guy the gang this guy was in was trying to find to kill.
And now days, you never know. It may very well be mom asking you to report their child missing, but mom may be a non-custodial parent with no visitation rights.,
And in the case of adults, unless they are at risk, as the police put it...."adults have a right to cut off their family"

Good point never thkught

 

[Starport Seven-Five]

They are and have been proven to announce false claims on, well false false claims? I don't know how to describe it verbally, LOL. Thus I don't look at any political debunking from Snopes for sure, but non-political is fine.

In the cases where they were wrong they have corrected quickly while adding footnotes noting the change. That is the mark of a reputable outlet.

I do that sometimes but am often told snopes is biased and they don't believe it.

Can lead a horse to water but you can't make them drink.

 

[Mermaid02]

Drives me nuts! I also can't stand "My Mother said I wouldn't get one share because I have cancer" WHAT? What the heck is that? Ridiculous.