Facebook and other social media

[vraiblonde]

If you're thinking of deleting your accounts because you're tired of all the negativity and drama, guess what?

It's you, dude(tte).

I don't have negativity and drama on my FB, because I don't have many FB friends who act like that. And the few who do want to get stupid, I either unfriend them or just block them from my feed so I don't see it. No need to cut myself off from friends and family just because a few people are ignorant.

If you are so upset with the internet that you have to take yourself off of it rather than just be more selective in what you read and who you interact with, that would be a pretty dramatic move right there, and means that you are the drama queen.

 

[kwillia]

If you're thinking of deleting your accounts because you're tired of all the negativity and drama, guess what?

It's you, dude(tte).

I don't have negativity and drama on my FB, because I don't have many FB friends who act like that. And the few who do want to get stupid, I either unfriend them or just block them from my feed so I don't see it. No need to cut myself off from friends and family just because a few people are ignorant.

If you are so upset with the internet that you have to take yourself off of it rather than just be more selective in what you read and who you interact with, that would be a pretty dramatic move right there, and means that you are the drama queen.

Oh yeah.... well....

:SLAM:

 

[vraiblonde]

Oh yeah.... well....

:SLAM:

Drama queen

 

[GURPS]

I don't have negativity and drama on my FB, because I don't have many FB friends who act like that. And the few who do want to get stupid, I either unfriend them or just block them from my feed so I don't see it.

I un-liked all of the Political feeds I followed the past few yrs .... my FB feed is all old school pen and paper games now

 

[Merlin99]

If you're thinking of deleting your accounts because you're tired of all the negativity and drama, guess what?

It's you, dude(tte).

I don't have negativity and drama on my FB, because I don't have many FB friends who act like that. And the few who do want to get stupid, I either unfriend them or just block them from my feed so I don't see it. No need to cut myself off from friends and family just because a few people are ignorant.

If you are so upset with the internet that you have to take yourself off of it rather than just be more selective in what you read and who you interact with, that would be a pretty dramatic move right there, and means that you are the drama queen.

So I should unfriend my entire family? There's nobody left after that.

 

[GWguy]

What is this "Facebook" of which you speak?

No Facebook, no drama, and no drama over the drama of having Facebook!!

 

[withrespect]

I have FB... I also have a metric f*ck ton of family... which makes my FB very dramatic at times. Fun fact... My relatives from New Jersey get into fights and sue each other. My relatives in NJ also sue each other if another relative gets hurt on their property because then the "insurance will pay for it and everyone wins."


I am made of a special genetic makeup of piss and vinegar.... This is where my craziness comes from.

 

[SamSpade]

If you're thinking of deleting your accounts because you're tired of all the negativity and drama, guess what?

It's you, dude(tte).

Totally.

In my earliest days of participating online on the Internet - newsgroups, Delphi, web based forums (like this one had, many years ago), some of the posters got into NASTY arguments.
That was about the time I came across Godwin's Law, which was originally observed in newsgroups (if anyone still remembers them) where really LONG threads would form on just about any subject imaginable, and you'd find the SAME pattern.
The original discussion got played out, and the thread continued long afterward because a few people just had to get into name-calling and nitpicking.

What made it laughable was, some of the more nerd groups would get into really long-winded explanations as to whether Star Wars or Star Trek was better, or there'd be Linux/Unix versus Microsoft, or -- oh dear God, it would just go on.
And eventually, the words got nasty. The premise of Godwin's boiled down to, if a thread was REALLY long, the people still discussing on it had long since abandoned the subject and were just fighting - and someone would EVENTUALLY be called a Nazi - or the Devil - or some kind of ultimate evil.

And I learned a valuable lesson in that time which I have tried to carry into regular life in the "dirt world" as you say. And that is, sometimes the very best response you can make is - to stay out of it.
Write a nasty post - and delete before posting. Just say nothing. Try to remember why you post at all. Is it to persuade? With some that just won't work. Is it to "set things straight"? Really, on some forum that a few people might read? Is it just being pissed off and wanting to say something. Then resist the urge and say nothing. Honestly. Do it often enough, and the stuff won't bother you. I really don't - or rarely - get pissed off at something someone says on the Internet.

And if your Facebook "friends" only waste bandwidth to bitch about stuff that ticks you off, you don't need them. You don't. Don't stroke your ego about having a Facebook friend - it's a big world.