Facebook

[guywithashovel]

I think I'm going to either unfriend some of these people or block their status updates.

Another thing that's annoying is when people repost the same things over and over and over again. For instance, a while ago Pepsi apparently issued a can that had the Pledge of Allegiance on it minus the "Under God" part. A couple of my former high school classmates took serious issue with that and posted this message at least five or six times.

"Pepsi has issued a can with the Pledge on it, but they left out the "Under God" part. They said they didn't want to offend anyone. Well, I hope they won't be offended when we don't give them our money for their product. After all, our money has God on it, too! Let's send Pepsi a message by not buying their product. Repost if you agree!"

At first, I wanted to comment "So, they're printing the Pledge as it was originally written? That's interesting." But . . . I don't like to stir the pot, so I just ignored it. About the fifth or sixth time they posted this, I wanted to comment "You've posted this several times. I'm sure everyone understands your views on this by now." But once again, that would have stirred the pot. Plus, my parents are on Facebook, and they're friends with some of these people, too, and they would have gotten upset over it.

[DGoddess]

Fun fact: If your friends post stupid updates, you can stop seeing updates from those friends.

Facebook has a lot of powerful controls. It's a lot less annoying of a place when you take the time to configure a bunch of them.

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I'm interested in looking into those controls . . . I use it but lately I've been thinking about scrapping my account.

Reasons why? Political bashing is boring and pointless.

I'm tired of my younger sister posting stupid crap (such as constant badgering to buy Pampered Chef items since she recently started working part time as a consultant.) I've been sick of her whining posts for awhile now . . . bad enough she had to rub it in about being at the beach for 2 weeks straight, and having NO JOB. Or she's going out to eat. Must be nice to do that and pay bills (she lives on her own in an apartment owned by her grandad) with NO MONEY.

I'm tired of my BFF posting pics of her dead twins all over the fucking place (who REALLY wants to see that?? Aside from maybe Vincent Price and he's been dead for years himself.)

I'm tired of my neice posting junk that makes no sense. I'm equally tired of her parents (my middle sis and BIL) practically gushing over each other online (and just two years ago they were separated and my sis was pregnant w/her youngest by another guy! Give me a break. )

I'm sick to death of hearing some family members proudly proclaim their support for whatever cause/trendy opinion and I'm about to choke the living fuck out of my sister's BF for constantly posting pics of firefighters and cramming 9/11 down everybody's throat!!!
And he's as bad as my sis for not working but always having money to go out to eat or buy a new video game.


Only reason I keep it is I have family members out of town who I do hear from on a regular basis and I'm trying to keep up with them (after not hearing from this cousin since he was a small boy.) And I do have a few friends that I do like to read posts from (a couple of them are coworkers, most of them are from CS.)

So yeah, I'd say it a bit of both good and bad. Some weeks it seems to be more on the bad side.

[AdminAssistant]

I'm tired of my BFF posting pics of her dead twins all over the fucking place (who REALLY wants to see that?? Aside from maybe Vincent Price and he's been dead for years himself.)

I hope this doesn't make me sound like a terrible person, but, I had to eventually hide the statuses of an acquaintance who had a stillbirth. I know that such a loss is horrid...I can't imagine what she must have gone through, trying for years to conceive only to lose a child. I'm a little uncomfortable with public displays of grief anyway, and she took it to an extreme. I wasn't comfortable reading the paragraphs of letters to her child, the Bible verses, the photographs of his grave site, the t-shirts and bracelets that she started selling....it was too much. I wish her well, but I think much of that would be better saved for a therapists office than a Facebook post.

[Andara Bledin]

If you don't want to hear about someone's tragedy and they won't stop talking about it, just click the dropdown at the top right of their status and choose to hide everything by them.

I've done that with a few people who posted nothing but reposts all over. If I really need to see what they're up to, I can always visit their actual pages.

Plus, nobody know who you have hidden, anyway; it's not like you could possibly keep track of everything that everybody on your list is doing at all times. And if you do miss something, you can then always blame it on too many updates out of someone else.

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[guywithashovel]

My cousin has started posting all kinds of stuff about guns lately. Almost every day when I sign in, I'll see some picture he's shared or blurb he has reposted about how every American should have a gun and how they are 100% necessary for self-defense and so on and so forth. When I bought my house, he told me that he thought the first thing I should buy upon moving in was a gun, and that I should keep it in my dresser drawer right next to my bed.

To some extent, I agree. I mean, I don't think we should heavily restrict firearms or ban them, but sometimes I just want to say, "Okay, I think we all know where you stand on the Second Amendment now. Is there anything else you'd like to talk about?"

[wolfie]

I'm tired of my BFF posting pics of her dead twins all over the fucking place (who REALLY wants to see that?? Aside from maybe Vincent Price and he's been dead for years himself.)

I believe there was also a Dr. Mengele who was interested in twins, but he's also dead (and good riddance).

[Ree]

Are you seriously comparing a mother who is publicly grieving for her deceased children with a sick, twisted butcher?
That's not even a funny joke.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I don't get the problem with photographs of dead babies. The Victorians did it for ages, not just of babies but also of the deceased of all ages. It was a way of remembering the dead; take a look at the link below and see for yourself. I personally think that the photographs are beautiful.

http://cogitz.com/2009/08/28/memento...-death-photos/

Back then of course, death wasn't a taboo the way it is now. No-one would blink an eyelid at a mother who grieved for her dead twins by having photos of them up on the wall.

[telecom_goddess]

I don't get the problem with photographs of dead babies. The Victorians did it for ages, not just of babies but also of the deceased of all ages. It was a way of remembering the dead; take a look at the link below and see for yourself. I personally think that the photographs are beautiful.

http://cogitz.com/2009/08/28/memento...-death-photos/

Back then of course, death wasn't a taboo the way it is now. No-one would blink an eyelid at a mother who grieved for her dead twins by having photos of them up on the wall.

I'm purposely avoiding that link. If I remember right you do like this kind of thing, along with cemeteries and whatnot. Personally I feel that just because they did this back then does not mean we need to be doing it now. I think photos of dead babies is not something that needs to be posted. If some wants to take it for themselves go for it but please don't share.

But then again I very rarely go to funerals and absolutely refuse to view an open casket. I made that mistake once and I'm never doing it again. I don't like viewing dead anything.

[BrenDAnn]

I looked at the link. A lot of the pics look like the deceased are simply sleeping. The others are just...weird. Sorry. I kind of agree with telecom_goddess there. As for Facebook, oh, how I wish I would've created my original page under an alias. My oldest nephew was smart enough to do so. The great majority of my friends list are family members, so...not so bad, I guess. Most of them just love posting the aforementioned posters/"funny" pics though. Oh well. I can always hide their posts, I guess!

ETA: I just got on Facebook, and, no shit, the tiger snowball pic was there, posted by one of my cousins. Wow. Amazing.

[Greenday]

If someone started posting pictures of dead babies on Facebook, they'd be defriended in a heartbeat. That's just not cool.

[Ree]

Posting a picture of a dead baby is probably not something I would personally do, and it's not something I would want to look at, but I certainly wouldn't block a person for doing so.
I would understand that they have just chosen a not so appropriate way to deal with their grief.
People who are grieving don't need to be blocked and shut out.
You have a way of editing what people may post on your page. Set it so their images don't show.

[Gravekeeper]

I have Facebook. Because I was forced too by family. I log into it once every 2-3 months. Usually because my mother has informed me after speaking with my uncle that my cousin has done yet another stupid thing with her life and I should check her page to assess the damage. ;p

Otherwise 90% of it is nothing but a circle jerk of banal family updates and totally absolutely true this works I'm serious no really all you have to do is forward it chain emails about Jesus and angels. Who will totally personally visit you if you just repost this to 10 other people.

Most recent of which was "Money angels" who will totally win you the lottery if you just report this 20 times. Because JESUS.

[Rapscallion]

You're lucky it's just family. There's a whole profusion of politics from both sides out there right now. It's to be expected and I sort of mentally filter all but the worst, so I don't worry about it too much.

I just post about the usual banal shit. Today, ninjas.

Rapscallion

[Gravekeeper]

You're lucky it's just family. There's a whole profusion of politics from both sides out there right now. It's to be expected and I sort of mentally filter all but the worst, so I don't worry about it too much.

We're Canadian. Politics is something we only grudgingly put up with once every few years where we all sigh, dress up nice and go to do our duty because we have to for the good of the family.

Basically, our election's are like your great aunt's birthday party.