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How many facebook friends did you loose this week?

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2016 5:56 pm
by tough old man
5

Mostly professor types. Highly educated and one I considered a good friend who's wife forced him to unfriend me.

Re: How many facebook friends did you loose this week?

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2016 6:09 pm
by climber511
None this week but I lost one early on due to Trump - Clinton differences in opinion.

Re: How many facebook friends did you loose this week?

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2016 6:25 pm
by WildGorillaMan
I've done a good job over the years to winnow them out. The ones I have left are pretty hardy.

Re: How many facebook friends did you loose this week?

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2016 6:26 pm
by Turdacious
0 but I'm enjoying wailing and gnashing of teeth.

Re: How many facebook friends did you loose this week?

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2016 8:21 pm
by Bobby
0,but then I tolerate the shit some of them posts (lots of left wing and feminist etc garbage as that is popular amongst some younger people here in Sweden).

Re: How many facebook friends did you loose this week?

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2016 8:58 pm
by Boris
You know, I see those "I don't unfriend people because of their political blah, blah, blah" messages and think "Huh? Really?"... FB is entertainment for me - I avoid people I don't want to talk to in real life and Facebook isn't any different in that respect. I dumped a few earlier this year from FB (people I actually knew) - there are some "opinions" I just don't need to put up with on my feed, and I can only stand so much stupid.

If people don't like the things I post and want to unfriend me, totally fine - I spend far too much time on FB bullshit as it is anyway.

Re: How many facebook friends did you loose this week?

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2016 9:45 pm
by Shafpocalypse Now
I had to stop FB for a bit. I legit felt it was depressing me

Re: How many facebook friends did you loose this week?

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2016 9:55 pm
by seeahill
Lost Zero friends. I seldom post on political subjects, but, quite purposely, have FB "friends" from across the political spectrum. That way FB isn't such an echo chamber.

Re: How many facebook friends did you loose this week?

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2016 9:59 pm
by Turdacious
seeahill wrote:Lost Zero friends. I seldom post on political subjects, but, quite purposely, have FB "friends" from across the political spectrum. That way FB isn't such an echo chamber.
This. I also have a lot of friends in other countries or who immigrated here. Their range of takes on the election is interesting.

Re: How many facebook friends did you loose this week?

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2016 10:10 pm
by syaigh
I didn't lose any. Hid a lot from my feed. I don't generally post political stuff or comment on it.

I did hide the ones posting propaganda bullshit from blog type sites (ie, not actual journalism) and that goes for both sides. As well as the "Hillary supporter/liberals/democrats are all . . . " and "Trump supporters/conservatives/republicans are all . . . "

Someone was sharing a video today about how Mitt Romney won the popular vote in 2012 and because of that the pro-hillary protestors were hypocrites. Ignorance kind of irritates the shit out of me. If you have facebook, you have google . . . .

Re: How many facebook friends did you loose this week?

Posted: Thu Nov 10, 2016 11:51 pm
by Wild Bill
syaigh wrote:I did hide the ones posting propaganda bullshit from blog type sites (ie, not actual journalism)
I am also hide one, and because the same reason.
But this was about year ago :)

Re: How many facebook friends did you loose this week?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 12:17 am
by baffled
0. Adult males with jobs have no reason to be on facebook.

Re: How many facebook friends did you loose this week?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 3:49 am
by buckethead
How do you loose a friend?

Re: How many facebook friends did you loose this week?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 5:34 am
by powerlifter54
Zero so far but i am working on it. The lefties have a lot of issues. Usually ignore it. This week not so much.

Re: How many facebook friends did you loose this week?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 7:10 am
by The Ginger Beard Man
I haven't lost any. I think a shitload of people have unfollowed me either because they can't stand the difference of opinion or because I just post too much political shit. I can't stop myself, and I think a lot of it is just funny.
I also haven't made my fiancé cry in a long time, but I think she's just gotten used to it.

A good friend of mine, who several IGxers know, was a big Bernie supporter, and ended up voting for Johnson, as did his wife.
So people were giving them shit for screwing up the election.
She posted some 538 article that said that statistically, third party party voters didn't cost HRC the election, and a guy called her a bitch. I really wish I could be at the same Christmas party as all three of them this year. It should be interesting.

Re: How many facebook friends did you loose this week?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 1:50 pm
by nafod
Just my mom. :-"

Heh

She told me she wore an "I'm a Deplorable" shirt to vote. I told her I think she broke federal election law, and as a strict constitutionalist I must now report her. Maybe Trump will pardon her with a wave of his sausage fingered groper. That would make her day!

I went to high school with a guy in Virginia who was super active in Trump campaign. If I weathered his storm of posts...I literally couldn't read that fast.

Re: How many facebook friends did you loose this week?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 1:53 pm
by Testiclaw
I stay closed off inside of my liberal-bubble.

Re: How many facebook friends did you loose this week?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 1:54 pm
by dead man walking
nafod wrote: She told me she wore an "I'm a Deplorable" shirt to vote.
it's difficult not to have a certain admiration for a woman who does that.

Re: How many facebook friends did you loose this week?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 2:02 pm
by nafod
dead man walking wrote:
nafod wrote: She told me she wore an "I'm a Deplorable" shirt to vote.
it's difficult not to have a certain admiration for a woman who does that.
I'm going to get her a CD of the Trump/Howard Stern interviews for Christmas.

Re: How many facebook friends did you loose this week?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 2:38 pm
by The Venerable Bogatir X
I gained one. An old Marine buddy.

I did have a liberal friend who asked me to stop posting on her crybaby thread (and I was very polite and fair in my comments). I of course, agreed and told her "of course, my very best to you and your family, always". Kill 'em with class.

Re: How many facebook friends did you loose this week?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 2:40 pm
by Turdacious
buckethead wrote:How do you loose a friend?
On a Texas camping trip of coarse.

Re: How many facebook friends did you loose this week?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 2:45 pm
by tough old man
I used this

Re: How many facebook friends did you loose this week?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 3:35 pm
by powerlifter54
tough old man wrote:I used this
The Trump win just keeps on getting better. It brings the whole "drive them before you and hear the lamentations of their womyn" thing to life.

Trump won. Hilliary lost. Why? He won the Electoral College where we have been told for years the Dems have a huge advantage.

Maybe time to all just chill for the holidays.

But as long as the social media lamentations and riots and fake "they stole my burkas" claims continue, my touchdown dance will continue.

Re: How many facebook friends did you loose this week?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 6:08 pm
by Boris
powerlifter54 wrote: But as long as the social media lamentations and riots and fake "they stole my burkas" claims continue, my touchdown dance will continue.
Great - everyone descends into 6th grade cheers and jeers... Do you just walk into crowds and start chanting Trump? You'll be very popular w. about 50% of Americans.

I get it - no one is more disgusted by the "Oh, I'm so distraught I can't go to class and learn" whining than me.

On the other hand, I do know people that have been on the receiving end of some pretty despicable shit based on their color/ethnicity. It's not all lies. Sorry, but I do think Trump has something to do with that and that's not okay.

Re: How many facebook friends did you loose this week?

Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2016 6:11 pm
by seeahill
buckethead wrote:How do you loose a friend?
Untie him.