I'm done with Facebook

[rbrnmw]

I counted 22 of these posts on my facebook wall since
yesterday I just want to scream they are ignorant,
misinformed, and pathetic. I just cancelled my account I can't
take anymore of their hate.

"Let's be clear on this: OBAMA did NOT kill Bin Laden. An
American soldier, who Obama, just a few weeks ago was debating
on whether or not to PAY, did. Obama just happened to be the
one in office when our soldiers finally found OBL and took him
out. This is NOT an Obama victory, but an AMERICAN victory!!
REPOST IF YOU AGREE!!!

this one too

Obama did not get Osama. It was our hard working members of
our military. Time to stop basking in the limelight."

[Name removed]

1. Deleted message

Message removed by moderator. Click here to review the message board rules.

[rbrnmw]

3. Yes it's all either family or

people I have known for years

[Forkboy]

40. The anti-FB people are clearly too smart for the rest of us mere mortals.

They remind me of Kryten from the show Red Dwarf. "Ahhh, smug mode!". :rofl:

[Brickbat]

2. When you say "they," you mean your friends, right?

[msanthrope]

36. That about sums it up, eh? n/t

[patricia92243]

4. Of course if it had been Bush, it would have been him, and him alone, that did it.

[mrcheerful]

23. Remember Bush found Saddam Bush hung Saddam Bush the great American hero?

[Syrinx]

5. Everyone should stay away from Facebook

I don't share in your hostility to President Obama, at all.

But it is obvious that Facebook basically wants to steal your identity.

Don't let them. Stay away in droves.

[rbrnmw]

11. I have no hostility towards President Obama

[proud2BlibKansan]

35. It's an awesome networking site

I'm helping to organize a teacher march in DC in July. If it wasn't for Facebook, we wouldn't have half our supporters.

I just delete the crap. It's pretty easy to do.

[leeroysphitz]

6. But is Facebook done with you? n/t

[Syrinx]

7. you say you cancelled Facebook

But you want us to repost if we agree? Huh?

Facebook is a stupid site for stupid people. I guess that's why most people are on it these days.

[Sal Minella]

18. Second and fourth paragraphs of OP are quotes but

not marked as such. Very confusing.

I usually use italics when posting quotes on DU, or use the quote box.

[Tippy]

28. Stupid site for stupid people......you got that right....

[Gore1FL]

31. I had no idea I was stupid

Or that my Doctoral friends were stupid, or that my childhood friends-who I haven't seen in decades, are stupid. My IT professional friends? Stupid too! My family? Dumb as rocks!

Thanks for pointing out my mental inadequacies for using a social site to re-acquaint myself to the people I've loved throughout my life. I would have never known without someone superior to point it out.

Thanks!

[proud2BlibKansan]

37. LOL!

Beat me to it.

I'm an activist. There isn't enough space here to describe how much Facebook benefits causes. Bottom line - a ton of people log on to the internet to check their email and Facebook. That's it. They don't read DU or DK or even FR. They check Facebook.

[Forkboy]

39. People need to feel superior somehow. Ragging on FB is just one way they try.

:)

[Maru Kitteh]

62. "add" me to the list too. Who knew how stupid we all were? Good thing we had someone to tell us!

:silly:

[Arugula Latte]

65. I know! I'm an idiot! And here I wept for joy when I reconnected with my childhood friend

and found we still clicked. How stupid could I be?!

[cherokeeprogressive]

68. I want to be just like you when I grow up...

Smart enough to judge people for using a social networking site.

Yup, I want to be just like you...

[blueamy66]

44. Nice.

I enjoy FB. So I'm stupid?

Hey, you do what you like to do and I'll do what I like to do.

As a matter of fact, let me know what you enjoy doing so I can call it stupid.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

53. yes, its really dumb to try and remain in touch with friends

:eyes:

[mentalsolstice]

54. I'm surprised you would say that in light of what happened in AL last week

We have a neighborhood group on FB and it has been invaluable about getting out the word where help is needed...neighbors who need assistance cleaning up after the storms, tarps for their roofs, etc. Last fall we used FB to organize a fund-raiser for a young neighbor who was dying of cancer and had no insurance. As a result she was able to die peacefully in her own home surrounded by her friends.

Most of the info I get on FB is about events going on around the Birmingham community. Maybe you should try it before you condemn it and its users.

Signed,
Stupid Birmingham Resident

[Trajan]

8. Two points ...

1) President Obama, as Commander in Chief, made the choices, within the purview of his role in the United States government, that promoted this particular course of action, which actually went against the advice of some of his advisors .... He chose the specific type of action, even though it was risky and fraught with the possibility of failure ....

For that ? ... Supporters would praise him for his courage and forethought, and detractors would condemn him for his rashness and foolishness ...

There is no doubt that Obama played a role .... One that history will bear out, one way or the other ...

2) I have right wing friends and family, and very few of them ever mentioned it .... NONE have praised him for it, but none, save one, has mentioned it at all .... The one did mention it, but seemed to apparently forgot to mention Obama completely ... good or bad ....

I have deleted one RW extremist sister from my friends list .... Tis a pity, but I don't need that negativity in my life ...

Dump all assholes from your friends list ....

[stanwyck]

51. I got rid of quite a few during the Let's See How Many

Signatures We Can Get Who Wish Obama Was Dead fiasco on FB last year. Just deleted them - and none are missed.

[Syrinx]

9. damn at the trolls

[rbrnmw]

10. Did you read the op?

[CJCRANE]

12. Your OP wasn't clear that you were *quoting* from the disagreeable posts.

Only the first paragraph in the OP is your opinion, you should put the rest in quote marks or italics.

[rbrnmw]

14. Sorry you are right

[BoWanZi]

17. Yes he is, your OP looks like you are totally supporting that stupid FB comment. edit the OP!

I knew what you were trying to convey but the way you posted it, it looks like you are just embracing that quote.

[rbrnmw]

20. no way would I embrace that mindless drivel

[BoWanZi]

22. LOL, but before you edited the post, it looked that way, good for editing it!

But still, just block posts or if you have to, unfriend them.

[Syrinx]

13. yes

[BoWanZi]

15. It is so simple to unfriend or just block posts from certain people

I can't choose my family but I can choose to ignore posts or family.

Problem solved.

[proud2BlibKansan]

33. +1

[Papagoose]

16. Don't cancel your FB account because of ignorant friends

Just de-friend them, unless you really don't want to use FB anymore.

I am in the process of doing a thorough Friend list clean-up...when I'm done, I expect to pare the list down from about 300 to under 50 people that I have no other convenient way to stay in touch with.

[WinkyDink]

19. The ignorance is beyond colossal. NO PRESIDENT EVER PERSONALLY FIGHTS.

[napkinz]

21. POST THIS ON FB AS YOUR STATUS!!! (got this from another DUer)

President Obama succeeded where bush failed

see original post:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x1052015

[rbrnmw]

26. I love it thanks

[greenbird]

24. I learned to hard way

That it's better to block their posts than to unfriend them. Lately I've tried to calmly answer the misinformation with facts and links. I mean, it's another forum where there's an opportunity to correct falsehoods. For instance, the post you described has that crazy rumor in it that Obama was proposing cutting military pay. I've run across that twice on facebook. It needs to be debunked, if only to encourage them to move along to their next nutty accusation. I will admit, it's very difficult to stay calm sometimes.

[WhiteTara]

25. I'm glad you have a place to find new

friends and family. Life's too short to have those kind of people dragging you down.

[blue cat]

27. I don't ever post anything about politics at all

nor respond to anything political, ever. I am happy with my beliefs, and don't care what someone else believes about anything. I love my President and I am very
proud of our country, as I was with the end of Saddam. I don't de-friend anyone for a post, just ignore and read through. I like to see what is said, and I had plenty to say during the Bush days, so it doesn't bother me. Although I feel like asking them why they hate America.

[ScreamingMeemie]

29. I don't post political on my FB either, but I do defriend those who

are super political. I have enough annoying people in my real day to day life. :hi:

[TorchTheWitch]

30. your first problem was joining to begin with

Nothing but MySpace in different box. What did you expect?

[proud2BlibKansan]

32. You can delete anything posted on your page.

That sends a pretty powerful message. My rw FB friends learned not to put this shit up on my page a long time ago.

[brooklynite]

34. What does Facebook have to do with it?

The postings you're upset about are from people YOU'VE Friended.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

38. So this was the military's victory, not Obama's ...

... yet the same people would claim the Iran rescue mission was Carter's failure, not the military's.

Yes, they CAN have it both ways.

:hi:

[donheld]

41. Well that's stupid

what it proves is you have a bad set of friends on Facebook. It does not prove there's anything wrong with Facebook itself.

[elocs]

42. You know that you can remove anything from your facebook wall that you don't want there.

It's your wall and you or any of us have the power to delete things you do not want there.

[ZombieHorde]

43. My wife has a great time on Facebook, her friends and family mostly avoid politics.

Seems to be a good rule to live by if people want to be happy on Facebook.

[TransitJohn]

45. I don't understand why people don't organize their FB friends into groups

It's really easy, and you can block groups from appearing in your feed, assign what groups you want to see your posts, etc. I find it incredibly helpful to keep my family and childhood friends, work, and social lives separate. it was a godsend when they introduced that feature.
edit: sp

[stuntcat]

47. totally!

I outright deleted some people, no loss really :) But the old friends, or friends of family, the kind of people I can't totally delete but who are very conservative, I put them in a group that can't see my stuff and it's easy to ignore theirs since I have the people I most want to see on lists too, so I look at those lists. I've done this with conservatives, and sometimes with very religious people just so they won't be offended by what I'm saying. It's so easy to ignore them, it's like these people aren't even really in my friends list.

Everyone belongs on a list!!! :headbang:

[TransitJohn]

48. You'd think everyone would at least keep their working lives separate, you know?

:hi:

[tammywammy]

66. That's how I have it set up.

Everyone's in a group.

[Stevenmarc]

46. Funny I only saw that post once on my wall, perhaps I'm a hell of a lot more selective....

with who I chose to friend instead of clicking accept in such an over generous fashion.

By the way that little X to the right of the wall entry lets you hide posts.

[La Lioness Priyanka]

49. the problem isnt facebook. the problem is with your friends/family.

[dana_b]

50. I have none of those type of messages

on my FB page. It's all family posts, music related posts and the few political posts are generally supportive of the same issues that I support. Are you sure that these folks are your "friends"?

[Bravo Zulu]

52. What is facebook?

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

56. It's the way Sarah Palin communicates with the world. Pretty much sez it all.

[Bravo Zulu]

58. Well then,

I'm not interested,SP gives me the creeps!

[southernyankeebelle]

55. You can't reason with stupid. These same people would have been happy if it was

Bush the liar who went the troops. They would be jumping for joy and celebrating in the streets. FACTS AS WE ALL KNOW FOR SURE: OBAMA GOT OSAMA. Repeat over and over because those are the facts. They are soooooo pissed but keep repeating it over and over and soon enough they will leave it alone. They know you are right and they can't stand it.

[krabigirl]

57. Wow, sheer ignorance.

[RegieRocker]

59. The whole chain of command is responsible and that does include Obama.

Have you ever been in the military? It doesn't seem like it.

[rbrnmw]

60. This is why I love DU

Honestly you are right I don't need to give up FB because of ignorant racist assholes who for the most part basically called me un-American for 8 years said I had no right to question Dumbya, but it's ok for them to question EVERYTHING President Obama does or says At least I didn't pull shit from my ass lies about Bush I didn't have to lie on him, he was a POS, but they do have to lie on President Obama Fuck them they won't run me off


P.S.
Thanks for the well deserved ass kicking I mean that with all sincerity

[pipi_k]

61. Well I'm done with planet Earth...

I'm moving to Jupiter where there's nobody around to say stupid shit at all.

[Dappleganger]

63. Your 'friends' are the problem.

Why blame FB for those comments?

[WinkyDink]

64. Good to know~~~~IN CASE IT HAD FAILED. Yeah, they really ARE morons.

[MoonRiver]

67. Total morons.

But I don't think it's about facebook. Those bottom feeders are everywhere.