The world according to Facebook

[OmahaBlueDog]

These are some of the recent pearls of wisdon that have come across my news stream....

"If you can afford alcohol and cigarettes then you don't need Foodstamps."

"I'm flying this flag to oppose the Muslim worship center at Ground Zero. " (a little flag logo appears by the poster)

"Here's another thought for today? Mosque???? Would you let Hitler/Germans put up a building in Auschwitz? Not all things are prudent or wise just because they are legal." (I had a thread on that one a few days back)

"If I need to take a drug test to get a job, then you need a drug test to get welfare"

[EstimatedProphet]

1. You need better friends.

[OmahaBlueDog]

3. Some of this is from extended family

I didn't choose them.

[EstimatedProphet]

25. Believe me, I understand that problem, and it sucks

[rucky]

2. "I'd rather go to jail for spanking my child...

then my child going to jail because I did not spank him"

Or some nonsense like that.

[Posteritatis]

5. That one's going through my friends, usually all in caps with seventeen !s (nt)

[John Q. Citizen]

9. It's a shame so many are in jail because they are violent. Teaching children to hit people to

solve their problems is counter productive, imho. is what I would write them.

If someone sends this stuff to me, I will certainly write back and cc their whole list.

[rucky]

16. I got into it with a few FB friends of mine who posted this.

I'm beginning to think - from the people in my "circle" who expressed their support of this (and other personal experience)- that how kids are disciplined at home really do have a profound affect on how they turn out as adults. What's sad is the people who defend the action, because they were spanked and they turned out okay. I don't think they really did turn out entirely okay, because they are unable to see the logic in our "humble opinions" (and the body of studies that back it up).

[OmahaBlueDog]

6. I've seen that one as well

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. I wonder why am I not in jail.

I must be some pretty good escape artist.

[City Lights]

4. Every time I see that a "friend" of mine "likes" one of those pages I do two things:

1. Add them to my "GOPeebagger" list, which means they'll never see another post from me.
2. Hide their news feed.

[OmahaBlueDog]

8. It's always tempting to do that

..but life isn't all about politics, and some of these friends share other interests. Also, I do like to know what they are saying.

[City Lights]

13. I should have also said that the "friends" I toss into the GOPeebagger file aren't

"real" friends. They're people who have friended me for the sole purpose of playing FB games. None of my real friends like those pages, but if they did, I wouldn't toss them into the GOPeebagger file for the reasons you stated. I'd probably just ignore it.

[John Q. Citizen]

14. What they are saying indeed. Here they are plotting assault and battery on thier kids

in a premeditated fashion. Go ahead, make my day...


Do you ever post opinions or evidence of a contradictory nature? Or do you just sit back and see what they say?

[OmahaBlueDog]

35. John Q, I do not as, as a rule, argue with people unless their argument is directed at me

If someone I bicycle with wants to tell the whole world "I think we should beat our kids with tea bags near ground zero to show them how much we love Jesus" ..well yes, I'm going to sit back. I know enough to know I won't change their mind, and it's useless to argue. I would generally limit arguements with that person to topics like Shimano versus Campagnolo.

OTOH, if that person writes, "OBD, you liberal idiot, we cannot let Bin Laden build an Al Quaida recruitment center at Ground Zero", then I will fire back with a picture of George Bush kissing the Saudi King, and reminding the poster that we didn't stop Christian churches from being built near the Murrah Federal Building, after uber fundies McVeigh & Nichols murdered Federal workers and children in day care.

[corkhead]

7. that's why I hideout here instead of there.

shit like that here gets you a cyberdirtnap.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. ...most of the time.

[brewens]

12. I can go along with the alcohol and cigarettes one. Then I also

don't think my girlfriends son in law should be playing golf every week when his family is on their states food assistance program. He should definitely have not spent about $1000 on a new set of Nike clubs last spring when they got their tax return. I'm not making this up!
He and his wife are of course conservative evangelical christian Republicans.

[rucky]

17. It's not easy to quit an addiction when there's bigger stress going on in your life.

Not to suggest that golfing is an addiction.

[brewens]

26. Golf not an addiction? Tell that to John "Of Orange" Boehner! n/t

[OmahaBlueDog]

29. I've alwayse been amused at the outrage over the government being in health insurance..

...but flood insurance is just fine.

I'm assuming that the girlfriends son in law is not a pro or an instructor. Then, it might be justified.

I'm mostly just tired at the outrage at the poor. Yes, I agree that some people are abusing the system. What about the wealthy who are screwing us over? Last week, I posted a thread on this:

http://www.omaha.com/article/20100814/NEWS01/708149815



The Nebraska Economic Development Corp., which lent $1.48 million to Ted and Kathryn Baer for a business that later closed, is contesting the couple's bankruptcy filing as an attempt to escape their debts.

Monthly expenditures of $2,000 for food, $1,500 for home maintenance, $4,000 for car payments, $850 for recreation and $800 for clothes are excessive, the nonprofit corporation said in its motion to dismiss the Baers' Chapter 7 bankruptcy filing.

The corporation said the Baers should be forced to file for Chapter 13 bankruptcy reorganization, which would require them to repay creditors over five years. Chapter 7 calls for liquidation of all but certain exempt assets, and creditors receive a share of the proceeds.



The loan was guaranteed by the U.S. Small Business Administration. The Nebraska Economic Development Corp., which was established in 1987, awards and administers SBA loans.


So, dude is walking away from a 1.5 million dollar loan, putting the SBA (read: we the taxpayers) on the hook, but people are bitching about folks on foodstamps buying smokes?????

[brewens]

33. I agree with you there. Whatever abuses lower or middle

income people get away with are a joke compared to what the big players do. Your typical teabagger type has no clue how much money is involved with fraud and crime at the top. They are sucking enough money out of everyone else to solve all of our problems.

[Curmudgeoness]

15. A co-worker who I don't know how to unfriend without hurting

her feelings drives me insane. Has the Muslim center crap. and the drug test one. Also likes

"life did come with an owner's manual. It's called the Bible"
"if god is for us, who can be against us"
"I live for Christ. Who's with me."
"I should not have to press 1 for English...."

And one I can't argue with---"everything that pops into your head does not need to be shared on FB."

And sadly, I clicked on one of the links she had for "being conservative" and now that link is on my FB page. Oh god. This place was selling Reagan For President t-shirts.

Any info on how I can get that off MY page would be appreciated.

[rucky]

18. You can ignore without unfriending.

Go to one of their posts, and click the "X" to the right of it, then you'll get an option to Hide that person.

[Curmudgeoness]

23. Will she have any way of knowing that I "hid" her? nt

[rucky]

24. She doesn't seem to care much what you think.

but the answer to your question is "no, she won't know"

[proud2BlibKansan]

20. You can block her from your newsfeed.

I think it's a menu on the right side of her feed.

[proud2BlibKansan]

21. You can block her from your newsfeed.

I think it's a menu on the right side of her feed.

[proud2BlibKansan]

19. You need to purge you friends list

I get some awesome stuff on FB. When anyone posts crap like that I block them.

[OmahaBlueDog]

30. I also get some good stuff on Facebook

..and I understand the very real temptation to just block them. But, as I said upthread, there is more to life than politics. Some of those people are family, and I do have interest in knowing other non-political things. Some are neighbors and members of my homeowners association; we may disagree vehemently on whether Obama is a good President, but have completely common interests in getting the potholes in our neighborhood fixed, or ensuring that the PTO fundraiser at the elementary school is a success.

[IDemo]

22. One more reason I remain on FacelessBook n/t

[Cal33]

27. You seem to forget that there are Muslims and Muslims, just as

there are Christians and Christians. They have many different sects, some of
which have been recently at war with one another, just as Christians used to
have. Muslims are not a monolith. They don't agree on everything.

[OmahaBlueDog]

31. I don't judge all Christians by the actions of Tim McVeigh and Terry Nichols

..so why is it fair to judge Muslims by the actions of the 9-11 terrorists?

[terrya]

28. Just a suggestion

You might want to unfriend some people over there.

[OmahaBlueDog]

32. I pretty much live in a world free of Rush Limbaugh and Fox News

..but if I unfriended all who disagree with me on politics, I'd be a very lonely person, indeed.

[prolesunited]

34. I don't think people really think when they "like" those things

It's more of a reflexive thing -- sounds like common sense or has some "truthiness" to it.

I saw the spanking one today for the first time. I was spanked and was a very bad child, who did end up in jail for a minor offense as a teen. I didn't spank my son and he's never been in trouble and will soon have his degree in criminal justice.

If they thought about it, researched it or applied any logic, I'm sure they would realize how silly such statements are. But, as evident with the craziness in politics, people respond emotionally and lack critical thinking skills.

[MrSlayer]

36. I'm trying to figure out how to make one of those "flying the flag" pages.

I see them all the time promoting right-wing values. I want to make some counter flags.

[OmahaBlueDog]

37. It's an app - like Farmville. So the good news is you can block it without unfriending anyone

I learned that lesson quickly, because I was bombarded with Farmville and Mafia Wars posts.

The bad news is that I have no idea how you create an app or get it licensed or whatever it is you do to get it on FB.

[billlll]

38. glitches

Am I the only one saying FB overloaded with glitches and bad page and Search design?

[CaliforniaPeggy]

39. Hey, billlll!

Welcome to DU!

Stick around...we need intelligent voices!

:hi: