Yeah, even before my depression and everything I was quite opinionated but I never discussed politics on Facebook. Seriously, what a stupid move. Dude imagine you’re going to an employer, dudes some kind of hardcore something, checks your facebook and then tells you to fuck off you “lib,rep,soc, what ever”.
I mean facebook is like your frontyard . You keep that shit tidy.
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I’ve blocked a few apps, but no people. I wish I could block certain kinds of posts, but for now, I just ignore them. I’m sure FB is useful for finding lost puppies, but if you’re in San Francisco, I’m pretty sure your puppy hasn’t wandered all the way to southern Maryland, so I can do without that plea.
I just keep reminding myself that there are those who probably get irritated at some of the inane things I write. Life’s too short to spend it with bunched panties.
Most of that 60 were never facebook friends though, like I said, many are people from my RL past that I have no desire to reconnect with, as they’d remind me of a few dark years of my life. Others are just FB trolls I didn’t want to see spewing their spam or hate-speech in FB groups I otherwise enjoy.
I only know of two people who’ve blocked me, both RL local mums who had got a bit over-emotional and either still hate me that much, or are so embarrassed by their tantrums that they never want to face me again. Either way’s fine by me 
A couple of ex-co-workers, some strange guy I didn’t know who was trying to get in touch with my SIL, and some Russian spammer (I’m guessing from the name, Wikantozima Yabazaniya).
Only one “for real” - meaning a person I had deliberately friended, realized he was annoying, insane AND insulting, and then I un-friended him. But then he showed up in a mutual friend’s conversation saying something annoying, insane and insulting, and I blocked him.
The other dozen people are people I’ve had to kick out of a group I run. I was not even friends with them. But people get charged up about our group and when they get kicked out they spaz out and there’s no reason for me to take abuse from them, so I send their “goodbye” message and block them.
There are other people from my past that try to friend me that I don’t friend back, but no one that I need to completely block.
Too many political, religious or nasty comments I block them. I would say a couple dozen so far.
Yep, I do the same. Sure they are still my friends, and in fact many of them I really like. Just that i dont argue politics with many of them. Thus, when they come up with “its Obama’s fault” crap I stop following them. It’s running 9 loony conservatives to one far out liberal now.
None, but I’ve excluded the feed of some people (whatever that’s called) who post every 3 minutes or who post nothing but POLITICALLY INFLAMMATORY STATEMENT AND YOU ALL AGREE WITH ME BECAUSE ONLY STUPID STUPIDS DON’T AMIRITE?
I don’t have anyone blocked. I’ve unfollowed a few people, though.
I have blocked some people I grew up with because they were not nice to me (massive understatement) and they kept showing up in my “People You May Know” feed and I did not want to be reminded that they exist. I also blocked another person who, when we were FBFs, was one of those people who would post dozens of anti-Obama memes daily (most of which made untrue statements :dubious:) and turned out to be enough of a wackjob, I didn’t want her to have any way to contact me. The total number is probably less than 10.
As for BEING blocked, I only know of one person who has, and THIS was someone who, to my surprise, heavily advocated beating children to teach them respect for adults, and I must have disagreed with her one time too many, I guess. And it was not someone I would have suspected of feeling this way, either. Oh, well.
If you want to remain on someone’s friends list but don’t want to see their posts, for whatever reason, you can hide them.
Um, about 7 I think.
Four for me. One I don’t specifically remember why, one was a guy who I liked and respected in real life who posted a lot of politically-charged stuff and then got rude when discussions ensued, one distant family member who meant well but always posted ultra-weird comments on all of my stuff, and one guy who was just a weirdo. A few of them could have been handled via unfriending, but I really didn’t want to see their stuff no matter where they posted it.
I’ve unfollowed way more people, mostly because they post annoying garbage or religious/political stuff that raised my blood pressure way more than the average user.
I’ve also unfriended more than a handful, mostly for posting anti-gay remarks – I don’t take it kindly when people insult my close friends, and that’s essentially what they were doing. Just the other day a guy who I have never met, who friended ME because he is a fan of the sport that I work in, made rude “what a bunch of idiots” type comments about me and people that agreed with me on a post I made about a Mike Huckabee remark. If I don’t know you and you send me a friend request, I probably don’t care about your views enough to tolerate personal abuse.
That reminds me that I unfollowed a couple of friends during the Scottish referendum. They actually are IRL friends so I should probably refollow them now.
And it turns out one of them has unfriended me. Such drama! :eek:
I could have written this post, word for word. Did your sister try to sock up under her kid’s name?
I’ve blocked no one , but I put one person on the restricted list. He’d overreact to the most mundane things. I’d mention that I had muscle soreness from overdoing it at the gym and he’d respond like I was on my deathbed. Plus he’d feel the need to comment on every single post.
Is there a way to see how many of my “friends” I’ve stopped following? Cause that could be quite a few.
I’ve blocked twelve, but it’s a group distinct from my friends, they’re all people participating in discussions on groups I’m part of and I blocked them to avoid being pissed off all the time when reading the discussions.
Nobody blocked, but quite a list hidden (or I guess it’s not following now).
There are a bunch of people who seem to be interested in my doings but I have zero interest in most of what they post. But, because I’m a wimp and I’d hate to hurt anyone’s feelings unnecessarily, I haven’t unfriended or blocked them.
About 10 I guess. Most are from the horse rescue I used to volunteer for until I found out how underhanded they were, and they were still coming onto my page to ‘spy’ on me, so I blocked them. The rest are from my hobby, people I don’t want to deal with.
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