The long-term effects of ugly political discussions on Facebook (2014)

Re:The long-term effects of ugly political discussions on Fa... by spc476 on Monday May 02, 2016 @11:24PM (#11617660)

I had a friend (who I've known since high school, and I graduated in the late 80s) unfriend me because of a link I posted as a reply to his reply to a mutual friend's post.

My take: my now unfriended friend can dish it out, but can't take it.

His take (via some third parties): I'm a close minded evil conservative [1].

Yes, I come across posts from friends (and acquaintances) that I don't agree with but I won't unfriend any of them over it. There are 50,000 other channels I can "watch" and I'm certainly capable of changing the channel. Pity more people don't realize that.

[1] Libertarian actually. My friend is, in his own words, "a liberal pinko Commie." Make of that what you will.

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Re:The long-term effects of ugly political discussions on Fa... by rosser on Monday May 02, 2016 @11:45PM (#11617751)

Given my own, and many of my friends, calling ourselves some variation on your friend's self-described political views, I think he's being pre-emptively, jokingly snarky, in order to fend off the kind of judgement implicit behind your, "Make of that what you will," from coming into the conversation. If he calls himself a "pinko" or whatever, he's taken its use as an epithet off the table.

That's no small part of why my friends and I do that, anyway.

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Re:The long-term effects of ugly political discussions on Fa... by towlejunior on Monday May 02, 2016 @11:43PM (#11617741)

Let's see that link, baby.

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Re:The long-term effects of ugly political discussions on Fa... by spc476 on Tuesday May 03, 2016 @01:14AM (#11618095)

It was to a medical study that showed a possible side effect of marijuana use is paranoia. The actual event happened some time last year and trying to dig it up on Facebook is a pain.

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