Re:Whether You’re a Democrat or Republican, Your Social Medi...
by j2bax on Thursday October 13, 2016 @03:15PM
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I must have an uncommon group of friends... I hear all sorts of views from friends/family that I consider ludicrous on a daily basis on Facebook.
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Re:Whether You’re a Democrat or Republican, Your Social Medi...
by chadgeidel on Thursday October 13, 2016 @03:17PM
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I hear that stuff too. IMHO, I'd like to hear well-reasoned arguments for "the opposing view" but it's typically just memes.
Re:Whether You’re a Democrat or Republican, Your Social Medi...
by davidw on Thursday October 13, 2016 @03:25PM
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That's the problem isn't it. I do have people that I care about on FB with different views, but they often just share inane memes that are not really grounded in reality. To be fair, I see a lot of trite memes from people I mostly agree with too, though.
I think the "bullshit asymmetry principle" comes into play too: it takes 2 seconds to share some lame conspiracy garbage about how the pope was really born on Uranus or whatever, but in most cases takes a bit more work and fact checking to refute the BS.