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To me, your Facebook page is like the living room of your house. If you invite me into your house, I'm going to do my best to be respectful in your house.
If you're REALLY an impossible person, in my opinion, I'll quit visiting your house. LOL
To me, your Facebook page is like the living room of your house. If you invite me into your house, I'm going to do my best to be respectful in your house.
If you're REALLY an impossible person, in my opinion, I'll quit visiting your house. LOL
I agree.
I don't argue or call people out on social media UNLESS they post something I know is false, and I've done that maybe 3 times in my life.
I don't like it when people do this, "correcting" me on my own posts, especially if it was just supposed to be something funny. Like hypothetically if I make a sarcastic funny post about quarantine hair and a bad hair month, and someone posts, "At least you have hair. Some cancer patients don't! That's real suffering!"
But it's the nature of social media, and luckily I don't have a lot of friends who do this.
I don't argue or call people out on social media UNLESS they post something I know is false, and I've done that maybe 3 times in my life.
I don't like it when people do this, "correcting" me on my own posts, especially if it was just supposed to be something funny. Like hypothetically if I make a sarcastic funny post about quarantine hair and a bad hair month, and someone posts, "At least you have hair. Some cancer patients don't! That's real suffering!"
But it's the nature of social media, and luckily I don't have a lot of friends who do this.
I had--HAD--a friend who did that. She was a "cancer survivor" and no matter what anyone might have been upset or annoyed about, her comments always came back to herself and/or how cancer patients had it worse. Same with her anxiety and her depression. A simple eye-rolling grumble about people overreacting to COVID by buying too much toilet paper resulted in her going on about "as a person with anxiety, in my case..."
I wanted to say, "Well thank you, Invalidator McGee, for making it known that no one else's problems are real compared to yours."
She flounced out over my COVID toilet paper post and all I can think is, "Bye Felicia. Now the rest of us can have a conversation that doesn't end up with us listening to a dissertation on cancer, anxiety, depression, and your latest hangnail."
The only time I feel tempted to take issue with someone's FB post is when what the person has posted I find astoundingly ignorant or mean-spirited. I say "tempted to" because I don't say anything. (Well, I have on a few occasions when it was just flat-out misinformation or in one case racist.) But I definitely unfollow the person if it happens more than once or twice.
I rarely see posts like this. Usually it's more along the lines of people having a playful rant which doesn't bother me in the slightest.
Last edited by CarolinaMoon1; 04-28-2020 at 01:39 PM..
I have little patience for people who want to rant continually on facebook (or on the phone or in person). If they can't take a hint I just snooze them.
Would you consider it rude for a Facebook "friend" to undercut a post of yours? For instance, let's say you're ranting about something, maybe half in jest, and the comment is "I have never had any problem with that," or "we should emphasize the positive" or some other buzzkill response suggesting that you're overreacting or are being a complainer. Isn't the proper response to just join in the spirit of the rant and play along with it?
The person is question is a repeat offender.
I think it depends on whose FB page it is - is it yours or hers? Or somebody else's page?
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I have a facebook friend (and real life friend) who invites opinions on all kinds of controversial things. I kind of think of him as the "deep end of the pool" friend. You hunger for steak in your Facebook dealings, when everyone else is eating baby food? He's the guy to check out.
He'll post stuff I don't always agree with, and sometimes, he posts stuff I don't like or find distasteful even. But he'll mostly respectfully discuss it with you, if you'll respectfully discuss it with him. I've never had a serious argument with him, although I've disagreed with him on topics (whatever it is). He welcomes back and forth discourse, as long as people are respectful, because he is truly curious about other points of view.
But I think most of us (and I'll include myself) are not looking for argument on Facebook. They don't consider their Facebook to be Debate Club, or Fight Club, and that's OK.
Would you consider it rude for a Facebook "friend" to undercut a post of yours? For instance, let's say you're ranting about something, maybe half in jest, and the comment is "I have never had any problem with that," or "we should emphasize the positive" or some other buzzkill response suggesting that you're overreacting or are being a complainer. Isn't the proper response to just join in the spirit of the rant and play along with it?
The person is question is a repeat offender.
Maybe the original poster didn't make the purpose for their post in question obvious enough. That it was in jest, sarcastic, a rant for its own sake. We all know (or should by now) how difficult it can be to detect tone in electronic conversation. Then there is that original poster's "reputation" to consider. People who habitually and publicly whine and whinge about everything can get so tiresome, they end up being sort of a target for reactions. Deflating could be an attempt to shut them up once in a while.
Last edited by Parnassia; 04-28-2020 at 03:08 PM..
I don't argue or call people out on social media UNLESS they post something I know is false, and I've done that maybe 3 times in my life.
I don't like it when people do this, "correcting" me on my own posts, especially if it was just supposed to be something funny. Like hypothetically if I make a sarcastic funny post about quarantine hair and a bad hair month, and someone posts, "At least you have hair. Some cancer patients don't! That's real suffering!"
But it's the nature of social media, and luckily I don't have a lot of friends who do this.
"At least you have hair." Haven't we all gotten that one?
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