I'm tired of this crap on my Facebook timeline

[cannabis_flower]

Old high school friend continually posts this crap on Facebook. After I finally give it to me he unfriends me.





Messaged him and told him that he shouldn't be surprised to see it again!

[CurtEastPoint]

1. You have lost nothing but aggravation.

[greymattermom]

2. It's what Jesus called G-d, right?

http://christianity.stackexchange.com/questions/20240/what-word-did-jesus-use-for-god-in-aramaic

[lostnfound]

3. Facebook tells me more about people than I want to know

Like, how the hell did my grandfather produce two boys, one of whom was a clear-eyed counter-culture hippie sign painter and the other one ended up sending his kids to Liberty university, where they acquired frothing-at-the-mouth Ted Cruz supporters as friends and actively attribute every single positive thing in their lives to divine intervention.

Quiet gratitude toward the Divine in your heart? Awesome. That's where it belongs. Plastering every other sentence with pray for this and pray for that? Ugggh. Too much. It's like a shield that protects them from any complicated thought.

[Fast Walker 52]

7. yeah- it's always distressing to see people you grew up with, turn out to be right-wingers

and racists, even when they seem reasonable in other ways.

[Fast Walker 52]

4. the stupid-- it burns!

[LittleGirl]

5. No great loss really

I've unfriended several people that keep posting shit like this too! Some of them were immediate family members! lol

[cannabis_flower]

10. Actually..

he unfriended me.

[LittleGirl]

23. same same...eom

[mountain grammy]

6. I'm actually ok with my right wing "friend" posting this kind of shit

I'm the one who always posts the snopes debunker in the the comments. Others I've done that to unfriend me, and that's fine, but I'll keep doing it as long as they keep me.
Have you seen the one about the ISIS flags in a Dearborn parade??

[rpannier]

21. Saw em?

Who do you think was flying them?

[jalan48]

8. Wasn't Sharia Law supposed to be implemented by now?

[Proud Liberal Dem]

27. What kind of "Sharia Law" are you referring to?

Islamic or Christian?

[jalan48]

30. LOL-I remember when that was the cry from the right prior to the 2012 elections.

[awoke_in_2003]

32. Tomato tomahto. Nt

[SCantiGOP]

9. tell them to follow a simple rule

If a story would be the lead item on every newscast (like this would be) but it's only showing up instead in random "I can't prove this but it sounds true" emails then it is not true. Very simple.

[Jackilope]

11. They really don't want the truth

Good for you for trying! There are folks seeing that exchange on their newsfeed that were rooting for you. Hopefully you prevented someone else on his friends list from sharing and continuing ripple of garbage.

I have been unfriended for the same. They claim Snopes is left and biased. One relative when confronted with facts responded "well, where there is smoke, there is fire." I placed back that she is the one rubbing the sticks. I added she was bearing false witness, which really got her upset and me off the friends list.

These "Christian" and pious posters of misinformation are everything but. I can never just let posts like that slide.

[oberliner]

12. The story is basically true, though the headline is misleading

The school did allow a reciting of the pledge of allegiance in Arabic.

Why that would be a problem, I have no idea.

[cannabis_flower]

16. It was

apparently only done once for some occasion. At least that's how I read the Snopes article.

[oberliner]

17. Yes

I think it's cool to recite the pledge in different languages. Some folks have this weird fear about the word Allah, which just is the Arabic word for God. Christian Arabs would use that same word.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

28. Diversity is a conspiracy to corrupt this country

or so their thinking goes. And if it's not Muslims, it's LGBT persons. If it's not LGBT persons, it's Atheists..............

[mnhtnbb]

13. I got into it with my SIL over her continuous forwarding--then posting on fb--of right wing nonsense

I would dutifully cite Snopes to debunk her latest BS but finally she put one up
that really galled me. So, instead of hitting reply to her--this was an e-mail--I hit
reply all and let it rip.

Some friend of hers came screaming out of the computer screen to defend her and
castigate me for not knowing the etiquette of when to reply vs reply all.

I told her if my SIL was going to send shit around, then everyone should be privy
to being informed shit had been sent around.

I promptly blocked my SIL and unfriended her on fb. I thought my brother
would have a fit, but there was practically no reaction from him.

Thankfully, they live in California and I live in NC so I don't have to see them often.
Unfortunately, their youngest son is getting married in August--whom I dearly love--
and my husband and I have decided to go to the wedding. I really am ambivalent
about it. Haven't seen the SIL since the last wedding--4 years ago--and she was
actually quite civil. Still, I am not looking forward to this at all.

[mn9driver]

14. I've found "unfollow" to be very useful.

You remain "friends", but you don't see any of their posts in your newsfeed. This works well for people that it might be impolitic to unfriend, like spouses or SO's of actual real world friends. It also works well for people who simply post way too much, even though you like them and want to stay friends.

[gratuitous]

29. That's my solution

Take the objectionable person off all your feeds. They don't know that you don't see their stuff anymore, but they're still on your friends list. I did that with one friend who has devolved into a looney-tunes evangelical busybody. When her posts get liked by another friend, then I'll see it, but for the most part I don't see her "Come quickly, Lord Jesus, because we're in danger of having to clean up this horrible mess we've made" nonsense.

[Javaman]

15. I gave up facebook 6 months ago and never looked back. nt

[Depaysement]

18. Ewww . . .

This screams, "I have nothing in my life and I need to spew lies and hate."

[MynameisBlarney]

19. I'm tired of facebook in general.

And I unfriended people like this years ago.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

20. Ironic that 'god' is not in the true Pledge of Allegiance. Added in the 50s and picked up. . . nt

[PatrickforO]

22. Sigh. It all began in 1971 with the Powell memo...

The right wing has brought this nation to the brink of collapse with their shitty, stupid, selfish, asshole policies and it makes me sick. Their huge, strong, relentless, corporate funded propaganda organ is erect and spewing out vile lies 24/7/365 and it has brainwashed too many Americans.

OK...rant over.

[3catwoman3]

24. One of my closest childhood friends...

...regularly posts comments about "libtards" on her FB page. I am quite sure she has no idea she is talking about me.

I have very unflattering opinions of many on the other side of the aisle. I choose to express them here, or to others I know share my views, but do not broadcast them willy-nilly on public forums. I have neither need nor desire to be hurtful to those who do not agree with me, whatever the topic.

I admit to being quite relieved to learn that one of our receptionists at the peds office, altho a staunch Republican, can't stand Trump. It is difficult to keep my opinions to myself regarding him. she has not said anything about Cruz, and I am afraid to ask.

[snooper2]

25. The whole of Facebook is contributing to the dumbing down and idiocy of America

So technically, anybody that takes part in Facebook- Has to share the blame....

[Proud Liberal Dem]

26. You can hide that stuff

or unfriend people. Most of my friends and family are liberal/Democrats, so there's not usually too much friction. If somebody on my friends list post right-wing trash, I just hide the source page and it doesn't show up again but I only post political stuff to a particular "list" of like-minded people/friends, so that way I keep the conflict to a minimum.

[Snarkoleptic]

31. Another great tool for taming Facebook is the FB Purity browser extension.

I use it and it's very useful to squelch out unwanted noise.

http://www.fbpurity.com/

F.B. (Fluff Busting) Purity is a Facebook customizing browser extension. It alters your view of Facebook to show only relevant information to you. It lets you remove the annoying and irrelevant stories from your newsfeed such as game and application spam, ads and sponsored stories. It can also hide the boxes you don't want to see on each side of the newsfeed.

Absolutely! F.B. Purity has been around since 2009, its one of the top 150 highest user rated Firefox extensions (out of a total of over 11,000 extensions) has over 247,000 happy users and has also received great reviews from big media companies including The Washington Post, CNET and PCWorld. If you need further proof FBP is completely safe, see the test result gallery.