Pondering Facebook.

[ambervon]

The downside to Facebook is this:

Reconnecting with a long lost friend from 20 years ago that you often wondered about and thought about fondly and then realizing that person is now a complete and utter pollitically extreme, racist, hateful, closed minded asshole.

Comments

[phyllis7609]

Haha you just described 90% of my redneck midwestern highschool. This is why I love posting my personal views. Drives them crazy!

[ambervon]

I imagine! I have only a couple people from highschool and they weren't people I was close with in high school which is odd but they are alright. I don't really talk to them still - just check up when I'm bored. I went to school in a red neck town before moving to NY so I wasn't really close with anyone in school!

[crevette]

I think we know the same person. He was awesome and smart and funny and brilliant in High School.

Now he's a father in the Quiverful movement with seven (and counting) homeschooled kids. He hates Obama, birth control, women's rights, or... well just about anything I like (not like I like Obama, but he's the lesser of the two evils for women, for Chrissakes.)

Yeah, QUIVERFUL. UGH. I want to bathe.

[ambervon]

ha!!

Quiverful peoples scare me.

My person is like this:

"GO FUCK YOURSELVES MUZZIES! YOU'RE NOT WELCOME IN AMERICA!"

"GODDAMNED RAGHEADS SHOULD BE BEHEADED!"

"Liberals are cockroaches and should die!!!!!!!"

[crevette]

That is my mother, I shit you not.

[noniyu]

Facebook has many flaws... but those people who care to keep in touch with you are the real people in your life-even if you never meet personally. :) and doesn't matter if it's via mail, blog or facebook-we stay connected.

[ambervon]

Oh don't get me wrong. I do like Facebook mostly. The pros outweigh the cons. I love being able to post a photo and having my mother, brother, grandmother and a dozen other people see it right away.

[noniyu]

Yeah I know that :)

[curlygirl0512]

I had to "hide" an aquaintence recently - she's a raving mad conservative sort (of her own special variety) and I was thoroughly sick of the "PEOPLE ARE SO STUPID!" type posts, and insults to my intelligence for not agreeing with her political/financial views. She's welcome to post whatever she wants as her statuses etc... But I don't need to see it, and de-friending her I think is a bit too aggressive (or passive aggressive!). So, *hide*, and my blood pressure has gone down, and my ability to make nice small talk when I see her is greatly increased.