President Trump: The NEW one and only politics thread

Were I not required to help run my shop’s FB account, I would have deleted my account years ago.

 

Same here.

 

What ruined it? Because if I'm being honest at one time I felt it to be a useful product.

Nowadays I go in there and it's like having to step around puddles of rancid piss on a subway platform.

 

A few thoughts on Facebook...

Yeah, it's a shitty company, privacy issues, Zuckerberg is a dick, etc.

But in terms of content.... I mean, you realize you control what you see, right? I'm amazed by all the people who complain about assholes making political posts on Facebook. Yo, the "unfollow" function works really well. Unfollow the assholes. You will not miss them. (And for that matter, the "ignore" function on SJ.com is pretty good. There are people here who add nothing and make the place insufferable. You do not need to see them.)

Facebook groups are just depressing. You join them because you have something in common with the other people -- you grew up in the same town, you went to the same high school, you like the same music -- and then you realize despite that connection, they're awful. I think I'm in four groups and have unfollowed three. The alumni one from my high school actually devolved into the moderator posting questions like "Who remembers sandwiches? Did your mom make sandwiches?"

Having said that I spend very little time on FB these days. I still have an account because it's my only connection with people I haven't seen in decades and I like having that. People I give a shit about are way more likely to be on Instagram anyway.

 

I delete myself from a University of Pittsburgh sports Facebook page that has about 10,000 members because the stupid got to be too much.

 

At a previous work stop, the Facebook comments lobbed at me after one of my stories was posted by the company account were so vile and moronic that I found myself losing faith in humanity with each second I spent reading them. Facebook is the Mos Eisley spaceport of the cyber universe, in that “you will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.”

 

I have never looked at my station's Facebook page. Not once.

Our digital team put out a memo telling people who are now working from home that if we have down time, they really need help interacting with viewers online. Yeah, I'd rather drink bleach.

 

The only time I go on Facebook is if I am looking for usually a small business or group and their only web presence is Facebook. I find the hours, address, phone number or whatever, and back out. I haven't looked at my feed in a year or more.
There is hope. One of my class projects is to have students create a fake Facebook account for a president. It's on a template, not actually online. They have to make posts using significant facts from their presidency, find historical figures from the era to use as friends, get the president's bio details, and find entertainment that was popular during their life.
Anyway, I always have to explain to the kids what to do. "We don't use Facebook. That's just for old people to complain and talk about what they had to eat."

 

I do like Instagram. They only thing I ever see is pictures of boats and fishing. I've never once searched for anything political or even news related, so none of it ever pops up.

 

I actually have one Facebook friend (we both ref volleyball plus I knew him from my newspaper days, his sons wrestled) who has posted that he’s seen enough, had voted for trump in 2016, but would not this year. Just one person, but still. Of course he’s taking a beating from his still-trumpet friends (really just one, obnoxious , but pretty prolific guy.
I have a hard and fast policy of not getting involved with politics on Facebook.