This is actually twitter. And practically nobody follows me on twitter.
I like Twitter, but I keep my presence there small and I donāt log on very often anymore. My mental health is better for it.
Facebook is terrible, though.
I like reading people go off on trump when he tweets. Twitter is probably better than facebook
Huh, I have 27 followers. Thatās more than I expected.
I know who 7 of them areā¦
Of those I follow (40), about the only ones that ever post anything are CNN, my local NPR station, and my university. I check occasionally mostly as a quick news check.
Oh. Serenaās suggestion sounds reasonable. If it were a friend, in person, Iād probably point out that it doesnāt take a lot of malicious people to cause a lot of harm. Perhaps 10% of men sexually harass women, but every woman has been sexually harassed ā and many are harassed quite a lot. If a substantial fraction of the people who voted against that Black Asian Woman are racist, thatās a hell of a lot of racism that Blacks and Asians have to contend with.
Good point. Thanks.
what counts as āsexually harassedā? iām not sure i have been.
Iāve taken to just unfollowing or unfriending people without explicitly saying anything. Let them wonder why if they ever notice.
I donāt ever unfriend, but I unfollow all the time. I think Iāve unfollowed at least a quarter of the people Iām friends with on Facebook.
Bunch of my contacts (family, who I should have deleted or at least unfollowed, but have not because family) signing up for Parler, now their embracing of fascism wonāt be on display on my FB page, but I really worry about the echo chamber theyāre signing up for.
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I saw some page promoting a mass exodus of trumpkins to parler because trumpkins are pissed that they keep getting suspended from fb. good riddance to them.
Hmmā¦sounds like it might be a good time for me to head over there and put down roots for my MLM scheme.
I only unfriend when itās egregious.
Iāve called one person out on their casual racism and unfriended them a couple years ago (and mutual friends we shared let me know they were appreciative). Thatās rare for me to say anything, though.
So this is not political, but involves engaging on social media.
So 3-4 of my Facebook friends have posted a picture of the big Macyās Christmas tree being put together decrying that itās āso 2020ā that the tree looks terrible. People are responding with stuff āOMG really?!?! How can Macyās do this???ā and āis this a fake picture?ā And stuff like that.
So I kind of assumed it was widely known but apparently not: those massive trees they put up in every city across the country do not come in one piece. They are assembled onsite from lots of pieces. People donāt seem to understand that and believe that Macyās is really done with the tree.
So on a couple of them I posted an article explaining that the tree is not finished and will in fact be just as beautiful as in years gone by. A lot of people are like āwow I never knew thatā but both original posters are saying that Iām taking the fun out of it.
I guess I donāt understand why itās fun to trick your friends into believing that 2020 sucks a teensy bit more than it actually does. But then Iāve never really thought that tricking people was funny. 
Well, tricking stupid people isnāt funny. Or even difficult.
Another āhow to respondā* activity.
Re-posted by my father-in-law:
*probably not going to respond, but would like thoughts anyway.
They be trollinā.
in my experience, trolling is the art of eliciting an emotional response from people without actually becoming emotionally invested yourself. To be a troll, you must enjoy seeing this emotional response from others and the idea that you were able to manipulate those feelings, while remaining cold and indifferent of their feelings and the topic that caused them.
Im not sure why most people engage anyone on FB. Lack of any better outlet for social issues?
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If I saw that on my FB feed, Iād not be able to resist the urge to say something like:
False dichotomy. Stop being dumb. Next!
Well one of my Facebook āfriendsā (guy who dated one of my besties in high school whom I havenāt seen since his high school graduation one year before mine with the possible exception of randomly running into him at the mall or airport or something that Iāve totally forgotten about) who is also a Trumpkin posted some random and completely false mortality āstatisticsā on his feed today. He got a dressing down. I managed to avoid using the word āstupidā, but the phrases āflat out wrongā and ācompletely inaccurateā were both in there.
I had to edit it down considerably to get it to a length that non-actuaries would read and comprehend.