Facebook-loving Dems

[luv2fly]

Post after post even in my short time on DU points out that Facebook is no friend of freedom nor democracy. I've read all sorts of rationalizations for why people need to stay addicted, but it seems to me it is somewhat akin to small business owners gleefully shopping at the sparkly new Walmart on the edge of their small town... it's just so convenient. Fast forward a year and their small business is gone, so is their neighbor's, but Walmart thrives.

We all pick our poisons... Facebook just seems so insidious. Some months ago I asked when Dems of good conscience opt to give up Facebook... I still wonder. There are other ways to stay in touch that don't involve supporting the opposition.

[samnsara]

1. i basically use FB to post anti trump stuff and cute animal vids. I havent added anyone in ages..

..I may not even have any followers. Its a HUGE data collection site. I may go one there once a week to briefly catch up with family photos but i never follow up..or even look for comments to what I post.. My mother passed a cpl years ago and her fb is still there so I post little notes to her.

But FB is the furthest thing from my mind.


I have taken a cpl cruises and band width is EXPENSIVE and I would see ppl in the little coffee shop on the ship with their laptops wide open..on FB! $$$$$$

[Mike Nelson]

2. I think...

... people need to stay on social media. Trumpsters think Facebook and Twitter have a "liberal bias" and whine about their and the President's posts being banned. Stay on Facebook and Twitter... stay and make your voices heard. Like DU's page. Share posts by the "Occupy Democrats" page. Don't surrender social media to them!

[monmouth4]

3. Facebook bullies are becoming boorish. I enjoy it and have no intention of leaving it..n/t

[obamanut2012]

8. +1

[luv2fly]

10. Bully, really?

Not liking what I believe allows you to label me. Cool.

Go Joe!

~the boorish one~

[Siwsan]

4. I guess that, perhaps, I'm using FB against itself

First off and for the most part, it's a quick and easy way to keep in touch with family and friends on BOTH sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

I post some pretty harsh anti-trump* stuff. Now that my trump humping cousin has been placed in the 'restricted' group, she doesn't see it, so she can't alert on it. (She still sees the innocuous stuff that cross posts from Instagram so she has NO idea as to her status. Seemed the best way to keep family peace.)

I also hide pretty much every ad I see. Interestingly, though, I don't think I've seen any pro-trump* ads show up on my news feed.

Recently I started an account with Liker. Maybe I can convince my friends/family to do the same. Regardless, I think it would be a massive mistake to abandon FB, and turn it completely over to the 'other side'. Who knows, maybe a few of the less infected ones are absorbing some of what they are reading.

[GoneOffShore]

5. Your concern is duly noted.

Look, you find what you go looking for.

I'm presently using Facebook and Instagram for my photos, advice about French driving license exchange, how to deal with French bureaucrats, finding lost animals, and staying in touch with old friends.

So, you do you.

[Captain Stern]

6. Using Facebook isn't really that much different than using the Internet in general.

I'm not addicted to Facebook, but I get a lot of utility and enjoyment out of it.

Same goes for the Internet.

Me quitting Facebook, or not using the Internet, isn't going to stop other people from spreading lies or disinformation.

I'd basically just be penalizing myself, and leaving the field to them.

[Bettie]

7. I'm in a group that is on Facebook

we started as an email list 23 years ago when we all had pregnancy losses at about the same time. We've supported each other since then, as we entered parenting after loss. We have seen each other through everything over the course of our years together.

They are my sisters in a very real way, even spread all over the world as we are.

As long as that group is on Facebook, I'll be on there too.

[Silent3]

9. The problems with Facebook will only be solved by regulation and antitrust actions

Token boycotts aren't going to make a dent, so I think I'm doing more good by using it and putting out plenty of pro-Democratic messaging instead.

[NurseJackie]

11. ...

[VA_Jill]

12. I'm on Facebook

and I don't see problems that so many complain about, because I just block stuff I don't want to look at and unfriend people I don't want to talk to. I signed on in 2010 after I learned that a young man my kids had grown up with since they were toddlers had died unexpectedly and I had heard about it fourth hand. I use it to keep up with friends and family, mainly. I'm also in a group of mainly women (Pantsuit Nation) that started before the 3016 election, two groups for jewelry designers. a couple of cooking groups, a small and very interesting history-related group, a genealogy group, and a couple of faith-based groups (Celtic Christianity and Christian Left). Any political outfits I follow are definitely left-leaning. I do have a couple of friends who are Republicans. We just don't discuss it. It is what it is. They are still my friends of long standing and many years.