My bloody pressure says probably not. Just read the post to my better half over the phone on her break (currently at work in an NHS lab) and I won't type what she said.
https://m.facebook.com/mick.feekings/posts/10158870476614320?
Delete them.
What did the post say?
Unfriend, life's too short
I would put them right in no uncertain terms then block them permanently
a key way to keep facebook fun is to keep it to people who you enjoy spending time with
I do FB so little I'm not sure how to post it on here, I take it you guys can't see it?
really..... easy option just delete, block content.
Harder option, call out the plank for the utter stupidity, wish them a permanent, itchy groin problem and block.
STW option.. head to Tesco for sausages, drink plenty of fluid and find there shoes...
Can it be read guys?
That said, yes, I think I'll just block.
We won't see it I don't think as we're not in your friends group, so you'd need to capture it as an image.
Tell them you think they're talking utter rubbish.
Let them reply, and then based on the reply either block them or carry on the 'debate'.
We won't see it I don't think as we're not in your friends group, so you'd need to capture it as an image.
Just unfriend. Not even worth the dialogue to try and tell them what you think. If they post that sort of thing they're not going to be open to any sort of discussion.
Done.👍
No one has ever backed down and admitted they were wrong in Facebook, ever. Just unfriend them, it’s the only suitable response
Just unfriend. Not even worth the dialogue to try and tell them what you think. If they post that sort of thing they’re not going to be open to any sort of discussion.
This.
Show us the duck Ng post for god's sake.
Unfollow.
For a long time I wasted hours arguing with people on Facebook, entirely I should think without success, on the basis that I thought (and think) it's important that these people know there are opposing viewpoints. I do it far, far less now, and only when it amuses me to do so (everyone likes a row from time to time 🙂 ), but it's noteworthy that my non-Brexit/Covid/shit government posts get much less response than they did four years ago, as clearly the people who haven't unfriended me have blocked or muted me. So be it - life, I think, is too fricken short to waste time on t'internet on things you're not enjoying.
The Nazis had better uniforms
Last I heard, the NHS weren’t rounding up tens of thousands of people, incarcerating them in appalling conditions, then gassing them, although it’s possible it’s been happening behind my back...
count - you have not been to my ward 😉
My broad rules...
Engage in polite debate with people wishing to honestly have a discussion about something of mutual interest with varying views
Biblically rude, stupid or prejudiced people can get "blocked" and ignored this includes people at all points on the range of views engaging in name calling or abuse. It is perfectly possible to have a civil conversation on things where you have a strong alternate view without that.
People rambling about 5g ate their hamster and Covid being a product of a CIA mind control programme are thankfully not in my social (media) circle!
Sounds like the acquaintance probably would drop into middle para!
Unfriendl. Then stop looking at your Facebook Feed and Live a happier life.
These clowns love the attention and confrontation. Walk away.
Unfortunately once the idiots showed up with their backward politics, control issues and two-faced lies. American businesses who want a fee for everything, sue each other and everyone at the drop of a hat. Celebrities who's persona is their business. Allowing advertising revenue to dictate direction and terms, they ****ed it for everyone else.
If only they hadn't been shown how to operate a computer. Had the UI simplified and added to cheap handheld devices, so even the stupidest of the idiots could join in at the press of a finger.
What happened to the days when the "cool people" just moved on and left the squabbling adult children eating the crayons and smashing the toys over each others heads!
The trick to getting people to change their minds is to make them think you are on their side, or are one of them.
That's why I don't wade in spewing vitriol and insults. It's pointless, as has been discussed already.
If only they hadn’t been shown how to operate a computer. Had the UI simplified and added to cheap handheld devices, so even the stupidest of the idiots could join in at the press of a finger.
What happened to the days when the “cool people” just moved on and left the squabbling adult children eating the crayons and smashing the toys over each others heads!
You know people had weird bickering and quite vitriolic arguments about all sorts of stuff back in the days when computers were black and green and 9600 baud modem to dial into a bulletin board was cutting edge; including conspiracy theories, trolling etc.
No one has ever backed down and admitted they were wrong in Facebook, ever.
I had a very civilised discussion with someone on facebook in May. I thought it was remarkably calm given we had quite different views. 2 weeks later the person I was talking to got in touch to apologise for being so nasty to me (she really wasn't - she'd hate this place!). I still find it a bit unnerving to this day...
You know people had weird bickering and quite vitriolic arguments about all sorts of stuff back in the days when computers were black and green and 9600 baud modem to dial into a bulletin board was cutting edge; including conspiracy theories, trolling etc.
I know but it was pretty self-contained and not on the same scale of the 24hr public slanging matches from the comfort of a sofa, work, bed wherever.
It rarely made the news or had any impact outside the platform.
People just moved on when a platform became stale or full of clowns.
Remember all the precursors!?!
I'd call them a **** and then if they didn't admit that actually, yes, they were being a ****, I'd unfriend them.
Maybe people should be a bit more fickle with their social media choices. Instead of trying to plant a flag because they uploaded some videos dancing, banging on pots and pans, chucking an ice bucket over their heads, selfies out to eat/making some dinner or taking the bins out.
Bring back planking.
I got dropped by a FB (and cycling) friend for a disparaging comment about Johnson at the beginning of all this. I have another one who is a screaming abdabs RW 'philosopher' (too nutty to bother about), and I muted an Aussie mate who's politics are appalling (with 3 of ours in the NHS I don't always take the silly snipes so well). After a long and predictable 'philosophical' diatribe I might write something facetious like 'cheer up'. At least it amuses me.
Engage in polite debate with people wishing to honestly have a discussion about something of mutual interest with varying views
Biblically rude, stupid or prejudiced people can get “blocked” and ignored this includes people at all points on the range of views engaging in name calling or abuse. It is perfectly possible to have a civil conversation on things where you have a strong alternate view without that.
I unfriended someone who only ever referred to Trump as the **** (c word). I agree that he is, but crude insults just made me switch off from the point she was making.
Block, delete unfriend? Are we that delicate.
I'd suggest being a bit more British about it, take the piss out of them, a few cutting, but funny remarks and you might even get a few others to jump in on it.
No one has ever backed down and admitted they were wrong in Facebook, ever.
No but people do concede ground if you are nice about it. I've started commenting on local threads because my cousin does it and the threads pop up. So I am polite and just make objective comments about the situation rather than berate people, and it works.
Does the acquaintance have any evidence of the NHS subjecting Jewish people to severe treatment as if they do they may be onto something with their comparison otherwise just call them a **** and move on.
It's that sort of thing that made me step away from FB for a year. Realised I felt far better for doing so, so deleted my profile. Not for one second have I missed it or regretted it.
As others have said, life's too short.
Unfriend. Then stop looking at your Facebook Feed and Live a happier life.
This. Delete it from your phone (if you use it on there) and just use the webpage. It's more of a PITA to use that way and you'll end up only using it when you want to. At the very least disable notifications so you're not constantly kept up to date with Shit That Doesn't Matter.
although it’s possible it’s been happening behind my back…
I did wonder why some tanks were parked up at the local ambulance station.
I expect people will start being keener to pull over when they see the "ambulance" with blue lights approaching them.
I've had a couple of 'friends' spouting shite about Brexit and Covid conspiracies. First step, are they really *friends* or just people that you are keeping in touch with? If the former then a dialogue may be appropriate or just accept that some people have different views no matter how screwball. If the latter then do as I did and cleanse them from your life. You won't miss them, I don't.
Block.
There is space for opposing views, expressed clearly and willing to be challenged on....
Then there are attention seeking tossers.
Life is too short for tossers.
P-Jay
Full MemberI’d suggest being a bit more British about it,
What's "british" about being friends with someone who hates the NHS and calls them nazis?
P-Jay
Full MemberI’d suggest being a bit more British about it, take the piss out of them, a few cutting, but funny remarks and you might even get a few others to jump in on it.
What’s “british” about being friends with someone who hates the NHS and calls them nazis?
That's a bit of a leap!
Being 'friends' with people on FB isn't the same as condoning their every half-arsed, ill thought out post.
Using the digital equivalent of "la la la, I can't hear you" with your fingers in your ears won't help change their mind.
Filtering your life so it's only full of PLUs is a security blanket.
I'm not much of a patriot, in fact, I think people who are are a bit insecure, but the people of Britain do lead the world in the ancient art of 'taking the piss out of people'. It's a rare and mysterious skill and most of us have it.
OP must have had some degree of real-world relationship with them at some point, and must have a least thought them worthy of giving them access to their inner most thoughts, or pictures of their Xmas Tree at least.
On one hand they can digitally remove them from their life for the heinous crime of being stupid, which will either lead them to dislike/mild hate (if you can mildly hate someone) them forever more, or pretend they don't exist at all and go about their days pretending everyone who is good and decent thinks exactly the same way they do.
Or they can accept some people have different opinions, both valid and stupid, unfounded, ill conceived opinions. You can leave them to it, or if you have the strength and ****s to spare, give them a little bit of a metaphorical slap around the chops and ask them if they're off their meds that day, or maybe their OH ran off with a Hospital Porter.
If nothing else, maybe today it's that Guy who's a mate of a mate you met once at a party who's being a knob, but what if next week it's a beloved family member, a close and good friend? I know a few people who write all sorts of nonsense on SM, one thing they share in common is mental pain. I'm sure sometimes it's a cry for help, a depression that just makes them want to be hated.
What’s “british” about being friends with someone who hates the NHS and calls them nazis?
Keep up! ‘Being British’ now means being a US-style alt-right anti-globalist anti-EU, climate-change denying, anti-vaxxing internet warrior in pursuit of taking down the Marxist Lying Media Commulistic Woke Brigade Child-devouring Elites
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OK, well that doesn't work, but this xkcd image is my go-to in this kind of situation
