I'm going to waste my post #501 ranting about stupid freaking facebook

It took me 5 1/2 years to get over 500 posts on DU, and yes, I am going to waste it on a rant about stupid freaking facebook. Indulge me if you want, or tell me I'm a freaking dumbass wasting electrons, I don't care.

Yes, I know, facebook is lame, yada yada. I'm a university professor so I've been around it for years, and I actually started enjoying it (I didn't "get it" for a long time - those kids today sort of thing) when everybody started getting on a couple of years ago. I liked getting in touch again with people from high school. I even have like four friends from jr. high school (we moved states when I started 9th grade). The thing is, some of those old high school and college mates are just dumbasses. They really are. I love seeing posts from some old friends. The crazy thing is, those four junior high friends are all raging democrats - one a university professor, one a total blue collar Harly-riding pentecostal, one a freak. That sort of thing. Great people.

But good lord some are freaking awful. And what causes my head to explode is when you see some stupid shit that someone posted, and the even stupider shit one of their dumbass friends follows up with. I'm old enough to realize I shouldn't give a shit, but it is a personality flaw for me that when I see ignorance I have a hard time not saying anything. But facebook is a useless place for that. Because that friend of a friend is somebody's friend, probably somebody's dumb old mother or some thing, and you don't want to go on there and bash them and look like an asshole. But tonight my head exploded. It just exploded. Here is a screen shot. I know that I shouldn't be bothered by reading stupid shit, and I know that it isn't the stupidest shit that has ever been posted, but it just hit me wrong. The original poster is a wanna-be tea party guy, an old friend from freshmen year in college, a dorm mate kind of friend.




OK, that response is just freaking dumb and racist, that is all it is. But I don't want to go on there and say so because of the whole friend of the friend thing.

So since I don't want to do it on facebook but I can't just process through it without typing SOMETHING because it pisses me off, here I am having to come to DU to shout and the emptiness of the internet YOU DUMB REDNECK TWIT, THAT"S RACIST SO SHUT THE FUCK UP.




Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, I know.

Some people are not worth the effort or grief.

for the same kind of crap.

I'm just dumb like that

Or my 1000th or 2000th posts either, and on and on.

Hey, maybe this one, my 12860th post is a waste as well. Bummer.

And a lot of them post the most inane shit... think Glenn Beck talking points. Makes me thankful for DU and the few liberal Facebook friends I do have.

You do know you can hide their posts, right? Or just delete them altogether. :)

I have hidden the posts of one person...usually what I do is just never read anything on facebook...but I saw that one by accident and my brain melted and I couldn't repress my need to rant.

Good grief...It looks like you're reading an old Atari screen.

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...take, for example, George W. Bush, who is white. Not only did nobody ask whether he was legal...nobody even cared that he's the only member of his family with a 'Texan' accent....

I killed my Facebook page just two days ago.

I'm SO much happier. Not kidding.

FB is a complete waste of time. I'm working on my wife to get her to dump it, too. My daughter quit hers first. My son, well, maybe when he gets back from his trip.

I'm at peace now.

No more idiotic remembrances from people I barely remember.

No more Farmville posts where someone who used to work for me or my ex-brother-son-in-law 'found a pig.'

No more finding out that one of my ex-employees is a porn star.

I really don't give a crap. And certainly not enough to give up personal information to sell.

I have a few hundred people on there that if I liked enough in the first place I would have kept touch in the first place, I know.

I do like being able to sort of "shotgun" out pictures etc. to family and friends.

I should purge, I guess, but I am not sure if I give a shit enough to bother.

ITS JUST THAT THE STUPID BURNS MY EYES SO MUCH.

I got rid of all the connections with right wing, racist, dumbass twits who I thought were OK when we connected but turned out to be otherwise. Just click that X by their name. Its a liberating feeling. Got rid of 2/3rds of my list, but who cares really.

Mostly it's just how great this or that is and photos of babies.

is just the modern version of the bathroom stall wall that we used back in college in the 1970's. There was a bit of intelligent wit there, but most of it belonged in a room that often smelled like crap.

you should call them out. i had to do with this my mother, not because i like her, but well, she's my mom. some people, especially here in the south, just don't even think before they say something racist. my mom even, if the subject comes up, will say she is against racism. although, through her actions and words, she most obviously is.
so i called her out on it. one day, we were driving in the car, she's driving, me, my boyfriend, and our son riding with her. i have no idea on earth how we ended up on this topic, but at some point she just said "all drug dealers are black people." the car goes totally silent. even our 5 month old son is stupified. then i just blurt out "that's the most racist thing i've ever heard in my life!" her face turns red and she tries to backtrack and ends up running a red light and getting caught by a red light camera in the process. it was a little awkward for awhile. but 2 years later, i may have heard only one racist comment slip through her mouth.
now this is only a solution if you want to keep talking to the person. if it was someone i didn't care about, i'd just tell then they were racist and that's why i was unfriending them. but, when it's your mom, you gotta find a way to make her shut up. and i like to think that now she thinks about what she says and if it sounds racist before saying it.

The thing I don't like about facebook is that you see what a friend of a friend writes on their pages, and if there isn't a way to say something without being an asshole.

I shouldn't have posted the screen shots here either, that is passive aggressive and immature. wtfe.

the friend doesn't seem like the type to be on DU.
but yeah, it is hard to call people out. i think i only said something to my mom because i was in shock, so i just blurted out the first thought in my head. if i'd had time to think about it, i probably wouldn't have been able to say anything.
you make me so glad that i have thus far refused to use facebook or myspace or whatsitcalled. all the people i really want to talk to i already do talk to, in person.