How do you handle the bigots in your life?

[Aroura]

Facebook seems to cause far more problems than it is worth.

That's only because a lot of people don't know how to be smart with it.

My account is private.  I have like 65 friends total on there.  I'd say that 60 or so of them are people I know.  The others are people I know through mutual friends, and a couple people on here.  That's it.

And, yeah, some of them post stupid shit.  But Facebook gives you the ability to unfollow without unfriending, and neither unfollowing nor unfriending gives anyone a notification.  So, there are varying degrees of avoiding the bullshit altogether.

Drama often occurs because people throw friending around like candy at Halloween, but for some reason consider the 400+ people on their list actual close personal friends rather than the barely acquaintances they actually are.  So minor shit gets blown out of proportion.  On the flip side, some people seem nice on the surface, but are actually raging lunatics in real life.  Like my brother's wife.  So, unfriending them becomes an issue because people like that tend to monitor their friend list far more often than is healthy.

So, the solution is to be judicious with who you friend.  Just like IRL.

I've noticed this a lot.  I have 48 friends on FB, most are my own or my husband's family (he has a fracking huge family).  A handful of old High school pals, and current friends.  I was using it for Girl scouts, but now that is done, I can go back to the privacy of close family and friends.

Almost everyone I know has way more friends than me...like HUNDREDS!  I bet most of them could not name 1/10th of the people in their "friends" list....