On a pretty regular basis, I get Facebook friend requests from people I assume are blog-readers given that our “Friends in Common” tend to lean right. I tend not to pay them much heed as I’ve been trying to keep Facebook a non-political domain. That said, I know that that is not easy to do and do occasionally comment on political posts that my Facebook friends have made. Their links have occasionally inspired my posts.
Do wish we had a place where we could refrain from divisive political discussion and just keep the conversation on other matters.
Just a thought.
Good luck with that. =)
My brother who is completely apolitical got his nuts in a twist over something my cousin had posted on his facebook page. My cousin ranted about the events unfolding in Arizona and bashed the people who supported the law Az had passed, particularly White people (We are all Latino).
My brother took my cousin to the mat and beat his political brains in, I was quite proud. However my brother had never gotten in to a political debate on facebook before, and he hated using it as a forum to air family political business especially since all the rest of our cousins end up being involved.
My family has since taken to trying to keep politics out of their facebook postings, but it is only a matter of time before that ugly beast rears it’s head. And we few conservatives are out numbered (but not out classed thank you very much) by are more liberal minded relatives.
It will be a virtual blood bath… Granted not 100 years ago we used Machetes in our political blood baths so I guess it is an improvement.
Many folks have a separate FB account that they don’t want their employers or co-workers to see. I imagine there’s folks out there with separate political and apolitical accounts.
Heh, well I keep my facebook pretty ‘vanilla’, sicne I have coworkers on it. That said, I don’t rant often.
For me it’s the opposite, FB is for rants. Most other areas of my life are as political free as possible. I don’t want the time and effort of a blog, fb is easier.
I generally tend to keep Facebook pretty neutral myself. I have friends that don’t hold back on rants, from both sides, but I keep mine to a minimum. I’ve learned from experience it can be pretty nasty if you go there.
oh, that being said, I don’t hide the fact that I’m conservative on my profile, nor do I apologize for being one.
I can appreciate your desire for a politics free zone for a Facebook page. My mother in law [whom we were her full full financial and housing support for several years) constantly injects her self avowed socialist beliefs on my wife’s Facebook page. My wife, nor her siblings appreciate the m in law rants in the midst of family news. Between our children and one of her siblings, we have 4 children who are active duty Marines and sailors and Facebook is the best way to keep everyone up to date on them. The political rants of the mother in law are just out of place on My wife’s Facebook and none of the family appreciates them. Telling her to stop is useless as she ignores the request. By the way, most of her family are democrats.