I have a new record for length of time between FB friend acceptance and unfollowing them: about 30 minutes, which is way quicker than the previous record of a little over a week. And that one was quicker than third place, which was about a month. This one is a conservative who posted 6 knuckleheaded things in less than 30 minutes, four of them I knew to be inaccurate.
Thank you for playing.
It's pretty much my sons, a very few other relatives, and less than half-a dozen from churches (some are same family and they comment here, so there's the giveaway) and our longstanding Bible study (an already circumscribed number of families) that are still followed. Plus 3 from work who I have limited by discouraging parts of their stuff. Less than 20 in the regular feed, but I pretend I'm tolerant because I give you "a chance" before cutting you off and putting you in the background. My wife has five times that amount she still follows.
There may be a larger lesson here, because my informal estimate says that of the ten I have cut off quickest, eight are liberal - but the two conservatives hold down the top spots by a mile.
I've never "unfriended" anyone on FB. So you can "unfollow" friends without putting a stick in their eye? That's interesting to know. I have an old acquaintance who bombards the site with weird commercial messages. I'd never want to offend her--I think she's somewhat lost her mind--but I'd appreciate not having to wade through the posts to find out what's going on with my nieces and nephews. Lordy, even my great-nephews are getting old enough to expose themselves online.
ReplyDeleteUpper right hand corner of one of their posts, click the down arrow. It offers choices.
ReplyDeletePossibly more useful is the ability to block content from FB sites without unfollowing.
ReplyDeletePossibly more useful is the ability to block content from FB sites without unfollowing.
ReplyDeletePossibly more useful is the ability to block content from FB sites without unfollowing.
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