Facebook Casualty Count

[Pryderi]

Did you lose any FB friends over the course of the 2012 election?

I don't think I did.

[liberal N proud]

1. I un-friended my brother

Should have done it before the election.

But after, he went off the deep end, he was all about secession and then he tried to blame the downsizing my company is doing on Obama.

When he started in on that shit, I disconnected from him.

[barnabas63]

2. I know someone who unfriended at least a handful of ...

..democratic "friends."

[OriginalGeek]

3. I actually gained a brother

He has always been right-wing religious but he kind of surprised me by being SO right wing religious that he publicly denounced the non-christian Mitt. He's still religious but he actively campaigned against Mittens because of his being Mormon but I know he lost some right wing religious friends because of it. Most of them were voting what their preachers told them and I am pretty sure the single biggest issue was saving unborn babies lives.

My brother got a REAL rash of shit from them when he pointed out that Mitt would probably have done nothing to stop abortions (At least, according to his words - who knows what the liar would have really done)...My brother still says if a candidate would vow to get rid of Roe V Wade he would campaign day and night for him but since nobody is doing that right now, he'll vote for the guy who wants to feed and educate and provide health-care to kids.


I figure that gives me some time to work on my brother. lol

[Arugula Latte]

4. No, but I hardly have any Republican "friends" to begin with.

Officially, 3 of my FB friends "liked" Mitt while 46 "liked" Obama.

[tabbycat31]

5. none that I am aware of

However, people know that I am a Democratic campaign staffer and expect political posts from me. Politics is my career. Just as I would expect a nurse to post articles about nursing and health care, people expect me to post things about politics.

[Kali]

6. sort of

hardly ever post there or even look but I had put just a couple political things up over the year. one right-libertarian friend defriended me at some point between times I had looked at the site (say in a 2 month period) and I thought it was over my pro-Dem stuff. I never thought he was that shallow or chicken shit so I confronted him by regular e-mail and he said he just deleted people who didn't have any activity for several months - so that cleared up when and why

I see a few other DU-related folks have dropped me too. a couple of them make me sad, others I am kind of relieved actually. at least one turned into a real asshole.

[HopeHoops]

7. I stayed off of it completely for the last three or so months.

[ProudProgressiveNow]

10. +1 nt

[madmom]

8. yup...2.

[treestar]

9. Unfriended my cousins

because of their political posts, but they were putting up too many posts to start with, so that may have been part of the reason why. FB wall much more interesting without their reports on what they are doing every five minutes and every fleeting thought that comes into their heads. Around election time, they included the political and got booted.

They both think they work hard to support people on welfare. I think welfare helped them out as kids.

[Lady Freedom Returns]

11. No.

But everyone I know is like minded.

[auntAgonist]

12. No, none at all. n/t

[Rob H.]

13. Just one, and it wasn't until after the election

I think he read this article by a Resmuglican Gibbertarian and took it seriously. (Health alert: reading the linked article may cause painful eye-rolling and uncontrollable scoffing.)

[kurtzapril4]

14. No.

I think in the last 3 months I posted 2 or 3 things that were vaguely political...but I swore 90 days out that I wasn't going to be doing politics, and I kept to it. Me and my friends are mostly into posting funny stuff, anyway.

The biggest bummer was that my sister kept posting political stuff to my wall, but I told her to stop and she did.

[Taverner]

15. Nope. I'm always on fire, so they either try to stand up to the truth...

Or they ignore it