facebook is interesting since today it’s basically just a museum of people who didn’t grow up with computers or the internet yet reluctantly have adopted social media. (eg: everyone’s grandma.)
to a lesser extent, it’s also still the primary social medium for sickos and people living on the fringes of society
what’s interesting is that’s not at all what it was at first
back in the mid 2000s it was a social network for college students at elite universities. Harvard and other ivys or ivy-equivalents and then good colleges and then it started spreading to all colleges but you still needed an .edu to sign-up. and then anyone could just sign-up for it. that whole evolution only took a few years
what’s interesting to me is how it was sort of a prestigious badge of honor for a brief time, like, yeah i’ve got an @ duke.edu or whatever. they leveraged that prestige and exclusivity for a time. but soon became a portal for 55-year-old divorcee and assistant supervisor at a La Quinta Inn, Sherry to post pictures of her girls trip to Atlantic City
I would far rather have a competent tradesman I disagreed with politically work on my home vs a hack that I did agree with politically. But then again normal people have bigger things to worry about then the political affiliation of the electrician, plumber, or carpenter they hired.
Just another example of how identity>merit for leftists. 99% of the time if anybody is shoving their views and opinions in faces it's a leftist who's default is to assume everyone will agree with them and can't fathom otherwise.
It's also true of them as well they'd just never admit it. It's like when they all talked about how important it is to boycott Chik Fil A and as loud as they were online their sales didn't suffer at all because it was all talk.
I guess it’s too much to hope to return to a polite society where this wouldn’t have mattered b/c people didn’t talk about politics in daily public interactions. I get it. Many people just don’t want to listen to other people’s vitriolic political shit and don’t want to invite it into their homes. Unfortunately it seems MAGA can stop spewing their opinions loudly for everyone to hear. I would feel the same way if it was extreme liberals being this rude but it rarely is.
I live in Indiana, pretty red as far as places go. I also go on a lot of walks around towns and parks. Politics are hardly ever brought up anywhere, by anyone. The absolute most I see is one house with a Trump 2024 flag still up. Plenty of people talk about things going on in their churches, stuff like that... but I almost never hear about politics. In fact, the most political thing I've seen around here was a "no kings" protest, where a whole bunch of people were bussed in from out of town to stand around and hold signs for a few hours.
I can't say the same about any time I've visited a deep blue city, like San Francisco or Boston. They are loud and proud about their beliefs in those places, and I felt it constantly. I remember a tour guide in Boston very smugly talking about how that city has been a leader in progressive thinking... I just rolled my eyes lol
Some places and people (ahem!… Boston… cough cough) are just plain rude (no matter the topic - try going there and supporting another team - just don’t eat the food or drinks they serve you). At public protest (which obviously should be allowed) it’s going to be political - that’s the purpose and not what I’m talking about.
When I’m interacting with others individually in public, the little digs (or just plain rude things) that people slide into the interaction almost always come from the MAGA perspective. As a mature white fellow I’m expected to go along with it. When I don’t it changes the exchange. Generally it just becomes frosty and perfunctory rather than rude or obnoxious but it is noticeable. I wouldn’t want it to be someone working on something important in my home. I don’t generally engage with the (rarer) extreme liberal comments being espoused either but when I do I feel more comfortable calling them out. It seems to come from a less hostile and insecure place. The way things are going I expect the hostility will be increasing from both sides of the divide and I think that’s sad.
Jennifer seems well adjusted.
Bet she’s medicated.
Facebook is a free for all now. I think they got rid of most of their moderators.
facebook is interesting since today it’s basically just a museum of people who didn’t grow up with computers or the internet yet reluctantly have adopted social media. (eg: everyone’s grandma.)
to a lesser extent, it’s also still the primary social medium for sickos and people living on the fringes of society
what’s interesting is that’s not at all what it was at first
back in the mid 2000s it was a social network for college students at elite universities. Harvard and other ivys or ivy-equivalents and then good colleges and then it started spreading to all colleges but you still needed an .edu to sign-up. and then anyone could just sign-up for it. that whole evolution only took a few years
what’s interesting to me is how it was sort of a prestigious badge of honor for a brief time, like, yeah i’ve got an @ duke.edu or whatever. they leveraged that prestige and exclusivity for a time. but soon became a portal for 55-year-old divorcee and assistant supervisor at a La Quinta Inn, Sherry to post pictures of her girls trip to Atlantic City
Almost always women or “women”.
I would far rather have a competent tradesman I disagreed with politically work on my home vs a hack that I did agree with politically. But then again normal people have bigger things to worry about then the political affiliation of the electrician, plumber, or carpenter they hired.
Just another example of how identity>merit for leftists. 99% of the time if anybody is shoving their views and opinions in faces it's a leftist who's default is to assume everyone will agree with them and can't fathom otherwise.
It's also true of them as well they'd just never admit it. It's like when they all talked about how important it is to boycott Chik Fil A and as loud as they were online their sales didn't suffer at all because it was all talk.
I guess it’s too much to hope to return to a polite society where this wouldn’t have mattered b/c people didn’t talk about politics in daily public interactions. I get it. Many people just don’t want to listen to other people’s vitriolic political shit and don’t want to invite it into their homes. Unfortunately it seems MAGA can stop spewing their opinions loudly for everyone to hear. I would feel the same way if it was extreme liberals being this rude but it rarely is.
I live in Indiana, pretty red as far as places go. I also go on a lot of walks around towns and parks. Politics are hardly ever brought up anywhere, by anyone. The absolute most I see is one house with a Trump 2024 flag still up. Plenty of people talk about things going on in their churches, stuff like that... but I almost never hear about politics. In fact, the most political thing I've seen around here was a "no kings" protest, where a whole bunch of people were bussed in from out of town to stand around and hold signs for a few hours.
I can't say the same about any time I've visited a deep blue city, like San Francisco or Boston. They are loud and proud about their beliefs in those places, and I felt it constantly. I remember a tour guide in Boston very smugly talking about how that city has been a leader in progressive thinking... I just rolled my eyes lol
Some places and people (ahem!… Boston… cough cough) are just plain rude (no matter the topic - try going there and supporting another team - just don’t eat the food or drinks they serve you). At public protest (which obviously should be allowed) it’s going to be political - that’s the purpose and not what I’m talking about. When I’m interacting with others individually in public, the little digs (or just plain rude things) that people slide into the interaction almost always come from the MAGA perspective. As a mature white fellow I’m expected to go along with it. When I don’t it changes the exchange. Generally it just becomes frosty and perfunctory rather than rude or obnoxious but it is noticeable. I wouldn’t want it to be someone working on something important in my home. I don’t generally engage with the (rarer) extreme liberal comments being espoused either but when I do I feel more comfortable calling them out. It seems to come from a less hostile and insecure place. The way things are going I expect the hostility will be increasing from both sides of the divide and I think that’s sad.