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Post by Moose on Nov 8, 2012 21:26:34 GMT
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 8, 2012 21:28:28 GMT
Errrrrrrrrr ...
... are we allowed to know why?
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2012 21:29:36 GMT
What's going on?
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 8, 2012 21:30:23 GMT
We don't know yet.
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Post by Mari on Nov 8, 2012 21:31:09 GMT
FB feed gone wrong?
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Post by Moose on Nov 8, 2012 21:32:54 GMT
Well I just copped a load of crap about Obama being 'evil' yes.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 8, 2012 21:34:10 GMT
I understand how you feel. it gets my blood pressure up and makes me upset.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 8, 2012 21:36:06 GMT
*puts on best irritating parsonical voice*
Deerheart, I have warned you about Facebook before now, haven't I?
* stops ... eventually*
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Post by Moose on Nov 8, 2012 21:37:46 GMT
I have removed the worst culprits and will not hesitate to remove any others. Poltical posts I can deal with, religious too. But 'evil'? That is not a word to throw around lightly.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 8, 2012 21:41:08 GMT
Even in my trade, it is a word that I do not use frequently and certainly never to condemn another person (Someone - a very particular Someone in fact) might start to notice my failings if I did.
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Post by Moose on Nov 8, 2012 22:13:51 GMT
quite
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Post by Mari on Nov 8, 2012 22:42:08 GMT
I tend to call myself evil. I even have a poster saying "welcome to the world of doom" hanging on my classroom door. Made by a student. And still some make the mistake of thinking I'm nice... Some kids just don't get it.
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Post by Shake on Nov 9, 2012 3:45:35 GMT
Yeah, saw your post on FB about it. Sorry to hear that. As I mentioned on the other forum, I defriended someone over her crazy political posts. Mrs Shake was a little taken back when I told her about it, as they are closer. But I've begun to act more on the philosophy of not surrounding oneself with negative people.
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Post by Shake on Nov 9, 2012 3:46:36 GMT
Oh right, sorry. Erm ... deep breaths, Moose, deep breaths.
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Post by tangent on Nov 9, 2012 4:56:33 GMT
But I've begun to act more on the philosophy of not surrounding oneself with negative people. Not a bad idea. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 9, 2012 6:48:04 GMT
I have lost a friend because of that. She was posting really extreme things, like that all Muslims should be killed etc. and even though we had been good friends, that was too much for me. For that one she even apologized, but there were many other things she posted which were just as bad.
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Post by Moose on Nov 9, 2012 17:20:50 GMT
Yeah it just gets too much |
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Post by weavweb on Nov 9, 2012 17:59:41 GMT
Simple - if people keep posting things that make you unhappy or angry stop reading and remove them. At least on FB it's easy to avoid such things, unlike the 'real' world. Not worth wasting energy worrying about what other people think.
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Post by tangent on Nov 9, 2012 18:01:46 GMT
You have to cut people off sometimes. I felt bad about blocking someone who called me a rapist at heart because I offered to walk home with a friend of mine at 1 o'clock in the morning so that she would feel safe on the way home. But then I thought, we have to make a stand against bigotry and stupidity otherwise it just encourages people.
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Post by Mari on Nov 9, 2012 19:55:01 GMT
I never had a problem unfriending people. I use it to stay in touch with people I don't otherwise see that much or at all and if any other people I may have on there say weird stuff, I cut them off. I unfriended my cousin because she insists on posting gorey pictures of animal abuse.
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 9, 2012 20:38:02 GMT
The biggest problem with these things is that people say things online that they would never dare to someone's face. They treat it like a comment to a machine, without a real person at the other end who has feelings.
I always enjoy hearing about people who get prosecuted for it, but it's so difficult to do on a global scale without inter-governmental co-operation, which I don't see happening any time soon!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 10, 2012 9:01:04 GMT
You have to cut people off sometimes. I felt bad about blocking someone who called me a rapist at heart because I offered to walk home with a friend of mine at 1 o'clock in the morning so that she would feel safe on the way home. Wow. Some people must be really sick to say things like that or think things like that. |
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Post by Mari on Nov 10, 2012 9:28:41 GMT
The biggest problem with these things is that people say things online that they would never dare to someone's face. They treat it like a comment to a machine, without a real person at the other end who has feelings. I always enjoy hearing about people who get prosecuted for it, but it's so difficult to do on a global scale without inter-governmental co-operation, which I don't see happening any time soon! People get prosecuted for what they say in FB? But isn't that a private area? |
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 10, 2012 11:51:22 GMT
If someone sends you death threats or does anything illegal, it does not matter where or how they do it. The difficulties are if they are doing it from another country.
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Post by Fr. Gruesome on Nov 10, 2012 14:13:24 GMT
I am with Al on this: there is no reason why FB should be exempt from the usual rules of behaviour and if misguided individuals post untruthful or otherwise unacceptable comments they cannot expect to escape the consequences of their actions.
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Post by Moose on Nov 10, 2012 16:40:10 GMT
Quite.
Steve, I'd be a bit offended if a man DIDN'T offer to walk me home late at night
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Post by Shake on Nov 10, 2012 17:35:44 GMT
Or if you really don't want to go to the extreme of de-friending someone on FB, you can always limit the amount of their posts you see. Then it's a little more deliberate for you to see what they're doing, and you can of course still message and such then.
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Post by tangent on Nov 10, 2012 17:40:03 GMT
Yes.
The law does not distinguish between private and public defamation. If I slander a person in the privacy of my own home - if I tell my wife that Miss Jones is a whore, for example - then that person could in principle sue me.
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Post by Moose on Nov 10, 2012 17:53:14 GMT
But IS Miss Jones a whore?
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Post by Alvamiga on Nov 10, 2012 21:46:45 GMT
She was always refusing Mr Rigsby's advances for ages... then again, she was always throwing herself at Philip!  |
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