Seething about Facebook Stuff

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I just had a shared thread where one of my friends has commented on an anti Islam thread. About 10,000 people have liked it and she was telling them they were ignorant twats, worse than the fact that they then threatened er and her kids, if it could be worse, I trawled though the 600 odd commenters, about half women and looked at their pages and many held horrible and heinous rape and violence "funny" posts, similar to the WAM pages i saw earlier today. I am repulsed by the men and women who do any of this shit but it is interesting that the hatred of Muslims and misogynists seem to be in common.

Well that's a lot of minutes (hours?) of your life you won't get back, similarly for me - I had to read your OP twice and I still don't get it. are you saying misogynists are anti-muslim?

Just about sick of fb threads.

You actually don't have to go on it you know.

I had heard that there are people out there who read and comment on these threads but I didn't believe it until now. Why wouldn't you just hide that shit and defriend anyone posting it?

So you trawled through the pages of around 300 strange women?

YANBU to get wound up by ignorant/racist/misogynists etc....

But YABU to get a bit obsessed over it.

There are billions of posters on the internet...not all of them good ones but I don't get the point in over focusing on them.

You know that when you read shite on Facebook, it's a direct consequence of the choice you made in adding or accepting certain people right?

I only ever hear about this Facebook stuff on MN, I never see anything offensive when I actually look at Facebook. Probably because I only have people on there that I actually like.

As in life, there are plenty of twats on facebook - if you are friends with them on there, then you only have yourself to blame when you end up ready their twatty status updates and shared pages. In the same way, being friends with a twat in real life will mean that you are exposed to their twatty comments and general twattish behaviour until you decide you don't want to hang out with them any more.

OP was actually saying that one of her friends commented on a racist thread saying that the 'likers' of it were ignorant, and then received threats herself, so to be fair she isn't friends with the ignorant twats but someone who obviously chose to make a stand against someone else who is! YANBU to be upset by this. I have an fb account and hate when things like this come up. I've no idea where all the ignorant people hide in our society. I instantly defriend anyone involved. Thankfully most of my friends are sensible and not twats though

Sorry for the delay, I was unexpectedly in hospital. Anyway, before I fractured my foot, I was shopping in Doha and made a mental list of things that MNers seeth about. A woman chewing up a Big Mac and feed her tiny baby the chewed up mush, 2 year old was drinking a full fat coke and eating a happy meal. I saw a woman absolutely belt her toddler for tripping up his sister and in IKEA car park all the p and t spaces were taken up with ferraris with engines running.
The point I am making is that these things are important and so is the stuff that is being ignored on Facebook. I am glad I did it, I reported many pictures and posts and some have been removed. I was commenting on the fact that there were an awful lot of people who had commented on EDL type pages that also seemed to have a high content of violent sexist pages and also dog fighting and illegal hunting.
I have plenty of time and I think it is useful for people to do this as much as you would report crime you saw happen or judge people for their behavior in real life. It isn't fun but I am not prepared to use facebook without investing in a sense of responsibility for the content that I encounter. It is just as important as judging people for how they choose to feed their baby or their choice of car. But thanks for the silly faces, much appreciated.

BAU thank you

I love FB. I use it regularly to speak to my family who live on the other side of the world, and old friends who live hundreds of miles away.

Not one time has any racist, anti- Islam, misogynist rubbish appeared on my time line. I'm really fussy about who I befriend. If it ever appeared the offender would be binned immediately and I'll move on. It would take 5 seconds.

It's really nothing to 'seethe' about. Of course loathe the crap....but just ignore and delete.

YANBU OP, but I fear you are going to get a lot of replies from people who have skim-read and wrongly assumed that you are friends with the racist/misogynistic twats, rather than with the person posting (probably and sadly in vain) common sense and tolerance.

Perhaps message your friend and tactfully suggest she reviews her friend list, since someone that she's friends with - online, at least - must have 'liked' the page for it to appear on her newsfeed in the first place.

It is just as important as judging people for how they choose to feed their baby or their choice of car.

But neither of those things are important at all...or were you being ironic?

No,I just wonder why people waste so much energy stressing about it when they ignore a bigger picture outside of real life. Not ironic or stupid, just bored with middle class Guardian readers in surburhan UK enclaves thinking that ignoring the reality of the Internet but judging people for non important stuff thinking they are superior

And yes I was being ironic, but lots of people think they have a right to dictate how people drive or feed their baby which is so unimportant and not of most people's interest unless they are feeling inadequate