To be pissed off with friends sharing "Britain First" posts on facebooks

[ReallyTired]

I am depressed by the sheer number of neathantals who share xenophobic posts from Britain First. I really don't want to defriend these people, but I don't want messages all over my facebook profile.

I have no problem with people who want more controls on immigration, but "Britain First" is akin to facists parties of the 1940s. There is a huge difference between intelligent debate on how to control the UKs boarders/ population size and outright racism.

I wish that there was a facebook app that would stop "Britain First" links appearing on my facebook newsfeed when stupid people comment or share a link.

BF are actually get clever in their social media promotion. They know people share heart tugging images and they issue lots of them, the ones with nothing to do with their 'politics' get shared far and wide. They reach mire people via social media than all the big parties put together. Out of every hundred people that see a picture some won't notice where it's from, some will and be indifferent, some will be outraged and one might just click through and like their page. They will then be treated to their delightful posts on a daily basis. And might start sharing some, so the cycle starts again. Very effective recruitment methods.

wasabipeanut - no not a J

The fall out of blocking or deleting family close friends off facebook is not worth it.

I don't want to completely block these people as I am interested in many of their posts. I am interested in them and their family. Its their bigoted shares that I don't like rather than them as people. Perhaps I hope to change them by naively enagaging with them.

Britain First shows how easy it is to suck in normal people. They latch on to legitmate causes like "Help for Heroes" or supporting the Chelsea pensioners. People who gave their lives in the world wars were standing up to facists like Britain First.

One of my friends shared one of theses, it was WW1 remembrance, not racist content but from Britain first, she didn't realise who they were. I think similar can apply to the dog cruelty ones, they are being clever in getting people to share stuff that doesn't make clear their agenda. Anyway I sent my friend a link which gave more info about them and she deleted it.

You can block all posts from Britain First without blocking the person that is sharing them. I occasionally put this link on my timeline in the hope that someone will read it and realise that they have been sucked in: anotherangryvoice.blogspot.fr/2014/06/12-things-britain-first.html

You can also make friends "acquaintances" which is effectively the same as defriending them, but without the fallout that can sometimes cause. The person has no idea you have done this. I've used it to great effect with my SIL who photo documents my niece's development every half an hour. You can also chose not to share your posts with acquaintances so if you want to post racist rubbish you can target those friends who are of the same mind set

Nobody will know if you've blocked them

Unfortunately BF are sneaky and sometimes use unconnected/heart-string tugging images and words to spread their message of xenophobic bollocks.

I think I've blocked them on FB now.

Every time someone shares one of their idiotic piles of shit I comment and explain why it's wrong. Everyone has been quite shocked when they realised what BF was about.

People don't know when you block them. It's not like defriending.

But personally I'd rather deal with 'fallout', if there was any, than see these ignorant posts, whoever they're from.

BF are very clever with their social media approach, and often what is showing in newsfeeds is a friend's 'like' of an image which isn't clearly attributed to BF - different from 'sharing' where it is pretty clear.

So recently there's been a Robin Williams one doing the rounds - someone somewhere shared it (innocently or not I don't know) but then other people like it, then other people like their likes... It is possible to do it innocently. At least, it is possible to do it innocently when it's 'mental illness is bad here's a pic of Robin Williams', not so much when it's their true colours of anti-Muslim shit.

Their social media strategy is very good.

I had two friends like someone else's share the day after RW died, I did post saying 'be careful where you click' and nothing since - that said I know one of the people isn't a facist, and the other one isn't the sharpest tool in the shed so I wasn't going to delete on a first offence.

shakethetree is there really any need for that?

I don't use Faceache. I came off it years ago when I grew up

One of the things that really used to get me, was (what I called) the "If the Poppy offends you, please feel free to fu*k off" brigade. Seemed to be very popular on Facebook, though I never EVER saw any of them on Remembrance Sunday - likely they weree too busy nursing hangovers!

This whole thing speaks to the "I really can't be arsed to think about what I'm doing, but I sort of (on the face of it) agree with the sentiment" set.

My wife is (from time to time) on Facebook. There were/are loads of forwarded/liked posts regarding the situation in Israel (most supporting Palastine) and you could bet your bollo*ks to a barn dance that the vast majority of those who sent them, didn't have an even rudimentary understanding of the situation.

The only real consolation you can take is that despite these idiots having the vote, they tend not to engage beyond liking facebook posts!

Last rant:

It's like those Facebook posts, which say, "Like this Status if you want to kick cancer's butt!"

Were I on Facebook (which I'm not) I'd respond: "No you vacuous sh!t head; if you want to 'kick cancer's butt' study hard at school (especially the sciences) go to university, study some more and then get on a research programme. Do that and you might go some way to kicking cancer's butt. As it is, posting photos of yourself not wearing any make up - as if that's somehow the bravest thing you could EVER possibly do - will not kick cancer's butt. Now p!ss off and do something constructive with your life!"

The end. Apologies but I do feel somewhat better

You might this worth a read OP - one of my friends linked it on her FB profile to make her point.......Britain First

We're allowed to swear here Malice. Don't want you wearing out your punctuation keys

you could bet your bollocks to a barn dance

Unfriend. They are racists

I was nearly caught out by these. Someone had shared something Innocuous about a dog or something. Apparently britain first very good at ddong this just to get shares. Just blocked the site x

Lonny I don't really like swearing Much and worry that my Mum might catch me - even though I'm 35 and should be allowed to swear as much as I bastard well like!

I always assume it is an error if it is a generic "share of you care about soldiers/hurt puppies/helping this/remembering that...".

britain first are a revolting lot who aim to get as many inadvertent likes as possible through these and they have caught a couple of folks I know with this tactic.

Each time I post with an " Am sure you didn't realise, but... " and both times they have been horrified.

Deliberate sharing on the other hand, and I /delete. But I haven't had to yet thank goodness! :-)

Why do you want to remain in touch with them, family or not? I ask as someone who couldn't give the slightest fuck about offending a racist person, family or not, and I have culled my FB friends list dramatically so I don't have to have this shit on my conscience. Family or not, I no longer spend time with them.

I also reported a colleague in a position of trust who ought to have known better. I did so after the second offence and having explained who BF and fucking infidels of gb were after the first time. It simply isn't difficult to check the provenance of posts you see and share on FB and any professional dim enough to do so needs to be considering their position IMO.

I always post a www.facebook.com/BritiainFurst?ref=br_tf pic as a response

A friend who I trust not to be a nazi goon posted one of their "amusing" ones. I pmd her and asked if she had looked at their other shit. She was and deleted.

I managed to get myself banned from posting on Britain First. They obviously don't like receiving well thought and well written counterpoints to the shit they spout.

They are very good at using things that tug on the heart strings - animal cruelty, support our forces etc to get themselves shared around FB. If a friend shares something on my wall spouting crap then it gets deleted. No big deal.

Yep, my Mum shares posts from Britains First. She has no idea that they are behind it nor what they stand for. She recently shared one about pensioners coming before immigrants. I replied saying that they were a racist, homophobic party and is prefer not to see their stuff in my news feed. It went very quiet after that lol.

I had 2 friends who liked the Britain First page, deleted them both. I also comment on shared posts from them as everyone else who has shared their posts on my news feed so far hasn't realised what BF is.