When scanning your Facebook news feed, do you ever run across posts that infuriate you? Do you have certain trollers that always jump in on your posts and make comments that get your goat? Did you make Facebook friends with a stranger a year or two ago, and now you wonder why you’re staring at their meaningless updates?
Mark Reardon was in a ornery mood one night, and started unfriending the jokers in his Facebook news feed. In this radio debate, I explain to him that there’s no reason to be a big meanie. There’s a more humane way to silence the knuckleheads on Facebook.
Take a listen here to my KMOX radio interview with Mark and let me know what you think.
With my feeds sounding more like a hornets’ nest than a conversation these days, social media has really exposed the people with whom i don’t even want to share a news feed with. The a-hole from high school who makes the apples to oranges comparison of assault rifles to pressure cookers. The girl from college who’s narcissistic enough to share pictures of her basil crop. These are people I wouldn’t want to speak with or know, and only approved friend requests or follows out of some long-dormant, by-circumstances-only real life connection. Pinterest-addicts. Residents of farmville. Overly proud parents who think their own 2-year-olds’ feces is worth photographing and sharing. Serial retweeters. I would avoid them in walking life and in some very small and passive-aggressive way, am telling them so by voting with my right-click finger.
Pictures of poopies? Did that really happen?
Why do you think I unfriended you?