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In every category, people who identified as liberal were more likely to shun their connections over political disagreements. Twenty-eight percent of liberal users have unfriended or blocked someone, while 16 percent of conservatives and 14 percent of moderates admitted to doing the same.





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I think political views mean more to a person on the left, or they act out on them more frequently.

 

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Liberals don't like to associate with the casual racism and bigotry that conservatives display on FB. Conservatives can't really compute anyone who disagrees with the Fox News litany on issues and just assume they're crazy but harmless.

 

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AzureTyger posted:
Liberals don't like to associate with the casual racism and bigotry that conservatives display on FB. Conservatives can't really compute anyone who disagrees with the Fox News litany on issues and just assume they're crazy but harmless.


Funny you should say that.

My wife just received this picture on facebook.


 

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AzureTyger posted:
Liberals don't like to associate with the casual racism and bigotry that conservatives display on FB.

Plus they don't like to associate with anyone who fails to display the casual racism and bigotry that libtards display on FB.

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All I really take from that study is liberals are less tolerant of political gibberish spam. grin

 

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I made this post because people kept posting political shit that I didn't want to see and after I told someone that they should lose their welfare if they can't pass a drug test.


Note: I don't want to know your politics. Most of you I friended because I wanted a larger Mafia in Mafia wars. I got bored of that after a few minutes. So if you post something that I don't like, I'll just defriend. I'm a jerk, I want to argue with you and point out why you're wrong, I've learned that most people aren't intelligent enough to have a conversation defending their point of view without resulting in strawman idiocy or emotional retorts that have no bearing on the issue discussed. So as we roll into the political season and you see your friend list drop by one, know it's nothing personal I'd rather keep on good graces than create animosity over politics on facebook. Oh and here's a picture of dog.



If people don't want to hear what I have to say I don't give a crap if they defriend me, it seems more intelligent to surround yourself with folks who won't piss you off.

 

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And we would unfriend or block you if we could Blue-arrow.

 

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Oh wow, a study on Facebook sociology

The world has gone completely retarded

 

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Rhint posted:
And we would unfriend or block you if we could Blue-arrow.



but you insist sticking your head up the president's butt and believing that his answer to high gas prices is to check your tire pressure and swamp algae

 

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I'm so liberal I don't even have Facebook.

 

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Bobvillas posted:
AzureTyger posted:
Liberals don't like to associate with the casual racism and bigotry that conservatives display on FB. Conservatives can't really compute anyone who disagrees with the Fox News litany on issues and just assume they're crazy but harmless.


Funny you should say that.

My wife just received this picture on facebook.



That's disgusting.

 

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Tych2 posted:
Bobvillas posted:
AzureTyger posted:
Liberals don't like to associate with the casual racism and bigotry that conservatives display on FB. Conservatives can't really compute anyone who disagrees with the Fox News litany on issues and just assume they're crazy but harmless.


Funny you should say that.

My wife just received this picture on facebook.



That's disgusting.



lot of liberals will re-nig on their promises to vote obama with gas being 4.00 +

 

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At least you are true to form.

 

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conservatives can be super annoying. I'm far more likely to think a conservative should STFU than anyone else.

 

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Extremists on every side are annoying

Blue Arrow is affected

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I wonder if that survey includes people who leave Facebook altogether. I know two who did (though they both came back). Both are ultra conservatives. Among their reasons for leaving was because they believed Mark Zuckerberg was funding a pro-Obama super PAC.

I'm liberal and have blocked one person over politics (one of the two mentioned above). But of my liberal friends, only one posts politics at all (rarely), while the conservatives churn out nonstop links of Michelle Malkin and pictures from Veterans Against Occupy Wall Street.

 

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Extremists on every side are annoying

Blue Arrow is affected

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If a Ditto Head started trash talking my beliefs I would drop them like soap in a prison shower room.

 

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I have unfriended thousands of people on facebook.




It was right after I stopped playing mafia wars...

 

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Maybe liberals get offended more easily. wink

In any case, if you're going to spam political crap on Facebook, you need to make a list and only send it to people that are likely to agree with you.

 

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Conservatives are retarded on the surface while liberals are typically retarded intellectuals who pretend that they aren't complete retards

That's the difference I have seen anyhow wink

 

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Anecdotally, right wingers are far more likely to spam political talking points than left wingers. There seem to be far more B-T type spammers out there, for example, than bizarre left wing spammers. On my guild's forum, the only one who regularly posts political stuff is a far right winger.

The only things I've blocked are Farmville and 21 Questions spam.

 

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If a Ditto Head started trash talking my beliefs I would drop them like soap in a prison shower room.


In other words, on purpose?

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I wouldnt even send someone like Blue Arrow a friend request on Facebook

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I told off and un-friended somebody for that very image. I'm not a supporter of Obama and think he's just as bad as Bush was but I don't tolerate associations with racists.

I don't think that makes me a liberal.

 

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The only things I've blocked are Farmville and 21 Questions spam.
Pretty much this. I'm liberal by most standards; however, the ONLY reason I'd block a conservative strictly based on political views, is if they're only posting bigoted crap and nothing of any real substance. At that point, it's not even debate material, it's just retarded and I am not wasting my time listening to how women should go back to being unable to vote, or hold a job, or how anyone who isn't white should be 'lesser' than everyone else, or removed from the US regardless of citizenship, etc. I just don't tolerate that well.

 

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The only time I ever blocked anyone on facebook when I cared about it was some big fat black guy who used to send me messages saying "Hey big sexy, how's it hanging" and other similar things

 

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I just unfriended someone for posting too much nonsense on my wall.


It wasn't political nonsense - it was just nonsense... I didn't really even know the person, just accepted their friend request thinking whatever. Then the bitch just non stop posts this weird crap to every post I make or any post someone else posts on my wall...

Effing freaking...

 

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Talking to most conservatives reminds me of talking to ignorant,hateful, spoiled rotten,racist children ,I just don't have time for them. If you want to be included in serious adult conversations you must first act like an adult that is capable of having a serious conversation.

 

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I can care less what they post on facebook lol or what the beliefs are. I post my opinion and Im out.

 

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Self-reported stuff like this can always be tricky.

If a liberal posts something that is pro-gay rights or pro-choice, a conservative could believe they are unfriending or blocking that person because of religious differences rather than political differences. However, if the conservative posts something that is anti-gay rights or pro-life, a liberal could believe they are unfriending or blocking that person because of political differences rather than religious differences. grin

 

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I can't believe nobody mentioned the 27 percenters.

 

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Liberals feel that only they have to right to rant about anything. Getting the other sides view might change theirs. They cannot let that happen. A liberal's idea if debate is an echo chamber.

 

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I only unfriended this woman who I didnt know who sent me a send request from POF.

I only friend people I know on the Outpost or in RL which isnt many. I think that the times of friending everyone one on facebook are over. It proves nothing.

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The only political spam I get on Facebook comes from the conservative Christian contingent of my friends. I haven't blocked or unfriended anyone beyond the farmville and hororscope type spam.

 

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I don't use facebook because it annoys the hell out of me.

I enjoyed high school and all but having to "like" everyones crap that is your friend in order to stay in their good graces is tedious at best.

 

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Actually I wonder what percentage of 'conservatives':

A) Have internet
B) Know about facebook
C) Have a facebook account
D) Know how to log into facebook
E) Know hot to friend and unfriend people

 

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I don't use facebook because it annoys the hell out of me.

I enjoyed high school and all but having to "like" everyones crap that is your friend in order to stay in their good graces is tedious at best.




Facebook is useful and good. I dont have a lot of friends or even relatives but its been very positive for me so far

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Who cares?

 

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