Facebook - While i need to check my friends's life events and keep a tab on what they are up to, i dont want to see the constant tirade of posts regarding their political views.. How ya'll are handling friends with crazy political extremist thoughts, completely ignore those areas ? try to make them sane?
Twitter is even worse, so stopped posting all together and limited my time only to like few tweets .
Alternative to Twitter is Reddit, which you can scroll through for few laughs and that itself will become an addiction.
Finally, i think we need social media at the same time we dont need social media, no amount of filtering and altering the news feed can put us in a place of what we want to see.. So..
Re: Handling "crazy political extremist thoughts" on Facebook, I tend to either engage in a calm and reasonable reply that resembles the Socratic Method, or simply unfollow the person. It depends on how well I know them and how reasonable they tend to be. My best/closest friends are all reasonable people which is why I chose them as friends, so no contradiction there.
Twitter is worse, yes.
Reddit is OK if you avoid political subreddits and keep it light. I've curated my subs to be just that and it's delightful.
I believe that we shouldn't "need" social media (as other comments here pointed out, an external locus of control or validation is unhealthy), but rather we should use social media. Have a purpose whenever you open the app, even if it's just passing the time (Reddit).
I unfollow any Facebook friends who post political rants, but remain friends with them. Then I occasionally do a quick scan through their profiles to catch up on any major life events I missed.
Facebook - While i need to check my friends's life events and keep a tab on what they are up to, i dont want to see the constant tirade of posts regarding their political views.. How ya'll are handling friends with crazy political extremist thoughts, completely ignore those areas ? try to make them sane?
Twitter is even worse, so stopped posting all together and limited my time only to like few tweets .
Alternative to Twitter is Reddit, which you can scroll through for few laughs and that itself will become an addiction.
Finally, i think we need social media at the same time we dont need social media, no amount of filtering and altering the news feed can put us in a place of what we want to see.. So..