Vent - I need a rest

I'm on day 2 of a FB break. Honestly, if it weren't for a cousin posting photos of her newborn grandson, I think I'd find it easier to just disable my account.

For some light to your day, meet Ollie. I can't even with the hair. 

He is a DOLL! Looks like he stopped off at the barber shop just before arrival.

I can't do FB anymore.  There is just too much drama and ugliness.  I'm sticking to Instagram where it's still pretty much just sharing pictures.

Dang - that is some fabulous hair and a cute, cute baby!  Thanks for the smile. Now if we could just figure out how to post and share that new baby smell... SaveSaveSaveSave

I don't even do the notifications thing (the little red number makes me crazy until I can click to get rid of it, hahaha), I just unfollow them. Makes for a very peaceful newsfeed. Then you can always go to their page to catch up if you want. I keep a little list of those who I don't want to forget about (because my memory is bad enough that I'm likely to forget about people if they're not in my newsfeed), such as the woman whose photos I want to see (extremely cute kids )  but I had to unfollow her because of all her MANY Rodan and Fields posts. 

bethany102399 Little Ollie is absolutely adorable!   Thanks for sharing the sweetness!

I did this a couple weeks ago.  I have two who could not stop, so I unfollowed them.  So much better now!

I do a lot of scrolling. I have to do that here also since the political threads seem to dominate. I've learned my lesson, it's just ranting away at the same stuff over and over and over.

I unfriended someone this morning after he attempted to shift the blame of what happened in Charlottesville. Keeps my blood pressure down if I don't have to see that crap. But it's funny, I'm actually a little weirded out right now when people are posting happy and peppy and bursting with love stuff and I want to say: "do you not see what's happening?" And I'm not even a person who posts a lot of political stuff!

I have a had few friends post positive things. None of my friend who are proTrump are really making a peep right now.

I can't speak for anyone else but I don't post about politics on FB at all - it doesn't mean I don't follow politics, it's just that I have friends and family all over the political spectrum here (and abroad) and it's a fair assumption that no matter what I posted, someone would be offended and someone else would get belligerent and ... I don't want that on my wall. Not to mention that DH and I have VERY different political views and I would prefer not to hash those out in public on my FB feed either (or have my FB postings become dinner table 'conversation' at home either - politics isn't a safe topic here)

I will occasionally reply on a friend's political post on FB but generally only online friends (not IRL friends) and not when they post publicly.

I actually have 2 FB accounts. One with my friends/family that can be exhausting, draining, dramatic and political. The second is a made up name LOL. I use it to follow boards that interest me (photography, gardening etc), newspapers, authors etc. That way, I can comment, provide info and interact without people commenting on where I'm commenting (if that makes any sense). I hate that people can see where I'm commenting and then they comment.... Even worse, I comment and then have a friend/relative comment after me on the same board (that they don't follow or aren't friends with). This also allows me to cut out all the Donald Trump/tinfoil hat crap.

Many times these posts are shared from rightwing.com, leftwing.com (I made those up). At the top of the post on the right hand side there's a drop down list and choose hide all from rightwing and leftwing.com.Then you can still see when they post about their personal lives without choosing to unfollow the the Facebook friend. There is also the choice of not following the friend in that same drop down list.

If you don't want to see political posts on 2 peas, you can change your privacy settings. Most of them are started by the same people, so you choose to block threads that they post.

ETA: I don't see a need to post on the topic of politics often. It's your FB page and you can do what you want but I don't believe it's going to change anyone's mind. It's Slacktivism if that's the only thing someone is doing, thinking they are making a difference.

Facebook IS my "break space" from the politics. Doesn't mean I have my head in the sand or being willfully ignorant of events. It just means MY facebook is a place to connect with far flung family/friends socially. I get enough politics other places.