Not Exactly News: I STILL Don't Like Facebook!

It is hard to believe, but it has been almost four years since I found my way to what was then called "Steemit."

The reason I ended up here was that I was simply disgusted with the state of Facebook as it had become during the US Presidential campaigns of 2016, and then following the actual 2016 election.

Something peaceful and non-stressful!

I had never seen so much hateful spewage and rhetoric by people had purportedly been friends a year earlier. It was like all "filters" and sense of common respect and decency had suddenly gone out the window!

By comparison, the Steem of January 2017 felt like a calm oasis!

You could definitely say that it was "Better Living Through Steem," to borrow an idea from a recent community challenge.

Of course, I was never able to completely abandon Facebook, because I run several business pages there... which is one of the few actual useful uses of the social media behemoth: It does have a huge reach, if you're trying to market something, particularly to a slim demographic niche, where you can use their sorting mechanism to target only the specific people you're trying to reach.

Fall leaves

Which brings me to my next point: I still don't like Facebook!

In the meantime, there has been another election, and people are still being horrendously nasty and discourteous to each other over simple differences in political views.

Some of my friends are over the edge "Alt. Rights" and some are "Hairy Commie-Leaning Liberals" and SO WHAT?

It's not the actual differences of opinion that get to me, it's the intolerance over differences in opinion. And the name calling! Suddenly everyone is "an idiot" and everyone is accusing everyone else of "fraud."

Instead of all that hatred, why don't you just let people re-count the damn votes?

By a peaceful stream

Perhaps what bugs me most is that this tendency seems to be spilling outside the political arena. Now I am watching supposedly "Enlightened" people call each other frauds and scammers over their differing perspectives of what it means to be enlightened.

It all feels like funhouse mirror circus viewed through a real bad acid trip.

So why do I still go back, you might wonder. Well, as I said, business. I was helping Mrs. Denmarkguy promote an online symposium in which she is one of the keynote presenters... so I had to pay "the price" of also being exposed to all the ugly garbage.

And there it is... thanks for reading my rant!

How about YOU? Do you ever use Facebook anymore? Does it seem like the intolerance of differences is running rampant there? As always, comments, feedback and other interaction is invited and welcomed! Because — after all — SOCIAL content is about interacting, right? Leave a comment-- share your experiences-- be part of the conversation!

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