Here is a true Facebook story:
Today, someone's post showed up on my newsfeed - check. In it, he shared the same BS fake news story that many shared - blatantly false which two seconds on Google will tell you. Now, during this past election tons of fake crap was shared on both sides of the coin. And my reaction is always the same - stop it. It helps NOTHING, and each time one side would do it the other would scream and yell and then - wait for it - do the same thing. I tend to go after people when they do this - it doesn't matter what side they're on because that is not the point - check. So, I call this guy out on it, not meanly (and I've been doing a lot less of it this year), but just linked to the proof it was fake and said it should come down because it was not, in fact, helping his side to spread misinformation - there is, believe me, plenty of real stuff to share.
Well, he posted a really nasty eff off response on his page, then came onto my wall and posed EFF YOU! I removed that immediately and then posted on his page that I hadn't friended him, he'd friended me, but I was about to change that status. As I posted I got the notice it couldn't be posted. Why? Because he beat me to the unfriend button. Then he went to all my posts and began posting comments - not inflammatory, but sarcastic - I told him if I saw one more anything from him that I would report him for harassment. He then accused ME of unfriending HIM, said he'd never posted the EFF YOU post (which I should have screen-shot first), and that he didn't know what I was talking about. At that point I did the easiest and best thing - blocked him. That way he can't see me and I can't see him. What is wrong with these jerks? He was in the wrong, he KNEW he was in the wrong, he didn't CARE he was in the wrong because it suited his point of view, but if anyone on the other side had posted something fake as real he would have been all over them. THIS is what we've become and it stinks.
