I have a friend on FB that found me through another few friends. We lived on the same street when we were 5, 6, 7 ish and were really great friends but after we moved away, I hadn't seen or heard from her until a few years ago when she found me on FB. Right after that we chatted/emailed on FB a lot, catching up and talking but over the past year things have tapered off as we have both been really busy in our separate lives. Just in the last few months, or maybe I really didn't notice before or wasn't getting all her posts, she has been posting a LOT of conspiracy theory type posts, the government is out to get us, etc. I was doing pretty good at ignoring most of it, though some was pretty interesting to read, others I just ignored, until this whole gun thing came up. Now she is posting probably 20-30 or more a day and it is really starting to bug me. I saw one today that didn't seem quite right so I did my own research on it and all that I could find that seemed reputable called it a hoax, so I gently responded and posted what I had found and said I didn't really care one way or the other, but thought it was an interesting different perspective, the other side of the story, per se. Well, of course she responded, not really unkindly, but was definitely on the defensive and countered with other "supporting" sites, which I haven't bothered to look at. The thing is, she also posts some really awesome stuff too and I don't want to lose those things but being overwhelmed with all the other stuff she posts is getting to be too much. I don't really want to unfriend her but don't know what else to do at the moment. Hoping that things will settle down and she will lay off, but from the looks of it, it is not likely to happen, just not sure what to do at the moment.
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