Watch out for :fedposting: obviously.

My spouse works in medicine. A lib boomer doctor coworker of hers has been a family friend for decades. He and I would debate sometimes on Facebook. It never got too rowdy until about six months ago, maybe earlier. I can't remember what it was about, but I was probably going on and on about Biden sux, death to amerikkka, etc., etc. I think almost all of my Facebook friends, the vast majority of whom I had not spoken with in at least ten years, had muted me by then. But this guy came onto my wall and was just much more tenacious than usual. It sucked because I've known him forever, I genuinely like him, and I was literally in love with one of his kids for many years in school. The debate went on for several days. We never called each other names or insulted each other, but it was still pretty intense. My spouse's coworkers commented about it to her at work. I don't remember what they said, but I want to believe it was something like: "your unemployed commie husband is repeatedly bodying [respected doctor] on Facebook." She asked me to get off Facebook because she said it was endangering her job. I agreed to go, and actually I'm very happy that I did, since Facebook is a cesspit and echo chamber. Later we found out that the doctor was in the hospital with covid, and some nurses had seen him angrily typing a lot on his phone when we were debating. He recovered from covid AFAIK, while I have been off Facebook since then.

  • ssjmarx [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    First and only time I ever used Facebook was to comment on the video Two Girls One Cup. At that point I had seen a lot of other shock content so my comment was something like "didn't live up to the hype", but either I didn't realize or didn't care that that comment and that video were now on my FB feed going out to my whole family.

    Next day my mom asked me what the video was, but I'm like 90% sure she watched it. My response was something like "uh, don't look it up, trust me" and i deleted my Facebook account that day never to return.

    • booty [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      Next day my mom asked me what the video was, but I’m like 90% sure she watched it. My response was something like “uh, don’t look it up, trust me”

      I mean it starts out with the girls just making out and stuff right? Probably she just got to the point where there were four titties on her screen and went "ok yeah id rather not continue watching"

      • ssjmarx [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        Fingers crossed I suppose, but this was almost twenty years ago now so whether she did or not I bet she doesn't remember.