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Social media should I stay off it?

Joe

This is a daft thing i know, but earlier I made the mistake of commenting on something in a local FB group.  Someone had posted a lost driving licence they found outside Tesco, I said I didn't understand why people posted this on FB and went on to suggest they could've handed it back in to Tesco, popped it round or posted it.  All logical to me. 

I got quite an aggressive responsive accusing me of being gods gift and was I having a bad day.  I've smoothed it over, but I'm thinking maybe I need to come off social media or general forums areas where people just don't get what I might be saying.  This is not the first time something like this happens and I find it quite distressing.  Should I just disengage? What do you guys do?

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  • Honestly yes. Stay off social media. Especially Facebook and Twitter. Those are just cesspits of humanity where everyone will take what you say out of context regardless of whether there is anything to mistake or not just because it's teh culture of the internet there for everyone to pile on voracious for their pound of flesh like an opportunistic pirahna.
    Other sites are better but really even then best to stick to the side of them where you are just discussing your hobbies and interests, never poke a religious or political post, not even with a 10 ft barge pole.
    That should go for everyone ND or NT.

    Shame more people don't follow the THINK rule.


    I also consider it a rule to take with a pinch of salt any post that doesn't follow that rule, and to remember that the way people treat you is more about them than it is you. People who are happy and secure don't jump swearing down the neck of strangers on the internet.


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  • Honestly yes. Stay off social media. Especially Facebook and Twitter. Those are just cesspits of humanity where everyone will take what you say out of context regardless of whether there is anything to mistake or not just because it's teh culture of the internet there for everyone to pile on voracious for their pound of flesh like an opportunistic pirahna.
    Other sites are better but really even then best to stick to the side of them where you are just discussing your hobbies and interests, never poke a religious or political post, not even with a 10 ft barge pole.
    That should go for everyone ND or NT.

    Shame more people don't follow the THINK rule.


    I also consider it a rule to take with a pinch of salt any post that doesn't follow that rule, and to remember that the way people treat you is more about them than it is you. People who are happy and secure don't jump swearing down the neck of strangers on the internet.


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