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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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  • It is easy to annoy people accidentally online. I try to be careful in what I say. I'm not on Twitter or Instagram at all and I use Facebook for a couple of selected groups, although even then things can get tense sometimes. I do blog, but the blogging community seems to be mostly supportive -- maybe the greater effort needed to write or even read a blog post weeds out the trolls, or maybe it's just that blogging about autism and mental illness selects for people who have experienced difficulty and can empathise with others.

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  • It is easy to annoy people accidentally online. I try to be careful in what I say. I'm not on Twitter or Instagram at all and I use Facebook for a couple of selected groups, although even then things can get tense sometimes. I do blog, but the blogging community seems to be mostly supportive -- maybe the greater effort needed to write or even read a blog post weeds out the trolls, or maybe it's just that blogging about autism and mental illness selects for people who have experienced difficulty and can empathise with others.

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