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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.

  • in reply to Luftmentsch

    I would say so, it's not that talk here doesn't get serious but it's more accurate to say it seldom feels vitriolic, and most abusive language is limited to certain users encountering certain topics rather than an overal theme of the forum here. Precisely because we are all here primarily for support so this forum does tend to lean more compassionate and tolerate from the innate empathy that we mostly all have something in common already.

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