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I am not from US, I hate FB during electoral campagins not because of paid ads but because of people sharing tons of political crap, I would like to hide all po

I am not from US, I hate FB during electoral campagins not because of paid ads but because of people sharing tons of political crap, I would like to hide all political post and shares of my friends and ads.

ManlyBread 6y ago
Hopefully at some point someone notices that politics are a huge turn-off for many people. I live in Poland and EA decided they need me to see a statement for BLM in one of their games. What's the value of that? I have zero influence over the things happening in US and it's not like the topic is not all over the internet anyway. If it weren't for the fact that I play that game with friends I would just uninstall it completely.
- IngoBlechschmid 6y ago
  A couple of days ago, I noticed that my favorite science fiction author Greg Egan has published a new book. He listed several distributors which are equally good for him. When I saw that one them displayed a huge BLM banner, my decision where where to buy was set. I also don't live in the US, but similar issues exist in many countries, including mine, and I appreciate any company publically showing their support for this cause (and other causes important to me). Of course some companies support those causes only for publicity reasons. But it's still positive signaling.
- foldr 6y ago
  >What's the value of that? I have zero influence over the things happening in US BLM isn't only relevant to the US. It's not as if Poland doesn't have any issues with racism. I actually think this has been one of the positive effects of the high profile of BLM. Too many European countries have been content to tell themselves that racism is an American problem which they don't have.
  - pjc50 6y ago
    Poland is extremely .. traditional about this kind of thing; racism is hardly mentioned because Poland was never a colonial power and has in the modern era been a country that people emigrate from rather than immigrate to. So the non-white population of Poland is tiny. More relevant to Poland is the conservative consolidation of power and rollback of LGBT rights. (And if you want to start a really uncomfortable discussion about racism in Poland, the Holocaust will definitely do that)
    - foldr 6y ago
      As you mention yourself, anti-Semitic racism is a serious problem in Poland. And other forms of racism are still a problem, even if the number of non-white people is small.
  - raxxorrax 6y ago
    BLM has organizations directly tied to US democrats. People giving money might not have realized this. BLM has no monopoly on fighting racism. EAs claims to be interested in fighting racism is an insult to many people. I think a lot of members of BLM are racists.
    - foldr 6y ago
      >BLM has organizations directly tied to US democrats Most large political organizations in the US have "ties" of some kind or another to one or both of the major political parties. But BLM isn't a single monolithic organization.
  - tester34 6y ago
    >BLM isn't only relevant to the US. It's not as if Poland doesn't have any issues with racism. As somebody not from the USA I differentiate BLM and fighting with racism, those are not the same and that's why I'd rather not see those BLMs ads.
chippy 6y ago
This is the problem with reddit also and twitter - indeed all social media. The main problem is that US political elections "season" runs for 2 years! So out of every 4 years, half of the time is campaigning season so it means that the rest of the worlds social media is polluted with "tons of political crap" 50% of the time. For US folks: look at how other western democracies run their electoral campaigns to help understand this. They tend to be much much shorter in duration. For international users - remember that for Americans, it's normal to be swamped in political campaigning pollution for half of their time.
- hutzlibu 6y ago
  Well, that the US presidential voting system is weird, is out of the question. But simply having a shorter campaign before election is no magic bullet either. Here we have the saying, that politicians only listen to people during the election. So shorten that time, shortens the window to get through with something. But from a rational and idealistic point of view, none of this makes much sense. Campaigning is a huge waste of everyones attention and energy.
  - simion314 6y ago
    >Well, that the US presidential voting system is weird, is out of the question. But simply having a shorter campaign before election is no magic bullet either. I disagree, before the election start here the politicians won't even be sure who will be candidate, then the flyers, walking trough the streets will not happen, there will be no debates on TV. When campaign starts soem peolpe get activated and they will try to promote their favorite party/ person - I am OK with that I would like an option to not see those posts, or an option to hide all posts from this person for the campagin duration. I think this persons think they are doing the right thing and informing people etc I just don't care and when I open FB once a week to see if there is some message for me I would like to see only relevant stuff. Anyway, here in Romania I do not see many political posts outside electoral campaigns or when the government is doing some shity stuff and people are calling them out , or when some politician says a stupid thing and memes are created about their idiocy(now thinking about it if you have politicians that say a lot of idiotic things often you get a ton of political memes/satire ).
sshagent 6y ago
tell me about it. On my browser its quite nice as i have the "F.B. Purity" addon, that lets me choose words to filter entire posts by. So i add both common political part words ( tories, labour, conservative etc ) and my feed is a lot nicer. Its just a shame when i use fb on my phone i get to read that stuff. Muting people for 30 days is a reasonable start i guess, but i'd much rather filter by content
- bronco21016 6y ago
  I tried muting people during the 2016 cycle. It worked for sure, my feed was less political garbage. It turns out my feed was also mostly empty. I quit and have been off ever since.
  - sshagent 6y ago
    Yeah, sounds very familiar. Muting all the annoying posts just left pictures of peoples food
sneak 6y ago
Unfollow your friends that post boring partisan nonsense. Alternately, just delete your Facebook account, and stop donating content and ad revenue to a censorship platform.
- simion314 6y ago
  I done that for some persons, and for people that post religious stuff daily. I hide all from them. But there could be a solution, like say I am a honest person that I want to get elected in a possition in my little village, can I post things and somehow mention to show it only for people that are in the same village as me, so my friends in other locations don't have to see the local stuff. I am not a big FB user, but FB is the only way I can keep in touch with some of my colleagues from school/university , sadly soem of them are not on FB and the old phone numbers are not valid so they are just gone, no idea if they are still alive
  - sneak 6y ago
    You have to have an email account to sign up for Facebook; if you wish to keep in touch with your old colleagues you can simply ask them for their email addresses. This is what I did when I quit Instagram.
monadic2 6y ago
Funny, I only go on facebook to try and pierce my friends’ open political apathy.

ManlyBread 6y ago

Hopefully at some point someone notices that politics are a huge turn-off for many people. I live in Poland and EA decided they need me to see a statement for BLM in one of their games. What's the value of that? I have zero influence over the things happening in US and it's not like the topic is not all over the internet anyway. If it weren't for the fact that I play that game with friends I would just uninstall it completely.

IngoBlechschmid 6y ago
A couple of days ago, I noticed that my favorite science fiction author Greg Egan has published a new book. He listed several distributors which are equally good for him. When I saw that one them displayed a huge BLM banner, my decision where where to buy was set. I also don't live in the US, but similar issues exist in many countries, including mine, and I appreciate any company publically showing their support for this cause (and other causes important to me). Of course some companies support those causes only for publicity reasons. But it's still positive signaling.
foldr 6y ago
>What's the value of that? I have zero influence over the things happening in US BLM isn't only relevant to the US. It's not as if Poland doesn't have any issues with racism. I actually think this has been one of the positive effects of the high profile of BLM. Too many European countries have been content to tell themselves that racism is an American problem which they don't have.
- pjc50 6y ago
  Poland is extremely .. traditional about this kind of thing; racism is hardly mentioned because Poland was never a colonial power and has in the modern era been a country that people emigrate from rather than immigrate to. So the non-white population of Poland is tiny. More relevant to Poland is the conservative consolidation of power and rollback of LGBT rights. (And if you want to start a really uncomfortable discussion about racism in Poland, the Holocaust will definitely do that)
  - foldr 6y ago
    As you mention yourself, anti-Semitic racism is a serious problem in Poland. And other forms of racism are still a problem, even if the number of non-white people is small.
- raxxorrax 6y ago
  BLM has organizations directly tied to US democrats. People giving money might not have realized this. BLM has no monopoly on fighting racism. EAs claims to be interested in fighting racism is an insult to many people. I think a lot of members of BLM are racists.
  - foldr 6y ago
    >BLM has organizations directly tied to US democrats Most large political organizations in the US have "ties" of some kind or another to one or both of the major political parties. But BLM isn't a single monolithic organization.
- tester34 6y ago
  >BLM isn't only relevant to the US. It's not as if Poland doesn't have any issues with racism. As somebody not from the USA I differentiate BLM and fighting with racism, those are not the same and that's why I'd rather not see those BLMs ads.

chippy 6y ago

This is the problem with reddit also and twitter - indeed all social media. The main problem is that US political elections "season" runs for 2 years! So out of every 4 years, half of the time is campaigning season so it means that the rest of the worlds social media is polluted with "tons of political crap" 50% of the time. For US folks: look at how other western democracies run their electoral campaigns to help understand this. They tend to be much much shorter in duration. For international users - remember that for Americans, it's normal to be swamped in political campaigning pollution for half of their time.

hutzlibu 6y ago
Well, that the US presidential voting system is weird, is out of the question. But simply having a shorter campaign before election is no magic bullet either. Here we have the saying, that politicians only listen to people during the election. So shorten that time, shortens the window to get through with something. But from a rational and idealistic point of view, none of this makes much sense. Campaigning is a huge waste of everyones attention and energy.
- simion314 6y ago
  >Well, that the US presidential voting system is weird, is out of the question. But simply having a shorter campaign before election is no magic bullet either. I disagree, before the election start here the politicians won't even be sure who will be candidate, then the flyers, walking trough the streets will not happen, there will be no debates on TV. When campaign starts soem peolpe get activated and they will try to promote their favorite party/ person - I am OK with that I would like an option to not see those posts, or an option to hide all posts from this person for the campagin duration. I think this persons think they are doing the right thing and informing people etc I just don't care and when I open FB once a week to see if there is some message for me I would like to see only relevant stuff. Anyway, here in Romania I do not see many political posts outside electoral campaigns or when the government is doing some shity stuff and people are calling them out , or when some politician says a stupid thing and memes are created about their idiocy(now thinking about it if you have politicians that say a lot of idiotic things often you get a ton of political memes/satire ).

sshagent 6y ago

tell me about it. On my browser its quite nice as i have the "F.B. Purity" addon, that lets me choose words to filter entire posts by. So i add both common political part words ( tories, labour, conservative etc ) and my feed is a lot nicer. Its just a shame when i use fb on my phone i get to read that stuff. Muting people for 30 days is a reasonable start i guess, but i'd much rather filter by content

bronco21016 6y ago
I tried muting people during the 2016 cycle. It worked for sure, my feed was less political garbage. It turns out my feed was also mostly empty. I quit and have been off ever since.
- sshagent 6y ago
  Yeah, sounds very familiar. Muting all the annoying posts just left pictures of peoples food

sneak 6y ago

Unfollow your friends that post boring partisan nonsense. Alternately, just delete your Facebook account, and stop donating content and ad revenue to a censorship platform.

simion314 6y ago
I done that for some persons, and for people that post religious stuff daily. I hide all from them. But there could be a solution, like say I am a honest person that I want to get elected in a possition in my little village, can I post things and somehow mention to show it only for people that are in the same village as me, so my friends in other locations don't have to see the local stuff. I am not a big FB user, but FB is the only way I can keep in touch with some of my colleagues from school/university , sadly soem of them are not on FB and the old phone numbers are not valid so they are just gone, no idea if they are still alive
- sneak 6y ago
  You have to have an email account to sign up for Facebook; if you wish to keep in touch with your old colleagues you can simply ask them for their email addresses. This is what I did when I quit Instagram.

monadic2 6y ago

Funny, I only go on facebook to try and pierce my friends’ open political apathy.