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In reply to the discussion: I've been having a lengthy argument on facebook with a former neighbor [View all]calimary
(81,127 posts)17. Yeah. 'Fraid that's what you probably need to do at this point.
I was abruptly unfriended on Facebook during the last campaign, after we started getting into some hotly contentious arguments. And when I noticed a few months later that I was invited to friend-up again, I didn't react. I was in no hurry to have tirades of anger and verbal abuse rained down on me for asking that the vitriol not be posted on my page. (Sheesh! How dare I have the gall to demand the last word regarding what's posted on MY page!) Eventually the friend request was canceled by the sender. I was sorry to see that whole misadventure play out, because we'd been friends for a long time. But that's how it went.
Sigh...
You win some, you lose some, I guess.
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I've been having a lengthy argument on facebook with a former neighbor [View all]
coeur_de_lion
Feb 2013
OP
Why do you stress yourself out with people like this. You can't reason with stupid.
southernyankeebelle
Feb 2013
#7
Keep her around and keep inviting her over for coffee/tea while having political discussions.
JaneyVee
Feb 2013
#9
Really? The neighbor sounds two steps from irrational. Having a person like that over
bluestate10
Feb 2013
#10
Yeah but unfriending could lead to all types of awkwardness when you see the person again.
JaneyVee
Feb 2013
#12
I look at it like this: I talked/felt like that in the Bush administration years
Hekate
Feb 2013
#16
Orwellian, the new handi-dandy all-purpose intellectual buzzzzzzzzzzzzzz word. nt
patrice
Feb 2013
#30
There was a time in life when I thought people in many ways were pretty much the
RKP5637
Feb 2013
#31