Have you ever had a Facebook status, link, or post blow up on you?

No (but, I followed your status and that was crazy!!!!).

It happened to me once, and as soon as I saw it had gotten taken in a direction that I never intended, I deleted the whole thing. It’s my page, I need to control it, and make it mine, not a platform for someone else, and their sniping. They can do that on their page if they want to, not on mine.

No – but I’ve seen some recently!

No, because I don’t make any of my posts/statuses/photos visible to the public. My privacy is set to my friends only, as everyone’s should be.

(and my friends are civil people. If they weren’t, they wouldn’t be my friends.)

No, but I have some friends that do that and join in the fun, lol.

I have unfriended people for getting ugly on my page.

A childhood friend of mine posted a picture of a marine and his wife (very dignified), and a homeless couple (it appeared) protesting with the 99%. He commented that one would shit on the flag, while the other would die for your right to free speech. I pointed out that one would urinate on the dead bodies of his enemies, embarassing his country and breaking international law, while the other just wants rich people to pay more taxes. My childhood friend exploded on my comment, saying our enemies have no rights, and criticizing my lack of military duty.
The guy is a prick.
My nephew is now upset with me. He posted a picture of Trayvon Whatshisname, posing as a thug, flipping off the camera. I simply said he was unarmed, and my nephew began raging against the LIBERAL media.
I really think Facebook is the wrong place to have this disagreement, but I also beleive that if you post something contraversial, you need to allow a balancing comment.
@Judi I will prune the friends on my Facebook page soon, and childhood friend is toast.

@filmfan, most of my friends have a differentvpolitical view than me. I let the opposing comments go on for a while, but one person started getting mean and attacking. I even asked the person to keep they’re mean vile attacks on their own page instead of polluting mine. When they continued I unfriended.

Yes, actually. I just ignored it. If it got really bad, I removed the post. Or told everyone it was just a joke and calm the hell down. It’s up to you how you handle it though. It sucks that facebook doesn’t have control over that like Fluther… haahah. :P

I let people duke it out between themselves, without intervening. I’ve never seen them get out of hand, though I’ve seen that occur on other people’s pages. If someone has a beef with something I’ve posted, I’ll only argue for so long before declaring that we should stop arguing or take it away from the public forum. My friends aren’t jerks (whether we agree on social issues or not), so that keeps things friendly. In general, if I didn’t want to have conversations with these people, they wouldn’t be on my friends list to begin with. On principle, I don’t friend people out of obligation, and I don’t friend family members. I suspect that helps a lot. :/

Nope. I don’t post political things on Facebook. Whenever I do post links, they are usually to music, artsy things, or interesting pages I’ve found (for example, yesterday I posted a link to a wiki article about a rare type of mirage). Any time a post of mine does “explode,” It’s with jokes and such. Not a ragefest.

@wilma I thought a lot about doing that. In the end I decided that if I put the post out there knowing some would agree and some would disagree, that I would leave it up and let it play out. I do have a very eclectic group of Facebook friends and on this issue I figured about half would be on one side and half on the other. I also knew that both sides were pretty vocal about their feelings.

@SuperMouse It did get very Fluthery in feel but was interesting to read.

Sorry @SuperMouse.

Hey. Why am not your facebook friend? You know how I love a good row.

I’ve never had huge arguments spur up on Facebook. But the other day I replied to this anonymous question someone asked me on my Tumblr, which I have set up to post to my Facebook as well. Well with the timeline layout most of my tumblr posts briefly appear in the Newsfeed, and then they end up in some little tumblr box that’s usually pushed pretty far down my profile page. But a few things post prominently onto my page, the way a status or link posts.

Anyways, the question on Tumblr was basically someone saying how they really want to see me naked, and have since high school, and that I’m really awesome. I was feeling snarky, and happen to have a nice collection of nude photos and painting reference photo shoots. So I grabbed this picture that doesn’t show any naughty parts but I’m naked and I have this psycho look on my face. Posted that with a super snarky reply about how I’m giving them what they wanted ‘cause I’m so so awesome. Along with a little rant about a whole bunch of new instances of dudes straight up telling me they want in my pants.

This ended up posting prominently on my Facebook and tons of people commented on it and it was a good ol’ time. A bunch of my guy friends also jokingly sent me txts and IMs about wanting to see me naked. It was fun. Though I’ve probably embarrassed the fuck out of someone who I may actually be friends with. Crossed my mind before I wrote up the reply, but I couldn’t help myself. Confessions like that are one thing, anonymous confessions like that just aren’t going to get any mercy from me.

No. I keep my Facebook family friendly. It’s a place to share good news and photos, with an occasional gripe about our car taking a shit. I never post anything about politics or religion. I also don’t start debates on anything my friends post. That’s not why I’m on Facebook.

I do find it kind of silly when people take offense at some of those posters that are posted on Facebook (like the one you posted @SuperMouse). I don’t understand why some people get so worked up over these things.

Actually, I saw that and was reminded of Fluther. It was so heated that I didn’t want to jump in.

Although I will tell you that I thought it was funny and fairly innocuous and that people were overreacting.

Anyone else curious to know what photo provoked the shitstorm?

@dappled_leaves It was this.

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@Blackberry See @marinelife‘s post right there. ^^

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@marinelife Lol! I have atheist friends but I’m Christian, and I found that funny. Hahah xD

@tinyfaery we are friends on Facebook! @katawaygrey no need to apologize, I could have stopped it in its tracks if I had removed that very first “fail“comment, but I choose not to!

The interesting thing is that my Facebook friends run the gamut from evangelical Christian to avowed atheist. As I said initially, I was expecting a couple of likes, some shares and a couple of less positive comments. I wasn’t quite expecting it to play out the way it did. I thought the post (linked up thread by @marinelife) was funny but not really offensive. Near the end of the maelstrom one of my dearest friends who happens to be atheist responded with a very witty post that finished it off quite well. This sort of thing doesn’t happen when I post liberal stuff (which I do all the time) because about 98% of my Facebook friends are on the same page as I am politically.

What was really funny was that when I got to work this morning a co-worker who is also a friend of Facebook thanked me for a very entertaining read!

Yeah. I had read a joke that I thought was funny and posted it. Apparently, not so funny to everyoe else. I had to take down the post. Some people have no sense of humor, especially that if people really knew me, they would know I only posted it for it’s comedic value, not the message. Party Poopers!

@marinelife Oh wow. I see.

I’m sorry for causing a fight. I don’t know why I feel the need to be the behavior police but for better or worse it seems to be a pretty strongly ingrained trait.

I am realizing with time, though, that it is completely pointless. There is a billboard near my house that “jokingly” bashes religious people. I found the group that put it up, a local atheist/skeptic group, and posted a message to their facebook telling them that I thought it was embarrassing and not at all effective.

No one agreed with me. It could have been the same conversation that happened on your thread. I was too quick to offend, lighten up, they deserve it, etc. As is the case so often in arguments, all I did was give these people a chance to convince themselves they were right.

So, again, I apologize for saying anything. Maybe I’ll learn my lesson someday.

No I have a very limited number of people on my FB account, mostly relatives and a few close friends that live far away. I never post controversial things for just this reason. I only seem to have one relative that often posts controversial stuff, and I just ignore her when she does. Even though I might disagree with her, or other people, these people are my family and real friends so it’s not worth it to cause trouble amongst them. I also do not make my page public.

I did once reply to the friend (someone I didn’t know) of one of my cousins when this person made some really disparaging remarks about how it was sinful and disgusting to be gay, or something along those line. Many of my friends are gay and it really rubbed me the wrong way, on multiple levels (because they’re my friends and also on an equal rights stance) so I told this person about my multiple gay friends and how her statement was extremely insulting to me and to them. She did not reply back. My cousin also said something similar to her, about her comments being very insulting.

My Page is also private and only for my friends to view. I have friends with a wide range of views and opinions, be they political, religious or whatever. They often make comments on their own and other peoples pages that I don’t agree with or that I think are not very nice. I ignore those posts. I don’t comment on them on the page. I might send a private message if I want to lend support to someone, but I wouldn’t send a message to be negative about something.

@nikipedia, I promise, I wasn’t the least bit bothered by your post. As a matter of fact it really made me think. I tend to post all kinds of stuff that most everyone agrees with and very little that I consider inflammatory to the majority of my Facebook friends (aside from my dad who booted me as a Facebook friend because he was so tired of my “liberal propaganda”). If I want to post that stuff I have to be prepared to hear opinions on it, whether or not I agree. I posted this question because I thought it might provoke an interesting discussion.

FYI, my page is set to private, I can’t even be found by a Facebook search. Everyone who chimed in on the thread is a friend.

@nikipedia I tend to speak up about my views as well, if someone is posting something in a public place that I find offensive or insensitive. I like to think that even if I’m drowned out by people who refuse to hear an opposing viewpoint or don’t care, perhaps I encouraged a few quiet people to think about it.

Ha – then I read your post, @SuperMouse. That’s good to hear.

I am just so weary of face book, I had a bad experience there, and also from posting a photo of myself. So I am on face book due to being nagged by friends who moved over seas, but I do not post anything personal anymore not even a photo.

No. I really don’t post much on my own page and I don’t think I ever say anything controversial on anyone else’s page either.

I did get a complaint against me on my real page though. I logged in to gather some data (I use my real page for research) and there was a warning that there had been complaints because I tried to friend people who were not my friends or close associates. Yeah! Politicians! People running for office! Sheesh…

(I want to apologize for my iPhone. I just looked at my answer and that damned auto correct started making me look stupid again. I really need to be more careful before I hit enter.)