When people try to guilt you into re-posting stuff on Facebook, do you ever call them out on it?

I’m never sure whether Facebook gives you an insight into what people actually think or if it just illustrates how they don’t think at all…

I would say just ignore it. If you want to mention it to them, why not wait until you are speaking to them and see if it feels appropriate then? It is a modern day conundrum though.

No. First, nobody I know does that.
Second, Facebook is sort of bullshit anyway. Beyond posting pictures of your birthday party or vacation, what else is there to do with it?

Anyone who wants to guilt me is not my friend. I ignore that sort of stuff.

A FB friend posted two of these messages earlier this week. One was the stock, “I’m culling down the list of FB friends.” The other was about “September Suicide Month.” Both ended with a “Copy and paste this status to your profile page” message.

We worked together back in the early 90’s and haven’t really been in touch since then. I sent her a message and told her that I understood the need to cut back on FB friends and that, based upon our limited friendship, if she wanted to drop me, I wouldn’t be offended.

With the other post, I almost sent her another message. Two of my FB friends (one is a cousin) each lost a child to suicide. Both friends are still suffering from their loss, and I don’t think either would have appreciated reading the post. I decided not to send a response to the woman. It may have generated a realization that her post might cause more hurt than good.

My facebook account is locked up. I can’t even post. How would I call them out?

Yep, have noticed it. I don’t know what it has to do with guts but they are certainly right about the me not re-posting it part. No, I never call them out but I don’t understand why they do it.

I haven’t heard the guts part and mine are often things I agree with but I will never repost something that says, “Please repost this as your status..I know that only 3% of my friends will do this and I think I know who they are.”

I do not respond well to manipulation so I never repost those but I also do not call the person out on them.

It’s just Face Book. I love seeing what people are up to, and I’m a sucker for cute animal videos, but as far as I know, no one has unfriended me, talked trash about me, slashed my tires or kicked my dogs because I didn’t repost something.
This stuff is in front of our eyes for only seconds, I scroll past.

I just ignore such things. If posts really bug me, I hide them. If a person continued to bug me, I’d unfollow them.

I don’t respond or feel guilty – I just keep on scrolling down.

I don’t get political ones. I get stupid ones like. “Repost if you hate cancer” or “Repost if you love your kids” by not reposting, I’m proving that I love cancer and hate me kid.

I also look at a lot of that stuff as possible viruses. I heard you should be very careful what you share. Sometimes you’ll see a post of a handicapped child or some other sick person and it will say something about sharing as an amen or “liking” if you agree. Those things can have viruses in them and therefore, never repost, share or “like.”