2. November 7: Top 10 Ways to School Your Leftist Friends on Facebook by Diane Schrader
You’re all bloggers, you know. If you’re on Facebook, you have an opportunity to express your opinion with an audience of FB friends. More of us should be taking advantage of thisopportunity.
Because unless you zealously guard the ideological purity of your Facebook friendlist, limiting it only to other people who also only limit to conservatives, you are bound to log on one day and find some spectacularly annoying and/or downright asinine comment posted to which you must respond. And I mean you MUST respond. (See #10, below.)
Now this can be bruising, because text-based arguments get nastier a whole lot quicker, in my experience, than face-to-face interactions. Most people are a whole lot more polite in person than when protected by the relative anonymity of their computer screen, and this goes double for Leftists. What’s more, it is often the friends of your friends to whom you will find yourself responding, and they may well be people you don’t know and will never meet, which can shove the nasty meter into overdrive. But armed with these tips, you can have a rewarding exchange, pound Leftism, and maintain your dignity
Diane Schrader is like Chris Queen. She’s joined the publication in the past few months and has really distinguished herself in the List Post genre. I hope to continue to have a new list from her each week.
This post was a huge smash hit for NRB. Neal Boortz linking to it helped push it near the top of the publication’s list post hits. What’s particularly engaging about this post is the way it acts as a guide for the masses of those of us who are foolish enough to engage our progressive friends and family on Facebook when politics arise.
Here’s my question for NRB‘s readers: is this something you would like us to develop further? Would more help aiding readers in the challenge of Facebook and Twitter fights be welcome? We could easily start assembling some debating references to help you when you stumble into one back and forth or another.
Finally: This last one is only going to get bigger — especially with your help…
