@Simone_De_Beauvoir I actually don’t mind the debate even on facebook, the learning curve for me was understanding that most people feel like you. It makes sense, don’t get me wrong, I can see why people feel like you.
@zen My sister got really pissed at me because she had a thread going on facebook about gay marriage, and someone on the thread said something my sister hated him for. Her reaction was over the top in my opinion, and when I chimed in to say I agreed with part of what he said, and that I thought she misunderstood what he was trying to communicate, she thought I was just awful. A few days later it happened that I posted on my status that Mexico had finally put into law that gay people can adopt children. My sister put a like, maybe a comment, can’t remember. Then a “friend” of mine put some hideous remark about how the new law was awful. My sister was furious I did not delete his comment. I had not even seen it yet. Of course people had replied to this idiot and told him he was an idiot. Anyway, she hated me for something someone else wrote, and then said she was not even sure if I was in favor of the law, that I did not say I was. I was the one who provided the link to the article for all to see. She wanted to know how can I still be friends with the person who said such a thing (remember we are talking facebook friends, he is not a friend in real life, he is someone I know from the past).
Now, we know my sister is acting irrationally sure. I mean, I have always been ok with gay people, I have always supported gay marriage, gay adoption. But, my sister has all these rules in her head about how facebook should be done. Seems there are several people like that.
I have a few other friends in real life who have said they think people should not be serious on facebook, which is different from what @Simone_de_Beauvoir is saying from what I can tell. Wanting people to be agreeable on fb is different from only posting funny lighthearted things.
As soon as I see a conversation heat up on facebook, I get out of it.