yeah i deleted facebook like 5 years ago after my weird uncle wouldn't stop messaging me
Yup I unfollowed so much of my family as they were very triggering for my PTSD, and were extremely vocally conservative/religious. Recently I stopped using FB all together and I've been a lot happier!
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I don't go on Facebook at all anymore, since it's mostly extended family talking about politics and traditional family values. It's a pain to be reminded of how bigoted so many of my relatives are.
I haven't really made it much of a secret that I'm a lesbian, but I don't talk openly about it either, since most of my relatives hold deeply homophobic views. In person they can pretend that they don't know, and I can pretend that they don't mind, but on Facebook we have to acknowledge each other. : o
I feel like this is an experience a lot of LGBT people have with family, which is really sad. Maybe as we move into the future, society will grow to be more compassionate.
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Unfollowed all my family. My cousins are all spolit from my rich uncles/aunts and i hated opening my Facebook to see what holiday and fancy car they have been given now...
Call me jealous or whatever. But it just really annoyed me how it was always in my face and endless pictures of duck lips and snapchat filters -_-
I unfollow them, yeah. For the sake of keeping the peace.
No FB argument has ever changed anyone's mind. I'm lucky that even the traditional/conservative members of my family are either supportive of my sexuality or keep their mouth shut to my face. I've only unfriended one family member who snooped through everything I posted and talked to me about it later.
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I view this way, if someone in your family is toxic in a way that is bad for you there shouldn't be any reason you couldn't block/unfriend them. Just because they are blood related doesn't mean you are obligated to stay in contact or even tolerate them. I think people hang onto the notion that just because they are family they have to put up with them but I don't think that is true. I would much rather have friends that actually care about me and share my same views then family I have false relationships with for the sake of "family".
I recently though deactivated my facebook because I was just tired of hearing about everything and it has been one of the best things I have done for me personally.
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