Just had two facebook friend removals (no voter)

linkinpark875 · 19/09/14 - 13:40

I voted no and got removed by two facebook friends today. Lots of nasty messages from yes supports on facebook. Anybody else lose friends over this?

weirlandia4eva · 19/09/14 - 13:44

linkinpark875 wrote: »

I voted no and got removed by two facebook friends today. Lots of nasty messages from yes supports on facebook. Anybody else lose friends over this?

If they removed you due to your voting record then they weren't really true friends (or at least not the type of friend you should want). You are better off without them.

linkinpark875 · 19/09/14 - 13:46

weirlandia4eva wrote: »

If they removed you due to your voting record then they weren't really true friends (or at least not the type of friend you should want). You are better off without them.

I was open in what I voted but I guess that's why so many stayed silent on it as they dislike the arguments it causes.

[Deleted User] · 19/09/14 - 13:49

linkinpark875 wrote: »

I voted no and got removed by two facebook friends today. Lots of nasty messages from yes supports on facebook. Anybody else lose friends over this?

Not lost friends as such, but seen such nasty anti English comments from people I classed as friends which upset me because 1. It's pathetic and small minded and 2: Because my husband and 2 of my children are English.
Not sure whether our friendship will be the same now I've seen their true feelings.

PinSarla · 19/09/14 - 13:50

I don't really have many Yes voters as friends on FB, but the few referendum groups I am a member of are full of hatred and vitriol at the moment. One man even suggested (in response to a question about wanting to know who voted what way in each age group) that it was the addresses of the No voters that are really needed. Utterly disgusting and sums up a lot of the most vocal nationalist pigs that have been pushing the Yes agenda over the past few months.

linkinpark875 · 19/09/14 - 13:53

PinSarla wrote: »

I don't really have many Yes voters as friends on FB, but the few referendum groups I am a member of are full of hatred and vitriol at the moment. One man even suggested (in response to a question about wanting to know who voted what way in each age group) that it was the addresses of the No voters that are really needed. Utterly disgusting and sums up a lot of the most vocal nationalist pigs that have been pushing the Yes agenda over the past few months.

I can't really call it victory. I worry about Scottish society? The majority have spoken yet they call us not Scottish?

PencilBreath · 19/09/14 - 13:57

linkinpark875 wrote: »

I can't really call it victory. I worry about Scottish society? The majority have spoken yet they call us not Scottish?

because of 2 stupid non fb friends?

err perspective much?

linkinpark875 · 19/09/14 - 13:58

PencilBreath wrote: »

because of 2 stupid non fb friends?

err perspective much?

I mean that about the nasty messages on facebook today from a majority of yes supporters.

PencilBreath · 19/09/14 - 14:01

yeah sounds like you just need a cuddle mate. not really my thing.

[Deleted User] · 19/09/14 - 14:04

PinSarla wrote: »

I don't really have many Yes voters as friends on FB, but the few referendum groups I am a member of are full of hatred and vitriol at the moment. One man even suggested (in response to a question about wanting to know who voted what way in each age group) that it was the addresses of the No voters that are really needed. Utterly disgusting and sums up a lot of the most vocal nationalist pigs that have been pushing the Yes agenda over the past few months.

I was in tears yesterday voting, voting for what I believed was the best thing to do yet the bully tactics of certain yes voters in my circle had managed to make me feel like I wasn't patriotic because of it.
Yet big Davie who hasn't registered to vote because he doesn't want his debt to catch up with him is ok because he is sticking one fingers up to the authorities refusing to pay poll tax.

Am sick of it all already, am sick of people telling me I'm a coward, not Scottish enough, Englafied ( whatever that means) because I chose what I felt was best.

tim59 · 19/09/14 - 14:05

Yes but are these people really real friends or are they facebook friends because to me they are not the same thing.

[Deleted User] · 19/09/14 - 14:08

You were being honest about your voting intentions.
They were being honest about not wanting friends with those voting intentions.
You are being honest about your feelings regarding people who don't want friends with voting intentions like yours.
Seems to me like a good exercise in honesty on all sides, so it's a win for everyone concerned!

Or am I missing something here?

Annsyre · 19/09/14 - 14:08

linkinpark875 wrote: »

I voted no and got removed by two facebook friends today. Lots of nasty messages from yes supports on facebook. Anybody else lose friends over this?

Friends are people you know well, you know their family and other friends and have personal contact with them in the real world.

Kapellmeister · 19/09/14 - 14:09

Disgusting that #slaveheart was trending on Twitter earlier.

tim59 · 19/09/14 - 14:10

Annsyre wrote: »

Friends are people you know well, you know their family and other friends and have personal contact with them in the real world.

i agree,

[Deleted User] · 19/09/14 - 14:23

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bx4bwJaIAAAeATg.jpg

linkinpark875 · 19/09/14 - 14:26

Annsyre wrote: »

Friends are people you know well, you know their family and other friends and have personal contact with them in the real world.

I've been called English for voting no by some of my family..quite incredible

linkinpark875 · 19/09/14 - 14:26

Update down another friend seems a trend..

Kapellmeister · 19/09/14 - 14:28

streetlegal wrote: »

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bx4bwJaIAAAeATg.jpg

Hahah

linkinpark875 · 19/09/14 - 14:29

If people want to be that way I guess nothing I can do..i will stay strong I voted for what I believed was best.

[Deleted User] · 19/09/14 - 14:32

linkinpark875 wrote: »

If people want to be that way I guess nothing I can do..i will stay strong I voted for what I believed was best.

Ignore, stay away from FB and don't comment on it. It's sour grapes that's all it is.

I'm peed off with it too but it's just pathetic.

linkinpark875 · 19/09/14 - 14:33

Mrstim wrote: »

Ignore, stay away from FB and don't comment on it. It's sour grapes that's all it is.

I'm peed off with it too but it's just pathetic.

Sadly I knew this vote would divide us all whatever it was.

tim59 · 19/09/14 - 15:00

linkinpark875 wrote: »

If people want to be that way I guess nothing I can do..i will stay strong I voted for what I believed was best.

Why do people worry about what people write or think on facebook. Cannot get worked up about what a load of strangers think.

[Deleted User] · 19/09/14 - 15:03

tim59 wrote: »

Why do people worry about what people write or think on facebook. Cannot get worked up about what a load of strangers think.

I've not got fb anymore but when I did it was only fb friends with people I actually know, I'd never add strangers.

bspace · 19/09/14 - 15:55

well the one thing we can learn from this kind of behaviour is to lay to rest the notion that nationalism in Scotland is different to that in England and that the most vocal of the SNP crowd are the equivalent of the BNP.

donovan5 · 19/09/14 - 16:03

bspace wrote: »

well the one thing we can learn from this kind of behaviour is to lay to rest the notion that nationalism in Scotland is different to that in England and that the most vocal of the SNP crowd are the equivalent of the BNP.

Theres an element of that for sure,I used to go quite regularly on the Tartan Army board but got peed off with the constant independants vs traitors vibe for the last couple of years.
Having a quick look today and it's just as bad though pathetic cowards seems to be the favoured insult now.

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