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Britain First on facebook, vile ratbags
BinCat
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I keep getting shares and similar for this awful site on fb. had a look and it's basically just a hub of hate filled BNP style racist morons.
The disturbing thing is it seems to be people who I used to think of as quite normal, rational human beings sharing these posts around. It's quite depressing:(
The disturbing thing is it seems to be people who I used to think of as quite normal, rational human beings sharing these posts around. It's quite depressing:(
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One person kept sharing things from 'the daily patriot' which might as well have been called 'the daily racist'. I despise this sort of thing and Facebook gives people a platform to share it.
No offence meant at all, but if this is true of your Facebook experiece, it says more about the people you're friends with than it does about Facebook itself.
That's what I mean, it seems to be perfectly normal people sharing these posts. I've unfriended a few people over the last week, and clicked on the don't send posts from Britain First thing, but still got another this morning>:(
There were two of them sharing things like that and one of them was more a case of 'keeping your enemies close'. We are not friends, used to be years ago but not now.
The other was just a bit of an idiot to be honest, and the sister of a friend so not my friend as such.
There are lots of reasons why I don't use Facebook any more, this is just one of them.
That's the issue with Facebook though isn't it, a lot people are 'friends' with people they barely even know.
I'm not on it (never have been) but this desire to have as many contacts on there as possible means something like this is bound to happen.
Well that's their own fault then. You aren't forced to accept anyone as a friend and the "unfriend" button is freely and easily accessible if you regret "friending" someone in the first place. The person you unfriend isn't even sent a notification that you've done it.
No, that's the issue with some Facebook users. Nobody is required to add strangers to their friends list.
Don't shoot the messenger
I agree with you, but this seems to happen a lot judging by posts I see on here.
If I was on Facebook and this happened to me, I think I would quietly delete that person and leave it at that.
I wouldn't post on here about it and draw attention to the fact.
I agree with you as well.
4 candidates in Wales, none of whom actually live in Wales.
http://www.europarl.org.uk/resource/static/files/european_elections/wales.pdf
I presume this unknown friend adding stuff is about measuring self worth and virtual fame. Perhaps with this mindset they think that unfriending someone that has shared something offensive detracts something from themselves rather than from the offensive 'friend'.
I would imagine many play on this mindset in order to spread this rubbish.
I had two friends share posts over the weekend, one from this Britain First thing and one shared something from another site which appears to be similar, a patriot type site.
Incidentally I had two friends share and post stuff that was the opposite, one sharing an anti-UKIP campaign and another a general anti-racism one.
It's easy to say that it says a lot about the people you are friends with, but I had no idea that either of the two women who shared the patriot stuff had those feelings and am dissapointed to learn that they do.
I don't know whether I will defriend them over it, I will one as I don't know her well, the other is an old friend and I'm actually really dissapointed, I thought more of her... but it has certainly changed my opinion of them a lot.
In all seriousness, it is a bit of both.
The 'do-gooders' are in some cases just as bad and just as intolerant as the knuckle-draggers.
I did too. I just hid the site on my feed.
I agree. I've not seen any of my friends sharing/posting this kind of claptrap. I can't imagine I'd be friends with them in the first place to be honest.
These little groups are as bad and as sad as each other. Tragic misfits that nobody could give a toss about. I watched the BBC Three documentary by Richard Dart's step-brother last night. Fascinating and revealing.