I am a somewhat reluctant user of Facebook, but how do I "unfriend" someone ? ( I have someone used to know years ago and he keeps posting racist comments ! )
For such a keen debater, I'm surprised you'd give up on someone so easily, rather than try to turn them around.
If we are each the sum total of our inputs: the media, friends and relatives then one more person cutting them off from the land of broad-minded views just makes it more likely that they will drift further towards the cesspit, seeing as how only like-minded people, or worse, will have time for them.
I don't want it so I don't it. Have only used it once ant that was when somebody in America with a similar email to mine set up an account and used my email. (Their email should have had numbers after it, mine doen't and they forgot to use the number)
I did a password reset request, went in, told their relative what they'd done then deleted the account.
Hypognosis....as you can probably guess, I am far from being a shrinking violet when it comes to dealing with racists ! But if I get one more link, extolling the virtues of the EDL and Britain First, I shall drop the keyboard and come out shooting !
trt...you are right of course. But I have used Friends Reunited and found some old school friends that I have seen since I was 9 years old ! But that site has gone very quite of late...perhaps FB has taken over the world !
The downside is when people post without thinking. My granddad died at 2am. When I got up at 6am it was on facebook. Very inconsiderate. A lesson learned though...I always check my phone before opening facebook.