Comments on: Un-Friending http://urbanhonking.com/advice/2013/01/08/un-friending/ Tue, 21 Jul 2015 18:52:04 +0000 hourly 1 By: matt http://urbanhonking.com/advice/2013/01/08/un-friending/#comment-809 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:25:31 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/advice/?p=202#comment-809 wait! i don’t think you are really answering this person’s question. it’s not as much as they are worried about the personal stuff as it is that they are ADDICTED to looking at and interacting with this other person’s posts. I can totally relate to this as I used to be addicted to the comment sections on OregonLive.com and other news sites. I’d get into heated battles with people- i’d spend WAY too much time in there and get so worked up i couldn’t sleep. it’s weirdly addicting but also very unhealthy- I finally forced myself to stop and have been ‘comment free’ for several years. all i can say is that my life is MUCH BETTER since getting past this phase of my life.

I think it is not a bad idea to get outside one’s bubble and expose yourself to the thoughts and ideas of “the other side,” but perhaps the better way to do that is to read opinion pages of respectable right-wingers and stay away from the online comment wars. Read David Brooks and George Will, and stay away from comment sections and online flame wars – no one ever wins those arguments, they just get madder at each other.

(sorry for the weird double post)

]]> By: matt http://urbanhonking.com/advice/2013/01/08/un-friending/#comment-808 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 00:14:17 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/advice/?p=202#comment-808 wait! i don’t think you are really answering this person’s question. it’s not as much as they are worried about the personal stuff as it is that they are ADDICTED

]]> By: Mike Merrill http://urbanhonking.com/advice/2013/01/08/un-friending/#comment-797 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 21:50:37 +0000 http://urbanhonking.com/advice/?p=202#comment-797 I just hide people from my feed. Works great!

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