@ciao_bella wrote:
By the end of this year, I will be retiring from teaching after 27+ years. I have not joined FB until just recently, thinking it may be a great way to keep in touch with friends and colleagues when I retire.
When I joined, a friend, who I have know for decades, asked to friend her, which I did. I haven't seen her in many years though we used to work together before I started teaching. We've always had a nice friendship.
Since accepting her as a friend, everyday I receive several political posts from her on my FB homepage and timeline. When I joined FB, my intention was to share pictures, events, memories, etc. to keep in touch with friends. All of my current friends know I'm not into political posts/agendas and don't want them posted on my FB. After seeing her posts these on my FB, I decided to message her with a very polite request to refrain from posting them on my FB. I told her that, although I respect everyone's choice in politics, I prefer not to have them posted on my FB. I added that all of my current friends are aware of this so that's why there are no other political posts on my FB. I thanked her for her understanding. She responded to my message with a Like 'thumbs up', so I thought everything was okay.
Everyday, since that response from her, I have been getting the same type of political posts on my FB timeline and homepage. I've taken the posts down each time I see them, but I'm not sure how I should handle this. Should I just continue to take them down and say nothing, say something to her again or something else?
Since you are new to Facebook, you may not completely understand how it works. I could be wrong, but I don't think your friend is posting these things to your page directly. I believe she's probably sharing posts from other sites and it shows up for all her friends to see. Because you are friends, things she posts will appear in your News Feed. Anyone who is friends with her will see the same thing you do. She has the right to post what she wants, but if you don't want to see it, you can hide her or unfollow her without unfriending. If you do that, however, you won't see anything from her - no family news, pictures, funny memes, funny videos, etc. If she indeed is sharing to a general audience (her friends), you don't have to worry about others thinking you are in agreement with her. If you are seeing it because it's a News Feed item, and not a direct post on your wall, others can't see it so you don't have to delete. You can just scroll past the posts that don't interest you.
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