During the Presidential election, I often saw heated posts
and comments on Facebook regarding that person’s political stance. At times it got annoying and caused me to
ponder “unfriending” these people or blocking their posts from my news
feed. Which in turn caused me to
wonder…..are people more likely to unfriend or block posts from people who
annoy them versus confronting that person and telling them how they feel? If I were to conduct research I would most
likely use the experimental research method.
I would rather manipulate the question so I can provide them with choice
A or choice B to choose from. It would
be interesting to see who would choose the polite option and just block the
Facebook posts so they don’t get annoyed by them and who would unfriend that
person altogether as a passive aggressive way to end their friendship and show
their distaste for their posts. I saw on
Facebook after the election where someone posed the question asking if anyone
had lost friends because of their political beliefs and several commented that
they had noticed that they had been unfriended by several people.
I felt the same way during that time, and I am definity one of those people just blocked the post. I feel like a lot of people are not confrontational so the easy way out is to block posts instead of unfriending someone and maybe having them confront you about it. I took the easy way out. I think it also depends on what you post too, if it is something one gets offended by than i could see people deleting eachother.
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