The Social Media sucks thread

Oops.  Sorry if I wasn't clear.  I took the link to the tweet that you shared and I shared it on Facebook, and it was liked by someone who I know is on the opposite end of the political spectrum.  Now maybe they are an ardent Trump supporter who is also against gerrymandering.  Or maybe somehow they have changed their mind about something.  Or maybe they are just clueless and don't realize that the post was showing how awful gerrymandering is (which is my guess).  But there's no real good way to know.

Dammit. One of my friends from college, who is a librarian, decided to do the seven day favorite books thing. And of the 5 books she has listed so far, it included Ender's Game, and Ready Player One, and I feel like maybe I need to her block her for her bad taste. How can a person who works in a library be so awful?

You clearly have never met many of the people who work with Hugs.

Government doing something?
GOVERNMENT BAD!

I mean, yeah, apart from some dumb shit like the whole "'cracker' is just as bad a slur as the n-word" stuff, there's not much that's offensive about Ender's Game in and of itself so it's not like anyone who enjoys it has to be a raging bigot, and, unlike RPO, it doesn't stand out as such a piece of garbage that I would question the tastes of someone who listed it among their all-time favorites, and in fact, divorcing the content of the novel from Orson Scott Card's shittiness, I'd say it's a pretty great book.  It's certainly not one of my top-seven sci-fi books of all time, let alone one of my seven favorite books full stop, but I wouldn't necessarily question the tastes of someone who liked the book a great deal more than I did.

Also, how old is your friend?  A lot of the people I know who love Ender's Game first read the book as a kid, and if your friend is under 45, it would have seemed entirely plausible that she really really loved the book when she first read it in middle school or whatever, and while she now recognizes that there are plenty of better books, her nostalgia for the book is such that it's remained one of her favorites, and she otherwise mostly enjoys books that other well-read adults enjoy.  Or it would have been plausible, had she not also included RPO among her favorite books.

I accepted a connection request on LinkedIn from someone I went to high school with and had refused friend requests from on Facebook. He immediately started asking questions of the sort that would have been answered if I had accepted the request on FB. I don’t care about your life, and I don’t feel like sharing mine with you.

And when I didn't answer, he sent me another message, so for the first time ever, I've disconnected from someone on LinkedIn.

Desktop Facebook is essentially unusable for me -- my typing lags up to 30 seconds, I can't upvote posts, and the page sometimes just stops loading. According to my vague searches, this has been happening to many people over the years, and FB mods are always "well, upgrade your browser". My browser is the latest Firefox and it's only FB that is broken. Sometimes it becomes more and more obvious that the the site is running on the original 2004 code and everything on top of it is held together with popsicle sticks and snot.
Mobile Facebook is its own nightmare.