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When facebook makes me sad, it's usually because I've just read a jaw-droppingly ignorant politcal tirade from someone I went to high school with.

Active use of the "Hide from news feed" option makes facebook a much happier place.

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I personally prefer the "remove from friends list" option in such cases.

But that's how you eventually get to "How could so-and-so have possibly been elected?! I don't know anyone who voted for him!" as we saw quite a bit in 2000 and 2004.

Interestingly, there was a lot less of that in 2008.

Perhaps it's because your crowd was on the winning side of that election?

Because you think only people on the left are so insulated that they don't know any right-leaning folk, or because you believe I'm on the left and only read blogs and articles that express such views from the left?

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