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Sir Ulrich:
Too much stress than it's worth. If you guys want to contact me you do it via Skype or Steam. I'm fed up with Facebook and miss using forums. I'm tired of people deleting me or disapproving me cause of my views on issues. I'm tired of seeing other peoples views on politics and people hating each other based on views on crap like gay marriage and abortion. When both parties arent gonna have a gay marriage or abortion, seriously whats the point of arguing it? It's only going to make both parties hate each other over stupid stuff that shouldnt even matter. My family disagrees with almost all my views and to be frank that was the final straw. I'm done with it, it's superficial and dumb. Social media is more trouble than it's worth for me. I'd rather use forums and keep a friendly atmosphere and not have people hate me over my views on politics. I feel no need to share mine on forums and most forums I go to apart from political ones dont have this either. If people can keep me updated on DoK outside of Facebook I would like that, I have no reason to stay there other than DoK. I dont want to anger anyone there or have awkward moments because they dislike me over my views or I dislike one of their views. My dad always told me religion and politics are 2 horrid subjects to talk to people about and on Facebook it seems thats all anyone talks about... So I'm done with Facebook. I'm always logged into Skype on either my Mobile Ipod or my laptop so if you guys do the meetings I'm still willing to participate.

Ian:
Shawn, a realistic alternative for a lot of people in your position is to make a facebook account specifically for re-enacting.  You can make a profile based on your persona instead of you.  This will allow you to avoid the family drama and people you don't want to deal with and still keep up on groups like Days of Knights, because frankly there is no other way to stay up to date with certain re-enactment events without utilizing facebook.  Just make sure you control very carefully who you friend, and then the drama will disappear.  I'm a mod for the DoK group so I can easily approve your new account if you choose to go that way.

Sir Ulrich:
I think I am going to do that then. I really wish to avoid my family drama and just do reenacting and stay close to my friends there. Honestly my family is the last thing I wanna deal with right now apart from my dad my mom and brother. Pretty much they all hate me or at least I get the vibe. I dont want them seeing what I do or anything. Now to make a new email so I can make a new account and go there instead of having all these people I dun want to deal with on my facebook. Theres parts of me I dont wish to reveal to them and to be frank i'm tired of constantly hiding who I am in front of them. Prolly just gonna use my mother's maden name too for the last name so they dont add me or find me.

Lord Dane:

--- Quote from: Ian on 2015-07-04, 20:56:46 ---Shawn, a realistic alternative for a lot of people in your position is to make a facebook account specifically for re-enacting.  You can make a profile based on your persona instead of you.  This will allow you to avoid the family drama and people you don't want to deal with and still keep up on groups like Days of Knights, because frankly there is no other way to stay up to date with certain re-enactment events without utilizing facebook.  Just make sure you control very carefully who you friend, and then the drama will disappear.  I'm a mod for the DoK group so I can easily approve your new account if you choose to go that way.

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Sir Ian nailed that one of the head. That's what I do. :) Sound advice.

Thorsteinn:
Instead of deleting my Facebook I just deleted, or was deleted by, the people that caused me drama. Some family (my mother), some not (a high school friend turned to addiction).

Also I just stepped back from a lot of it really. I didn't realized how much Stupid High School Bull Sh^te that some stuff & groups bring till I stepped back & found the online & IRL drama dropped precipitously.

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