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Ever been unfriended/blocked on Facebook for being gay, liberal, or Democrat?

I was actually deleted from a Facebook group having to do with my family genealogy which had several of my family members on it that I knew personally. It seemed to have happened sometime after I changed my profile pic to one of my partner and I together. When I added myself back to the group they left my request pending for a long time. I KNOW it was because of homophobia and me being gay. Why else would they single me out out of all my family? Just because I'm gay doesn't erase me from the genealogy and family blood line. As much as they'd like to erase me I'd love to erase them from my genes. I'm sure by now they blocked me from the group. I never said, did, or posted anything inappropriate on that group page nor did I post anything that I can remember.

There are many Dark Shadows fans group pages that are homophobic and would not accept me as a member. My friend who doesn't have his sexual orientation listed on his Facebook page easily got access to the DS page and then he called them out on how they singled me out and then they blocked or deleted him from the group.

I really do think there needs to be studies done about social media bias, blocking, unfriending, and deleting against the LGBT, Democrats, left-wings, liberals, progressives, the disabled, those for racial, religious, and gender/sex equality, atheists/agnostics, working poor and middle class, and those who are poor and in need of government assistance, etc.

Have any of you ever been blocked, deleted, or denied access to any Facebook groups because of just being yourself or some bias they had against you? I'm from the United States and right wingers don't accept anyone who doesn't think, talk, and act like them.
 
Only Benvolio; he blocks anyone who might cause him to be enlightened.
 
I've been defriended for saying less than positive things about religious fundamentalism. These are people I knew back in my fundie days, and I was very upfront about being gay and atheist when the friending took place so they were adequately informed.
 
I have nothing on my Facebook page about being gay. That's the only place online that I'm not out. I deal with enough bigotry and homophobia elsewhere online that I don't feel like dealing with it on Facebook. As to groups I belong to, I stay with pages that have a centrist/liberal stance.
 
jbown329 said:
I have nothing on my Facebook page about being gay. That's the only place online that I'm not out. I deal with enough bigotry and homophobia elsewhere online that I don't feel like dealing with it on Facebook. As to groups I belong to, I stay with pages that have a centrist/liberal stance.
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I became out on my page once I was looking to meet other men. As for the family genealogy group I thought they would have remained neutral on issue of sexual orientation considering I never even brought it up. I suppose they just didn't like the photo of my partner and I. Homophobia and bigotry have no limits.
 
This whole thread reminds me why I don't "do" Social Media, like MyBook, Facer, or TwitSpace. [-X #-o

JUB is where it's at! ..| (!) (!w!) (group)

Keep Smilin'!! :kiss: (*8*)
Chaz \:/ :luv:
 
My partner's mom unfriended me and this partner is someone I'm going to spend my life with and I can't bring myself to tell him about it for it is humiliating, embarrassing, and awkward and he's very close to her and protective of her and I've never did anything that I know of that offended her. What should I do?
 
^^ I'd say there are many reasons people may unfriend. Sometimes, I've unfriended people because they are just a little too right-winged religious zealot for my taste. I don't appreciate every few minutes getting some new "share" panel in my feed; it can be distracting.

I'd suggest talking to your partner and see if there is something up. If you are going to be together long term, communication will decide how successful that relationship will be and I'd consider this a small blip on bigger things that are likely to come along over the course of years. I wouldn't make it confrontational or angry; just inquire if something may be amiss.
 
I can't say that I've ever been blocked. If so, it was from such an insignificant source that I took no notice of it.
 
I dont talk politics or religion on facebook. I recognise that people in my family have some different views but I still like them. If theres something of a controversial nature I want to discuss with them, I prefer to do it in person rather than in public where it could either embarrass them or I. It is so much easier to offend online and my relationships with my friends and family are more important. On facebook its just photos, music, meetups, holidays, entertaining vids etc with me.
 
I don't say or do anything controversial on Facebook, but I have been unfriended for whatever reason... it would be nice to know why at least.
On Twitter though, I usually gain a subscriber, and then I lose them shortly after I make a few more tweets because they apparently didn't read any of my past tweets to find out that I swear like a trucker. Again, nothing controversial on there, unless you enjoy me bitching about things or making useless comments that no one else besides me would be interested in reading! :)
 
justaguy said:
I dont talk politics or religion on facebook. I recognise that people in my family have some different views but I still like them. If theres something of a controversial nature I want to discuss with them, I prefer to do it in person rather than in public where it could either embarrass them or I. It is so much easier to offend online and my relationships with my friends and family are more important. On facebook its just photos, music, meetups, holidays, entertaining vids etc with me.
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I feel that is a good policy to follow but I choose to share the progressive news and gay rights news that comes up in my feed because I feel all Americans, gay and straight, black and white, Christian and non-Christian, disabled, male and female, poor and middle class and rich, etc. should all be equal but there are people who are offended by all that even in some of my family (especially those who don't like gays or those who don't conform exactly to their religious, political, and social views) and they'll delete and block in a heartbeat. It's a shame that there are many Americans who feel the only ones that should get to live the American dream and have rights are white, rich, non-disabled, privileged, religious, conservative, Christian, Republican, heterosexual, cis-gender males.
 
I don't use Facebook enough to get into the socio-political stuff on there, so I probably don't rile very many people there. Also, I have two accounts - one is the "gay one" (and, even there, I'm seldom even talking about "gay things"), the other one is for general friends, hobbies, etc. Only two people are on both of mine.

I figured that the balloon fetish part was more of a reason to divide, than the gay part, and also not to mention that it helps to prevent either account from becoming too large to manage. Both accounts are already too big, as it is. I would have much less an issue if the damned Facebook algorithm made all posts PURELY CHRONOLOGICAL...or at least gave an option to switch back and forth between that and their current incomprehensible algorithms.

Though not everybody listens, I try to tell people **NEVER** to depend on Facebook to get messages to me that are at all important and time-sensitive. I missed a once-in-a-lifetime visit from my brother last year (he just doesn't get out toward Illinois at all...EVER), and I ended up standing somebody else up (on April Fools day, no less, also last year; because he decided to set the meeting time via Facebook), because FACEBOOK NEVER TOLD ME THE MESSAGES WERE THERE.

Unfriended? I have no idea. If you're unfriended, does it show up in your feed, as a message or notification, or anything? Otherwise, I haven't noticed; my mind doesn't process very well the idea of somebody disappearing from a "large group" even if it's somebody prominent in that group. (For the same reason, somebody on JUB, even somebody I feel fond of, can disappear and I may not realize it.)
 
Once for being gay....but most often for my odd sense of humor and being outspoken
 
I have been unfriend by couple of people for being gay. I have unfriended several gay "friends" for borderline phonographic content that they constantly posted. I like my FB to be PG not something I had to worry about if it was safe to open on a lunch break or in public.
 
RaKroma said:
I have been unfriend by couple of people for being gay. I have unfriended several gay "friends" for borderline phonographic content that they constantly posted. I like my FB to be PG not something I had to worry about if it was safe to open on a lunch break or in public.
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They did this to you???!!!
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