Hijacking a seemingly positive or innocent post to spread thoughts of doom and gloom or spout off a political rant is what you might call friend-based trolling. Don't be one of those guys.

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February 26, 2015
Dude, You’re Being Very Undude
by Debbie Elicksen | 0 comments
You post something with a positive message, and someone
you know makes a comment that is awkwardly
inappropriate for the meaning of your post. It does not
forward the conversation. Instead, it sucks the air out of it,
like spraying puppies with Raid because he or she thinks
they have fleas.
We’ve all seen it happen. We could have even been the
culprit.
Dude, you’re being very undude when you do that.
Hijacking a seemingly positive or innocent post to spread
thoughts of doom and gloom or spout off a political rant is
what you might call friend-based trolling.
If the friend brings nothing but icky Debbie Downer crap to
the yard and offers no positive value to your newsfeed,
you probably should consider the big UF: UnFriending. But
if the troll-y comments are not done every time and this friend actually provides some interesting
conversations and imagery for the most part, just delete their comment. Most of the time they won’t even
notice.
My “favorites” are when someone comments on a television or music video you posted and the person
snootily responds that they never watched the show or heard of the artist and has no use for them or they
“hate” that singer. Well, what the hell are you wasting my time for then? Did I ask for a hater’s opinion?
Whatever happened to what our mothers told us? “If you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at
all.”
YOU are the master of your social media universe and you do not have to adjust your editorial direction to
accommodate someone else’s drama, unless you choose to do so. In which case, the rest of us can hide your
post from our Timelines.
Author: Debbie Elicksen
Debbie Elicksen: Content Creator, Social Media Publicist, Transmedia Producer and Strategist,
Public Relations, Publishing. Inspire, Connect, Consult. To Empower Others To Find Their
Voice.