AEM Blocking

[Anonymous]

The premise of the complaint is fundamentally flawed. No one is required to interact with someone else. This woman with the complaint is not entitled to my thoughts and opinions anymore than I am to hers. She complains the blockers are controlling other people’s experiences by modifying what they can see on FB. That’s true only as to the people blocked. I have zero problem with that. You don’t get to demand that people talk to you. Everyone has the right to decide they don’t want a particular person in their life.

[Anonymous]

I think it’s pathetic to block people on a forum like that. Either engage or don’t. Cutting people out of the conversation is cowardly.

But not surprising given the people she is calling out.

[Anonymous]

ha! she totally inspired me with this post to block her. It's not that I don't want her to see my posts- I basically never post- I just realized that I will be much happier, and AEM will be more useful to me, if I don't have to expend mental energy getting frustrated with her self-absorbed constant posts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:ha! she totally inspired me with this post to block her. It's not that I don't want her to see my posts- I basically never post- I just realized that I will be much happier, and AEM will be more useful to me, if I don't have to expend mental energy getting frustrated with her self-absorbed constant posts.

If you never post that’s fine. You weren’t engaging anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The premise of the complaint is fundamentally flawed. No one is required to interact with someone else. This woman with the complaint is not entitled to my thoughts and opinions anymore than I am to hers. She complains the blockers are controlling other people’s experiences by modifying what they can see on FB. That’s true only as to the people blocked. I have zero problem with that. You don’t get to demand that people talk to you. Everyone has the right to decide they don’t want a particular person in their life.

It’s one thing if it’s your personal feed and want to block certain people but on a relatively public forum it’s poor form.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s pathetic to block people on a forum like that. Either engage or don’t. Cutting people out of the conversation is cowardly.

But not surprising given the people she is calling out.

Agree. It's one thing to do it on a personal page, but if you choose to engage in a public group, then everyone should be able to engage with you, even those with whom you have chosen not to engage on your personal page. If the person you've blocked on your personal page is triggering for you in the public group, then don't engage in that group or use other FB tools like hiding so you don't have to see those posts/comments.

[Anonymous]

I couldn’t even make it all the way through that post. If I were her friend, I’d shake her and hand her a White Claw.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I couldn’t even make it all the way through that post. If I were her friend, I’d shake her and hand her a White Claw.

Well, if you're handing out White Claws....this is a really shitty time for everyone, in all sorts of areas and subjects. I'm just chalking this whole fracas up to frayed nerves and anxiety, so I'm trying to just scroll past when I just can't understand the more unbelievable posts like the blocking one.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s pathetic to block people on a forum like that. Either engage or don’t. Cutting people out of the conversation is cowardly.

But not surprising given the people she is calling out.

Agree. It's one thing to do it on a personal page, but if you choose to engage in a public group, then everyone should be able to engage with you, even those with whom you have chosen not to engage on your personal page. If the person you've blocked on your personal page is triggering for you in the public group, then don't engage in that group or use other FB tools like hiding so you don't have to see those posts/comments.

FFS. Says who? Is there a Robert’s Rules book on Facebook blocking etiquette?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s pathetic to block people on a forum like that. Either engage or don’t. Cutting people out of the conversation is cowardly.

But not surprising given the people she is calling out.

Agree. It's one thing to do it on a personal page, but if you choose to engage in a public group, then everyone should be able to engage with you, even those with whom you have chosen not to engage on your personal page. If the person you've blocked on your personal page is triggering for you in the public group, then don't engage in that group or use other FB tools like hiding so you don't have to see those posts/comments.

FFS. Says who? Is there a Robert’s Rules book on Facebook blocking etiquette?

Ha! Of course not. But maybe just common decency, I guess. If you think what you have to say is so valuable that you choose to share it in a group like AEM, then the comment should be available for everyone in that group to see, read and comment on. If you have chosen to block someone as part of your personal interactions with that person, great. But a personal block shouldn't necessarily carry over to a more public forum. It's just my opinion. But maybe it's a FB thing where a block in one part of FB means a block in every FB platform. I don't know.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s pathetic to block people on a forum like that. Either engage or don’t. Cutting people out of the conversation is cowardly.

But not surprising given the people she is calling out.

Agree. It's one thing to do it on a personal page, but if you choose to engage in a public group, then everyone should be able to engage with you, even those with whom you have chosen not to engage on your personal page. If the person you've blocked on your personal page is triggering for you in the public group, then don't engage in that group or use other FB tools like hiding so you don't have to see those posts/comments.

that’s absurd. you don’t get to make up fake rules like that.

[Anonymous]

I have seen people posting “feel free to block me/them” on AEM when group members complain about someone’s post, with not a soul speaking up to discourage it. This approach seemed to be the recommended course of action, and didn’t become a problem, until an outspoken piece of work realized that someone had blocked her. She even said that she has used the block feature herself.

It’s all a hypocritical tempest in a teapot.

[Anonymous]

I just can’t imagine what her life is like that she puts so much mental energy into this total bullshit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think it’s pathetic to block people on a forum like that. Either engage or don’t. Cutting people out of the conversation is cowardly.

But not surprising given the people she is calling out.

All it means is she can’t see posts from one particular person. That person is perfectly free to engage with everyone else, but she is not entitled to have the attention of that one person. Maybe she should consider, though, why this person felt the need to block her in particular.

[Anonymous]

I’ve blocked so many of the hysterical “DL forever Covid sky is falling” posters on my local groups (I’m in FCPS so not in AEM) that I sometimes see posts in other groups where it will say “5 comments” but I only am able to see 4 comments because I have someone blocked. No regrets.