If your social media pages are anything like mine, they have been plastered with political posts for the past few months. And probably even more so in the past few weeks as Trump took office. As people are tiring of the 24/7 social media news cycle, messages begging us to #makefacebookfunagain or to go back to the days of postings pictures of our food, drunks, babies, and cats.
I get it. Seeing / reading / hearing about politics all of the time is tiring. Trust me when I say that the people posting these things wish they did not feel the obligation to constantly post these stories. They are feeling overwhelmed and are using these platforms as a way of making their opinions known and their voices heard.
But that is another story.
The point here is that social media is completely open for its users to use in any way that they want!
There is no clause when you sign up for Facebook that you cannot post politically themed statuses on your page. And there is no limitations on how you tweet, or on the kinds of pictures you snap (as long as they are within legal boundaries of course).
People are free to post whatever they want, whenever they want, how often they want, and on whatever channel they want. This all falls under our right of freedom of speech as Americans. Facebook does not have a 'puppies and kittens only clause.' And Twitter does not make you stick to only tweeting about music. However, Yelp does hold you to only posting about food and places, but that's kind of their thing.
If you don't like what someone else is posting, YOU TAKE ACTION! And that action means you block / hide / unfriend that person. If you don't like what someone is posting, you have the power to ignore it! Do not force other people to compromise their rights because you are unhappy. You change!
*Side note: apply this rule to every aspect of your life. You are the only one in command of and responsible for your actions and emotions. If you don't like something, stop blaming people and take action to change it.
By the way, social media sites are full of algorithms that feed into what you click on. So if you want to see more puppies, click on more puppy pictures. ...you take action.
