My Social Media 10 Commandments

Keep posting good, trusted sources of news to Facebook.Keep telling me your opinions using respectful language that invites discussion.Keep promoting and defending your position on controversial issues in good faith and honesty backed by credible sources.Keep friends on your newsfeed even when you disagree with them—especially when you disagree with them.Read the articles posted by friends you disagree with and seek to understand their position more fully.Stop…posting “memes” and one-liners that crush conversation and promote hatred, ugliness, and mean talk. Even if the meme or one-liner is true or right according to you.Stop telling people to “move on” from issues they care about. Be willing to listen to why they feel about that issue so strongly.Stop labeling people and grouping them in categories that perhaps once meant something but increasingly mean almost nothing without clarification. Democrat. Republican. Liberal. Conservative. Feminist. Traditionalist. Prolife. Prochoice. Christian. Non-Christian. Many of these labels don’t mean what they used to.Stop telling people you don’t care about politics. You will care/do care if politics and policies suddenly affect your life. You just might not care until it’s too late to do anything about the issues you care about.Stop assuming disagreement means hatred or condemnation. Be willing to disagree without hating or condemning. I originally posted this 4 years ago when Trump first entered the White House. I’ve tried to follow (albeit imperfectly) these self-imposed guidelines the last 4 years and I commit to continue the next 4. Join me?