06-02-2024, 05:04 PM
I see the same patterns as many mentioned. I'm friends with all sorts of folks on Facebook of all ages and all walks of life. The ones I've had to correct or simply shake my head when I see some of the "news" being shared tend to be 40+ conservative females. (no inuendo- simply stating my observations).
My funniest part to me however, and it's not just Facebook where this is observed, is when a post is prefaced something like "hey all you [insert political persuasion stereotype here]s! You support this guy so let me see you explain this!", fully knowing that 1 - they probably don't actually have any of said target audience in their social circles and 2, if they did, they're probably not as passionate about having a spitting contest on social media about it.
Is there even a name for this behaviour? Where you portray yourself as talking to an audience that simply doesn't exist in order to come across like you're preaching gospel? If not, I'm sure we can come up with one :-)
My funniest part to me however, and it's not just Facebook where this is observed, is when a post is prefaced something like "hey all you [insert political persuasion stereotype here]s! You support this guy so let me see you explain this!", fully knowing that 1 - they probably don't actually have any of said target audience in their social circles and 2, if they did, they're probably not as passionate about having a spitting contest on social media about it.
Is there even a name for this behaviour? Where you portray yourself as talking to an audience that simply doesn't exist in order to come across like you're preaching gospel? If not, I'm sure we can come up with one :-)
