Political invites on Facebook

[Kendo_Bunny]

A friend of mine keeps inviting me to join her political Facebook groups. Politically, we are polar opposites. Like, couldn't get any more different if we tried. When my friend sends me invites to her new groups, should I politely remind her that I do not agree with her and offer to join only if she is looking for an alternate viewpoint? I can debate politics politely, but I'm not sure if she's inviting me for a different perspective in hopes of reaching a mutual deeper understanding or if she's just hitting 'Invite All'.

[hobish]

A friend of mine keeps inviting me to join her political Facebook groups. Politically, we are polar opposites. Like, couldn't get any more different if we tried. When my friend sends me invites to her new groups, should I politely remind her that I do not agree with her and offer to join only if she is looking for an alternate viewpoint? I can debate politics politely, but I'm not sure if she's inviting me for a different perspective in hopes of reaching a mutual deeper understanding or if she's just hitting 'Invite All'.

I think that is a great response. I kind of wish i could find a place to debate politics politely and with some small amount of knowledge. Gish used to be on a site i tried, but people there were really mean and couldn't spel or grammerify well.

[ShadesOfGrey]

I think she's hittng invite all.

Block all applications from this person and be done with it. 

[Nurvingiel]

Block all applications from this person and be done with it. 

This. Your problem will be solved.

[lmyrs]

But, she's not sending applications, she's sending group invites so blocking applications won't solve the problem. I'd ignore it. You could remind her that you don't agree with her and please to stop inviting you to these groups. Hopefully, she's a good enough friend to listen to you. But, don't join to debate politely. Most people on those groups have no desire to get into polite debates about the merits of different points of view. I know that's a broad generalization and assumption and I apologize for that. But, for every lovely polite person on those groups, there's more than one who will be rude.

[magician5]

If you want to know what your friend thinks, ask her face to face. Facebook is not the place for this sort of thing.

[Nurvingiel]

But, she's not sending applications, she's sending group invites so blocking applications won't solve the problem.

Oh doi, oops.

I agree, continue to ignore.

[Kendo_Bunny]

If you want to know what your friend thinks, ask her face to face. Facebook is not the place for this sort of thing.

I can next week. We're in college, and vacation ends tomorrow. We're in very different programs, so I'm not sure when we'll run into each other.

Thanks for the advice, though. She's recently started a youth PAC, which I think she might ask me to join, but I'm definitely going to have to decline that one.

[Kendo_Bunny]

I talked to my friend, and apparently she just forgot that I don't agree with her on anything. Also, one of the groups she asked me to join said something blatantly untrue (not about a public figure - something scientifically proven incorrect). I think that's pretty much past the point of debate, since they were extremely insistent on this point of provably false data.

[Lisbeth]

I'd ignore the invitations and/or change your settings so as not to receive invitations from her anymore.

[look in the tunk]

I vote ignore. Works for me.