True friendships outlast politics

http://www.cnn.com/2012/10/11/tech/social-media/facebook-politics-friends/index.html?hpt=hp_bn5

Iā€™ll have to admit that Facebook is testing my friendships.

As the CNN link here tells, politics is getting in the way of friendships. Apparently millions of folks have ā€œunfriendedā€ people over their political views. I hope it doesnā€™t come to that for me.

Iā€™ve been on a political rampage lately with this blog. These posts go directly to Facebook, where they are shared with my Facebook friends, many of whom donā€™t share my own center-left leanings; indeed, some of those very friends might accuse me of being a commie. In return, Iā€™ve endured some of their own rants.

I donā€™t intend to disavow my association with them over politics. The way I look at it, we all love our country equally. We just disagree on some of the finer points of how we should govern this great nation.

Is that worth losing a friendship? Hardly, except of course if you take yourself too seriously.

And yes, I do know some of those folks too.

Chill out, friends. Itā€™s only politics.