A few of my social media "rules"... from a guy over 3/4 of a century old.
1. You are probably NEVER going to WIN an argument with someone who believes something else.
2. If you post personal information, opinions, sadness, injury, sorrow, or even happiness and pleasure... or your grandma's favorite recipe for toast, there's someone somewhere who would love to say something hurtful or demeaning... or worse... about that... and your grandma.
3. Almost every social media platform has some sort of delete or block option... use it, and go your merry way... even if it's a friend from childhood, or an old Army "buddy"... including the known "barracks thief" from basic training. Ninety-nine point ninety-nine percent of the time they cannot or will not even be able to do something about that.
4. If you fuss, fight, rebuke, rebut, and/or argue, you're beginning to act like them... even if you're "right" (whatever THAT is), and you are fueling your own inner fires of upsetness (word?). Cut it out. You're better than them. Let it go, unless, as they say, there is a "clear and present danger", then report it to the platform, inform your connections if necessary, and pull the trigger on the connection.
5. Most of the people who spout hurtful crap on the internet do so because they know no one's going to knock down their door and put their lights out... and, because they know, or think, they're hurting you. Letting them know, or think, they did hurt you simply feeds their fires, and gives them encouragement.
6. Many of the people who do these things are kids or mental or emotional cripples, and you are NOT going to change them. You have better things to do with your life, like picking up the dog poop in your back yard.
Of course, those are just MY opinions, but, it's worked for me, and yes, I HAVE blocked, unfriended, whatever, old army "buddies", and old school chums who couldn't mind their manners and understand that my own little chunk of the internet was for my pleasure and/or edification... not theirs.
Donovan Baldwin