Stop Sending Me Stuff

ON FACEBOOK, I have two purposes; to promote my website, and to spread opposition to Donald Trump. I learned early that Facebook is not the place to make real friends or to carry on a conversation; one must do those things in person, face to face, or, by default, on the telephone. Facebook is a place to post material, read posts, scroll, and post comments. I have many Facebook friends, former students and young, ostensibly attractive women who seek my friendship presumably to make money off me. then of course my real life friends are on there. Most of my former students and real life friends seem to want to inform and educate me. Every day I receive a veritable avalanche of articles, you tube videos, essays, and conspiracy theories via Facebook messenger links, and its gotten to the point where I rarely click on any of them. there's simply too much material being sent my way. Most of it, from what I can discern with cursory inspection, belongs in the realm of conspiracy theories and propaganda for a particular point of view or another. rarely do i receive any intellectually credible material. I wish those sorts of things would stop arriving, and would be replaced by material sent from tenured professors which have been put through the process of peer review, and found credible. If I'm going to be informed and educated on Facebook, i want to be informed and educated properly, with intellectually and academically high quality material, not propaganda sent by folks with an ax to grind or some bizarre point of view or conspiracy theory to propound. everyone must have his or her say, I suppose. Recently a lady contacted me with whom I had been close friends decades before. she invited me to be her friends, then began sending me one link after another, mostly You Tube videos and conspiracy theories, of the sort mentioned above. She didn't bother to even say so much as "hello" to me, or "long time no see", or anything; she just started right in with the conspiracy theories, one at a painful time, every day. Finally, i broke the ice by saying hello to her and giving her my phone number. Unless you happen to be Noam Chomsky, or Paul Krugmen, please don't bother. I can do my own research. After all, I have a doctorate in history. Having a college degree, or an advanced degree, is not a sign of superiority of any sort. But if someone is persistent enough to graduate college, at any level, chances are he or she has a pretty good idea what subjects are of interest, and how to research them. But, well, to all you generous sharers of forwarded information on Facebook, thanks for everything, but...no thanks.