When people try to guilt you into re-posting stuff on Facebook, do you ever call them out on it?

Lately, I’ve noticed that a few particular friends of mine on Facebook have been posting lots of stuff that says things like: I bet you don’t have the guts to re-post this. They’re usually religious ideas or things that have to do with conservative politics. Apparently these friends don’t know me very well, because I would never re-post any of these things, because I don’t agree with them.

I tend not to post political stuff, and since I am not religious, I don’t post anything related to religion either. Even if I did, I certainly wouldn’t threaten people or try to make them feel guilty if they didn’t re-post something that I had posted.

I can’t imagine posting one of my recipes or a picture of my cat and saying, “I bet you don’t have the guts to re-post this!” Maybe I should add that little phrase to every single thing that I post from here on out and see how that goes, ha ha ha.

“Check out this shirtless picture of Johnny Depp. I bet you don’t have the guts to re-post this!” or “I’m going to make these pumpkin brownies for Thanksgiving. I bet you don’t have the guts to re-post this!” or “Here we are camping at the lake, making s’mores over the campfire. I bet you don’t have the guts to re-post this!” or “My cat just coughed up this hair ball that looks like Donald Trump’s toupee. I bet you don’t have the guts to re-post this!”

So far, if I see something that’s particularly ridiculous, or extremely far removed from my personal belief system, I just delete it from my newsfeed, but I have not yet told any of the offenders to knock it off. Have you ever told any of your friends to stop asking you to re-post stuff? If so, how did that go over?

Believe it or not, the two main offenders are two of the sweetest women I know, but they are kind of naive when it comes to Facebook and tend to re-post anything that comes down the pike, without considering their audience. In real life, these two would never threaten a fly and they would never discuss religion in mixed company. I don’t want to offend them or hurt their feelings, or un-friend them. I just don’t know whether I should mention my feelings to them, or just keep rolling my eyes and deleting their shit philosophical ramblings.

And don’t even get me started on the people who ask me to say Amen to something religious.