Social networking sites and politics

Pew Internet: Social networking sites and politics

Here are some interesting graphs about how liberals, moderates, and conservatives deal with the political differences they encounter on social networking sites (SNS). Seems liberals and conservatives or more likely than moderates to discover a friend has different political views than they expected. Liberals are a little more likely than moderates or conservatives to drop or block someone they disagree with. The more to the extremes you are, the more likely you are to say that you agree with most posts by your friends, suggesting the presence of echo chambers.

I've never dropped a FB friend over political issues. I have dropped several Twitter feeds from people (from both sides of the spectrum) who continually tweet snarky political comments, and I've moved FB friends to categories in my feed where I see them less often. I enjoy discussing politics, but echo chamber snarkiness is wearisome no matter which perspective it comes from.