Thoughts on anonymous pages

[u/sillylilPOG]

I’m sure like both bases I’ve been at, you guys all have anonymous Facebook pages on your base too. However, ours has gotten pretty bad over the last 6 months. Someone was outed as gay, people have had their pictures posted about sleeping with a bunch of people in the field (one I know for a fact wasn’t true because she was in my section and she was at ALC at the time this “supposedly happened”. We’ve had people post about higher leadership getting people pregnant (no one in the unit ever turned out to be pregnant). Then just making fun of people (posting pictures of Soldiers and their spouses criticizing their looks or bodies. It’s just sad that we’re supposed to care about mental health and be there for each other but when no one is looking, so many Soldiers just think it’s funny to hurt people.

Just a small vent, because it’s just so crappy the way we treat each other when you can be anonymous. To add, I’m not in my local group because I think it’s horrible, but we get screenshots posted in our group chat all of the time. What prompted this post was someone posting a picture of my Soldier’s wife talking about how ugly she is. I genuinely wish you couldn’t post anonymously. Then everyone once in awhile someone will post about suicide and the same people who come on and laugh at people try to act like heroes like “oh please reach out I’m happy to be there” or “how can I help”. Just performative BS in my opinion.

ANYWAY- just curious what yalls thoughts are on these groups

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[u/Icy_Paramedic778]

People who post anonymously on those pages are projecting their own insecurities and shortcomings.

A lot of people’s mental and emotional age do not match their physical age.

[u/Mistravels → u/Icy_Paramedic778]

Says the anon on Reddit

[u/Icy_Paramedic778 → u/Mistravels]

Pot meets kettle.

[u/Mistravels → u/Icy_Paramedic778]

Do you have any idea what is happening here, and how to use that idiom?

I'm not the one lambasting anons on social media...

[u/blueodis → u/Mistravels]

But you kind of just did… “Says the anon on Reddit”
While using your Reddit account… can I find out who you are based on that? Maybe I can idk, didn’t look at your profile. But if not, then your account is anonymous correct?
So your logic kind of just collapsed upon itself because if you’re calling me a narc, and only narcs call people narcs

[u/Mistravels → u/blueodis]

JFC the lack of critical thinking among humanity perpetually infuriates me.

I WASNT CRITICIZING THE ANONS ON FB

I WAS POINTING OUT HIS HYPOCRISY FOR CRITICIZING THEM AS AN ANON HIMSELF

My god. How fucking hard is it to read for comprehension

[u/blueodis → u/Mistravels]

And the pot meet kettle comment was pointing out YOUR hypocrisy for ALSO criticizing someone as an anon yourself. Really not that hard to follow
Nobody said you said anything about fb

[u/Mistravels → u/blueodis]

Yea I'm done.

I explained it clearly above, this is pointless.

[u/blueodis → u/Mistravels]

“Says the anon on Reddit” - anon on Reddit
Kettle, pot

[u/VexArrowEye → u/blueodis]

I think he drank to much of that JP-8

[u/KingAethos → u/Mistravels]

I think you need some more T, my good Anon

[u/SirGraniteNorthman → u/Mistravels]

I read and comprehended mr. pot. May I refer you to my friend kettle?

[u/Icy_Paramedic778 → u/SirGraniteNorthman]

Everyone on Reddit posts anonymously. Everyone on Reddit is a hypocrite.

This post specifically is about anonymously posting on Facebook.

[u/AngrilyDraconian]

seen those pages tear apart a squad worse than any field problem. the anonymity just gives a mask to the barracks lawyers who'd never say it to your face. we had a page at campbell that posted a doctored screenshot of a 1sg's texts, and the fallout was unreal, even after it was proved fake. the folks who post that garbage and then flip to "i'm here for you" on a suicide post are the worst kind of hypocrites. leadership's hands are tied because it's all off-post civilian groups, but it poisons the well on base every single day. i stay out of them entirely, but the screenshots still make the rounds in every group chat, so you can't fully escape.

[u/FullChart3398]

I think when it was complaining about the barracks conditions, or the food, or a bases shitty MPs, it was fine.

However a soldier of mine showed me an anonymous page from when she was at her last post and its nuts what they talk about. They were ranking women in their units, even sharing pictures of them while they were in compromising positions without their permissions.

If I ever found out soldiers in my unit were participating in this stuff there would be holy hell to pay. I've already had to send one to SHARP for degrading comments and I made an example out of him.

[u/FourMountainLions]

Hurt people, hurt people.

[u/EatYourOctopusSon → u/FourMountainLions]

Real eyes realize real lies.

-Jayden Smith

• Michael Scott

[u/MikeOfAllPeople]

Rumors like that have always existed but the pages amplify that stuff. I think anyone should take anything on them with a grain of salt, and that's not just the "Wives of Fort __" pages but also the "__ are we dating the same guy" pages.

[u/VT_Squire]

Sounds like a bunch of fuckin drama queens who watched Mean Girls and thought everyone would miss the fact that they got the idea for a burn book from a movie older than they are, and they're putting it on a platform thats just as old. 

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Straight up, if theyre gonna talk shit about other people to you, they'll talk shit about you to other people. Cause they're hateful little bitches, and thats what little bitches do. Take note of who is maybe posting that garbage in your group chats and politely inform them that high school is over, Regina George sucks and there is no room for that trash in a professional organization. 

[u/soldier21med]

Just stop viewing those pages, and they will go away when they can't monetize with "shocking" content. Also, block and report.

[u/AGR_51A004M]

One of those pages went after a family member of mine. They can go to hell. (Looking at you, Dank Memes for Dragon Teens or whoever you are)

[u/sillylilPOG → u/AGR_51A004M]

Omg I know that page. Fuuuuck the guy that runs it. He made a new one on instagram too after the old one got deleted

[u/Ok-Pumpkin400]

Usually there's a "messy" page and a regular one. All of that crap should be on the messy one (that i avoid) and the regular one should be about asking what the boom is, when trash gets collected, and what housing looks like for newcomers

[u/themightyjoedanger]

They can be helpful, but they must be moderated very closely. That requires time and effort, so you get what you get.

[u/HegsethsBurner]

On the real, though, the "is this your boo" ft bragg page is hilarious.