Does this happen to everyone? They have some friend, probably from ages ago, who is a pretty decent person in real life, but a complete idiot on Facebook?
This guy is pretty all right, as long as you never mention the Federal Reserve, the Bilderberg group, the Rothschilds, or probably a hundred other trigger words that launch him on a tirade of ridiculousness. He has an encyclopedic knowledge of music, particularly the 50s through the 70s, not just the billboard top 100 of the day but every B-side of every Chess recording, every experimental record like Electric Mud... One day I was suddenly seized with a desire to hear a song I knew fairly well (I can't even remember what it was right now) but with more pronounced female backup vocals so I called him and he immediately just said "Oh the Ronettes (or something, I forget who for the life of me) recorded that in '57, it's on Youtube." I mean really, the guy is all right.
But holy cow man, my FB is the worst place for a guy like that because half my friends are berzerk libertarians with crazy senses of humour, and the other half are cops, soldiers, or some combination of the two, and they all talk big ideas and it sets the guy off.
But I really don't want to pound on him, because in person, he's all right. I briefly played guitar for a band he was in, although it was just too much work to try to keep up with the insane library of songs he always wanted to perform. I basically don't know any songs I didn't write, so I was a terrible pick for that project. Anyway a decent guy, but what do you do with a guy like that? Put a disclaimer on your page? I'm friends with this guy, but...only kind of? Or is having a guy like this around so common that everyone is just like "what a nut. Oh well."
Pointless venting, but seriously. I am kicking back with a drink and looking at my rapidly growing list of notifications and just shaking my head here.