Here’s When I Block People on Facebook

00:01 Hey everyone. I almost never block 00:03 anyone on Facebook, but the only thing 00:05 that actually would lead me to block 00:07 someone is if I detect that they is they 00:10 have absolutely zero open-mindedness 00:13 whatsoever. Now, I know that the 00:14 Facebook algorithm prefers dump dumpster 00:17 fires. So, the Facebook algorithm wants 00:19 people to post controversial stuff that 00:22 gets everybody stirred up, that gets 00:24 everybody's heart rate high, and just 00:25 gets everybody sort of fighting with 00:27 each other in the comments. That is what 00:28 Facebook wants. But that is not what I 00:30 want from Facebook. What I want from 00:32 Facebook is a community of engaged 00:36 intellectual people who are curious who 00:38 want to figure out what is Bitcoin and 00:40 how do I use it to combat inflation? Uh 00:44 how do I make it how do I use it to make 00:46 my life better? So I will spend hours 00:48 and hours and hours every day helping 00:50 people understand about Bitcoin, 00:53 answering their questions. Uh people are 00:55 constantly messaging me with questions 00:56 about Bitcoin or what about this or what 00:59 about that or have I thought about this 00:60 and in most cases I've already done a 01:02 video about whatever their question is. 01:03 So I just send them a link to the video 01:04 I've already done. I will spend hours 01:06 and hours and hours doing that. But I 01:08 have zero patience for people who are 01:10 closed-minded that want to stir the pot. 01:13 So I probably only block someone about 01:15 every month or two on Facebook. But if 01:17 somebody posts, if somebody starts 01:18 posting snarky, stupid stuff that's 01:21 intended to to stir the pot, then my um 01:24 my immediate question is, is this person 01:28 even onetenth of 1% open-minded? Like, 01:31 is there any possibility that I can have 01:33 a productive conversation with this 01:35 person? Or are they so close-minded that 01:38 anything I respond to is going to be a 01:41 complete waste of my time and their 01:43 time? Now, obviously, they posted it 01:44 because they want to waste their time, 01:46 but my time's too valuable to waste on 01:47 people who want to waste my time, so I 01:49 don't do that. Um, so anyway, so if 01:51 somebody makes a post about something 01:53 where I can tell that it's like they 01:55 have no interest in learning more, they 01:57 are completely close-minded. Uh, and the 01:59 example I've given before was this guy 02:01 named Jim, the very first person I ever 02:03 blocked on Facebook. He was constantly 02:05 posting snarky stuff on my Facebook uh 02:07 comments. And so, I reached out to him, 02:09 you know, privately on Facebook 02:10 Messenger, and he lives in central 02:12 Mississippi. and I offered to take him 02:13 to lunch and I offered him $100 of free 02:15 Bitcoin and, you know, I told him it was 02:17 no expense to him and I'd love to, you 02:18 know, have a conversation with him and 02:20 he kept saying, "No, no, no. I'm I I 02:22 don't I don't have really I don't have 02:23 any interest. I don't I don't want to 02:24 learn at all." But then he wouldn't stop 02:26 posting. Like every time I'd post, he'd 02:28 have some snarky uh comment that 02:31 indicated his pure ignorance. And then 02:34 I'd reach out to him and say, you know, 02:35 finally by the end, I think it was $300. 02:37 Finally, I reached out to him and was 02:38 like, "Jim, I will pay I will give you 02:41 $300 of free Bitcoin and a free lunch. 02:45 Just have a dialogue with me to see if, 02:47 you know, to see if I can convince you 02:48 that there's something worth being 02:49 open-minded about." And he was like, 02:51 "No, no, no. I'm way too busy." You 02:53 know, actually, he was retired. He 02:54 wasn't, he wasn't even busy. He was just 02:56 like, "Uh, I'm too old. I'm too old to 02:58 uh, you know, to be messing with this 02:59 stuff." It's like, "Well, you're clearly 03:01 he's not too old to be posting 03:02 constantly on my Facebook page." So 03:04 anyway, so he kept making excuses that 03:06 he was too old and he couldn't, you 03:08 know, I don't know, he was he wasn't 03:10 even old, you know, he was, you know, he 03:13 he was he very easily could have 03:15 understood Bitcoin and, you know, it 03:18 could have used it to make his life much 03:20 better, but he was so 100% close-minded 03:23 that once it became absolutely 03:24 positively clear that there was nothing 03:26 I could possibly do to have a productive 03:28 dialogue, ultimately he posted one last 03:31 time and then I blocked him. And uh so 03:33 anyway, so it happens rarely, but now 03:35 and then somebody, you know, they'll 03:37 they'll typically post if they're uh you 03:39 know, if if they're close-minded, 03:41 they'll go post snarky stuff on like 03:43 two, three, four, five of my uh of my 03:45 posts at a time. And it's like they woke 03:48 up one day with a chip on their 03:49 shoulder. And I'll go through the posts 03:50 and, you know, sometimes I'll respond to 03:52 one of them. Sometimes I'll try to have 03:53 a dialogue, but as soon as it's clear to 03:56 me that this person is a lost cause, I 03:58 have no time to spend with people who 04:00 are lost causes. if they want to be 04:02 close-minded and they want to lose, at 04:05 some point you just got to let them 04:06 lose. I mean, you can't convince 04:08 somebody to win who really wants to just 04:10 be close-minded. I mean, people some 04:12 people are just so close-minded to new 04:14 ideas that there is absolutely nothing 04:16 you can do to convince them. So anyway, 04:17 if you're ever curious, uh it again, it 04:19 probably only happens every couple 04:20 months or every month or two at most, 04:22 but now and then, uh I get the sense 04:25 that someone is so close-minded and 04:27 unwilling to read a book, unwilling to 04:29 read a long Facebook post, unwilling to 04:32 watch a video, unwilling to engage at 04:34 all, they just showed up and they're 04:36 positive Bitcoin's a horrible idea, and 04:38 they don't want to think about it. Okay. 04:41 Well, then either they can not post on 04:44 my Facebook page or if they keep posting 04:46 on my Facebook page with snarky stupid 04:48 stuff that doesn't make any sense and 04:50 zero desire to learn, then at some point 04:52 I will clear them out of my Facebook 04:54 page by blocking them so that we can 04:56 keep a positive dialogue about Bitcoin 04:58 by open-minded people. Now, I don't mind 04:60 if people are skeptical. I've told you 05:01 before I love to read uh information 05:04 from Bitcoin skeptics. Like, I love 05:07 reading, you know, entire articles. In 05:09 fact, um I just came across the 05:11 Atlantic. Someone in the Atlantic posted 05:13 a a long article, like long long long 05:16 article sometime this past week, and 05:19 basically it was, you know, the the 05:21 thesis was that cryptocurrency is some 05:23 sort of right-wing conspiracy theory. I 05:25 don't know, it was ridiculous. But I 05:27 read I meticulously read through the 05:28 whole thing and the conclusion I came to 05:31 at the end of it was wow this person had 05:33 to really really really try hard to 05:35 write a very long article about Bitcoin 05:39 without ever identifying its one useful 05:42 purpose which is as a sound money that 05:44 the government can't make more of. So 05:46 this person basically was throwing 05:48 grenades every which direction except 05:51 that they never actually attacked 05:52 Bitcoin. They were attacking crypto. 05:54 They were attacking blockchain. They 05:56 were attacking this, they were attacking 05:58 that. They were I mean they were 05:59 attacking attacking every dumb thing you 06:01 could think of. But never once did they 06:04 identify the one thing that gives 06:05 Bitcoin value, which is a it's a scarce 06:07 new form of digital money. Like that's a 06:09 whole purpose, you know. So they're 06:11 going on about NFTTS. They're going on 06:12 about stupid stuff. And never once in 06:14 this article did they even mention 06:17 Bitcoin's primary value proposition or 06:20 attempt to engage on that at all. They 06:22 just wanted to rant. So, if somebody 06:24 wants to uh have a dialogue, if they are 06:26 even onetenth of 1% open-minded, I'll 06:29 have a dialogue about Bitcoin with 06:30 anybody about anything, including 06:32 skeptics. I love discussing Bitcoin with 06:34 skeptics uh that are just positive. You 06:37 know, they've it's a scam and it's a 06:40 it's a Ponzi scheme and it's a this and 06:42 it's a that, it's a bubble. And it's 06:44 like, great, let's let's have a 06:45 dialogue. I'll send you the entire 06:46 presentation I did about why Bitcoin's 06:48 not a bubble. Let's talk about it. But 06:50 if somebody is so close-minded they can 06:52 they literally their brain cannot 06:55 process one iota of open-mindedness then 06:59 at some point I'm like nope my Facebook 07:01 page is not going to be a dumpster fire. 07:03 It's going to be a productive dialogue 07:04 by curious people who want to make their 07:06 their lives better because that is who 07:08 Bitcoin is open to. Um Bitcoin will make 07:11 a bunch of close-minded people very poor 07:14 which I think will actually make the 07:15 world a better place. I think the more 07:17 close-minded people that don't climb on 07:20 the Bitcoin bandwagon, well, great. That 07:22 means the open-minded people have more 07:24 financial resources and the close-minded 07:26 people have less, which I'm okay with 07:28 because the world should, you know, the 07:31 way the world rewards open uh 07:33 entrepreneurship, the world should also 07:36 reward open-mindedness. And if somebody, 07:38 you know, decided back in the 1990s that 07:41 the internet was a fad and they were 07:42 never going to touch it, well, they 07:44 might become poorer if they completely 07:45 ignore the internet and they spent all 07:47 their time criticizing the internet 07:49 while everybody else is using it. Well, 07:50 their life is not going to be as good as 07:52 people who understood the power of the 07:54 internet and started using it earlier. 07:56 But I'm okay with that. That seems to be 07:58 the divine justice of the universe is, 08:01 you know, the more close-minded you are, 08:03 uh, the worse you end up off. And the 08:06 same is playing out in Bitcoin right 08:07 now, literally as we speak. There are 08:10 close-minded people writing articles 08:11 against Bitcoin with no desire to 08:14 understand it or to engage it. And they 08:17 will get poorer over time. Where the 08:19 curious will get, you know, will become 08:21 wealthier and as the as the the curious 08:24 and open-minded find have a solution for 08:27 inflation, the close-minded and the not 08:29 curious don't. And so that will be 08:31 reflected in the financial resources 08:33 they have to live their lives. Um, so 08:35 thanks for being open-minded. I love the 08:37 uh, you know, the vibrant dialogue I 08:39 have with so many people every day about 08:41 Bitcoin and how productive it is. And I 08:43 figured I'd just give you some context 08:44 that, you know, one in a thousand people 08:46 I interact with are so close-minded that 08:48 it's not even worth trying. Uh, you got 08:50 to move on to open-minded people because 08:52 there's plenty of open-minded people in 08:53 the world and the world's an amazing 08:55 place with tons of people in it. So have 08:56 a great day everyone. Thanks.