Students have another four-year break from presidential elections; a fact most students seem to be relieved about.

Facebook and Twitter were flooded with posts, statuses and tweets about the candidates, political parties, national issues and endless opinions on how everyone else should be voting.

All of the social media campaigning eventually became annoying to most students and caused quite a stir when some posts began offending other people.

“I’m glad the elections are over. Political arguments just get very intense and defensive sometimes,” said Shirley Hutchison, a senior accounting major.

Political posts started to pop up before the election, but when the polls opened and throughout the rest of Election Day, things got ugly.

Statuses turned from political opinions and innocently exercising the freedom of speech, to people bashing other people based on their political party.

“I think everyone should stick to what they believe, rather than basing their vote on what someone else thinks,” said Hutchison.

Race even became an issue, as well as insults aimed at people’s intelligence.

In some cases, it got so intense that people began to delete each other from Facebook to avoid arguing any longer.

“I think telling someone they are wrong about what they believe in and arguing about it on Facebook is pointless. I deleted about 25 people because I didn’t like their points, instead of arguing with them,” said Brad Neville, a junior finance major.

Once the winner of the election was announced, posts became even crueler and more dramatic.

The end of the world was even brought into discussion and became a hot topic that people seemed to legitimately be concerned about.

People went from having to defend their political beliefs to just defending themselves entirely.

Some students thought that all of the politics on social media got to the point of being ridiculous and that things were being blown out of proportion.

“[Facebook posts] just saying how in trouble this country is in and that we need to pray about our nation took things a little bit too far,” said Beth Herford, a senior pre-nursing major. Herford said she was glad the elections were over.