@gpyros85 I feel your pain.
I'm an external processor, so I really prefer to speak my ideas out loud. The whole financial independence thing really excites me, and proper money management has been a huge passion of mine for a long time, so I often try to speak out on fb.
I think the dislike started when I wrote about how I was excited for a family member buying a house but only because that person is good with money and that sometimes buying a house is a bad decision. This was somehow read as "people who buy houses are idiots". Not what I said, I don't have any idea how that message came across, but sometimes you just have to underestimate people's maturity on social media. I also wrote a lot about minimalism, and several friends got to thinking, specifically contrary to what I had said, that I thought all expensive purchases were bad purchases. Why, just...why can't people get it right?
Some friends have benefited from what I say, but mostly those with disposable income. One friend told me it was encouraging to see me work toward my goals since he knows that if he doesn't the money washes away, so he has been encouraged to be more intentional about his spending. Awesome! Mostly the stealth-wealth crowd get a lot from the information but of course they don't typically respond on social media, so it may be easy to feel you are alone.
I've switched my tactics. I post things about the advantages of starting your 401k, how a higher savings rate than normal (I only use lower numbers to entice) can make a huge difference in your ability to survive a layoff, etc. THIS seems to be working much better, draws no hate, and gets more likes (for whatever that is worth). Sometimes I do want to go MMM on some people's asses, but people hate being shamed just as much as they love shaming shamers. Make the information valuable to them, keep your judgements to yourself. And there's nothing wrong with believing people make piss poor decisions, you just have to be clever about convincing them to change and do have to genuinely hope things go well for them.