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Oh Lord... And this is why I've never bothered with MySpace or Facebook or any of those other sites. I'd be at the end of my rope with all the stuff. lol
Social Networking Etiquette 101
I've been getting more and more annoyed lately with Facebook and Myspace and all the irritating things people do on these social networking sites (so much so that I recently deleted my Myspace alltogether)... so I thought I'd start a thread of social network site etiquette 101. Here are a list of popular offenses I come by, please add your own pet peeves, annoyances (or even things for people TO DO) as you see fit!
TMI statuses - I don't care that you're making dinner, then going to vacuum, then going take a shower, then going to get down and dirty w/ your sig other. I don't care that you have gas, have been vomitting all day, or have been blowing snot rockets out of your nose. Ew. TMI. Let's keep our statuses light and airy, please!
Friend-Poaching (ie friending people whom you've never met just to up your # of friends) - Recently my sister in law's older sister went through my friends list and friend requested every single one of my friends, the majority she didn't know, had never met, and I was their only mutual friend.. made for some confusing messages to me ("who is this lady and why is she friending me???"). Nothing wrong with friending a mutual friend, but please make sure you KNOW the person.
Invitation to pages/apps/groups - No, I don't want to join your cause, or be your neighbor on the farm, accept your hug, join your mafia, or beat your trivia score. You're clogging my page with all your silly app requests! This is cause for de-friending, you've been warned.
There are others as well, but these are the big offensives that have been bugging me lately... So, what are your tips and tricks for social networking etiquette?
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Oh Lord... And this is why I've never bothered with MySpace or Facebook or any of those other sites. I'd be at the end of my rope with all the stuff. lol
Friendship Prayer
May the fleas of a thousand camels infest the crotch of the person who screws up your day and may their arms be too short to scratch.
Amen
Whoever said anything was possible obviously never tried slamming a revolving door.
So grateful I have learned how to block they annoying apps and people who are obnoxious. But I do Love FB...
"When one door closes, another opens. But we often look so regretfully upon the closed door that we don't see the one that has opened for us."
Helen Keller
*What you are making for dinner updates... unless its something crazy spectacular and you're sharing a recipe --- just skip it. No one wants to read about it being meatloaf and mashed potatoes night.
*The cryptic, incomplete info, uber emo, whoa is me BS. Either say whats bugging you, or don't. The UGHHHH my life so bad.. comment with nothing following it is annoying and way drama queen.
*Each and every place you go... unless its someplace fabulous and cool... unless you are inviting the public and large, no one needs to know your headed to whole foods or the gym. Stalker bait much??
*Secret messages to someone special... ugh, if its so private you can't reveal -- send them a message. The I'm thinking of you... you know who YOU are stuff. The its so on the downlow i'm going to facebook it stuff to what... make people think you have some mysterious exciting life? bleah.
*Your daily horoscope. Read it yourself... I don't care what your lucky numbers are... why spam MY page with them?
*The balloon fights, the heres a muffin for you, the digital martini's... I appreciate the sentiment... but just send a hi... I don't need to click a pointless app to know your thinking of me. Just tell me.
*If its not a question you want to know the answer to, if its not a definining moment proclaimation, If its not funny, if its not interesting... if its not relevent to the vast people on your FB page... just keep it to yourself is a good rule of thumb.
*Your baby is ADORABLE, so is your new puppy.. but do we need to see new pictures of it 3x a day? lol... I can understand adding to your album... but maybe only PUBLISH to the newsfeed once a week or something!!
*Sexy comments to people that are in obvious committed relationships. It just screams, hello... I'm not happy, let me see if I can start a fight between you and your partner so that you're not happy either.
Oh i could go on for days lol
Scars remind us of where we've been...they don't have to dictate where we're going.
-Deleting relationship status changes off newsfeed
We all know it happened. Don't make us confused. If I click on my friends minifeed, I see it anyways ... and I do
-Posting everything your silly game asks you to
Just don't, please. Even if I block it on my minifeed, it spams up your page!
-Asking multiple times to be my friend when I've declined
I'm sorry that your husband turned into a crazy, unabashed racist. But I didn't friend him the first time, I won't the second time.
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Haha Hopeless, my boyfriend would 100% agree with you on the baby pictures thing.
How about this: Taking pictures of yourself in the mirror doing a slight variation of the same pose we've seen a million times before.
That stuff in general really bugs me. WE KNOW what you look like. We don't need to see your face trying to model. AGAIN. How about showing some nice pictures from that trip you went on last weekend, or you out on the town, or SOMEthing!
Humility. There needs to be more of it.
LoL the shirtless guy in the mirror! This comedian was talking about those famous myspace self portraits and was like do you not know even ONE human being that can take the picture of you? Can you ask a neighbor or train your dog to do it??? lolOriginally Posted by Mes_T
Scars remind us of where we've been...they don't have to dictate where we're going.
Teeeehehehe. That is the FIRST thing I think of - that that person does not have contact with any other human being.
*LOL* I think you guys covered it.
The friend poaching is a big pet peeve of mine!
I have one... gifts for games that you don't even play so if there are games that you do play you have to delete all the other ones just to get to them and the "fake" farmville gifts or fv dollars... seriously... it does absolutely nothing but make one more thing you have to click on to get to go away and create yet another post to the feed.
Makes you wonder what all these people that feel the need to post every aspect of their lives did prior to having a social networking site.
I'm a Cougar, WTF?
Well on My-space if it's not musicians trying to cash in, it's young boys, that say "your hot", well I say, "your not"
I can't remember the last time I went to My-Space......
Jumping on me, cause your bored!!
That sounds harsh, but I can never go on facebook, without someone wanting to talk and not for 5 but for like 30 minutes, scares me, cause I do love them and want to say hi, but 30 minutes I don't have, well I do here, which makes me what a beatch?
I'd rather call, and talk
Facebook I do like, because I see what my extended family & dear friends are doing, I get to read personal thoughts privately and can reply, and it is a place that is friends and family, not like My-Space where it's open slather... It's whom I truly choose to be around.
Only thing I don't like is that I forget to visit some and say hello
Last edited by CHANDLERS WISH; 05-28-2010 at 02:55 AM.
Do we not realise that in order to find a soul
It doesn't happen over night
if truth were to be told.
Like everything in life that's hard to achieve
you must believe!
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