Facebook Follies

[Colonel Green]

I had to defriend my sister just because of her grammer. I'm not perfect, but I don't care. If anyone types in 'txt spk' I will have to hurt them.

I know what you mean. An old flame recently contacted my via Facebook, the one that got away, if you will. I got married recently, but I was starting to feel some old feelings surface.

That ended abruptly when she used the term "betta" in one of her messages.

Attraction disengaged.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Facebook is a minefield, I have thoughts of deleting my entire account on a regular basis.

I actually did.

 

[Mistral]

I resisted all social networking sites until a month or so ago. My wife signed me up on FB. The games requests are very annoying(I don't play those silly things), her Cafeworld locks up my home PC regularly, and I got a friend request from someone I hadn't seen in years-for good reason. I feel uncomfortable about expanding my FB horizons as I'm not the person I was 25 years ago in high school. Some people say that, but in my case the treatment of a medical condition literally altered my personality(it made me more sane, dang it!) and I shudder when I think about things said and done as a youth. FB seems to dredge a lot of those memories up.

On the other hand-my best friend is in Korea for a year and this way we can keep up. There was a cousin very dear to me who lost her way years ago to drugs and such. She's (mostly) clean and sober now and on my FL. I have plans to visit her in the next few weeks- first time in 20 years I'll have seen her. We actually thought she might be dead prior to finding her on FB. I've renewed a few lost friendships(that I had never meant to lose) and even got in touch with one of the few ex girlfriends I didn't completely make an ass of myself with during the break-up. So there are some positive sides as well. I still fend off friend requests from people I went to school with on a semi-regular basis, but they seem to be dying down.

 

[Kestra]

Eh, I certainly don't want my mom seeing my facebook page. She's already convinced I'm an alcoholic (even though the most she's ever seen me drink is 1 beer, and I haven't even touched alcohol in over a month). I'd hate her to see pictures of me, god forbid, at a bar!

My aunt, uncle, mother-in-law, aunts and uncles and cousins on my husband's side ... all of them are Facebook friends. I don't really care since there's nothing to hide.

 

[RoJoHen]

I don't really have anything to hide, but I do know my relatives, and I know they would give me a bunch of shit for nothing. I'd rather not deal with it.

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

Frightening, isn't it?

You people are even bigger nerds than I had originally thought.

*poke*

Bewarned mate - Crusher will start charging for that.

I'm glad I'm an only child.

I love having all of my siblings on there. Allows me to see what they are up with two of them living in London. Found out today that my brother contracted the flu while skiing in Austria.

I don't really have anything to hide, but I do know my relatives, and I know they would give me a bunch of shit for nothing. I'd rather not deal with it.

If there is anything I don't want my family to know - i'll filter it. There was something that one of my siblings said, it didn't really bother me.

 

[1001001]

Facebook has eaten my wife. She's on all the time now. Seems like every boy she ever kissed has found her. Whatever...

I barely care about my own life, let alone someone else's. The whole thing seems very silly to me. People "sending you drinks" and having virtual "pillow fights" and whatnot. Seriously?

So no, I am not on Facebook, and am not a fan of Facebook. I guess the bottom line is that I'm not a fan of people, and people are all over that thing....

 

[RoJoHen]

I don't really have anything to hide, but I do know my relatives, and I know they would give me a bunch of shit for nothing. I'd rather not deal with it.

If there is anything I don't want my family to know - i'll filter it.

Good call. I really don't have any relatives who are into facebook, so it's not a big issue. The relatives I do have on facebook have a similar attitude as me, so none of us want to friend each other!

I also get kind of nostalgic for when facebook was strictly a thing for college campuses, so I try to keep my friends limited in that regard.

 

[iguana_tonante]

I had to defriend my sister just because of her grammer. I'm not perfect, but I don't care. If anyone types in 'txt spk' I will have to hurt them.

I also had to rject a request from my mother. She doesn't need to know what I do.

 

[Gryffindorian]

I barely care about my own life, let alone someone else's. The whole thing seems very silly to me. People "sending you drinks" and having virtual "pillow fights" and whatnot. Seriously?

The other day I received a virtual beer from my older brother's former classmate's sister, whom I hardly know IRL along with a greeting. "You deserve this beer for being a great dad." I replied, "Really? I didn't realize I was a daddy? Who's the mom?" Or more importantly, where's the kid?

 

[Kestra]

The whole thing seems very silly to me. People "sending you drinks" and having virtual "pillow fights" and whatnot. Seriously?

See, I don't take part in those apps for the most part, and it's more about seeing what people post, often just little things like what kind of day they've had, or maybe an interesting article that they have linked to. I blocked farmville from my feed a long time ago.

 

[Gryffindorian]

The whole thing seems very silly to me. People "sending you drinks" and having virtual "pillow fights" and whatnot. Seriously?

See, I don't take part in those apps for the most part, and it's more about seeing what people post, often just little things like what kind of day they've had, or maybe an interesting article that they have linked to. I blocked farmville from my feed a long time ago.

Ditto here. One reason I decided to deactivate my first account was that I was getting tons of silly application invites from co-workers (which I felt obligated to respond to). I've completely blocked Farmville, Mafia Wars, Kitchen whatchamacallit apps, and I've hidden/removed contacts who pollute my Newsfeeds with such crappy news updates. "So-and-so has reached Level 37 in Virtual Aquarium." Who cares? I obviously don't. I don't advertise my achievements when I play Sims 2 or City of Heroes.

Sadly, most of my new contacts on FB live for such apps. Their walls are cluttered with such nonsensical updates. Their photo albums are nothing more than screenshots of games. One contact wrote, "Didn't get much sleep last night ... too busy playing Farmville."

 

[KimMH]

Facebook is a minefield, I have thoughts of deleting my entire account on a regular basis.

I actually did.

Considering it. If I just let it languish will they close it after a set time of abandonment?

 

[Kestra]

Their photo albums are nothing more than screenshots of games.

With my friends, their albums are all filled with pics of babies. Apparently everyone from my high school started having babies shortly after graduation and now have three kids each.

 

[Michael Chris]

Their photo albums are nothing more than screenshots of games.

With my friends, their albums are all filled with pics of babies. Apparently everyone from my high school started having babies shortly after graduation and now have three kids each.

Awwww! I love seeing all the baby pictures. Makes me feel all paternal.

 

[RoJoHen]

The whole thing seems very silly to me. People "sending you drinks" and having virtual "pillow fights" and whatnot. Seriously?

See, I don't take part in those apps for the most part, and it's more about seeing what people post, often just little things like what kind of day they've had, or maybe an interesting article that they have linked to. I blocked farmville from my feed a long time ago.

Yeah, the games and stuff are all relatively new to Facebook within the last couple years. They're obnoxious, but at least it's possible to block them now.

I mostly just use it for communication and posting pictures. I always get excited when my friends post new pics of my godchildren (which they haven't done in a while )

 

[archeryguy1701]

My wierdest FB encounter.... normally, I don't add people I don't know. I'll add people from here that I like and people that I know. Otherwise, I'll ignore requests. Two years ago, I got a request and a message from a kid in Spain saying he wanted to be friends and wanted to learn a bit more English. Seemed honest enough, so I went ahead and Oked it. I've blanked out the guy's last name... left mine in there because if you look at my profile here, you'll find it anyways. It started out innocently enough....

And then we got this.... I have no idea what brought this on, but my best guess is that it had been 5 days since I last responded. Part of that had to do with the fact that I had no idea what his last message said. Another part of that is that I suck at replying... you can ask Unicron- I take a month to answer PM's on a good day!

So, I defriended him and all was good. Exactly a year later, he contacts me back with this little exchange...

I suppose that I could have continued to talk to him, but after his last freakout, I wanted nothing to do with it. This is the reason that I've gotten really stringent about adding strangers and I've really locked down my info for non-friends.

 

[Gryffindorian]

Wow, you were more than patient and very civil with him. We think alike.

EDIT: I suspect your "old friend" was typing his messages in Spanish (or whatever his native language is) and using one of these on-line translators, which aren't always very accurate.

 

[TorontoTrekker]

Someone at work asked me today if I would mind if she added me. I'm not thrilled, as I prefer to keep work and non-work as separate as possible, but I said okay. (I have Chrinfinity friended, but as I've mentioned before, our friendship predates our working relationship by about seven years.) I don't actually lock anything down - everything about me is publicly viewable. I have nothing to hide. (I don't think there are even any pictures of me drunk on there... the pictures in which I'm drinking alcohol were taken long before that point. ) So even if she didn't friend me, she'd be able to see pretty much everything there is to see.

I find that the biggest problem I have with FB isn't so much the applications, though I'm not fond of them - I can block them as I encounter them. It's the fact that reading about 450 friends' statuses updates every day takes a lot of time!

And I'd say I actually know about 96% of the people I have friended IRL, or have at least interacted with them extensively via email. I'm not one of those people who tries to friend everyone in sight to try to inflate the number of friends I have. (If you look at my friend list, you may try to guess who the other 4% are... I'll just say that you'd be surprised. There's a reason why there's a running joke in Toronto fandom that I know everyone.)

 

[Crusher Disciple]

You people are even bigger nerds than I had originally thought.

*poke*

Bewarned mate - Crusher will start charging for that.

Damned straight!