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10 Things You Should and Shouldn't Do on Facebook
Oh jeez. Since Facebook opened its doors to non Ivy-leagers, everyone from Radar to your Mom is coming out with 'Netiquette guides that tell users how to act right while Facebooking.
London's Independent just came out with another such guide, which tells us things that we already know but wish certain-people-who-shall-remain-nameless would figure out. Below is a summary with some added insights from Switched.
In short:
1. Avoid TMI (Too much information). Listing every band you ever liked makes you seem desperate, and apparently people will send you weird ads. This has never happened to us, but we like to keep it simple.
2. Don't put up pictures of your friends looking busted. They'll untag them, and it will make you look less attractive by association.
3. Dads and aunties and bosses and all sorts of awkward people are now on Facebook. You may want to tailor your profile accordingly.
4. Size does matter. Or does it? The Independent says that having a lot of friends on FB makes you seem more popular. Whatev. We don't really notice how many friends our Facebook friends have, unless it's something extreme.
To us, having few FB friends means you probably don't use Facebook that much (making you kind of cool) or just joined, and too many means you may be a compulsive friender who needs to step off. Either way we don't care so much.
5. Leaving gross wall postings is also looked down upon. If in doubt, just use the message feature and save yourself the public humiliation of having your friend and the world read your douchy ramblings.
6. Also: We totally hate the "how do you know this person?" feature.
So unnecessary. Three words: "skip this step."
7. You don't have to friend everyone you've ever met. Some people use Facebook in this way, but we opt to friend only people we actually want to continue interacting with.
8. You don't have to accept friend requests. We usually do it, mostly out of guilt, rejecting only when the request comes from someone egregiously wretched or someone we don't know at all. But you don't have to!
Often we just leave undesirables in friend request limbo, neither accepting or denying their propositions. Or do whatever. It's just Facebook.
9. Step off with the application requests! Only send the ones that are absolutely necessary, the awesomest thing you've ever seen, etc. We don't care, at all, what shape cocktail glass we are, we don't want a shot, we don't want to compare our favorite 'Hills' characters. No, no, and no.
10. You can de-friend people.
We realized this after reading another blog post about Facebook. We deleted the people who send us daily group invitations and wack applications, plus some random kids we met like one time.
Some of them re-friended us!
A kind of great Facebook parody sketch after the jump. [Source: The Independent]
London's Independent just came out with another such guide, which tells us things that we already know but wish certain-people-who-shall-remain-nameless would figure out. Below is a summary with some added insights from Switched.
In short:
1. Avoid TMI (Too much information). Listing every band you ever liked makes you seem desperate, and apparently people will send you weird ads. This has never happened to us, but we like to keep it simple.
2. Don't put up pictures of your friends looking busted. They'll untag them, and it will make you look less attractive by association.
3. Dads and aunties and bosses and all sorts of awkward people are now on Facebook. You may want to tailor your profile accordingly.
4. Size does matter. Or does it? The Independent says that having a lot of friends on FB makes you seem more popular. Whatev. We don't really notice how many friends our Facebook friends have, unless it's something extreme.
To us, having few FB friends means you probably don't use Facebook that much (making you kind of cool) or just joined, and too many means you may be a compulsive friender who needs to step off. Either way we don't care so much.
5. Leaving gross wall postings is also looked down upon. If in doubt, just use the message feature and save yourself the public humiliation of having your friend and the world read your douchy ramblings.
6. Also: We totally hate the "how do you know this person?" feature.
So unnecessary. Three words: "skip this step."
7. You don't have to friend everyone you've ever met. Some people use Facebook in this way, but we opt to friend only people we actually want to continue interacting with.
8. You don't have to accept friend requests. We usually do it, mostly out of guilt, rejecting only when the request comes from someone egregiously wretched or someone we don't know at all. But you don't have to!
Often we just leave undesirables in friend request limbo, neither accepting or denying their propositions. Or do whatever. It's just Facebook.
9. Step off with the application requests! Only send the ones that are absolutely necessary, the awesomest thing you've ever seen, etc. We don't care, at all, what shape cocktail glass we are, we don't want a shot, we don't want to compare our favorite 'Hills' characters. No, no, and no.
10. You can de-friend people.
We realized this after reading another blog post about Facebook. We deleted the people who send us daily group invitations and wack applications, plus some random kids we met like one time.
Some of them re-friended us!
A kind of great Facebook parody sketch after the jump. [Source: The Independent]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Dr. Sound said 10:40PM on 6-22-2008
Along with the whole trimming down your friends thing, I did it recently for other reasons. I was worried I'd have a real slow news feed, but actually it's about the same pace, but it's all of people I want to know about what's happening!
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Capri said 12:04AM on 6-23-2008
Actually, not having too many friends doesn't mean you're inactive on Facebook or not popular. IMO, having lists of friends in the hundreds makes a person look desperate for popular stats, who's got the most, and the article is right - we just don't care! Another thing people really need to stop doing is posting chain letters on every kind of wall there is! Making groups with bad cusswords and other offensive language in the title or description is rampant and very much frowned on by yours truly. There are lots of problem group trends on Facebook, too many to go into here. Also, I wish people would stop using idiotic words like 'douche/douchebag' 'ho' 'Nigga' no kidding, that's all over Facebook groups. The College people need to stop whining about FB having opened up to all ages. If they want a college network, they can just go back to Connectu and stay there. I'm glad there is finally an internet site all my family and several of my friends are using, so it's much easier to stay in touch. For some reason, most people seem to prefer FB to sending notes via traditional email, which chain letters pretty much killed anyway.
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Krista said 11:03PM on 6-23-2008
"Duchess Demara" is the most popular person on facebook
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Devynn said 4:31AM on 6-24-2008
i have only about 40 friends on facebook. and i know them all pretty well. some have been internet friends i've had for YEARS. others are old classmates and a few relatives. i've got some new ppl that i met through my husband, but i don't see it grown much beyond that. i'm a pretty private person and only friend ppl that i know or have known for a long while. when i see ppl who have hundreds of friends i wonder, "how can one person know THAT MANY ppl?!" there's NO WAY they know that many ppl! and i'm ALL about NOT friending ppl i KNOW and BLOCKING apps. i went on an app benige for my own page and it REALLY crowded everything up and i had to clear it up. my friends thought i went insane. and a i did. but i've gotten better since. all i can say is, exercise common sense when it comes to social networking. err on the side of caution. and if you'd get ashamed if your mom saw it, it doesn't need to be there. :)
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