Norma needs help. Facebook etiquette help. I know, I know, what the fuck am I
doing wasting time on Facebook. Good question, but we'll leave it for another time.
Today's dilemma is this: Came upon a friend request today, a guy I went to high school with.
This doesn't surprise me, a reunion is coming up this summer so there's plenty of activity
surrounding the class' FB page. Initially when I saw his name, I was shocked.
Someone I was never pals with, but he wasn't part of the enemy camp either.
So, I did the nice thing and accepted. My next error was to saunter over to
his wall and lo and behold, whenever he posted anything, it was biblical thingys with
numbers at the end. I gasped, grabbed my inhaler and then unfriended him.
Should I write him something? I feel bad, especially if I'm to see him this summer.
My Facebook wall is filled with heathens and what-have-you...
...do you think he checked me out first?
doing wasting time on Facebook. Good question, but we'll leave it for another time.
Today's dilemma is this: Came upon a friend request today, a guy I went to high school with.
This doesn't surprise me, a reunion is coming up this summer so there's plenty of activity
surrounding the class' FB page. Initially when I saw his name, I was shocked.
Someone I was never pals with, but he wasn't part of the enemy camp either.
So, I did the nice thing and accepted. My next error was to saunter over to
his wall and lo and behold, whenever he posted anything, it was biblical thingys with
numbers at the end. I gasped, grabbed my inhaler and then unfriended him.
Should I write him something? I feel bad, especially if I'm to see him this summer.
My Facebook wall is filled with heathens and what-have-you...
...do you think he checked me out first?
This is my profile photo.
Don't you think this would tip a fella off?
Let it quietly drop. If he asks, get First Nations to write you an excuse.
ReplyDeleteFABULOUS ADVICE! XX
DeleteDo what I did, delete your FB profile and never go there again... Jx
ReplyDeleteSmart boy, you get unlimited gin when you visit!!!!
Deletei did just that with another FB account.
DeleteMistress MJ refuses to go to the dark side.
ReplyDeleteSmart girl, you get unlimited butt spankings when you visit!!!!
Deletei understand, but once you've drank from it's waters......
DeleteSit down and have a cup of tea.
ReplyDeleteFirst of all you have no obligation to friend everyone who requests it.
Secondly, Facebook gives you the ability to communicate with those who you do not "friend" through private messages. Think of these as "email".
Thirdly, like lx says - let it go away on it's own and die a quiet death.
Fourthly, if he says something at the reunion, and I doubt he will, just tell him "oh, that? Slip of the finger.". It says something while saying nothing. It's not a lie.
I have many friends who frequently have to tell people that they love Jesus. It's what they need to do to get through the day. More power to them.
yes, cookie, i know about the private messages. maybe i'll send you one someday.
DeleteFB is like an elevator. Normally, you wouldn't stand so close to strangers, and people you really don't like, but it's all in the numbers. Ever notice how an elevator can be full, the door is nearly closed, but the person in the front inevitably stops the door for that "one last person" to get on? And the rest of the elevator group looks on, impartially pissed?
ReplyDeletePS WWJD? Friend them, that's what He'd do. And then watch them.
margaret gets 10 snaps for that excellent analogy! maybe FB would
Deletebe better if there was an old fashioned "operator" just inside the door?
Addictive personalities trade one addiction for another, like trading heroin for Jesus or trading Jesus for Facebook. I assume he was an addict who straightened up through Jesus and now he pushes that on everyone he comes in contact. You could drop him a line and tell him exactly what you just said and also that you find his pushiness of religion offensive.
ReplyDeleteI joined Facebook to find lost friends. Two that I really have missed are Jesus freaks now. I just let it slide if that's what managed to save their lives. But they always post crap that usually ends with, "Have a blessed day." As you know I really hate that.
I collected emails from lost friends and I'm preparing to delete my Facebook account. Some people use it as a High school reunion that they have to visit every hour all day long.
pearls from the pirate, thank you!
Deletei find i use it to let people whose taste i admire bring stuff to my attention that i'll like.
i shut off the others...you know, like the putzes who post endless shots of their PUPPIES. ahem.
Here is the thing Norma darling, FB allows different levels of intimacy, you can customize it so that you have:
ReplyDeleteCLOSE FRIENDS (the ones who have seen you take a piss in the kitchen sink) hence are allowed to read every biliary thing you can spit and post.
ACQUAINTANCES, for those some protocol demand you stay "in touch" (but not too close) so they only read what you feel is "publicly proper".
LIMITED PROFILE, for those who are only going to know you are there, but you might as well need a kidney and they won't know about it.
You choose the spectrum target for each post on the small drop menu! Point: if you weren't speaking with this son of Esther in High School, why would you do it now?!
SINCE you are lurking around the muddy pool of Zuckenberg, you might as well be polite to drop by my work page and press LIKE. I need the traffic and don't make me cut you. Just type 'ruibarrosartist'
you're right rui, but i never bothered to learn about the levels.
Deletetoo pyramid scheme-like.
and look at that, i just looked at your name and figured it out!
well maybe he is turned on by powerful pictures of men!!! But I'd like to help you Norma, otherwise, but what is this Facebook thing you talk of?
ReplyDeletei've got to hurry and get over there and move that rock you live under!
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