In Part 1 of this series, I described the basic Rules of Engagement when interacting with people on Facebook. Some people generally say wassup, some people want to holla, some it’s all of the above. I wanted to give tips on how to exemplify proper social networking etiquette on that site. Now, I want to say what personally upsets me about people’s movements on Facebook and see if you feel the same way. As always, I’m goin in…and I plan to return without a scratch on me!
Event Messages
I have the right to not logon to Facebook and see 100000000000000000 messages from the SAME person about a party 10 weeks in advance! I have no problem with event promotion (I do it myself), but there’s certain rules of etiquette that you pseudo event planners need to understand. When you put our names on events, we usually don’t decline because you and your promoter friends flood our inbox with events, group requests, zombies, werewolves, knights, lions, tigers, AND BEARS!!!….and we can’t tell the difference. We often miss events from people whose events we actually WANT to attend! You send an event notification about a month prior and hit us WEEKLY. That’s respectable. Not everyday, 3 times a day. When facebook inboxes have the same amount of new messages as my gmail account, it’s a serious issue. I will block any and all people who facebook spam my account. You have been warned!
FB Thuggin
I have the right to browse facebook without threat or harm from electronic thugs. You know this all too well. The people who subliminally diss in status messages, wall posts, and Honesty Boxes. The dudes who post your pictures on Funny ______________ groups and don’t have sh*t to say when you confront them face to face. The people who talk tough behind the keyboard, and give bloggers like yours truly a bad name? Yup, you are a Facebook Thug. One of the CORNIEST whack kids in all the land. Real recognize real, and right about now, your picture might as well be on milk cartons because we can’t call it. I’ve always lived by the rule that you should never say on the net what you won’t say to a person’s face. The internet has been the biggest technological achievement of my generation, yet in its dynamic splendor, it’s given way to an age of salad ass nikkas and e-thugs thinking that they have an S on their chest. You were the kid in high school who no one knew and who tried to build a different image in college…but failed, lol. on behalf of the millions….(AND Millions (c) The Rock) of Facebook users, b e z, delete your account, and fall back!
These are just a couple of things that upset me about facebook. Everything else can be regulated well. I leave the rest for you to fill in? Anything about facebook or its members that get you heated? What about myspace and these other sites. SPEAK on it!
i'm mad you put every other social network and news aggregator site at the bottom of the post lol
I still gotta eat homie! hahahahaha!
I'm still laughing at the phrase "salad ass nikkas". Tell em why you're mad why don'tcha, lol
Umm, yea I'd like to add FB stalking. Now, I'm down with stalking people on FB on the downlow ( I do it and am definitely not ashamed) But, don't let people know you stalk them by using fb to discredit something they told you. Ex: "you said you were sleeping but I saw you post a status update at 11:23 pm on fb"…that's just downright beat.
lol. once again another classic for the books.
we all need to fall back and go live real life.
This is the best blog on this topic I have seen. People get upset when I respond attending but are you really looking at FB to get your accurate count when cats from Afganistan are RSVPing????
LOL @ the event one. Yes, and half the folks that rsvp don't even attend.
Hmm what about those folks that stalk what events you’re going to attend, like oh she's going to that party. Then you end up seeing the same weirdo at every event your at, and of he/she are going to front like "Oh what a coincidence." Like they didn't know you weren't going to be there, smh.
Alright J. I have some heat to vent as well. I dont know if you want to merely leave this in the comments section, copy/paste it into the note as some amendments, or what. But I'm going in….
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Middle Finger Photos
As you do have the right to post whatever profile picture you feels best suits or characterizes you, we also has viewers have the right to comment and ridicule foolishness. For the purposes of this article I shall shed light on one particular trend of FB foolishness; The Middle Finger Photos.
What part of masculine maturity or feminine sophistication is it for you to utilize the camera feature of your iPhone, SideKick, BB, or any other mobile device, to capture a picture of yourself "flipping the bird" (as it is known) infront of your bathroom or bedroom mirror. It is neither Grown nor Sexy. I can only assume that you are trying to portray some level of bravado that you foolishly believe is received by us as viewers. Sadly you are so wrong. It instead only displays to us a extreme level of immaturity as that can only be classified as a juvenile act.
Application Proclamation
I have the right to log on to FB and not be subject, bombarded and swamped by eleventy-million requests to participate in some new or lingering FB application. I have too many as it is. Thank you for the invitation but no thank you. I DO NOT want to be bitten by your Vampire. I DO NOT want to be turned into your Zombie. My last name is neither Capone, Gotti nor Corleon so I would rather not engage in your Mafia War. I appreciate the fact that you find me attractive enough to "Have Sex" or cool enough to engage in a "Snowball Fight" with but please please please…spare me.
Who am I…..I'm a GDI!
***This one might hit a special nerve by my fellow BGLO members***
I reserve the right to refuse and request not to be Friend Requested by individuals looking to accumulate FB friends within the organization they "believe" they are assured to join. I have been nice. I have been patient…but the next time I receive a request for friendship from a GDI looking to add a few Alphas to his friendslist I am talking names. I am saving photos. And I am contacting chapters.
@ Connie – Good 1! Im mad i didn't think of that. Even the good stalkers need notice too hahaha
@ Larnel – Bwahahahhahaha! You went in fam! I think I'll amend this after a few days but these are great starts!
About those party invites…everybody who sends me more than 1 [which I usually click remove from my events anyways to avoid all the messages], anyways everybody who keeps it up, they get a "ignore all invites from this friend"…that might be the greatest thing facebook ever invented
lol
wait wait but you get THAT much gmail tho?
# it was a slight exaggeration.. but when my gbox is 50+ and so is Facebook… SOMETHING is wrong! There's no reason to have 50++ messages in your inbox unless you don't check your facebook ever in life.
GDI's BAHAHAHAHAH
Streetz…you know you crazy! However, im about to go in and block some people too, my got dayum inbow on FB is over 1000 (and 500 are probably from the same 10 people…get a ephin life).
….and yes Larnel went in…lol…i aint mad tho!
You'd forgot about You-Tube thugs.
LOL
Peace
-Chi