It seems that if you have a computer and can manage to work Internet Explorer (otherwise known as "the internet" to many of you) enough to get a Yahoo Mail account and 30 annoying toolbars installed, you also have a Facebook account. Now, you might not be able to get a picture into your profile, but somehow you can figure out how to SPAM my Facebook with pictures of cows that wandered onto your farm. These are generally the same sort of people that send personal messages by writing publicly to your wall.
Facebook is both good and evil wrapped up into one. It's super easy to find and keep in touch with people that you haven't seen in forever. Unfortunately, it's also super easy for people you probably didn't ever want to talk to again to find you. I tend to go the "total bitch" route and don't friend anyone that I don't actually want to talk to.
It's a constant barrage of polls, video's, links, weak political protests via some sort of collection of signatures, games, and my new favorite: warnings about how people are using Facebook to scam people or infect everyone with herpes or whatever (I don't actually read anything in all caps, so I'm not positive what they are complaining about).
Some tips to not annoy everyone you know on Facebook.
1. I don't need a status update every 5 minutes. If by your status feeds I can tell how many times you've been to the bathroom today, just turn the computer off and never ever turn it back on.
2. I don't need to know if you need help with your farm/mafia/vampires/racecars. I actually play MafiaWars, and I still don't need to see it on my news feed. If I want to know, I'll check.
3. Polls. Please don't send them to me. Unless the poll is : How much of an Asshat on Facebook do you think I am?? I am not interested.
4. Politics/Religion. If you don't want to hear other people's opinions, then don't post. When I'm in the mood, I might just ruin your night by pointing out how wrong you really are. Then you have to go and cry yourself to sleep after resorting to calling me baseless names. It's not worth all that is it?
5. Quizzes. If you like them, fine. Some of them are interesting and/or funny. If you post one every now and then, that's OK. If you do 14 quizzes a day, can you please not post them? I'm not really all that interested in what Twilight character you are most like or what Celebrity you are most likely to have hot sex with. Honestly, you don't have a chance at either anyhow.
6. It's great if you have a cool video to post. Sharing is caring! However, if you post more than 1 per week, it's too much. If you are posting advertising for you company, even 1 per week is probably too much. Just stop, eventually we will all just end up hiding your updates and you will be left wondering why no one ever comments on anything you post. You will become horribly depressed and the only video you will have left to post is your suicidal note. And no one will see it.
Try to remember, all those people you call your friends have to see the bullshit you plaster all over Facebook. A little consideration would be nice.
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