Easy to say when it's not work people you see everyday!
HarveyCanal"a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
Just delete the fuckers already.
Easy to say when it's not work people you see everyday!
I deleted all work people, outside of work people I'm actually good friends with...long ago. I think that leaves me with 3 work people on my page, one of which is actually my supervisor.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ TAKES COOL PHOTOS AND POSTS THEM ON FACEBOOK
Yay +1.
edit: By which I meant Edith.
guilty as charged! i find the social aspect of the photo share feature on fb and tumblr a lot more satisfying than flickr's service which i feel foolish paying for the last 4 years.
you can also accept their request and block them from seeing anything.
How do you do this? Do I have to start grouping everybody, or i can i just block a few specific people?
you can do both.
1) select 'privacy settings' from the drop down in the 'account' menu 2) select 'profile information'
there you can see there are a lot of privacy settings you can customize - everything from your status updates to photos tagged of you.
for ex, if you want to block specific people from seeing photos tagged of you, then select "customize" from the drop down menu next to that and either enter specific names of people you want to block from seeing it or actual whole groups (like if you made a group of work people)
when you are done customizing your privacy settings, click on "preview my profile" at the top right and you can enter the name of a person to see how they view your profile.
And just to add for the News Feed.
Tired of seeing things posted from certain people or damn games crap?
To the right of someones post in the news feed. Hover your mouse (It's hidden unless the mouse goes over it) and you will see a "Hide" button. Gives you 2 choices. Hide things from that particular person from showing up in your news feed or hide never seeing that game or whatever they posted coming up from them or anyone else for that matter.
I have an aunt with a gambling problem (banned from casinos in several states, practically bankrupted her entire family, never worked a day in her life), who is so addicted to that Farmville game that she created false Facebook profiles for her husband (my mom's brother) and another aunt. I have them both as "friends" even though they have probably never spent 10 minutes on the internet. How pathetic is that? So yeah, the honeymoon is most definitely over. I still log onto the site out of impulse but don't really find much of interest. Will never be one of those people like Trent Reznor on Twitter or folks here on Soul Strut who announce a big "goodbye" and then come back a week later. I'm on there and will just stay there.
nay i get some many god damn emails about your booty ass techno party that I'm not interested in. Although I send out emails about my soul nights as well that ppl probably don't want. It seems like a waste of time.
I agree. Fortunately pretty much everybody I work with follows this unwritten rule. For the few that have friend-requested me, I've never accepted and they've never confronted me about it. If they did I'd just say I keep work and play separate. (I do have a couple work/Facebook friends but they're people I've worked with and hung out with outside of work so they get a pass. Keep in mind I've worked for the same company for 15+ years so I've known these people for a long time.)
When I hear someone say "I don't like FB" that's like saying, "I don't like my friends". Really, your friends must really suck. After hiding all the annoying games/notifications/overposters, my news feed is only things I want to see. Great source for music, articles, products, reviews, etc.. from people I trust.
Plus I've reconnected with lots of long lost friends which is awesome. I call bullshit on the "they're lost for a reason" nonsense. I've been able to reconnect with friends who I hadn't seen in over 10 years and probably would have never seen again if not for FB. Many people I was friends with in school, old jobs, or old neighborhoods, we were friends because we had fun when we were together in the same place; there was some some sort of chemistry in our banter or common interest, but we weren't like writing letters to each other expressing our deepest feelings or anything, so there was really no reason to stay in touch after graduating/new job/moving. But, FB kind of puts you in the same place again, making it easy to strike up conversations again and bring back the chemistry. I'm not gonna call up an old friend (or all of them) just to discuss a movie I just saw, but if I comment on it on FB, anyone of them can reply if they want, for example.
Really, it would be weird to call up or even email most of my friends to talk about things that I talk about with people I see regularly, but now anyone who wants can respond, almost as if we were still hanging out/ working together / living together, etc.
When I hear someone say "I don't like FB" that's like saying, "I don't like my friends".
wohohohw... you guys are acting like I said your kids were ugly or something... take it easy, it's just a networking tool.
I could just the same say "if you need a networking tool to keep in touch or get back in touch with your friends that's pretty damn sad"[/b] and yeah, if I think about it, I guess that's what I want to say.
The internet is a great thing. It's almost limitless and it can obviously give you a lot of freedom, let's you get and share information easily, freely connect with new friends, re-connect with old ones... that's all great. You have to watch out though because "free" can quickly turn into "cheap". Easy is not always good.
Why do you need something to make it even easier to share information? If the information you have to give isn't worth the effort to you to go see the person or write a letter or call him/her up or at least write a damn email, maybe you better hold that thought and keep it to yourself until it means enough to you to muster the effort to connect in an at least somewhat more individual way than to send a friend request on Facebook.
Pardon me but some of the shit I read in this thread is just ridiculously shallow.
I personally don't need Facebook to re-connect with old friends. I have old friends who I haven't heard of in 10 years because we had grown apart while we were still geographically close and some of those maybe I will never hear from again but I will still cherish the memory of what we had together. I also know why our ways parted. Most of those former friends I got out of touch slowly and without anything bad happening. If I'm in the area one day, I might try and track them down and chances are good times will be had. To share some hasty words and a few pixels on Facebook right out of the blue just because I stumbled across them would feel cheap to me. Random and a waste. This is not as you preposterously assume because "I don't like my friends". It's because even the ones I fell out of touch with mean too much to me to connect with them via some franchised networking tool.
Other old friends of mine, I remained close to until I left town, country or continent. Some of those I am still in contact with, others I only get in touch with every couple of years and I've never needed something like Facebook to do so.
I might have between a dozen and half a dozen "old friends", depending how narrow or close you would want to define the word friend. To me the word Friend means a hell of a lot. Most of my "old friends" I've been friends with for 15-28 years and each single one of them I know I can trust. Facebook and friends -old or new -what should the two have to do with each other? I honestly don't get it.
When I hear someone say "I don't like FB" that's like saying, "I don't like my friends".
wohohohw... you guys are acting like I said your kids were ugly or something... take it easy, it's just a networking tool.
Some kids ARE ugly.
b/w
There's a big difference bewteen friends and acquaintances ....if you have 6 true friends you've done pretty well in life.....this "I have 2,000 friends on FB" is some shallow BS.
HarveyCanal"a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
Oh yes, please do dictate to us how we should and shouldn't be communicating with our own friends.
Oh yes, please do dictate to us how we should and shouldn't be communicating with our own friends.
I didn't realize I had dictatorial power over you.....from here on out I'll use it for much more evil purposes.
Make him listen to UK hip-Hop.
Jesus christ, I heard he got signed to a major and got his teeth fixed so I should have expected something shit but not that extent. Baiter than bait sample.
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Easy to say when it's not work people you see everyday!
I deleted all work people, outside of work people I'm actually good friends with...long ago. I think that leaves me with 3 work people on my page, one of which is actually my supervisor.
guilty as charged! i find the social aspect of the photo share feature on fb and tumblr a lot more satisfying than flickr's service which i feel foolish paying for the last 4 years.
And just to add for the News Feed.
Tired of seeing things posted from certain people or damn games crap?
To the right of someones post in the news feed. Hover your mouse (It's hidden unless the mouse goes over it) and you will see a "Hide" button. Gives you 2 choices. Hide things from that particular person from showing up in your news feed or hide never seeing that game or whatever they posted coming up from them or anyone else for that matter.
Another reason why we don't need to be FB friends - I see these people more than my friends and family!
I agree. Fortunately pretty much everybody I work with follows this unwritten rule. For the few that have friend-requested me, I've never accepted and they've never confronted me about it. If they did I'd just say I keep work and play separate. (I do have a couple work/Facebook friends but they're people I've worked with and hung out with outside of work so they get a pass. Keep in mind I've worked for the same company for 15+ years so I've known these people for a long time.)
but no cellphone
Plus I've reconnected with lots of long lost friends which is awesome. I call bullshit on the "they're lost for a reason" nonsense. I've been able to reconnect with friends who I hadn't seen in over 10 years and probably would have never seen again if not for FB. Many people I was friends with in school, old jobs, or old neighborhoods, we were friends because we had fun when we were together in the same place; there was some some sort of chemistry in our banter or common interest, but we weren't like writing letters to each other expressing our deepest feelings or anything, so there was really no reason to stay in touch after graduating/new job/moving. But, FB kind of puts you in the same place again, making it easy to strike up conversations again and bring back the chemistry. I'm not gonna call up an old friend (or all of them) just to discuss a movie I just saw, but if I comment on it on FB, anyone of them can reply if they want, for example.
Really, it would be weird to call up or even email most of my friends to talk about things that I talk about with people I see regularly, but now anyone who wants can respond, almost as if we were still hanging out/ working together / living together, etc.
So, yeah, yay.
wohohohw... you guys are acting like I said your kids were ugly or something...
take it easy, it's just a networking tool.
I could just the same say "if you need a networking tool to keep in touch or get back in touch with your friends that's pretty damn sad"[/b] and yeah, if I think about it, I guess that's what I want to say.
The internet is a great thing. It's almost limitless and it can obviously give you a lot of freedom, let's you get and share information easily, freely connect with new friends, re-connect with old ones... that's all great. You have to watch out though because "free" can quickly turn into "cheap". Easy is not always good.
Why do you need something to make it even easier to share information?
If the information you have to give isn't worth the effort to you to go see the person or write a letter or call him/her up or at least write a damn email, maybe you better hold that thought and keep it to yourself until it means enough to you to muster the effort to connect in an at least somewhat more individual way than to send a friend request on Facebook.
Pardon me but some of the shit I read in this thread is just ridiculously shallow.
I personally don't need Facebook to re-connect with old friends. I have old friends who I haven't heard of in 10 years because we had grown apart while we were still geographically close and some of those maybe I will never hear from again but I will still cherish the memory of what we had together. I also know why our ways parted. Most of those former friends I got out of touch slowly and without anything bad happening. If I'm in the area one day, I might try and track them down and chances are good times will be had. To share some hasty words and a few pixels on Facebook right out of the blue just because I stumbled across them would feel cheap to me. Random and a waste. This is not as you preposterously assume because "I don't like my friends". It's because even the ones I fell out of touch with mean too much to me to connect with them via some franchised networking tool.
Other old friends of mine, I remained close to until I left town, country or continent. Some of those I am still in contact with, others I only get in touch with every couple of years and I've never needed something like Facebook to do so.
I might have between a dozen and half a dozen "old friends", depending how narrow or close you would want to define the word friend. To me the word Friend means a hell of a lot. Most of my "old friends" I've been friends with for 15-28 years and each single one of them I know I can trust. Facebook and friends -old or new -what should the two have to do with each other? I honestly don't get it.
Some kids ARE ugly.
b/w
There's a big difference bewteen friends and acquaintances ....if you have 6 true friends you've done pretty well in life.....this "I have 2,000 friends on FB" is some shallow BS.
I didn't realize I had dictatorial power over you.....from here on out I'll use it for much more evil purposes.
Make him listen to UK hip-Hop.
I was talking to zee German.
Frank, make him listen to UK Hip-Hop!
Jesus christ, I heard he got signed to a major and got his teeth fixed so I should have expected something shit but not that extent. Baiter than bait sample.
What does a poke mean?
And what are "gifts" I have a bunch of them just sitting there and I am afraid to click on them!
Am I expected to send a gift in return?
"Hey, don't forget that I exist! Pay attention to me!"
"Hey, don't forget that I exist! Pay attention to me!"
I thought it meant "I wanna poke you out, yo."