Oddities Of Facebook
Mar. 3rd, 2008 02:47 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
awmperry"You have new friend requests."
Odd, isn't it?
It's nice, certainly, to find old and half-forgotten friends from many years ago. Even nicer to find old and fondly remembered friends.
But sometimes - mostly, it seems - you get requests from people you barely remember, people you vaguely suspect you should remember, and people who just make you go "Who the hell is that?"
So what's the etiquette there? Do you click "Accept" and take a stab in the dark on the "Where do you know Joe Bloggs from" question, or do you click "Ignore" and get seen as a hideously rude boor?
Anyway, whatever you do, you end up with a long friends list which can be more or less divided into three categories: those who check their account once a year whether there's activity or not, those who check when they get a notification in their email, and those who always seem to be logged in.
And then, of course, there are those who've just joined, and are overwhelmed by all the shiny applications. These people can be annoying; every time you log in you'll find a stack of new invitations from them. Vampires, zombies, snowball fights, vampire hunters, invitations to join groups for every cause imaginable, endlessly forwarded jokes that were old when they first hit the internet in 1987...
But they're bad enough when they're signing up for things and thinking "Wow, Andrew'd really get a kick out of this!" They get far, far worse when they find those applications.
You know the ones.
The quizzes. A harmless waste of time, a dozen silly little questions with the lure of an amusing outcome at the end. Most of us fill out the form, click Continue, find that the app requires that you forward it to twenty friends before giving you a result, and then we say "Sod it" and click out of it, deleting the application and reporting it to Facebook for being bloody annoying.
But not the bright-eyed bunnies, oh no. They think "Okay!" and happily send invites to their entire friend list.
Hm.
I'm running out of things to say here - or at least things to chatter about without turning this into a rant. So I shall end it while I'm still pondering in bemused jollity.
G'night, folks.
Odd, isn't it?
It's nice, certainly, to find old and half-forgotten friends from many years ago. Even nicer to find old and fondly remembered friends.
But sometimes - mostly, it seems - you get requests from people you barely remember, people you vaguely suspect you should remember, and people who just make you go "Who the hell is that?"
So what's the etiquette there? Do you click "Accept" and take a stab in the dark on the "Where do you know Joe Bloggs from" question, or do you click "Ignore" and get seen as a hideously rude boor?
Anyway, whatever you do, you end up with a long friends list which can be more or less divided into three categories: those who check their account once a year whether there's activity or not, those who check when they get a notification in their email, and those who always seem to be logged in.
And then, of course, there are those who've just joined, and are overwhelmed by all the shiny applications. These people can be annoying; every time you log in you'll find a stack of new invitations from them. Vampires, zombies, snowball fights, vampire hunters, invitations to join groups for every cause imaginable, endlessly forwarded jokes that were old when they first hit the internet in 1987...
But they're bad enough when they're signing up for things and thinking "Wow, Andrew'd really get a kick out of this!" They get far, far worse when they find those applications.
You know the ones.
The quizzes. A harmless waste of time, a dozen silly little questions with the lure of an amusing outcome at the end. Most of us fill out the form, click Continue, find that the app requires that you forward it to twenty friends before giving you a result, and then we say "Sod it" and click out of it, deleting the application and reporting it to Facebook for being bloody annoying.
But not the bright-eyed bunnies, oh no. They think "Okay!" and happily send invites to their entire friend list.
Hm.
I'm running out of things to say here - or at least things to chatter about without turning this into a rant. So I shall end it while I'm still pondering in bemused jollity.
G'night, folks.
