Hey there! It’s Sarah from It’s On the Tip of My Tongue…
This post could easily be retitled “My Facebook Pet Peeves” because these are only my etiquette suggestions, and I have never been called Emily Post before!
I love Facebook! I wish I didn’t have these Facebook pet peeves, but despite my best efforts to not be annoyed, I still am annoyed by these things.
Do any of these things drive you nuts too?
1. Limit vaguebooking…it’s just plain annoying. It’s not surprising I don’t like this on Facebook. I don’t like it in real life. I call it “baiting” because it feels like the speaker is throwing out the bait and I have to nibble on it by asking them more prodding questions instead of them just saying what they really want to say. “I love how this day is turning out!” “So this is what they meant…” “…wonders how it happened.” “…thinks things can only get better.”
2. Only put a few of your best photos from your albums on Facebook. There’s no need to upload all 400 shots from your vacation. Pick a couple that really speak to you and upload just those. If you want to put them all online, chose a photo sharing site like Photobucket, Snapfish or Flikr and put that link on Facebook so people can go see all of them if they want to.
3. Please reply if someone asks you a question! Just like in real-life, it’s polite to respond, even if it’s just with a “yes” or “no” or other one word answer.
4. I love a good charity, but please don’t post about it every single day. I want to hear about how cruel dog abuse is and how prevalent canine euthanasia is, but if you tell me every-single-day, I’ll have to defriend you because I just can’t take it anymore!
5. Please don’t post the “if you really like me, you’d repost this” type thing. I like you and don’t like to have to prove it by posting something I don’t want to as my status.
6. Whatever you do, don’t post and tag horrible pictures of your friends. It’s just not nice! Picture me 22-thousand-months pregnant (really two days away from giving birth)sitting criss-cross applesauce and trying to video something…I was mortified!
7. There is Facebook email. Please use it for making plans with certain friends if everyone is not invited. Avoid using your status update for making plans with a select few people. It’s kind of rude and makes people feel like they’re not included.
8. Please learn the difference between the homophones
If you don’t do any of the other suggestions, please do this! I know you’ll be a much happier person when you are 100% sure which word to use!
9. If a friend hasn’t accepted your Farmville, Fishville, Yo!ville request for, oh let’s say three months or more, it’s safe to say they’re not interested in it and stop sending those darn requests!
10. In the end, remember the Golden Rule! Only put on Facebook what you yourself would want to be put on Facebook!
However… please ignore all of these suggestions if you feel you should. These are just my pet peeves and your pet peeves may be very different than mine and that’s OK!
Sarah:)
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Oh, no really. Most of these are also my pet peeves also! The one i hat the most is the bait one (vaguebooking). OH geeze. I have one FB friend (and in real life) that does that every.single.day and multiple times a day. I wanna just comment.. And what exactly do you want us to know??? But, I wont do it because she just wants comments. Oh and while I am on a rant here. THIS same person has like +2000 friends and she has some of my niece and nephews that she does not even know. grrr.
Thanks for this post (and my rant) I feel better now knowing I am not the only one with pet peeves on FB.
AMEN! I totally concur with each and every one of these! Especially the tagging of grody pictures of me, and being vague on the status updates. And…well, okay, all of them.
This is a great post. I love 8 and 9! And sheesh, 6 should go without saying!!
I hate vaguebookers as well. My other pet peeve is people who update in third person, but somehow end up in first person: “Mary is going to walmart, she needs to pick up some groceries, then I’m going to wash the car.”
While I’m at it, no one cares if you are about to clean your house, then take a nap. I hate boring status updates!
Phew. Thanks for letting me vent.
Ditto! I want to rant too…
1. What are these Facebook games that people play and WHO really has the free time to play them? I can’t relate, we probably shouldn’t be friends.
2. Facebook isn’t supposed to be a popularity competition. There is no connection between the amount of your friends and your worth. Just so you know.
3. Spread the word…I don’t accept friendships from internet porn stars, married men that I don’t know, nigerian scam artists, and people that already have 4,000 friends and want to add to that number.
4. If someone untags a photo, it isn’t because they are vain. It means they are NORMAL and realize these pictures are out there for the whole world to see…they might just not like to look like crap. Also, maybe they are untagging them because they already have 10 other pictures of the same thing in their photos albums and hate clutter. I agree, pick the best pictures…not all of them! Be polite about the pictures you post…ask yourself, “would I want this picture posted if it was me??” I have warned all my friends that they will be unfriended if I see any pregnant swimsuit pictures of me on Facebook. No thanks.
Okay, I’ll stop. Facebook is fun.
Here is my fav…if I don’t accept your friend request it is because I DON’T KNOW YOU and if you know me you might want to remind me how. But I can’t just accept you because you ask…
Ah – so TRUE, every bit.
might I add the friends who update their status hourly… and I’m NOT exaggerating when I mention a FB friends’ updates yesterday:
“in 23 hours I’m going to be older, can I deal with it?”
“just 22 hours ’til the big day”
“21 hours and counting”
etc… sometimes on the half hour…
(sorry, now I’ve subjected YOU to her horror)
I completely agree, but I’d add just one thing: When you receive a group message sent to a million people, DO NOT respond to all if it absolutely doesn’t concern everyone! Believe it or not, there is function to reply only to the sender.
You should post this on facebook.
Thank you thank you thank you for number 8! Hallelujah and amen sista!!
PREACH.IT.SISTER!
I Wholeheartedly agree with EVERY ONE OF THESE!
This is me pushing the “like” button on this post:)
I absolutely agree! Glad I’m not the only one annoyed by “vaugebooking”. I refuse to comment on anything like that.
I also don’t like when people air their dirty laundry. They especially shouldn’t be insulting their spouse on fb.
Here’s one… My status the other day was something about which non shedding small inside dog people might recommend, and a friends status an hour later was how she thinks dogs should always be inside with their families and is glad that not everyone cares if there’s a little hair on the floor. Ouch, did she not think I wouldn’t put two and two together?
Also, I HATE!!!! acronyms!!! Lol, roflol, omg.