Posts Tagged "friends"

A LinkedIn connection who was barely an acquaintance recently sent me a request to back his Kickstarter. When I saw what it was, I was horrified. I was then horrified that it already had over $8K. And then I was horrified that it was labelled as a “Kickstarter Staff Pick.” I wondered how something becomes […]

Let’s say person X is a random enemy, and I find out he’s been going to my Facebook page to read public posts. And let’s say we hate each other. I want to block him on Facebook. If he blocks me first, I can’t see him on Facebook. Can’t search him, can’t find him. It’s […]

Most of us already know that when your Facebook friend accepts a friend request from someone he/she doesn’t know, that person is often some sort of scammer, spammer, or creeper. I have one friend who seems to add everybody who sends her a request even though these are obviously fake accounts. She told me she […]

We’re a little late for spring cleaning. Summer cleaning, if you’re in the northern hemisphere. I recently had an ugly run-in with someone I didn’t know. This was through Facebook. I ended up having to block her. I was surprised to find that 7 of my friends were friends with her. And then I wondered, […]

We’ve all probably received Facebook friend requests from total strangers. We don’t know them at all. They’re not friends of friends. If you are on a quest to have a pile of Facebook friends no matter who they are, then you will add these people. I only add people I really like in real life. […]

It’s like I’m psychic! I was JUST posting about how the biggest problem with Facebook privacy isn’t their terms (yet). It’s your own friends. I wrote a blog post about it. Around Xmas, people thought that Mark Zuckerberg’s sister must not have understood Facebook’s privacy and UI because a family picture she posted ended up […]

Oh, that meme is going around again. The one where people think that if they post to their Facebook wall that everything is theirs and they own the copyright and let’s name a few laws that that OVERRIDES Facebook’s terms and conditions. It doesn’t. Just like standing up and yelling that your high speed internet […]

Some people seem to think that it’s OK to advertise products (over and over) to your Facebook friends. NOT dropping promotional messages on a business page, where people might expect them. For all we know, this was between a cat picture and a post about politics. This was on a personal page. I’ll post the […]

Facebook announced yesterday the coming of “Groups.” The idea jumps off of their “Friends List” feature. Facebook said only 5% of people are using Friends Lists; they want to create something everybody will use because they find it so easy to use. I use Friends Lists. For those who don’t know, you can create lists […]