Fakebook gets nosy, and I don't like it
If I were the type of person that wanted to go a-stalking across the Fakebook world and a-hunting down former acquaintances and sending out invites to them so that I looked like the most popular woman in the world, I would.
If I had the inclination to irritate Fakebook users who were just sitting there, minding their own affairs, by prodding them and making it impossible for them not to add me as a friend, that option is available to me.
In reality:
I'm not.
I don't.
Why then am I being inundated with friend referrals from people I probably didn't want to add in the first place??? Clearly it's not enough that a person's existence is validated when they are added as a friend by someone they haven't spoken to for 10 years, probably wouldn't cross the street for, and don't even give a shit about... Now they have to have their own friend choices validated!
You're a fully grown adult!!!! Also, I'm not in highschool anymore. I'm too old for this peer pressure shit!!
Also, how do I get rid of that absolutely ridiculous box that tells me that because I know Suzie*, I probably want to add Daniel* as well? Here's a news flash: I don't bloody know Daniel*!! I probably don't even know Suzie*!!!!! This is not a bookstore, your opinion is not informed, and it's no bloody good to me!
Arghhhhhhh!
Riss the... drawing breath and conducting a benefits to disadvantages assessment in order to determine her future course on an informed basis.
* Not their real names. If only I could change mine and escape this madness.
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Comments
I received a 'friend recommendation' from someone because she felt guilty because she'd stolen one of my friends, whom she'd met once, to make it look like she knew more boys.
We are both in our 30s, we're married, we both have two children and a mortgate. To summarise, we're growunups - wtf is going on with these people?
Oh! I thought the recommendations were automatically generated. So far I've had recommendations for:
One person who unfriended me
One person I unfriended
Three people who's friendship I declined
And one person I chatted up drunkenly once, about 18 years ago.
Is there any way you can turn it off?
Don't even get me started on fucking facebook chat.
I hate the "you might know" thing aswell. It's so stupid, if I wanted to add them I'd have added them. So what we have a few shared friends does that not just further show that I know they're on facebook and just plain don't like them? Now every time I log in I'm greeted by the face of someone who irritates me intensely.
I stopped using facebook after it drove me insane. I hate all the invites. You know what I do? I forward back the original message to the sender and add some stupid comment on it. My most recent one was, "I know you but I was only pretending to be your friend" lol.