HERE ARE THE TOP 15 THINGS YOU SHOULD NEVER DO ON
FACEBOOK OR MySPACE
1. USE FACEBOOK EMAIL INSTEAD OF PROPER EMAIL
Are you silly? When you Facebook mail me, I have
to log into my real email to find that I then have to
go and log into my Facebook account to read and
reply to your message. If you've got my real email
address, please use it.
2. ADD OLD FRIENDS & FORGET ABOUT THEM
This is the biggest social networking crime of them
all. How many times has it happened? You haven't
seen someone for 20 years; you vaguely recognise
their name but not their face. They add you as a
friend on Facebook and then after you accept them,
you never hear from them again.
3. ADDING PEOPLE YOU DON'T EVEN KNOW
It's one thing to add an old friend and then never
speak to them. It's another to add anyone whose
name you kind of vaguely sort of recognise. It's like
that old man in the pub who slaps everyone on the
back as if they were old pals, when in actual fact he
has no friends, largely because of this habit.
4. ADDING SINGLE-SERVING HOLIDAY FRIENDS
Some people just don't understand that the
exchanging of email addresses at the end of a
holiday is just a social ritual and is absolutely not an
invitation to add you to Facebook and then turn up
unannounced at your house three months later.
5. ACCEPTING FRIEND INVITATION FROM FRIENDS YOU DON'T KNOW
It's one thing to complain about irritating people
adding you on Facebook, but if you accept those
invites, you've only got yourself to blame. If you
scan through your Facebook friends list, you'll
doubtless find a handful of people in there you
barely know.
It's a horrible realisation - like when you suddenly realise your hand is resting on a
knob of someone else's chewing gum underneath
a desk.
6. UPDATE FACEBOOK PROFILE WHEN YOU'RE SUPPOSEDLY ILL
How many times have we seen it ?
Someone calls in sick in the morning and then updates their
Facebook profile minute-by-minute throughout the
day, documenting a day of ice cream, chips, video
games and jumping on the bed. Get dressed and
get to work you lazy hoodwink, or else you'll probably be fired. And it'd be your own fault for
adding your boss to be your Facebook friend.
7. WRITE ON A WALL INSTEAD OF COMMUNICATING PRIVATELY
The driving force behind the success of Facebook
is... vanity. People love the idea that others are
watching what they're doing. Tell me this: for what
reason would you invite someone to a private party
by writing on their wall, other than to show off to
all the people on their friends list who you don't want to come? It just makes you look like a tit, so
don't do it.
8. MOAN IN YOUR FACBOOK STATUS
The most annoying thing that people do on
Facebook is to spray their walls with vanity-filled
drivel, by posting self-indulgent awfulness in their
status updates. "Kerry is sorry how it ended but it
had to be done. I love you and will miss you, and I
hope you can apologise one day". Oh sod off. If you've got something to say to someone, say it.
Don't post it on your wall because no one else is
interested, and people just think you're a prat.
9. OTHER IRRITATING STATUS UPDATES
No, "Dave is" is not an acceptable status update,
nor is it original or in any way clever. "Dave just is..."
is equally as inexcusable. And "Dave is Dave is
Dave" is downright taking the piss. Oh, and song
lyrics are also a no-no. "Sandra was happy in the
haze of a drunken hour, but heaven knows she's miserable now" will impress people about the same
amount as Morrissey's saggy, miserable face.
10. Upload drunken pictures the morning
After Have a little common sense. If you go out for a big
one on a Wednesday night, posting humiliating,
drunken photos of your friends on Thursday
morning is a recipe for disaster. Because when I call
in sick at 9am, the last thing I want my boss to say
is: "I've seen the pictures of you crawling in the gutter last night. I'm not amused or impressed, now
get to work !"
11. JOINING RIDICULOUS CHAIN EMAIL GROUPS
Why do people insist on joining groups such as "On
the X of May, everyone has to panic buy carrots"?
Come on people, how stupid are you? There's one
group on Facebook devoted to nullifying the
vegetarian moral crusade, and it's called: "For every
animal you don't eat, I'm going to eat three". That's a good group name. "I think Ryan Seacrest is the
best presenter ever" is not.
12. STARTING SAID GROUPS
Enough said.
13. LAZY GRAMMER & SPELING MISTAKES
Reading Facebook is like perusing a six-year olds'
English copybook. Come on, people: 'Your' is 'your'.
'You are' is 'you're'. It really isn't hard to get that
little one right. And understanding the difference
between there, their and they're surely isn't too
much of a challenge?
14. UPLOADING PHOTOS TO FACEBOOK & DELETING ORIGINALS
Uploading photos to Facebook can be a very handy
way of sharing your holiday snaps. But for the love
of God, don't lose your originals. Facebook is
terrible at compressing and resizing images - it
turns your 14MP panoramas into 14KB
monstrosities. Facebook is not a suitable repository to store your precious photos !!
15. INVITING ME TO BE ZOMBIE PRAITE SNOT MONSTER
Please don't do that ever ever again
DO YOUR AGREE WITH THIS...??
