Worst comic book villain, ever!

When I become fb friends with someone I ask if they have a younger sister or cousins so I can creep on them.

I have an old high school friend who is like that, but he also sells cars at a Ford dealer. He would update his status every 5 minutes about coming down and checking out this piece of shiat or whatnot.

I just blocked all if his updates due to the bulk of my news feed being his ads.

/found out he got in shiat due to posting a heavily racist update while at the bar one night, hahah

Beware the Facebook friend collector

FTA: "1. If they have not responded after several weeks and you see them active, just "unfriend" them because they were just "collecting" you anyway.
2 Don't private message them, post on their wall. Many people don't like the PM stuff -- too creepy. (I've posted on their wall as well with about the same rate of return communication).
3. Who cares? You don't want to talk to those people anyway (I guess that returns me to option 1 but that approach seems rather harsh).
What do you think is the correct approach?"

Are there really people out there who obsess this much over their FB activities? I can't identify with the author in the slightest. If it's 3 am and I happen to be wasted and hitting on random girls on my friends list via PM it's not really that creepy, is it? Oh, normal people don't do that? Me neither.

There could be worse fates....

Who gives a shiat about FB?

I know probably two people who meet my definition of "friend".

You confuse its meaning with that of "acquaintance".

Yeah, a guy like that friended me once... he was a friend of someone else I friended on FB from high school. Turns out he just wanted to sell me vitamins and shiat. *unfriend*

I don't add anyone who's random. If you aren't friends with anyone else I know and I don't recognize our connection immediately (like that you went to the same school I did or that I've seen lots of your posts on boards that I frequent, etc) we probably don't have much in common. The few people on my list that aren't my actual friends and acquaintances outside of facebook are almost always people that I've interacted with a lot through friends' posts already.

If the friend request is a mutual friend or a classmate or former coworker kind of person, I check out their profile first. I rule out anyone with over a couple hundred friends. There's no way that anyone I'd care to interact with has time enough on their hands to really interact with thousands of "friends" regularly. And I look at their posts,too. The ones who are obviously using facebook to market to everyone who they have even a teeny tiny connection with are easy to spot by their posts. Tons of adding friends, not much in the way of commenting on other people's posts, and almost all of their posts are about whatever they're wanting you to be interested in (usually things like their business, their band, their religion, etc).
For the ones that are friends of friends or old acquaintances that not much of their profile is visible, or what is doesn't raise those immediate red flags, I generally go ahead and add them. And if they don't engage with me or catch my interest in the first few weeks of being friends, I just unfriend them. With "okay" being my default, I don't miss out on connecting or reconnecting with someone who might have turned out to be really cool. And it reduces the chances that someone who genuinely wanted a relationship with me gets their feelings hurt without being given a chance to be cool first. The friend collectors don't get their feelings hurt when they get unfriended because they weren't really investing in me in the first place.

Turbo Cojones: Who gives a shiat about FB?

I know probably two people who meet my definition of "friend".

You confuse its meaning with that of "acquaintance".

Hey look what Google+ has...

star_topology: Hey look what Google+ has...


That's the one good thing about google plus, that you can rename those things.

/Mine are, 'Commoners', 'Acolytes', 'Nobles' and 'Inner Circle'

Ishkur: Haven't been on Facebook since. It just seemed superfluous to my social life.

So you put your friends to the test, then walked away. You seem quite a bit superfluous yourself.

Facebook shouldn't be taken so seriously. It's just a website trying to generate money from its userbase.

I only use it to promote the company I work for, and even at that I only post updates as the company on our page separate from my own friends list.

I never waste any time on my own profile but I still get random folks who want to friend me for some reason. I had some guy from India message me three time in one evening, the second and third time aggressively annoyed that I hadn't responded immediately. So creepy.