Posted on 10/26/2015 4:53:03 PM PDT by Kaslin
Ten years ago, if you wanted to offend people using the internet, you had to send annoying email forwards to all of your contacts. These days, however, it's as easy as getting on Facebook and broadcasting your worst self for the entire world to see.
The ways to be off-putting on Facebook are endless — God only knows how many people I’ve offended over the years. So if you’re looking to make some new Facebook frenemies, you can count on a handful of repeat offenses to do the trick, starting with this one:
1. Post flattering bathroom selfies. Listen, I realize it feels great to take a picture of yourself that boosts your lagging self-confidence, but the problem is that it simply looks like bragging to everyone else. Here's an idea: try taking that bathroom selfie first thing in the morning while you've still got crust in your eyes and your hair looks like a rat’s nest. Yes, you'll look awful, but at least you'll leave people feeling better about themselves when they see your picture and think, Well, I guess I don't look so bad after all.
2. Let people know how hard you exercised. Unless you are seriously out-of-shape, your exercise pronouncements only serve to remind everyone else how fat they feel. However, if you absolutely must tell everyone how many miles you ran this morning, it will help if you admit you were trying to burn off an entire bag of mini-Twix you ate the night before.
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The number one thing is actually:
Tell the truth about their favorite political candidate.
It’s true of FR as well.
:-)
Why not unfriend them? You might need to keep the peace in your extended family, or it's someone at work you can't afford to offend.
I think you may have to go to the website to do this -- I didn't find a way to do it on the iPhone app.
Just "unfollow" that friend. You won't see their status updates or "Likes", or anything else. You can do this with the iPhone app: just tap on the arrow/V in the top right of the posting, and tap "Unfollow".
Yes, one of the features that FR really needs is a "block list".
There are a number of people that I just don't need to read. I'm sure there are many that think the same of me, and I'm fine with that.
People know my politics. If they don’t like them, they are free to unfriend me.
Glad I don’t have any FB friends or for that matter FB. I tried it for a short while then got rid of it forever.
Glad I don’t have any FB friends or for that matter FB. I tried it for a short while then got rid of it forever.
Same here. I tried it and it was such a pain in the butt place that I quit.
I love Facebook. Almost all my friends are conservatives.
I agree with that 100%!
I actually did pretty well (all things considered). For the longest time I only had a few family members as friends. I found it better than Drudge for a news aggregator.
But I couldn’t resist temptation to speak as a conservative on the wrong page. The VegaNazis ganged up on me and stacked up complaints against me.
It was fun while it lasted but they now require too much personal information to ever go back.
Looks like Geraldo didn't get the memo.
I have family who post endless selfies and then of course in comments are....so pretty, beautiful, amazing, etc. this for a 200 lb 4 ft gal.
I unfollow anyone who posts endless selfies.
And then there are the ones who ‘like’ endless political stuff. I unfollow them simply because I get sick of scrolling through it.
I visit FB about once a day simply because it’s a way of keeping up with my relatives back east. Most of it is endless sayings and crap though.
Mine are semi dressed women from Asia and Europe - conservatives though - I don’t want any “gay” women or perpetually offended post modern Americans
I’ve never even been to FB. I don’t need people I knew in high school and college I never liked to begin with finding me on the web.
My wife has an account because her family uses it more. Mine doesn’t that much even though I think they have accounts.
Most of us are busy and mom doesn’t do computers that well. She still mails checks and makes phone calls to do things. She’s not into email. She doesn’t even get text on her cell phone that she only turns on when not at home or for emergencies.
I figure if I don’t even talk to my family a lot or email why would FB change that? Just another thing to add to the list when we to talk (email me sometime, FB me sometime or god forbid Twitter me sometime)! lol
butbutbut the names appear on the BOTTOM
I have that. It’s called “don’t read threads or posts by people you want to ignore.”
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I have the same thing, it’s not hard.
(I hope you read the above)
I don't bother with them on FB, or real life.
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