A kind of silly Facebook etiquette/preference question. Not of earth-shattering importance, but just wondering.
When someone you don’t know at all tags a friend of yours and you think that picture is nice, do you “like” it or even add a comment? I sometimes do, if it’s a really nice picture, but tend to feel a bit odd liking and commenting on photos taken by total strangers, so I wouldn’t do it as readily as when the picture was taken by the friend himself or someone else I know.
What do you think? Obviously I’m presuming you have Facebook and you are usually in the habit or “liking” and/or commenting.
I generally don’t like or comment on posts or pictures involving my friends not by mutual friends. I make an exception if it’s posted to their wall sometimes, but only if it’s something silly like “This movie is awesome, you need to see it!” I just find it kind of weird to interact with posts of people you don’t know, even if their posts/pics are public (excepting business/public figure pages of course).
If my friend posted it to their wall, I might make a comment on that post. But no, I wouldn’t ‘like’ or comment on a picture that the friend was tagged in.
Yes I do. I do take pause and am more cautious to do it on a stranger’s wall, but I will definitely do it sometimes.
I figure 1) this is the way Facebook works. They tagged someone, they know their friends can see it (or, they will once I “like” it!) 2) I like it when my friends’ friends do it to photos I’ve posted. I like that they like a picture I’ve taken of my friends, or like that my friends are having a nice time with me. So I hope that other people like it when I do it!
Yes, I generally do. Unless, there were some circumstances that might make it seem weird. But, I’ve yet to have that feeling.
I don’t think I really understand why someone would feel “a bit odd” about it. Or, what about it feels odd. Do you feel like a stalker or something, or what?
I’ll usually “like” it if the mood strikes me. I’ll only comment if I have something incredibly clever or witty to add, which is all the ti-- kidding, it’s rarely.
I went to a wedding this last weekend and posted up a few iPhone photos of the bride and groom, tagging them appropriately. The pictures got tons of comments and likes from their friends, but I wasn’t put off by that at all. I mean, if I didn’t want that, I could have locked down the pictures a little better/ not tagged them. My whole point was sharing!
I don’t. But then I hardly ever “like” anything, even if I do actually like it. I still find it a little funny how people will “like” their own posts/pics. But then, I’m easily amused.
I will like anything and everything that I genuinely like. I rarely comment on other people’s photos though because if I don’t know you, I want to make damn sure that whatever you read by me is funny and intelligent.
I tend not to, but I have done it by accident on a few occasions, usually when I assume too quickly that it was my friend who posted the photo. It’s really not a big deal.
I get a kick out of the fact that my mother and her lady friends (they’re all grandma age) don’t seem to get this AT ALL, and frequently have long conversations with each other in the comments of a photo that I posted. I can only imagine they do it to everyone else, too. They completely fail on intuiting any of the social niceties of Facebook, but it’s endearing, I guess.
Not so much like a stalker, but more like someone sticking my nose in. You know, there are parts of my friends’ lives that are none of my business. Not like, a huge state secret, but they get to go and party/have trips/hang out with other people without me always being involved. Yes, I know they can choose not to tag, but not everyone is savvy enough to work that one out.
That, plus what delphica mentioned, where two people chat to each other on a stranger’s wall. That’s kind of odd, too.
Having said that, I do quite it like when friends of friends like a picture I took of my friend, and I don’t think any of this is in any way a Big Deal. But I think it’s kind of a socially funny and new thing, and that’s why I was asking.
Nah, it’s not weird. If it’s showing up on your newsfeed, what difference does it make where the picture came from? It’s there to be viewed. The only time it would get into creepy territory is if you commented on a picture that had been posted a long time ago. That is, a picture that you would only see if you had been “Facebook stalking” that person in the first place.
The “like” button is a nice way to express general approval without having to post some kind of inane “me too” style comment. I use it more than I comment.
Of course. Why wouldn’t I? Like ZipperJJ says, that’s how Facebook works. If you have friends that will tag you in photos you don’t want shared, you have problems with your friends. And, even then, you can untag yourself or even set up Facebook to prompt you before allowing the tag.
As I personally assume my friends are good people, the only issue I’d run into are those people who don’t like pictures of themselves because they are embarrassed by them. But, in that case, I wouldn’t be commenting on any pics of them, period.