No I didn’t. Where do I go to do that?
Posting what you did with your spouse on “date night” week after week after week.Weak.
Tonight for dinner: Seared trout almondine with broccoli and wild rice, carrot pudding garnished with truffle, and a flaming desert of liver ice cream.
Alright, sounds good. Do we really need to know?
Hover the mouse over the top right corner of the post. Click the X that appears. You should be asked if you want to block just that post, all posts by that person, or the app that posted the content (NB, Farm/Frontier/Plantation/Whogivesashitville.)
Choose.
Done!
I like it when people do this!
So do I. They give me great ideas!
I haven’t thought of Samuel Delany in years and today he’s been mentioned in two threads that have nothing to do with the topics of his books. Odd coincidence. (The other one.)
My usual shout-out for FB Purity, the ultimate Facebook Wall Cleaner-Upper. Better than hiding, because it hides stuff you didn’t even know you wanted to hide.
I like dinner updates, too. Some of my friends post pics of the delicious stuff they cooked and it’s A-OK by me!
I really hate people who take their relationship issues to Facebook. I feel awkward enough when I am in a room with people who are fighting, I really don’t need to read about it, thanks.
Two things bother me. The first was mentioned by an earlier poster: the passive-aggressive “97% of people won’t repost this.” Even if I agreed with the sentiment being expressed, I’m annoyed by this absolutely groundless statistic.
Which nicely segues into my other pet peeve: slactivism. Why on earth would all of your friends posting your post, telling others to post that same post, help in the fight to eradicate child abuse? Are potential child-abusers going to see all those copies of the same post (well, the 3% who do repost, that is) and rethink their position? The idea that by this simple action you are standing up for something blows my mind.
Also: anyone else hate LOL?
Maaaaaaaaaan, I’m grumpy today!
I doubt that is a common perception of what Facebook is for. I’m not an especially heavy Facebook user, but every few weeks I’ll post an amusing or interesting article or something else I found online. I certainly wouldn’t phone all my friends and say “Hey, check out today’s xkcd comic.”
I actually don’t get a whole lot of religious wackos or birthers or whatnot. I guess I’m just lucky to have sane family, friends, AND coworkers? My boyfriend gets those a lot, though–he has a pretty conservative family.
My pet peeves are game requests. I see that there’s an update on my page, and I think “oh, groovy, someone responded to my status update/PM/status comment.” But no, it’s a come-on for “mystery manor” or what-the-fuck-ever. I’ve been blocking all the game requests individually, but it still irks me when I see that I’ve missed one.
I also hate meme status updates. “This has been posted because someone thinks you are a ~TRULY BEAUTIFUL WOMAN~. Pass it on to someone YOU think is a ~TRULY BEAUTIFUL WOMAN~.” How 'bout NO. Sometimes these memes require responses, but if you respond, you “have” to repost it on your own page. Fuck that noise, I’ll post what I want.
Another: those stupid “hey gurls post the color of the panties you’re wearing on your status update and CONFUSE THE BOYS” status updates. Sometimes these tend to be even more baffling when the sender says something like “this will raise awareness for breast cancer!” So, wait…we’re raising awareness for breast cancer by…confusing boys? What?
I should totally send out one of these messages saying something along the lines of “hey girls, post the size of the last blood clot you passed during your last period in your status update and CONFUSE THE BOYS.” Or something equally TMI.
I’ve had one or two people, I think single mothers, who were just hanging on to life by their fingernails and letting the world know about it day by day. I understand, but it’s kind of a downer, and made me feel bad to post something about going on vacation.
Another FB friend was frequently boasting about her progress recovering from substance abuse. Again, good on yer, but . . . .
I think shortly after one of her posts updating us she’s XXX days drug free, I updated my own status to, “12,583 days free of liquor amnii! Hallelujah!”
This is incorrect. As any friend of Harold Shea could tell you, “Yngvi is a LOUSE!”
Sampiro, I have but a motley collection of Delany’s works, and I haven’t reread them in a while. What was the reference in this thread?
Religious posts and prayers. Like, literal prayers. On Facebook! Like they think Jesus is reading them there! And thanking God for things that are just ridiculously trivial or whatnot.
Those posts are CLEARLY meant to call attention to the holy beliefs of the poster. They drive me CRAZY. And they’re mostly from people (my husband’s family) I can’t defriend because they barely tolerate me to begin with and I have to play nice.
You can hide posts from people the same way you can hide application posts. That way, you don’t have to defriend them, but you also don’t have to see what they’re saying.
Yeah, but sometimes they talk about stuff we should know about. I’ve sneakily hidden most of his cousins, but hiding his siblings and mother would cause some awkwardness when we get together.
Oh god yes…there is this severely LD girl who constantly posts play by plays about Pittsburgh Penguins hockey games. I want to go " Look honey, nobody cares!"
Yeah this bothers me for some reason. When someone never uploads a single photo of themselves yet has dozens of their favorite celebrity, Disney villain or random lolcat as their profile pic. It’s their choice, duh, but I do find it annoying.
Lately what bothers me most are the invites - they come up as notifications now. I have to swim through spam every day just to see whether anything actually happened. I tried turning the invites off and rejecting “all invites from user X” but I still get them. Figures.
I also hate, HATE it when someone tags me in a picture that I’m not in/has nothing to do with me. I’m sure everyone finds this stupid and annoying yet people keep doing it.
People I’ve hidden from my feed:
-Person who constantly posts music videos, none of which I would ever bother watching.
-Person whose girlfriend seems to keep on hijacking his account so she can post cutesy stuff like “[Person] is the best boyfriend ever!!! xxxx” Either that or he’s posting it himself, which is also worthy of being hidden.
-Person who constantly whines about her workload as a student teacher and the shit TV that she watches. Seems that two hours of paperwork would be easily manageable if you stopped watching The Only Way is Essex. God help you when you become an actual teacher.
As well as individuals (who can be kind of annoying in person, as well), there’s the fact that everybody’s opinions become more extreme when they’re filtered through a keyboard, the way that groups spring up about every little interface change (less so these days), and the way I can’t say what music or TV I like without “Like” liking it, as if I’m back in junior school ticking a piece of paper about the girl who sits three rows behind me.