7 Facebook Annoyances You Should Avoid

7 Facebook Annoyances You Should Avoid
Published Article Published: Sunday, November 29th, 2009 at 3:20 pm | Subscribe

I love Facebook, I’m on it a lot more than I should be, but hey, it’s a powerful tool isn’t it? In the world of Web 2.0 social networking if you want to get noticed and build a base of followers, being attached to Facebook becomes almost a pre-requisite.  But, considering a generation of those that have just left the “Oh so trashy” world of MySpace, I think there are some rules of etiquette that need to be layed out.

So I have come up with, the top 7 Annoyances You Should Avoid!

1. Stop asking people to join your stupid mafia

Please, OH PLEASE Stop inviting me to join your Facebook mafia! If I wanted to join a mafia, I would join a real one and the first thing I would do is outs the people that invite me to their fake ones.

2. No one cares about your dumb farm

I don’t even like real farms, why would I care about your Facebook “Farmville”?  Here’s a thought, with all that time you are investing into your fake, (SIMS takeoff ) Internet Farm why don’t you get a couple of REAL cows and contribute to society by adding to the milk and cheese industry?

3. Stop filling out Facebook Applications, Fill out Job Applications

I hear it all the time, “Waaa, Waaa, The Economy is so bad, poor me I can’t find a Job!”.  Part of your problem might be that you spend 6.8 Hours a day on Facebook filling out Facebook Quizzes and Applications rather than spending even 3 hours a day hitting the pavement filling out REAL Job applications.  Oh, I’m sorry, that’s right, Your one of those “Self Entitled, The world owes me something Americans.”  What was I thinking.

4. Don’t poke people!

Ok, This is one we can all have fun with. I’m starting a new trend.  From now on, every time I log into Facebook and I recieve the message; “Your friend *name* has poked you”, the next time I see that person in the flesh, I am literally going to poke them. Oh, and not just a little kind hearted poke, I’m talking a full fledged, close fisted, index finger stiffened and pointed out jab to the ribs Mike Tyson style.

5. Don’t try to look important by requesting your friends, friends.

Ok, If you are involved in a conversation on a friends wall and one of their friends makes a comment that is some how affiliated with yours, or they have acknowledged you somehow, then sure go ahead and send a friend request.  However, when I receive a friend request from “Hamshed Ackmed Adeirmah” from some small remote part of the desert in Afghanistan, I’m sorry, I don’t know you and don’t exactly feel comfortable being your friend. So Hamshed, please stop trying to look cool by collecting a pool of friends that of which you don’t even know.

6. Stop posting pictures of your beer pong tournaments.

Ok, wow, You’re so incredibly cool. You wear two Polo shirts with the collars popped like Kanye West and drink Pabst Blue Ribbon.   You are the beer pong champion at your local University but have failed Accounting 3 times.  You find it oh so necessary to take photo after photo of your beer pong tournaments and post them to your profile wall. All of this in hopes that your semi-Japanese skill at a ping pong variation will win you credibility among your friends and colleagues.  And the sad thing is, it probably will, but that’s why I am exposing this epidemic among all Facebook users, please support me in my intervention because no one wants to look at your alcohol induced frenzy.

7. The Gift of not giving

I’m going to make it really easy.  I don’t want your Facebook gifts. I don’t care about a collection of poorly drawn icons piling up that at the end of the day only shows that I have an abundance of friends too cheap to give me a REAL cupcake. I like cupcakes, am I not good enough for real butter cream?  Am I not worth a Tuesday night spent crouched over a Kitchen Aid mixing a box of Betty Crocker till all of the bleached flour lumps are evenly distributed?  I think so, I believe I am.

Do you have something that annoys you on Facebook? Leave a comment below and if it’s good enough I’ll add it to the list with a link back to your Website or Facebook profile!


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