Pineapple Express: Someone Is Wrong on the Internet?

[Ryujin]

I find the best thing to be absent in my life is Facebook.

I curate my friends list very well and my profile is set to friends only. The majority of people in this chat aren't on that list.*

*But now I'm getting friend requests from them.

 

[payn]

I curate my friends list very well and my profile is set to friends only. The majority of people in this chat aren't on that list.*

*But now I'm getting friend requests from them.

That’s how it begins!

Though yeah I get it. I’ve become part of a decent size Battletech community here in TC. Sometimes I got go incognito to play trst stuff or just keep a game small. Folks see us at the FLGS and wonder where their invite went…

 

[Ryujin]

That’s how it begins!

Though yeah I get it. I’ve become part of a decent size Battletech community here in TC. Sometimes I got go incognito to play trst stuff or just keep a game small. Folks see us at the FLGS and wonder where their invite went…

And one of them, that several of us took to referring to as "The Brain Donor", has joked about taking down a motorcycle message board the way that they used to, way back when. I'm a mod on that board. He knows I'm a mod.

 

[RealAlHazred]

An old friend is coming into town, in a few weeks, and wanted to meet up with another friend and myself. A nice, small meet up. Now I'm somehow in a Facebook chat with 20 people, most of whom I haven't seen in a decade for reasons. It feels just like when a couple of friends and I would say we're going out for a quick rip on the motorcycles and, suddenly, these same people would think they were invited. Ever been in the lead of a ride of 30 motorcycles? The fun is absent.

When one of my acquaintances turned out to have been beating his wife and kids, and one of my friends was like, "Hey, remember our friend..." I would correct them immediately. He was never my friend. He was an a-hole and a jerk to everyone, all the time, in one of those amusing-to-an-in-group-but-denigrating-to-the-out-group-or-person sort of way. I only tolerated him because some of my friends considered him a friend, and I didn't want to cause problems. And I regret that.

But he was never my friend. If I live to 125, life will still be too short to spend any of it with terrible, terrible people.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I find the best thing to be absent in my life is Facebook.

The best way to leave Facebook is never to have joined.

(See also Twitter, etc.)

 

[Ryujin]

When one of my acquaintances turned out to have been beating his wife and kids, and one of my friends was like, "Hey, remember our friend..." I would correct them immediately. He was never my friend. He was an a-hole and a jerk to everyone, all the time, in one of those amusing-to-an-in-group-but-denigrating-to-the-out-group-or-person sort of way. I only tolerated him because some of my friends considered him a friend, and I didn't want to cause problems. And I regret that.

But he was never my friend. If I live to 125, life will still be too short to spend any of it with terrible, terrible people.

One of the people, who has sent me a Facebook friend request, is someone I told in no uncertain terms I wanted to have nothing to do with; "The Brain Donor." He's a blight on the riding community. His actions once resulted in increased police enforcement, on one particular road, for something like FIVE YEARS.

The friend who is coming to visit and myself are quite introverted. The other (local) friend is anything but and decided this needed to be an 'occasion', completely forgetting that it's about our friend who is travelling here.

 

[The Soloist]

I quit Facebook more than 30 days ago. My accounf is kapute. The first two weeks were the hardest. I don't regret my decision. I told my family to call or text me if they wanted to talk to me.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I curate my friends list very well and my profile is set to friends only. The majority of people in this chat aren't on that list.*

*But now I'm getting friend requests from them.

The Acquaintances feature on Facebook is a powerful tool. Put all of those not-really friends on your Acquaintances list, adjust your default Facebook settings to display posts to Friends But Not Acquaintances and only switch it back to Friends when you're posting about this upcoming event.

I do this for some folks at work, some relatives and in-laws, and people from school. They have no idea that they're missing 99% of what I post.

 

[Ryujin]

The Acquaintances feature on Facebook is a powerful tool. Put all of those not-really friends on your Acquaintances list, adjust your default Facebook settings to display posts to Friends But Not Acquaintances and only switch it back to Friends when you're posting about this upcoming event.

I do this for some folks at work, some relatives and in-laws, and people from school. They have no idea that they're missing 99% of what I post.

I have a different way of handling it. I don't add people as friends who I don't actually want to interact with and I'm not at all reluctant to remove people, if they annoy me

 

[payn]

The best way to leave Facebook is never to have joined.

(See also Twitter, etc.)

I've got an account that I log into like twice a year becasue aunts get annoyed if you don't respond to their B-day and x-mas greetings...