James Rivington of TechRadar recently went over his hilarious list of things you should not do on Facebook. I picked out some of my favorites:
1. Use Facebook mail instead of Proper Email
Are you silly? When you Facebook mail me, I have to log into my real email to find that I then have to go and log into my Facebook account to read and reply to your message. If you’ve got my real email address, please use it.
2. Add old Friends and then Forget about them
This is the biggest social networking crime of them all. How many times has it happened? You haven’t seen someone for 20 years; you vaguely recognize their name but not their face. They add you as a friend on Facebook and then after you accept them, you never hear from them again.
3. Adding people you don’t even know
It’s one thing to add an old friend and then never speak to them. It’s another to add anyone whose name you kind of vaguely sort of recognize. It’s like that old man in the pub who slaps everyone on the back as if they were old pals, when in actual fact he has no friends, largely because of this habit.
4. Adding single-serving Holiday Friends
Some people just don’t understand that the exchanging of email addresses at the end of a holiday is just a social ritual and is absolutely not an invitation to add you to Facebook and then turn up unannounced at your house three months later.
5. Accepting Friend Invitations from People you don’t know
It’s one thing to complain about irritating people adding you on Facebook, but if you accept those invites, you’ve only got yourself to blame. If you scan through your Facebook friends list, you’ll doubtless find a handful of people in there you barely know. It’s a horrible realization - like when you suddenly realize your hand is resting on a knob of someone else’s chewing gum underneath a desk.
6. Update Facebook Profile when you’re supposedly not well
How many times have we seen it? Someone calls in sick in the morning and then updates their Facebook profile minute-by-minute throughout the day, documenting a day of ice cream, chips, video games and jumping on the bed. Get dressed and get to work you lazy hoodwink, or else you’ll probably be fired. And it’d be your own fault for adding your boss to be your Facebook friend.
7. Moan in your Facebook Status
The most annoying thing that people do on Facebook is to spray their walls with vanity-filled drivel, by posting self-indulgent awfulness in their status updates. “Kerry is sorry how it ended but it had to be done. I love you and will miss you, and I hope you can apologies one day”. Oh sod off. If you’ve got something to say to someone, say it. Don’t post it on your wall because no one else is interested, and people just think you’re a part.
8. Lazy Grammar and Spelling Mistakes
Reading Facebook is like perusing a six-year olds’ English copybook. Come on, people: ‘ur’ is ‘your’. ‘You are’ is ‘you’re’. It really isn’t hard to get that little one right. And understanding the difference between ‘there’, ‘their’ and ‘they’re’ surely isn’t too much of a challenge?
9. Endless barrage of Personal Photos
Well there is nothing more annoying then updating photo albums of about each and every move you made on your Facebook profile. Get a life people nobody really wanted to know the pictorial evidence of last night dinner or fight that you have with friend/spouse/mother. Adding photos are fun but adding them nonstop is nothing but a nuisance on your friend’s profile page.
