Facebook etiquette, lesson five.
Adding applications is one of the primary ways people customize their facebook profiles. There are thousands and thousands of different applications from which users can choose. No problem exists in simply adding an application or two to your profile, however it is imperative that applications be added in moderation. And if you [...]
Facebook etiquette, lesson four.
Messaging is facebook’s version of email. No one can see the messages you write except the recipient… unless you fail to properly reply to the very well-known “I’m-getting-married-and-I-need-your-address” or “I-dropped-my-phone-in-the-toilet-again-and-I-need-your-number” messages — possibly the most common of all broken facebook etiquette actions.
Not only is this unwritten facebook standard so commonly broken, it [...]
Facebook etiquette, lesson three.
Chatting, like wall posting, is relatively easy to avoid botching up.
As is the theme in nearly all facebook faux pas, chat misconduct most often occurs in the boy/girl relationships. Because facebook chatting is arguably the least personal of all forms of communication, guys typically take full advantage of using it to talk [...]
Facebook etiquette class, session two.
Friend adding may seem like a topic that needs no addressing, but that couldn’t be further from true, as it is abused on a regular basis.
There are, of course, times when it is absolutely acceptable to add a friend. For example, a co-worker may have recently joined facebook. Or maybe a [...]
Welcome to facebook etiquette class. In case you missed it, this class was introduced last week. That said, let’s begin.
Wall posting is, in essence, facebook’s equivalent of text messaging; the primary difference being that, in wall posting, everybody can read what you just “texted” the recipient. Now, it’s pretty easy to go about your facebook [...]
You’ve no doubt heard by now, at the very least, of the existence of facebook.com. It is the online social networking phenomena that has, in varying degrees of severity, affected the way people interact:
Gone are the days of boys having to actually flirt with a girl in person, because now he can cop out and [...]
Thanks again, White Rock Lake for existing, and thanks to REI for letting your employees enjoy free rentals.
About a year ago I heard a story on NPR about a project the Washington Post had recently conducted. The premise was both simple and brilliant: Have a world-class musician, wearing plain ol’ street clothes, play some of the finest music ever written on a multi-million dollar instrument in a busy Washington DC subway terminal… [...]
Last time I was home home I took a series of chronologically displayed picture frames off the upstairs hallway wall and scanned their contents into digital perpetuity. Combined in the conglomerate above (which you can click to enlarge) is the result: All the first day of school pictures e’er taken of me during grade school.
Earlier [...]
I don’t know many people that are as dorky as I am, and as such I don’t expect this challaaunnnge to convert a large number of readers into participants, but I’m curious, so here it is.
Last week Heather posted about a website with a series of typing tests, and challenged her readers to take test [...]