I'll just give an example of what I mean. This happened a few weeks ago. I grew my beard out, and asked the ladies of facebook if I should shave it. A week after this, a friend's girlfriend who I've said hi to maybe once and never really talked to her came up to me and said, "oh, you shaved."

I don't know, I thought it was weird. sue me

I think it's weird you asked the "ladies of facebook" if you should shave your beard.

LFS be my friend pls

jmakin will vouch for me

Bump cause I'm on the verge of giving into FB.

Couple questions:

1) What if there's never been a flattering picture of me? Like, there's literally never been one made, and every pic I take of myself makes me look like a tool.

2) How quickly will I get friend requests? I don't want to go through that awkward stage where I don't have very many friends and it's obv I'm new. I want lots of friends ASAP.

lando - Just deal with it. My pic is somewhat goofy. So what?

And I don't have very many friends right now because I don't feel like spamming around trying to find everyone I know to see if they're on facebook. They'll find you eventually. Before that it will be apparent that you account is new which isn't a big deal at all and I suspect is kind of unavoidable anyway. A lot of the people who will notice that you're newish will probably be somewhat new (2 months or less) themselves. And after a few weeks you'll be associating with other people who are even newer than you.

However, if you're REALLY bothered by that and just want 60 friends right away to try to avoid the obviousness somehow then maybe a bunch of random and weird OOT'ers would be willing to friend you.

Definitely make your profile picture of you being yourself.

It's not hard to find an uninspiring candid relaxed picture indoors or outdoors that you can crop. I tend to make face/shoulders/torso the center of the picture.

and you have a completely serviceable fine profile picture that you can change on a whim or not for 2 years.

I'm an avid facebook user who tolerates the annoying stuff.

As an aside...

A lot of facebook friends of mine that have children really suck at posting stuff on facebook.

I'd say more but my perspective is obv loltastically skewed... just think of other parent friends of yours that talk about their children ALL...THE...TIME and being mildly annoyed by it.

Apps are basically things that you have to install on your page so that it can see your information and all your friends'. Sometimes they take the liberty of inviting themselves along and are no better than self-propagating worms or trojans, in my view.

I'm very anti-app, and I think I probably have been invited to all of them. But when you get asked to take a quiz to find which decade 10's-60's pin-up girl you are, you can choose to block that app, and block all future app requests from that friend. I remember WHERE I WAS the day that became an option and I was able to forever eradicate throwing internet snowballs at people from my life.

...And then I found the 1 app that I relented on and I love it.

The Facebook Chess application.

I can play chess-my-mail on facebook moving once every 1-7 days and play infinitely many games with infinitely many friends. I highly recommend it to any chess enthusiast or noob! I've played maybe 15 games each with several friends I haven't seen in 5+ years.

However I wouldn't say I'm particularly good, I could never crack 1400 on yahoo and hold on to it, lol

Imagine how great it'd be to hear from them!

I believe it searches by the common friends that your friends have.

But if old OH YEAH! friends were looking for me they'd want to see a familiar picture before sending a friend request.

But seriously, it's not hard.

I was at a friend's wedding two weeks ago and there were lots of cameras around.

It took me maybe 10 minutes to deliberate through 4 albums to pick one picture, and I'm picky, and less than 180 seconds to crop.

I have no problem with any person on earth ever seeing this picture of me, forever.



lol maybe not wise to taunt the photoshop ninjas that lurk everywhere, but whatever

I make a point of staying far away from cameras, and my friends/family aren't big on taking pictures anyway, so there's very few usable photos of me. I'll dig around a bit and see if I can find anything, but it's almost certainly going to come down to me trying to take a pic of myself, which always turns out bad.

the ones that annoy me the most are similar to the sympathy baiters. They always are fishing for comments by leaving their status updates intentionally vague, whether its good news or bad.

"I'm so excited!"
"I can't wait"
"Really not looking forward to today"
"Just spent 4 hrs in the emergency room"

Just trying to get people to comment by asking what's going on. Either tell me what you are talking about or GTFO.

This news feed business is pretty annoying. Currently posted by people I'm "friends" with:

"has the best family EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
"watching movies cuddled up to the wife...does it get any better?"
"Saturday with the wife and baby! Good Times!" (ed: same guy)
"Oh man. I woke up sick. Sore throat, chest congestion, stuffy nose. This is not good."

who cares?

lol welcome to facebook lfs.
the worst are college aged girls who upload 4 albums a week of them and 3 friends taking three shots and dancing around their apartment for 5 hours

All this sentence needs is the word "naked" just about anywhere and this would be fine.

naked is against fb tos

trust me, i've tried it.

I'm another one who recently signed up, mostly because in my field I'm supposed to be very aware of everything happening in social media, so I figured it wouldn't look good to not have a profile.

I find it about 80% mundane, 20% interesting, but that 20% can be very entertaining.

Question - what pulls your location? Do you have to type in your full address? For example, it seems FB places people in areas, so anyone in Northern NJ just has "North NJ" as their location.

nothing i hate more than receiving a friend request and seeing it's of their 2 yr old daughter with **** all over them thinking it's cute.

if it's professional and i look someone up by their business name and they have their kid, i'm going to move on. It's like the old Curb episode when larry david gets upset at his lawyer for casual Friday, "I want my lawyer in a suit."

I think it's great to have a pic with your kid or spouse, but just one is not doing it for me.

Signed.

People seem to do this in every other medium too and it annoys the crap out of me. Even if someone says something directly to me like this I usually just don't respond until they either give in and tell me what they were gonna say or move on thinking I am ignoring them.

People who are stunned that human beings would use Twitter and Facebook to spam trivial nonsense have apparently never talked to another person.

It's just in real life you have to say "uh huh" and "wow" and "ha ha" every time she stops talking.

lando - Get a tattoo. Then take a pic of that tattoo. Use it as your pic. I've seen some people do that too.

I've seen another profile pic of a guy kind of snoozing on the couch or something with a ballcap or something over his face.

Or just don't use a pic at all. Some profiles don't even have a pic (pretty rare...but they're out there).

or some pic from about a zillion miles away where nobody can tell it's you anyway (like standing at the Grand Canyon or something).

So you're not the only shy-ish guy out there. Do whatever. Take a picture of your favorite coffee mug or some sign in your front yard that says "Happy Halloween!!" or whatever you want.

fly - Do you even read that stuff though? I just skip it for the most part. I mostly skim through whatever and see if there's anything interesting. But mostly I just use it so people can find me and send a message to me if they want and don't even pay attention to the update stuff because I really don't care that my cousin is getting an estimate for their roof.


My GF is into this farmville and farmtown game though. I've been making fun of her for it for several months now. As far as I can tell, you just click each plot/square in your whole farm to plant or whatever and it looks incredibly stupid. Now she's 'virtual farm neighbors' on facebook with some mutual friends of ours. She says it's kind of addicting but to me it looks like a pain to have to do it every day and looks more like work than something someone could actually enjoy. And who on earth would have thought people would actually get into virtual farming in the first place?

This farmville thing is a plague. I've blocked it like 3 times, every time i go to hide it, i get a new Farmville: xxx, and the photo albums people make using it can't be blocked.. so its just all over the place.

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ah crap I suck at grunching