[Misc] "If I don't see your name, I'll understand."

[Lady Whistledown]

I hate it to say it, well actually I don't, but certainly on my facebook the worse offenders are middle aged women. Get a ****ing life.

I suspect you're probably right, as my timeline is full of them. Well, it used to be. I make a point of unfollowing anybody who posts such shit, so I only see their posts if I choose to.

Also irritating are the ones which read something like:

British Airway.
To celebrate our 50th aniversary, were giving away 1000 first class flight tickets to anywhere in the world free. To be in with a chance of winning one of these amazing prizes simply Like and share this post and comment with your choice of denstination. Good luck!


Which is then followed by thousands upon thousands of gullible fools Liking the post and typing comments like "Amazing! Sydney please!!!! xx"

Because British Airway (the clue is in the name, you idiots) are always chucking out free first class tickets to thousands of people, aren't they? Especially via badly spelled Facebook posts which get the company name wrong

Same applies to Virgin Atlantic, BMW, Ferrari, assorted luxury camper van manufacturers, Veuve Clicquot or any number of high end companies that seem to have regularly appeared on my timeline in recent years. Grrrrr.

 

[Giraffe]

If we are expanding this to all annoying posts on Facebook then can I please add the comments from bitter partners or ex partners that say stuff like:

"Bad day, you know why"
"For ****s sake, not again"
"Worse day ever"
"From now on I'm going to concentrate on myself"

Always followed by lots of friends replying, "are you okay","whats wrong" etc to which nearly always the original poster says "I'll DM you".

Well just do that in the first place and don't put it all over facebook. 99% of the people reading it don't want to.

Give me a picture of a dog falling over or riding a skateboard or some happy sunflowers, don't give me this feeble shit.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

And don't get me started on people who share obvious hoaxes or stuff made up by groups like "Britain First".

I used to just reply "it's a hoax" and paste the Hoax Slayer/Snopes link proving my point.

Now I just type "What happened when you googled it first this to see if it is, actually, true?"

Best reply. "I didn't bother, My boss shared it so it must be true!"

I do the same, using Hoax Slayer and Snopes.

It is possible to unfollow someone, but still remain friends. That way you don't see their inane posts but are still friends with them. They don't know that you've unfollowed them, but you are spared their silly posts.
It works for me.

 

[Dorset Seagull]

I suspect you're probably right, as my timeline is full of them. Well, it used to be. I make a point of unfollowing anybody who posts such shit, so I only see their posts if I choose to.

Also irritating are the ones which read something like:

British Airway.
To celebrate our 50th aniversary, were giving away 1000 first class flight tickets to anywhere in the world free. To be in with a chance of winning one of these amazing prizes simply Like and share this post and comment with your choice of denstination. Good luck!


Which is then followed by thousands upon thousands of gullible fools Liking the post and typing comments like "Amazing! Sydney please!!!! xx"

Because British Airway (the clue is in the name, you idiots) are always chucking out free first class tickets to thousands of people, aren't they? Especially via badly spelled Facebook posts which get the company name wrong

Same applies to Virgin Atlantic, BMW, Ferrari, assorted luxury camper van manufacturers, Veuve Clicquot or any number of high end companies that seem to have regularly appeared on my timeline in recent years. Grrrrr.

I can safely say that I only make or accept friend request to people I know which cuts down a lot of the dross

Sorry to burst your bubble Edna but a girl who works for me recently won a free flight on Easyjet because she did the very thing you mention. I realise that is hardly comparable to a BA round the world trip but it does prove these things can be won

 

[Not nick rhodes]

Facebook is for kids. Period.

 

[Cian]

I can safely say that I only make or accept friend request to people I know which cuts down a lot of the dross

Sorry to burst your bubble Edna but a girl who works for me recently won a free flight on Easyjet because she did the very thing you mention. I realise that is hardly comparable to a BA round the world trip but it does prove these things can be won

A free flight on a low cost carrier, likely giving away one flight is not comparable to a "premium" airline allegedly giving away 1,000 extremely expensive flights. The scam prize is always massively improbable.

A new one that catches those who don't check properly is to clone the header image and previous posts of a real page - e.g. you'd get a Churchill Square page clone. It'll only have a few tens or hundreds of likes (the real one has 38k) and will have a post offering a "5000£" (they always put the £ after, as far as I can see) voucher as a prize. The normal prizes on their Facebook page are of the sub-£100 value - a Build A Bear bear and some Nespresso cups are the recent real ones.

Once they've got a page with sufficient likes and a very high interaction score - from all the people liking, sharing and posting - it'll be sold to a Herbalife shiller or similar.

 

[Thunder Bolt]

I can safely say that I only make or accept friend request to people I know which cuts down a lot of the dross

Sorry to burst your bubble Edna but a girl who works for me recently won a free flight on Easyjet because she did the very thing you mention. I realise that is hardly comparable to a BA round the world trip but it does prove these things can be won

There are a few genuine competitions, but as Edna has rightly pointed out, you can spot the scams by their poor grammar or spelling mistakes. It's also fairy easy to check, which are genuine by Googling them first.

 

[Dorset Seagull]

If we are expanding this to all annoying posts on Facebook then can I please add the comments from bitter partners or ex partners that say stuff like:

"Bad day, you know why"
"For ****s sake, not again"
"Worse day ever"
"From now on I'm going to concentrate on myself"

Always followed by lots of friends replying, "are you okay","whats wrong" etc to which nearly always the original poster says "I'll DM you".

Well just do that in the first place and don't put it all over facebook. 99% of the people reading it don't want to.

Give me a picture of a dog falling over or riding a skateboard or some happy sunflowers, don't give me this feeble shit.

That's nothing a friend of my wife's posted on Facebook about the trauma of her childhood and the "ahem" things her dad used to engage in with her when she was young. Apparently word had got out and the boys in blue had paid him a visit and so she felt she had to unburden herself with the whole saga on social media. Very sad but obviously some people like to us FB as a psychiatrists couch

 

[ManOfSussex]

I got blocked on FB earlier this year. I happened to stray on there one evening after a 'few' drinks and on an ex-girlfriend's FB was a tree-hugging, ex-boyfriend of hers, who has no interest in football and who I do not like, posting pictures of fluffy animals or some such nonsense and I rather firmly told him to sort his life out, type of thing.

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

Facebook is for kids. Period.

And 'Period' is for Americans. Full stop.

 

[Exile]

And 'Period' is for Americans. Full stop.

This.

Whilst you are here Mr Peacehaven, can you fill us in to what exactly happened at Worthing united on Saturday??

 

[Return of the Rev]

What is god's name are you talking about?

this?

 

[Dr. Notthenineo'clocknews]

This.

Whilst you are here Mr Peacehaven, can you fill us in to what exactly happened at Worthing united on Saturday??

Fraid not, I saw the whole event unfold in front of me, but unlike some we've agreed not to discuss it until the police investigation is over. there's a little bit more to it than has been reported, put it this way, ive given an honest statement to the OB, we are no doubt in serious doo-doo however neither side are coming out of this with any glory

 

[BN9 BHA]

What is god's name are you talking about?

This.

Thank goodness I'm not on Facebook. Sounds dreadful.

And this

 

[symyjym]

I am on facebook, but get very few such posts

Nor me. Maybe we don't have enough friends

 

[symyjym]

Facebook is for kids. Period.

Not strictly true. You can use facebook in many ways and all businesses need it.

 

[Dorset Seagull]

Not strictly true. You can use facebook in many ways and all businesses need it.

And when you see what you can do with FB advertising as a business its makes you very aware of how exposed you are as an individual user

 

[symyjym]

And when you see what you can do with FB advertising as a business its makes you very aware of how exposed you are as an individual user

I've never used fb advertising. In what way are we exposed?

 

[BN9 BHA]

Not strictly true. You can use facebook in many ways and all businesses need it.

Did you say ALL businesses NEED it?
Why?

 

[Wilko]

Agreed. According to my 13 year-old daughter "Facebook is for mums."

Not wrong there, some people I follow post NOTHING but some shit their kid has done. Reminds me to do a bit of facebook cleansing actually.