Claire Suddath
Time.com
YourTango.com, a self-described "community for love, sex, dating and relationship advice," has created an instructional video called "Facebook Manners and You." Styled after one of those frighteningly cheery '50s educational films, the video's instructions for proper behavior on the "electric friendship generator" is funny in a hits-close-to-home way. (I mean, no it doesn't. No one has ever posted embarrassing photos of me on the Internet!)
The video covers everything from how to dump someone (do not break up with your partner by changing your relationship status) to the best practices for starting a hate group (don't create an "I hate so-and-so" group. But if you already did, don't use it to call someone a communist). Still, there are a number of Facebook etiquette rules the video does not cover. TIME would like to suggest these additional "electric friendship" guidelines:
1. Stop taking quizzes. Nobody cares what literary time period you are.
2. If you sync your Twitter account to Facebook so that you fill others' news feeds with a constant stream of mundane updates and references to people with little @ symbols before their names, be prepared for people to de-friend you. Maybe even in real life.
| Jorge Lee |
April 27th, 2009 3:54 pm ET Oh my God. This is so true. I'm a social media marketer and still get annoyed by other social media marketer. |
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| Vanessa, TX |
April 27th, 2009 4:06 pm ET HA! as I was reading this article,I found myself finishing FB quiz..lol. |
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| Dulce .... |
April 27th, 2009 4:18 pm ET This article is awesome.....I do ....or better yet did the quizzes...hahahah |
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| Norma |
April 27th, 2009 4:26 pm ET Time to add facebook to how to loose a guy in 10 days ( or all of your friends) |
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| RainG |
April 27th, 2009 4:29 pm ET hahah This is priceless and funny! It's true. Some of this stuff can be annoying when it's constantly fed to you through alerts when all you originally wanted was to stay connected to friends and family. Combining the two services is just overkill....in a big way. |
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| Erica |
April 27th, 2009 6:12 pm ET I've always been told: if you're hated, you get attention so either way, anyone in the media or hollywood would probably like being liked or hated. |
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| Jasmine-Spokane, WA |
April 27th, 2009 6:40 pm ET good thing all of my friends take quizzes... |
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| enea |
April 27th, 2009 6:56 pm ET I have not been interested in signing on to facebook, and this article makes it even less appealing. I don't know what facebook is really about, but twitter so far seems kind of neat because it's short and sweet and to the point. |
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| Judy Burns |
April 27th, 2009 9:18 pm ET Followed AC's advice to check Jack Gray's really funny insights on this blog, loved them and all you CNN liberal guys. Aloha, Judy |
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