How not to chat on Facebook

From PJ Media:
Here’s a thought: If you’re a liberal who feels the urge to murder kittens when someone says something nice about Sarah Palin or a conservative who thinks Obama is a mixture of Stalin and Darth Vader and you just can’t shut up about it, maybe you shouldn’t be [Facebook] friends with someone who vehemently disagrees with you. If you are going to be someone’s friend, then you should keep in mind that friends politely disagree. They don’t regularly insult each other, trash other people in the thread, and go off on angry rants. So, just remember what your mother said, “If you can’t say something nice, then shut your ignorant mouth, you loser! I can’t believe I ever had a horrible child like you! You’ll never be a success! Never!” Ok, maybe I’m just assuming that’s how the mothers of people like that talk, but you have to admit that it would explain a lot.

6 comments:

bthun said...

What's a facebook?

*hears buzzing overhead and wonders if it's Google or DHS circling the hovel again?*

BTW and speaking of hovering/buzzing overhead: Has Mr. Bill been heard from lately? I hope he's well.

Grim said...

I don't do Facebook or Myspace or any of that. You know what it reminds me of? The targeting profiles we painstakingly built for Iraqi insurgents. Family, friends, connections and their natures, all sorts of information about how people are related.

Come the revolution, a lot of those folks are getting scooped up on day one.

bthun said...

Exactly so...

Anonymous said...

I dislike Facebook for the same reason as Grim and Bthun. I value what little electronic privacy I have, and there are reasons why I use a nom de cyber. If a potential employer hunts me up on the 'Net, I want them to find my books and articles, not, oh, say, pictures of me buying a growler at a local brew pub (as happened to my sibling and spouse. The brewpub put their picture on its Facebook page).

LittleRed1

Texan99 said...

I use Facebook as a Yellow Pages, where anyone who can remember my full married or maiden name can find my home and work phone number and address. I never post anything controversial there. I do have Facebook friends who relentlessly publish political screeds from all points of the political compass, but I never respond.

Anyway, the advice applies to all public comment spaces.

douglas said...

This is because we didn't grow up in a fame-centric society, as evidenced by 'American Idol' and such, where kids are taught that their value is determined by what others think of us, and how popular we are. It's a short step from there to wanting to put your entire life out there for everyone to see.

Insanity on so many levels.