Facebook C&P statuses / Bullying
 

annoy the hell out of me.... I finally put the worst offender friend on ignore after she posted this one:

Isn't the "copy and paste this if you're cool, most of you aren't" just another form of bullying?

And she is a friend. But really?

I don't think it's bullying. Those statuses are just the same as all the 'pass this on or you're going to grow big pimples on your arse' type emails. Just ignore them if you don't like them. Some of them are ok, but others get a bit old after a while.

Having plenty of teenagers on my fb, I see a lot of this stuff.

Isn't using the "Quote" button the same as "cut & paste"?

/My flame war, let me drag you into it....

Monster - I ignore most of them, and have put up the odd spoof to show my scorn, but just sometimes I'll do as I'm asked for people who I know have a real, personal reason ...

ur sew nt kewl:p:

Was just looking at fb and came across this - which is the first spoof I'd seen. Love it.

If your 'friends' take you to task/subject you to some kind of unpleasant and unnecessary behaviour for not pasting this kind of message on your wall, then perhaps the term bullying could be applied, but surely people should be able to evaluate each of these messages for own merits (or lack thereof) and not just post blindly.

Thanks. You've just invalidated my internet raison d'etre in one swipe.

:power sulk:

Pat, pat, soothe, soothe :comfort:...but you're so good at it 3Foot.

Woah, wait, what? How'd you do that, casi?

:lol:

Let's wait a bit and see if he's still speaking to me. :D

Is that hard to do?;)

No, but she was more cleverer...clicking on her link takes you to the poster she posteded.

Smartass. ;)

:p:

what link? Are you talking about FB?

The little arrow thingy when you quote someone. :facepalm:

I ignore all those status C&P things. There is one that bugs me, simply because my mom had a huge guilt button installed in her children, and it says something like...IF YOU LOVE JESUS...THIS IS A TEST OF YOUR LOVE FOR GOD...IF YOU DON'T PASTE THIS...something somethign something, probably I'm going to hell for ever and ever and ever. :mad2:

To put someone's quote under someone else's name, just multi-quote, then remove the quote symbols in between the name and the quote you want credited.

I had to steal Casi's C&P message.

I can't hardly stand to look at Facebook. Now I'm defecting (read: defecating) and moving to Google+.

Are you on Google+ already? How do you like it?

I'm going to try it out as soon as I can.

I scoffed the first time I read this one:

Is scoffed used differently in Australia?

It's like a laugh that's stiffled. Or at least that's one definition. There's the one about not really believing what you're seeing or being told, but that wasn't the definition I was using.

What Ali said, but I'd add when you snort (however quietly) in disbelief at something or say "you've got to be kidding" (either to yourself or outloud).

How would the Stateside dwellars use it?

Usually to disregard with derision, which I pretty much figured Ali wasn't doing.

That is what I do. Or I just delete that post if I don't want to see it on my news feed.

Still trying to figure out how anon I can be on it. They want to link everything back to your EM and I am not big on that since my Google is my main one. I have one on Yahoo just for shopping, one Earthlink for business and serious shit. I may try it but only after I come up with a new Gmail address as an experiment. What do you think?

http://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/googleplus.png

http://xkcd.com/918/

Well I have toyed with Google+ for a few days. It has some nicer bells and whistles but I think it also has some major privacy issues.

Dunno if its true or not, but ...

"Bullying" isn't quite the right term.

"Mindlessly forwarding on pseudo-poignant statements" is, however. And you'll find it is the same people who used to send email forwards, back in the day (the day before we built a ceremonial bonfire and then threw all the forwaders we could find on top of it, like Odin demanded).