Wednesday, March 30, 2011

New Friend Request: Ignore?

The problem with Facebook is that it makes things too easy. In the past, when I wanted to ignore someone I didn't like, I had to go out of my way to actually talk over them or say things about them so that my friends wouldn't like them either. Then Facebook came along and my ignoring became passive, so amazing was the advent of the "Ignore All Posts By" function. But the whole thing has left me lazy and disillusioned.

At first, it was easy. I could use the ignore function and that was that. But now, after quite some time, people are becoming more and more difficult to phase out because they're becoming less and less shameful about bringing Facebook into real life and vice versa. A while back, I met a girl in a pub and, boring though the conversation was, I still ended up with her and her friends as my friends on Facebook. Why? I don't really know. I mean, from my end, I know why. I was too polite to click "Ignore" upon receiving a friend request from someone with whom I'd had exactly one conversation (though not too polite to almost immediately block their updates). But is your life really that boring that you have to virtually connect with everyone you meet?

Bringing real life into Facebook is bad enough but bringing Facebook to real life is worse. These days, I actually have to smile and nod when people tell me how they saw me on Facebook last night, as if that's supposed to actually mean something other than that they're a total creep with no social awareness of any decent measure.

What I really need is an "Ignore All Posts By" button that will work in real life. How amazing would it be to not actually have to ever see in real life the stupid people you don't like on your facebook but can't delete because you're bound to run into them and the overbearing awkwardness of it would be too much to really justify the move. The only real option is to delete my own facebook but then I'd be depriving all of my friends, new and old, of all my great status updates, cool photos and interesting links that I post all the time that nobody has time to comment on because they're too busy enjoying the awesome content that I'm consistently sharing with them. I'll find a solution at some point and message everyone. Make sure to reply this time so I know you got it. Also, check out my new pictures, they're hilarious!

1 comment:

  1. ha i love it, the blog too

    a couple of months ago i ignored someones request and upon seeing me in a niteclub she cornered me against the wall and shouted "THANKS FOR ACCEPTING ME ON FACEBOOK" which wasn't awkward in any way. in fact i gave such a little shit about it, I just stood there for a few minutes asking myself did that actually just happen.

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