"Add Friend Button" =secret enemy detector!! !! !

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Beep! Beep! BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! !! It has been spotted! An element known as someone who secretly-well no not secretly anymore- hates my ass!

Wow! Check this out. I sent a friend request to this couple at my work who is moving away. Two nights later I can't find the request in my "find friends" section. Also I search this couple's joint account's name and nothing comes up. Way to be subtle morons! I already had a feeling that they might reject the request or unfriend me a year later. Nope! They rejected it AND blocked me! I don't recall being creepy to either of them. I did admit to hating this idiot manager that they didn't personally have any run ins with. Other than that nothing! Well now I know who hates me.

Well this is not the first time I have had snubs on Facebook. I have had what I call the "blow off" many times. I send a friend request and it never gets a response. I KNOW they saw it. Who isn't like moths to a light bulb when they see the "Find Friends" icon with that indicator that someone has sent something. I KNOW people naturally look! Anyhow I have seen the people I wanted to friend update their status many times since I sent the request. I know they are hoping that I will forget after a short while. They don't want that tattle tale "Add Friend" icon magically appearing less than 12 hours after my sent request on their cover page. They are hoping I will forget as I am greeted with the "Friend Request Sent" icon when I check their page for olive branch confirmation. These people are smart enough to know that I will quickly figure it out if I have been outright shunned. However they are also still hoping I'm too big of a moron to not catch their blow off. Well that says one thing: they are afraid of me and/or hurting my feelings!! !! Well either way they have tipped their hands to me so I'd love to be in a position to stick it to them.....

Then there is the "friend and kill them method". I have also had people accept my friend request and unfriend me about a week later. These people think I will assume that they "accepted" my friend request for life! Facebook advertises with a thumbs up that so and so accepted a friend request. These "acceptors" are like the type in the paragraph above and are hoping that I send request to everyone and his/her mother! They are counting on the fact that I must have bombard the whole internet with friend requests. They are counting on the fact I won't notice their posts missing from my newsfeed and that I won't visit their page and discover the "Add Friend" button greeting me less than three weeks later. People who use this method are not as subtle as they think they are! I don't send as many friend requests as you think and you might cross my mind more than you and I would like for you to!! !! Do the math!! !!

The moral of this rant is think twice before hitting the "Add Friend" button. Are you sure this person ACTUALLY likes you? Your feelings will get hurt one way or another rather soon if they don't.

Also, don't think "losers" extending the olive branch won't find out instantly how you feel! They WILL!! !

I'm just saying here! Use this knowledge how you want!

There is more to life than Facebook.

I don't like Facebook. I don't have one. Obviously, I have online friends and use online social media. Because I'm here on Wrong Planet on a regular basis.

The reason I don't like Facebook is because a few years ago I was starting my grad program and about 14 of us were all in the same classes and were together all the time except when we went back to our respective apartments to sleep. We quickly all became like a little family, and some of us became friends. I'm still friends with a few of them.

So anyway, I came into school on a Monday and all of them were congratulating one of the people I especially liked on getting engaged. They were relating things they said and laughing about it. I was still waking up, but it was hurting my feelings that I was evidently not invited to some social gathering over the weekend.

Then I realized that they were talking about Facebook. I hadn't remembered to log in over the weekend. I had this picture of each of the other 13 sitting in their pajamas, looking at their laptops, alone, laughing as if they were included. It seemed sad and ridiculous to me. I didn't say anything to the rest of them. When I got home I deleted my own Facebook and have been vehemently against it ever since. Facebook is an underhanded method that fools people into social connections which have no real content.

Here on Wrong Planet, I don't feel like we're pretending that we're all together having coffee or at a bar throwing darts. It's clear that we can't see each other and everyone is online. Maybe it has to do with the simpler interface. I don't know, but I think it's psychologically safer.

I mothballed my Facebook account after I started getting "Friend" requests from people that I had never met. Nearly all of them had their own accounts full of banal drivel, such as one would overhear between vapid tween girls discussing their favorite celebrity crush.

Long story short, people are pricks. Facebook is the devil in sheep clothing. NEW topic ! !