Facebook

[DanaC]

I try to engage with it. I do. And I will persevere, though will likely drop on and off as ever...

But there are a few things that really piss me off about it.

I want to keep abreast of my wider family's ups and downs and have some conduit through which to maintain some kind of relationship with them given we don't see each other very often these days.

I'm less keen on one of my cousin's repeated declarations of love for her husband.

I get it. They're very much in love and she's expecting (their 4th, I think). But seriously. Hearts and links to romantic videos with '*heart* hubby's name' or 'I love you hubby's name!!!!! *heart heart*.

When I say repeatedly, I mean like two or three times a day sometimes.

And some of the 'inspirational' stuff people post just makes me want to throw up. Or hit someone. Or throw up then hit someone .

[Chocolatl]

Can you just hide that cousin on your newsfeed? (I've had to do that with several repetitive declarers myself...)

[Lola Bunny]

Haha....I know someone who every couple of days or so would write on her wall how much she loves her husband or how lucky she is to have him. They've been married for 10 yrs or so. Hehe

[DanaC]

I daresay I bore everyone just as much with my carrot posts :p But at least they're not two or three times a day every day. And at least they're not all composed of saccharine...

@ Clod. I might do that. Just bob into her page every so ofte to keep up.

[Spexxvet]

Originally Posted by DanaC

And some of the 'inspirational' stuff people post just makes me want to throw up. Or hit someone. Or throw up then hit someone .

Makes me want to throw up on someone.

[DanaC]

And then hit them, yes, I like the way you think.


This is another reason to despise a lot of the shit that gets sent and resent all over the place:

Facebook users who've clicked viral links such as 'Click This if You Hate Cancer' could be in for a nasty surprise.

The links - and others such as 'click this picture and see what happens' do nothing except make cyber-scammers rich.

Once the pages have collected huge numbers of 'Likes', they are then sold, for cash, to other businesses who use them to make their page appear popular.

A blog post by Daylan Pearce, a search-engine expert at Next Digital in Melbourne, explains how the nonsense posts scam works - and shows how the pages are sold on.
The posts - images with captions such as 'Like if you can see the tiger,' or 'Comment and see what happens' are used to build 'Likes' and 'Comments' for pages.

Once a page has collected thousands of likes and comments, it will appear higher in people's News Feeds on Facebook - 'Likes' are the 'currency' of the site, as it were.

Pages with 100,000 likes can be sold for $200, according to adverts unearthed by Pearce.

Pearce explains in a blog post, 'The Facebook Like algorithm is Facebook’s way of dictating if content is of any value to users. The more likes/shares/comments it gets, the more exposure to certain people it, and the profile it belongs to, will get both short term and long term.

'All these metrics contribute to a users ‘edge rank’ – the score your profile is given that dictates how your page interacts with other profiles on Facebook. '

'Within 3 days a post like this one has 70,000 likes, and someone somewhere is about to make a nice little profit by selling the page to a business wanting some quick wins. The buyer then changes the page details.Instant fanpage with a big following, lots of likes and an in depth edge rank.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/facebook-sp...-revealed.html

[xoxoxoBruce]

So if we create a page and "Like" the hell out of it, UT could sell it.
Which reminds me, I don't think the tip mug has been updated, seeing how he's been kind of distracted.