So I started getting emails today from a facebook group I had no recollection of joining. Turns out someone else added me and I have the option of "leaving" if I so wish it
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Apparently they added this thing awhile ago where if someone asks to be your friend and you click the facebook equivalent of "no" it basically gives them all the viewing privileges of a friend anyway. It's just... bizarre in a horribly disturbing way. *shudders*
And that tagging system. Ugh. Every year I have to go in and untag myself from all my friends' cosplay pics of me. For me fandom is fandom and RL is RL and I don't see why my RL friends don't understand that.
Okay, so I had my story a little bit confused; it's bit a year since the update. *shrugs* Apparently it doesn't give them all the viewing privileges of a friend, but it does throw all of the person's public stuff into the asker's newsfeed. And then if the person clicks "not now," it doesn't actually change anything (unless you explicitly say/click that you don't know the person) except get rid of the request so that you forget that Person X is watching your stuff.
So I guess it is similar to the friend/follow buttons on LJ, except with Facebook and RL issues and creepy RL people instead of Russian spam bots.
It's useful for quick, important-stuff-about-to-happen contact since you don't have to worry about multiple emails or people changing addresses etc. But other than that? IDK, my professors say that as a programmer I have to embrace social media, but I just... it's not what I like to talk about.
Like if something happens in RL, I talk about it in RL where one person can start laughing and soon the entire group is struggling to breathe even though it's not that funny just because of the infectious power of simply being there. Online? There's fanfic and picspams and episode analysis and shipping wank and some politics thrown in but mostly it's all just glorious fandom. And the last time I checked, Facebook was not bastion for those types of communities.
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And that tagging system. Ugh. Every year I have to go in and untag myself from all my friends' cosplay pics of me. For me fandom is fandom and RL is RL and I don't see why my RL friends don't understand that.
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Okay, so I had my story a little bit confused; it's bit a year since the update. *shrugs* Apparently it doesn't give them all the viewing privileges of a friend, but it does throw all of the person's public stuff into the asker's newsfeed. And then if the person clicks "not now," it doesn't actually change anything (unless you explicitly say/click that you don't know the person) except get rid of the request so that you forget that Person X is watching your stuff.
So I guess it is similar to the friend/follow buttons on LJ, except with Facebook and RL issues and creepy RL people instead of Russian spam bots.
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Like if something happens in RL, I talk about it in RL where one person can start laughing and soon the entire group is struggling to breathe even though it's not that funny just because of the infectious power of simply being there. Online? There's fanfic and picspams and episode analysis and shipping wank and some politics thrown in but mostly it's all just glorious fandom. And the last time I checked, Facebook was not bastion for those types of communities.
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