Is it just me, or is Facebook getting kinda creepy?

jthomas1600 · 06-09-2011, 11:59 AM

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Originally Posted by heymelbs

With all the new ads, Farmville posts, apps, viruses, links people share, horoscopes, "people that have a crush on me", etc. that I have to wade through everyday the whole thing is getting a little annoying and creepy.

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Originally Posted by thesteve

Using Firefox = no ads for me. Many of the apps can be blocked so they don't show up in your feed.

Yep, I use firefox as well. Also, I don't befriend 350 people I barely know. And I've found that after ignoring all the farmscapecityvilleyocountry invites for a while that people have slacked off on sending them. I still get them now and then, but I don't play the games anymore so I just ignore them....and they go away.

ICallHimTurtle · 06-09-2011, 12:00 PM

Hmm, I kind of like the idea of the family tree thing.

My F-in-Law's a friend on FB, and I don't remember adding/accepting him. I think my Husband did it.

Now I have to be very careful on FB about saying things like, "I really don't want to go to yet another get-together. What happened this time? Oh you know, someone sneezed or something."

**redbaron** · 06-09-2011, 12:58 PM

set up groups. I have people in groups that i hide all of my posts from by default, and then i have to actually manually choose to show them a status update/link/etc that I'm posting. works well for me

heymelbs · 06-09-2011, 02:40 PM

Here's another posting that I love getting from a friend that has been hacked: WOAH! my profile was viewed 132 times JUST TODAY, and I can see that I have quite a few stalkers LOL! Find out yours here Wwww.x.co/XhBW

The groups thing does work pretty well for private conversing

Bryan · 06-10-2011, 07:47 AM

i'll add just about anybody I've met. But if I've never met you, i won't add you. I used to use groups to block certain things from certain people. But I just decided I don't care anymore and stopped doing that. As a general rule I don't add people I work with (there are some exceptions).

ICallHimTurtle · 06-10-2011, 10:58 AM

I added some people I used to work with recently. Most of them were my supervisors, and apparently off -the-clock, they get cray cray.

**Dwight Schrute** · 06-10-2011, 12:01 PM

super bad idea: add your boss as a friend

it's loads of fun being written up for something you said on Facebook.

ICallHimTurtle · 06-10-2011, 12:05 PM

Yeah, an editor asked, I'm guessing to be friendly-like, if I had a Facebook account. I just said no, and changed myself to unsearchable, ha.