Facebook 10 notes

1. Pending time: Making someone 'pend' is a form of wielding power on facebook. Control of time is power, and when you have a potential friend in facebook limbo (pending) you own them. It is always good for your confidence to let them pend a little before adding them. Keep them honest, I suppose.
2. Adding friends: If someone adds you rather than you adding them, you have the upper hand. Are you an added or an acceptor?
3. detagging a photo- de-tagging a photo because you don't like the way you look in it, is a way of escaping your past. You can run but you can't hide.
4. Deleting facebook: technological suicide. We have all contemplated it. It's a statement. If you delete facebook, you're saying, I can't focus with this damn thing in my life. Deleting facebook is actually counter intuitive, because you're saying you can't exist at peace with it, so you have to kill yourself(metaphorically).
5. Profile pictures: This is the newest 'ultimate form of self-expression'. You've got one picture to represent you; make it a good one. Common ones: celebrities that the person resembles, glamour shots*, dogs, blue steel, favorite TV character, group pics with bff all drinking.
6. *glamour shot profile pics: These are generally lame. As much as I want to put mine as my profile pic, because I look good in it, I can't. you're basically saying; "Look! I am good looking if you airbrush, photoshop and light me perfectly".
7. Drinking: Facebook reassures us that as a society we have to constantly remind ourselves that we are cool. Cool equals partying. We drink, we hang out with people that are better looking than us, and we take pictures of cool funny things. Our pictures represent who we want to be. for example; having a profile picture of yourself at the playboy mansion could get you laid by a girl who was seen your profile.
8. creeping: Everyone has one or two people that they never talk to who's wall they check weekly. This is creeping. It's OK. If anything it's the healthiest part of facebook because it allows people to see the people they actually want to see.
9. event walls: People insist on writing excuses as to why they cannot make the event on the event wall. This in turn starts a snowball effect of people backing out of the event because they don't want to go if they see that other people aren't going. Never try to organize a respectable event over facebook.
10. Groups: just ignore them rather than decline.