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Facebook Reality
Check out the absolutely hilarious YouTube video entitled Facebook Reality that my new BFF Ethel Rubenstein, CEO (read: maven) at New York post-production hot shop, Bluerock and Spontaneous sent me. The video takes a typical Facebook experience and has it play out in the real world between three people — the stereotypical obnoxious friend, his idiotic sidekick and the unsuspecting old classmate they hunt down and terrorize through routine Facebook interactions like wall writings, photo tagging, pokes, and status updates. Very clever and exceptionally witty.
Clearly the despised guy in the clip would be “removed as friend” in a nanosecond if this experience happened regularly on Facebook. However, it definitely gets you thinking about how what is considered acceptable behavior in the Web 2.0 world would be utterly unacceptable in the physical world.
Have you ever had to remove a friend from your Facebook friend list? Come on dish and tell us why.
May 12th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
I have never had to remove a friend, but I have had a former collegue remove me when they left for a new position. It’s hard not to take it personally! But, in the end, I filled his slot within 24 hours. Thank God there are over 60 million users!
May 14th, 2008 at 2:11 pm
Just this week I removed my first person. She got to me through a friend, a true friend I actually know and trust-in person. I friended this new person because of that knowledge and trust.
Well, she started off sending me some absolutely useless apps, teddy bears that wave to me and ask to be sent along or real teddy bears will die somewhere, prayers that have to be sent along to others or poor starving people somewhere will go without, chain stuff. I hate chain letters. I knew she was a newbie and I explained how this wasn’t really useful behavior. She flamed me with 73 more useless pieces of “friend material”. She poached my friends, I hope you didn’t friend her Kel(Sshhh, her name is Hettie Hellmeyer). If you did ,I apologize as did my friend when I asked him why he friended her. Before I could go on with my story he told me he had to delete this woman from NL recently who was torturing him with crap, guess what her name was. Can I say her name?
May 14th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
larry, that sucks! what a kookoocachoo! tough lesson to learn. i never accept any friends i don’t know personally for fear of what happened to you. recently i had a woman who stalked me with friend requests. no matter how many i ignored, she kept attempting to friend me. i put her on my block list and she still managed to send requests. i finally got facebook support involved and they helped me take care of it. it’s amazing how quickly one person can temporarily ruin your entire experience.
kel