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So Facebook
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I'm not saying everyone has to have them, but I personally want one. The USA school system has a tendency to suck out your soul. I'd rather keep mine. :-D
Papersatan:
--- Quote from: Linds on 05 Nov 2012, 05:25 ---Seriously though, updating my status to "engaged" was both convenient and annoying as fuck. First off, it meant I didn't have to call everyone and tell them, which really would be very time consuming, or send out announcements, which is expensive. But it's annoying that it's even a thing at all and that people feel obligated to announce their relationships. Especially when there's a breakup and everyone feels the need to comment on it when they don't understand the whole picture.
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Also I bet your targeted ads have changed. OMG WEDDING STUFF!!! and once you change it to married.... BAAAAABIES!!!
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I started getting wedding stuff as soon as I was "in a relationship" and I already get baby and mother stuff because I have a vagina. THANKS FACEBOOK, I DID NOT KNOW I HAD A UTERUS. WHAT AN AMAZING DISCOVERY.
Papersatan:
I noticed the change from "go back to school" to "have a baby" after marriage.
Another funny note on targeted ads, Hulu sometimes gives you a choice between two ads, I assume to better track your preferences and offer you more relevent ads. At one point last year it gave me a choice between babyfood and tequila. I assume they were trying to figure out whether I was still partying, or had moved on to baby making. I chose the tequila, obvs.. but they still give me Pediasure ads and these Ragu ones where the lady is conning the kids into eating vegetables. No matter how many times I click "this ad is not relevant to me", they keep insisting that at my age I ought to have young kids who are picky eaters.
Welu:
I recently cleared my Facebook list from near 300ish to 160ish. I did it over the process of a couple of weeks, not because I was being sneaky but because Facebook wouldn't load all of the people in the list until some were deleted. Now it is mainly coworkers, friends, family, internet friends and friends of friends I want to get to know better. Other than that it's people who I think would notice their friend count go down and if they realized it was me, would be genuinely angry with me.
I also try to only post things I wouldn't mind saying to my family or family but there isn't much I'd mind saying to them any way.
What are people's opinions on employers looking up workers or interviewee's Facebooks? And in the case of current workers, then punishing them for their posts unrelated to work? Obviously I can understand why posting, "John/Jane is such a jerk. They only got promoted because they shagged the boss." when you're friends with John/Jane/Boss is a stupid thing to do and gets brought into work.
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