Facebook rant!

Was I rude or was she?

I thought she was!

I'm really hating it that when you post on a friends profile, it shows up on other peoples wall feeds! My husband will talk to me and say things like, "I saw that 'x' person commented on your picture!" then I asked him how he knew, and he said "because it shows up on my news feed showing me what she said!"....Just because we are all friends, doesn't mean everything I say should be feed for all mutual friends to see!! (Not that I have anything to hide, but it's like being a third part butting in on a 2 person convo!)

ANNOYING!!

I thought she was!

She was definitely rude and selfish.

Does she really expect all of her FB friends to stop whatever they are doing and be sure that they post Happy Birthday on Facebook exactly within the 24 hour period of her birthday based on her time zone?

Sometimes I may post Happy Birthday early. Sometimes I may post late and say "Sorry I was late." Because I have a life outside of Facebook.

Everyone has always said "Thank you" regardless.

(Unless she was just joking around when she said 'Rude!' and Sista Girl took it too seriously.)

But seriously, what does it matter if you said Happy Birthday a day early or not! At least you thought of her and wanted to wish her a good day! She should be grateful that she even got the consideration at all! Sheesh!! I thought her comment back was rude and ungrateful of your kind gesture!

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Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! This has been driving me nuts!

My facebook rant is about "events".

An event is something that happens at a specific place and time.

Don't take something you like or a cause you believe in, call it an event and make the event last all day every day for the next four months.

I accepted an "event" like this not realising the implications, and even after unaccepting  it, I still had to permanently unsync Facebook from my phone because it was showing up on my calendar as something that I had to do every day.

I had this same thing happen.  A young guy created a page for keeping in touch while he was away as a student in another country.  He posts address and status updates there.  I signed up because he's been good to our family and I wanted to show my support to a nice young kid who doesn't have tons of family support. 

A little while later my telephone alarms started going off daily because he set a daily FB reminder saying "write letters to ******."  The reminders were daily for the next two years he would be away.  I didn't want to take away my support for him, so I had to figure out how to disable the FB calendar from my Android calendar. (I hadn't realized before that the FB calendar was even connected to my phone.)

This is weird.

I just got an email from Facebook that a woman I used to know from my old neighborhood in Brooklyn confirmed my friend request.

I did not send her a friend request.

She is FB friends with some of my FB friends.

I'm not going to unfriend her because she hasn't done anything wrong and I don't want to hurt her feelings, but this is bizarre.

She and I knew some of the same people in high school but we didn't associate with one another.  I would never have even though to send her a friend request.

What if FB had done this with with a friend of a friend that I would have issues with, like an ex-boyfriend?

sweetpeach, that is really bizarre.  I get a lot of people in the 'People You May Know' field that I definitely would never want to be friends with...ex's, people I used to work with, people I used to be friends with but unfriended...I'd be livid if FB automatically friended me with someone.  Have you checked your FB account to see if it was some kind of mistake (i.e. she actually sent you a friend request but FB sent you the wrong automated emails)? 

I REALLY don't think automatically sending/accepting friend requests is something that should be happening.

I REALLY don't think automatically sending/accepting friend requests is something that should be happening.

Ditto, how  is this even possible? Has this happened to anyone else?

It just so happened that the day before I discovered Find Friends, which lists all of your potential friends based on who you went to school with or worked with and Friends of your other Friends.

I was being nosy looking at other people's profiles, but I don't remember looking at  hers, and I definitely did not intentionally send out any friend requests.

I wonder if I accidently clicked on something which sent an automatic request.

When you send a request, don't you usually get a pop up box with an option to send a message? I never got anything saying I was sending X a friend request. If I had, I would have just hit CANCEL.

ETA: Headingbackhome, how would I check my FB account about this?  All I see is that after I confirmed the request, on both of our walls it says Sweetpeach and X are now friends.

It just so happened that the day before I discovered Find Friends, which lists all of your potential friends based on who you went to school with or worked with and Friends of your other Friends.

I was being nosy looking at other people's profiles, but I don't remember looking at  hers, and I definitely did not intentionally send out any friend requests.

I wonder if I accidently clicked on something which sent an automatic request.

When you send a request, don't you usually get a pop up box with an option to send a message? I never got anything saying I was sending X a friend request. If I had, I would have just hit CANCEL.

I've seen a couple of other people accidentally send out friend requests to everyone on their email contacts before - I had a friend request from one of the instructors on my training course a couple of months ago and when I mentioned it to him a few days later, he had no idea he'd sent out any friend requests at all!

I've seen a couple of other people accidentally send out friend requests to everyone on their email contacts before - I had a friend request from one of the instructors on my training course a couple of months ago and when I mentioned it to him a few days later, he had no idea he'd sent out any friend requests at all!

How is it possible to do this?

Is there a way I can see a list of all my friend requests and possibly cancel any that I didn't want to send?

How is it possible to do this?

I think it happens when it comes up with either the Friend Finder or when it asks you if you want to locate your email contacts on Facebook... if you click on 'Find Friends', I think it might kind of default to sending everyone in your email address book a 'join FB/add friend' request (not entirely sure, but something like that can happen if you don't pay attention to what you're clicking on)!

Is there a way I can see a list of all my friend requests and possibly cancel any that I didn't want to send?

I'm not sure on that one, I'm afraid.

I think it happens when it comes up with either the Friend Finder or when it asks you if you want to locate your email contacts on Facebook... if you click on 'Find Friends', I think it might kind of default to sending everyone in your email address book a 'join FB/add friend' request (not entirely sure, but something like that can happen if you don't pay attention to what you're clicking on)!

I'm not sure on that one, I'm afraid.

That's awful!

This woman is not in my email address book.  I hope FB did not send a friend request to every friend of my friends! I really don't want exes to think I am trying to get back in touch with them.

That's awful!

This woman is not in my email address book.  I hope FB did not send a friend request to every friend of my friends! I really don't want exes to think I am trying to get back in touch with them.

Oy, I should really delete my exes email addresses now right?