Saturday, November 21, 2009

The Option Facebook SHOULD Have

You know how, when someone wants to make you their friend on Facebook, you can choose "Accept" or "Ignore"? Well, they really need an option that includes a form that goes something like this:

In reply to your request for friendship I say (choose all that
apply):
_No
_Hell, no
_Not in a million years
_Are pigs flying?
_We weren't even friends when we were dating!

Because you are (choose all that apply):
_A cheater
_A lying cheater
_A cheating cheater (one who cheats on the person whom he's cheating
with)
_A misogynist
_A homophobe
_A fatphobe
_A racist
_A racist/homophobe/fatphobe/misogynist who, after using
racial/homophobic/fat jokes/sexist slurs, insists that he isn't a
racist/homophobic/fatphobic/misogynist.
_A control freak
_A slut-shamer
_An ass
_An asshole
_A jackass
_A rat's ass
_A sociopath
_Seriously delusional
_Still married, expecting a child, and are only contacting me this way because you have found it to be a unique new way to cheat

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Sure, it's hostile, juvenile, and decidedly UN-friendly; but this is the social networking site that came up with the "unfriend."

7 comments:

Ann said...

Excellent! Yeah, what's with the ex-boyfriends tracking you down when they have infant children? WTF? (And this was in the age before FaceySpace, when the interwebs were really new.) D-bags, all of them.

Dr. Mister's rule is: if I've never had a meal with you, you're not my "friend."

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annieem said...

One big fat LIKE to THAT idea, Clio!

Notorious Ph.D. said...

Preach, sister.

I've got a FB "friend" who is an ex who friended me early on in our breakup because he wanted everything to still be "good" between us (read: he didn't want to feel like the asshole he was) even after he dumped me. I accepted in a moment of early-post-breakup weakness. And now I desperately wish I hadn't. Then there's the ex-fling who I shouldn't have flung with, who sends me chat requests whenever I'm online because he thinks that just because I talk to him, I want to sleep with him.

FB-flirting is fine and dandy. But with exes... I've learned my lesson the hard way. And I'm too much of a wimp to use that "unfriend" option. Though I'm getting close on ex #1.

bitternsweet said...

Great idea! I could totally make use of these categories ... like for the married high school friend who used FB as a pretext to reconnect and confess his unresolved (even though we hadn't seen or spoken to each other in 20 years) feelings for me. Ugh.

Digger said...

Love it! It would be great to have the option to silently reject friendship requests or fill out a form like this.

Val said...

Thanks for the laugh! I am extremely careful to keep things topical, carefree & light on FB; needless to say I don't waste much computer-time there ;-)...

Ink said...

Oh, how did I miss this? Brilliant! Love. Love. Love.

 

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