November 17: International UnFriend Day
Having been offline for almost the whole day yesterday, I missed this piece of news: Jimmy Kimmel announcing November 17 as International UnFriend Day. Not really a holiday but hey, this is interesting!
Not that I want to unfriend anyone from my Facebook or Twitter account. Ok, I admit I have some people in mind but why raise controversy when I could just:
- hide their status update
- ignore friendship request
- NOT invite other people to become “friends” with me when I don’t like them in the first place.
I’m sure the third part has some people feel that way with me, I know them and I don’t really care even if they are friends with my children and NOT with me. Their loss to miss out on my interesting links, lol.
Fine with me too to not be in contact, albeit virtually, with some people because I might be tempted to tell write on their wall to stop posting their photos if they don’t get acne laser treatment first. Ok, mean joke.
Who would you want to unfriend, just in case?
- your mom or dad perhaps? (I wouldn’t do that to my mom)
- your nosy aunt
- your annoying in-laws
- your gossipy neighbor
- people you personally don’t know
- people who tag you with merchandise they sell (I don’t have these simply because I don’t confirm their friend requests especially since I don’t know them)
- people who post everything they do online
- people who can’t draw the line between what’s ok to post and what’s not
- your ex(es) (this depends on you of course)
Social media is a big thing but when used inappropriately and things get out of hand, well, better know how to handle your privacy setting to avoid any incidents you might not like. “So what?” you say, it’s their status update and not yours. But then again, who cares to read about what was for breakfast, lunch, dinner or even if they need to go have a bathroom or ciggy break.
And that is social media, it’s like looking at other people’s lives via their status updates and 140 character tweets.
