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[cjsmith]

I joined the dark side.

That thing could eat up the entire rest of my life. Fortunately, I tend to lose interest in between clicking on something and seeing the results.* This allows me to continue to do homework.

Now I think I need the basic two-minute tutorial. Rob's been over the initial setup with me, which is good, or my e-mail inbox would be dead. But I don't really know how to use anything yet.

- When somebody does a "wall-to-wall" at you, how do you reply to their comment?
- What in blazes do you do with "gifts" (not!) of "things" (virtual) that want you to enable some app and donate even more of your time? Is ignoring these considered rude?
- When someone you do not recognize at all asks to friend you, what is the socially acceptable way to say "I haven't the foggiest who you are"?

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*If you ever want to know what a web site is made of, use it with a two-year-old browser. Whoo-eee. It's like a cardiac stress test for web code. The patient might look and feel just fine most of the time, but this will highlight every clogged artery.

Comments

[tshuma]

1) you have to go to their profile page and write on their wall to respond, the one part of that interface that seems clunky to me.
2) ignoring stuff is not rude. it is a mandatory thing in order to survive. (Even better, when you get these invitations to gt stuff in your notifications, there is a small text link to "Block this application" rather than just ignore it. It does nothing to your friends, but you no longer can be sent such thing from that application. I love that feature.)
3) You can send a note back to them saying "I'm sorry, I don't think I know you." or you can ignore the invite. Either works. You will get a lot of false friend invites from people. I've only sent one and had it returned with a note asking about it, and although the gentleman is someone I know well enough to feel comfortable having let drive my vehicle and have been kayaking with, he either genuinely doesn't remember me or that or has some other reason to have decided I didn't meet his standards for Facebook friends. I don't sweat it. But I have gotten a lot of random people inviting me, including folks I'm sure I've never even met.

[plymouth.livejournal.com]

1) you have to go to their profile page and write on their wall to respond, the one part of that interface that seems clunky to me.

Actually, if you're looking at your own wall there should be a "reply" link under their wall message.