http://www.andreadaly.com/2010/04/ill-be-your-best-facebook-friend-forever/ Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:03:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.andreadaly.com/2010/04/ill-be-your-best-facebook-friend-forever/comment-page-1/#comment-317 My friends children have disgusting table manners, we are hosting a party, how do I keep them out of the food? Sat, 17 Apr 2010 04:12:23 +0000 http://www.andreadaly.com/?p=516#comment-317 [...] The Accidental Businessmum » Blog Archive » I’ll be your best (Facebook) friend fo... [...] [...] The Accidental Businessmum » Blog Archive » I’ll be your best (Facebook) friend fo… [...]

]]> http://www.andreadaly.com/2010/04/ill-be-your-best-facebook-friend-forever/comment-page-1/#comment-316 Andrea Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:32:53 +0000 http://www.andreadaly.com/?p=516#comment-316 Congratulations on your marriage Helen! Maybe for the younger generation (Oh I sound so old!) Facebook will take the place of sympathy cards and they won't see anything weird in it at all?! Congratulations on your marriage Helen!
Maybe for the younger generation (Oh I sound so old!) Facebook will take the place of sympathy cards and they won’t see anything weird in it at all?!

]]> http://www.andreadaly.com/2010/04/ill-be-your-best-facebook-friend-forever/comment-page-1/#comment-315 Helen @Business Plus Baby Fri, 16 Apr 2010 21:21:30 +0000 http://www.andreadaly.com/?p=516#comment-315 A year or so ago, someone I worked with told me in passing that he occasionally tidied up his Facebook friends "because I've got people on there I'm never going to talk to again". A few months back, I was thinking it was odd that I hadn't seen a status update from X in a while, so I checked and, yep, he'd gone. I'd been 'unfriended'. Now I can't say this guy and I were exactly great mates, and he's right, we probably would never have spoken again. But I still felt really insulted! Social media is so new that people read many different things into the actions others take. One person's sensible way of communicating (e.g. death, divorce) could be wildly inappropriate to another. I think we need to tread carefully to avoid upsetting one another as we find our feet with this new way of communicating. And yes, I think using Facebook as an informal book of condolence is weird. Even though I used it to announce (to extended family, friends and work colleagues) that we'd got married the previous week! A year or so ago, someone I worked with told me in passing that he occasionally tidied up his Facebook friends “because I’ve got people on there I’m never going to talk to again”. A few months back, I was thinking it was odd that I hadn’t seen a status update from X in a while, so I checked and, yep, he’d gone. I’d been ‘unfriended’. Now I can’t say this guy and I were exactly great mates, and he’s right, we probably would never have spoken again. But I still felt really insulted!
Social media is so new that people read many different things into the actions others take. One person’s sensible way of communicating (e.g. death, divorce) could be wildly inappropriate to another. I think we need to tread carefully to avoid upsetting one another as we find our feet with this new way of communicating.
And yes, I think using Facebook as an informal book of condolence is weird. Even though I used it to announce (to extended family, friends and work colleagues) that we’d got married the previous week!

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