Top Ten Reasons I Block Everyone From Posting On My Facebook Wall
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10. Posting REALLY old internet jokes
Yes I know about Rick Rolling and no you are not funny. You are several years behind in fact. Get with the times.
9. Bored People With Nothing To Say
Oh these types are the worst. They have nothing to say but yet they keep typing. Why? Because they don’t want to admit that their lives about about as pleasant as a chainsaw enema. It’s like taking some bimbo home who wants to talk afterwards, but blabber on and on about crap you couldn’t even pretend to care about. Please save me the trouble and just go play Farmville with the other idiots. You can’t handle a real conversation anyways.
8. Posting Things I Hate Because You Think It Is Funny
This is the same as posting a Rick Roll and thinking you are cutting edge. If one of my friends does this funny thing a day, is it still funny? No. You didn’t “Get me real good that time.” I’m just irritated at your lack of imagination. When I had my wall open I would get people pulling that same prank everyday. Sometimes several times a day. Somehow each one of them thought they were funny and original. They weren’t.
7. Invites To Farmville
So I ignore your invite my email, but you think I will fall in love with that waste of braincells game if you post it on my wall? I’m not on Facebook for brainless games. I’m on Facebook for conversation. When I want to unplug I will go in the bedroom and watch tv.
6. What About My Friends Who Just Want To Catch Up?
Sometimes I want to catch up with an old friend. So I go to their wall to read up on what is happening in their lives. What I end up reading is endless lists of crap from other people. When you go to my wall you will only see what I am up to. Makes it easier for everyone.
5. Posting Videos Of Bands I Hate
No I really don’t care about the latest whiny little bitch emo band. I also don’t care about the latest flat monotone metalcore band. If the band didn’t come out between 1985 – 1995 I think they suck. I’m old and cranky. Deal with it. You are blocked for trying to make my wall look like I’m some trendy loser who still lives in his mothers basement. Get a real job!
4. People who post a reply to a thread by starting another thread on my freaking wall.
You really think you are THAT special? Why can’t you post the reply within the thread of the conversation along with everyone else? You give arrogant Bastard a bad name. I’d rather drink the beer.
3. Things that are better put in the Facebook email system
If you want to ask me a question send me an email. No one else needs to read about your computer problems (or whatever other lame thing you are asking about).
2. Spammers
Ok, this isn’t too common as Facebook has a pretty easy way to block unwanted people, but with what I do online I can only be so picky. A spammer does get in from time to time and I don’t want gay pron sitting on my wall for 8 – 16 hours before I notice it.
1. No Reason For It Really
Ok, now I run three fan pages for three different websites. I totally understand why someone would want to posting something on those walls. It would be stupid to block fans from posting on the wall of a band. If I do an interview with a band that band should want me to post a link on their fan page. Their fans probably want to see that. But a personal wall? No reason. When I posting something, reply within THAT thread. Don’t start a new one. If you want me to check something out, use the email system. If I like it I will hit that share button. There is no reason for you to post on my wall. There is no reason for anyone to post on anyone’s personal wall. There are better alternatives. Use them.
My Life Sucks Too Much For Foursquare
So Foursquare keeps growing and growing eh? Fine, but I don’t think it can ever be as big as Twitter or Facebook. The reason is that most of us are boring. I include myself in this category. I used go from home to work and then a few hours latter I go from work to home. Well, I’m not going to announce where I live so the only thing I would ever post is my workplace. Sure there is a rare time that I go out to a restaurant with my wife. A few times a year we go to the movies. About 5 times a years I go to a concert. Other than that I might go to a friends house, but I’m not going to post that. Ok, I also go to the store. So let’s say 20 times a year I go to a restaurant, 5 times a year I go to the movies, and 5 times a year I go to a concert. That’s not exciting at all! Is that worth posting?
Most Peoples Lives Suck Too Much For Foursquare
With 30 postable locations a year other than my workplace, this is less exciting than if I posted what I’m eating for dinner every night. Sure I post a photo of a really awesome meal every once in awhile, but for the most part I make fun of people that post boring crap like that. Sure people in Silicon Valley go to all kinds of exciting places all the time. Of course people with a really good job can go out to all kinds of interesting places every weekend, but most of America is poor as hell!
Foursquare Will Be Friendster In A Year
Can Forsquare really survive on people posting updates of work, Wal-Mart, home, work, Wal-Mart, home? That is most of America with very little diversity. The amount of people that can afford to go beyond that are a small percentage of the country. According to most internet ranking sites Foursquare ranks inside the top 1,000 websites on the internet. I think this is about as far as it is going to get. Yes, it will get a little higher for a short blip of time. They will make some deals to get those home, work, Wal-mart, home level users. But those users will get bored of the site really quick since they don’t have the exciting updates that the top users post. It will only remind them that their life sucks and is boring. People don’t like that and they will stop posting updates. Once this final spike of the site is done even the cool kids will leave and the site will be the latest Friendster.
Mark my words… At this time next year Foursquare will be looked back on as a failure.
Are You Training People To Reject Your Invite?
I follow a ton of people from all over the world on most social networks. So I get invites to things all over the world. The problem is that I loose money on my music industry related activities already. So there is no way I am taking a private jet to your local club show. I know, what’s the harm when all I have to do is take a few seconds to click ignore on the event that was mass blasted to everyone on that persons list? Well, it’s kind of like when the “Are you sure you want to delete that” pop ups that our computers give us before hitting delete. Does anyone even pay any attention to them at all? I am so used to hitting that ok button that even if a part of my brain is questioning the deletion, my hand has already deleted the item before I can even save it. The same thing happens with your events. When I see that question of “Will you attend this event”, I hit no before I even stop to check the location. I click that no button before I even look to see what that event is.
Why Did You Promote The Event On Facebook?
Because everyone just blasts everything to everyone, everyone is jaded to the event invites. So no one really pays any attention to them at all. Sure your best friend will click yes. Your girlfriend will click yes. Your bandmates will mostly click yes (sorry but your drummer is dumber than a rock and doesn’t get it), but will this improve attendance? Not one bit. You will be lucky to get one person to attend that would not have attended otherwise. Wasn’t that the point? To get more people to show up than who would have otherwise? Then stop blasting it to everyone because you are training people to reject your events without even thinking about it. It is a knee jerk reaction because of the constant blasts we all get from every band from all over the world.
Have You Ever Even Mentioned The State Or City?
Most band’s don’t even mention the state or city. So I have rejected events and found out later it was a local show at a club I had never heard of before. At least list the state and city or your event post failed right out of the gate.
It’s Not All Bad News
So is this nothing but bad news? No. You can stop it. We all need to do our part to stop people from blasting everyone for an event that only 10% of their followers are even capable of attending. Most of the social networks have a way of selecting only the people from your area. Can we start a campaign to not just click no, but to say why in the comments. When an online friend invites you to an event in another state or country, link to this article. Or you can just type “Stop inviting people from out of state, it hurts us non-spamming bands jerkface!” Ok, make up your own line if you want. I just think it would be funny if EVERYONE started using that one. If they don’t list the city and state post that you have no idea what part of the world the event is at and that is why you will not attend. It will take more of an effort than most will be able to muster, but if enough of us do this we can change the pattern and maybe a few habits. Or maybe this is just a way for your band to rise above the rest?
For most of the time I have been on Facebook, I have been bothered by some of the posting behavior of my fellow users. Recently it has started bothering me less and less. Why, because I have started to accept that everyone looks to Facebook for different reasons. These reasons are starting to intrigue me.
The Reasons I post
When I ost something it is to share some form of information that I think others may have a want or need for. This could be a music video, article, or perception of thinking. However, I try my best to not share things that others have seen a million times before. No matter how much I love a song, why post a video most have seen already? Wouldn’t it be better to post something new? I have always heard that social networking is all about content. The better the content the more people will not only follow you, but also pay attention. If I post some Nickelback video, to me it is a bigger mistake that people have seen it before than the mistake of posting something so many so passionately hate. I find no issue with posting a video people despise. I do however have a major problem with people posting a video that people have seen a million times before.
Sorry I was offended by your offensive behavior
There was once a person I followed on Facebook that would post the same mainstream videos everyday. There was about ten of them. I have wondered if it was some posting bot on a loop because there was never much variation to it. I majorly offended the person when I asked if that was the case. I was honestly just trying to find out why one would post the same thing over and over again everyday. It made no sense to me.
Who Pays For My Therapy?
Here I was thinking that it was silly to post something most have seen and this person goes and posts the same thing over and over again everyday. How many people on her list of friends had not seen that video by the tenth time she posted it? I am willing to bet that most of them had seen it before she posted it once. It was pretty mainstream. It would be like teaching a child that humans never eat hot dogs ever and to eat one would be wrong. Then that child goes to a hot dog eating contest where someone eats packages after packages of lips and bung holes. That child might need some therapy. This wasn’t just someone breaking the rules that I held sacred. That I could deal with. This was pissing on the bible in front of the Pope and and setting the book on fire!
I’m better now, really
Now I see people posting mundane things all the time and it still makes me twitch a little. I still see people trying to pull off Rickrolling like it’s a new thing! But now I see that even though Facebook and Twitter are for posting content of some sort that most have not seen, for others that is not the case. For that person that posted that Nickleback video everyday, Facebook might be the place where you are letting others know what you are listening to. So you can post a video because you think others should see it, or just because you want others to know what you are currently listening to. So before you go off on someone for breaking some sacred rule of conduct in social networking, know that for some it’s not about the actual networking. Hell, sometimes they just want to unplug their brains and play Farmville…(*shudder*).
So this question was posed on Facebook recently by the ever so awesome folks at Social Blade. What I liked about the question was that it was so vague. It made a horrid question for Facebook, because it made such an awesome question to answer in blog form.
Full credit for the inspiration of this post goes to Erin of Social Blade though.
So let’s dive into this question first by asking the questions that it ignores. Most importantly is what part of Social Networking are we talking about? Social Networking is a pretty massive thing. It’s like saying that computers are evil. Sure there is a ton of evil connected to computers, but there is a ton of good too. There are tons of elements within social networking that I feel should never be paid for, but there are other services within that that should totally be paid for. It’s all a question of what you consider to be part of social networking.
The Sites Themselves
So sites like Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Digg, Mixx, Reddit, etc should never be paid for. If they can’t figure out how to make a profit from the tons of eyeballs they need to just shut their proverbial doors. They can charge for advertising of all different types. They can charge for not showing any ads, they can charge for features on a profile that do not directly affect the voting algorithm, they can charge for access to some of the analytics (if they are careful), they can charge for access to their API, sites like Twitter and Facebook can charge for extra features on business related pages, they can charge for conferences, they can charge for merch, and I could go on forever. The truth is that there are endless ways they can make money without charging for the basic services. For the most part they need to stay free or their integrity will be questioned.
API run services
I have always thought that websites should be charged for access to another websites API. Then services that run off of the API can be more dependable as well as more powerful. This would also make it more understandable for the API dependent services to charge their users. If an API does something that saves me some time and makes my business more efficient, I have zero problem with some $5 a month charge. $5 a month times a few thousand users adds up pretty fast. Make that a few million users and that service can make insane amounts of money.
Pro Run Social Media Accounts
As a person who gets paid to run some of the social networking accounts of my clients, I must insist that I get paid for the work I do. Would I pay for someone to run my accounts? At this point I think it might make people question my integrity. However, if you had an a-list band, ran a shoe store, had a HVAC company, or had a major motion picture opening soon, you would be stupid to not hire someone to handle that for you. You have more important things to do. Plus, someone like me will be able to do it better than you since you have so little experience in this. Since I sit around all day and do nothing but this, I am going to be able to do it better and more efficiently. Most of us can cut meat up, but hire a butcher and they will show you how a pro does it.
In closing
So there are elements of social networking that you should NEVER pay for, but there are things you SHOULD pay for as well. You have to use a little common sense to pick which is which. If you have questions, ask an expert. That is what they are there for. No, really… ASK ME!
Yeah, I know this blog has turned into nothing more than me ranting endlessly about things that normal people barely even notice. Well, I’m not normal. In fact normal bugs the living hell out of me! So this is my blog and I will rant to my 3 readers if I want to!
So today’s rant is about protesting. This world is so full of protesting failure. The reason is that there is no passion in it anymore. People protest because they are bored and have nothing else to do. It reminds me of that song “It’s Saturday” by King Missile.
A picket sign has lost all meaning:
So the right wing wackos picket abortion clinics and the left wing hippies picket against the war. Has either noticed that none of them have ever been won over by the others picket signs? Correct me if I am wrong, but a right wing wacko has never looked at an anti-war sign held by some dirty hippie and suddenly changed their mind, right? Anyone ever know of a situation where a bleeding heart liberal has seen a group protesting an abortion clinic and changed their entire political position the second they saw the anti-abortion sign? Nope. Didn’t think so. The truth is that the picket sign has lost all meaning, but yet bored people who have nothing better to do with their time continue to waste their time doing so. In fact, many people would say that this behavior only solidifies a persons hatred for the opposition. So your picket signs only make it less likely that a person will see your side of things. Good job loser!
Are you racist xenophobes or not?
However, this is better than the Facebook protests. These are people who only care enough about something to click a button with their mouse. They only care enough about a cause to devote one second. Wow, that’s passion! The thing is that you can go into that persons profile and find contradictory like pages. On one hand they “like” the page for “If I live in America I shouldn’t have to push one to speak English”, but then also “like” a page saying Arizona should be ashamed of themselves. Come on people, make up your mind! Are you racist xenophobes or not!
Look In The Mirror Idiot!
So why should I care? Well, it is dumbing down the act of protesting. People don’t even know what protesting is anymore. All they know how to do is bitch, moan, and complain. Union halls have less people show up to contract negotiation meetings because “the union never does anything for them”. The problem is that these people don’t realize that they are the union that isn’t doing anything for them. It’s like me complaining that I’m fat while I stuff big hunks of fudge down my gullet. No really, could someone explain to me why I’m fat? Oh, and please hand me another cheeseburger.
Boycott BP Protests!
The true inspiration for this blog post though is all the lip service people are giving to the most apathetic and not at all thought out protesting of British Petroleum. Understand, I do think that they are parasitical bastards that need to be hung up by their testicles in the town square. My problem is that your protests are giving them way too much entertainment. The truth is that no matter how much we scream and yell, nothing will be done. Even my right wing friends will find this video to be one great piece from MSNBC…
Go Electric Or Shut The Hell Up!
They know that you will still get in your car. This means that you will still burn fossil fuels. This means that you will still buy their products. B.P. products do not always go under the B.P. name. So even if you avoid B.P. when their gas is 50% of the price of other gas stations, you will still buy B.P. products. Oh, I know some of you have lists of every company you can find with a connection to B.P., but how many people do you think will keep to that list for a few years? I promise you that it will not be enough to make even the slightest dent in the collection of $100 bills the heads of B.P. use to wipe their asses with. You are trying to motivate people to keep to this list when they have been trained to protest by doing nothing more than clicking a like button on Facebook while watching America’s Idol (sic) and stuffing themselves with food from Wal-Mart.
Protesting is dead. It was killed by America’s passion for apathy and sloth.
Do you ever get the feeling that people on Facebook will join anything they can click with a mouse? Ever get the feeling that these are not the things people actually care about, but just pathetically bored people who just want an excuse to click things with their mouse? Ever seen that online joke where the website shows a great big shiny red button. Above that is text that says something like “Want to know how to keep an idiot busy for hours? Click this button to find out!” When you click the button it just changes the font or something. Facebook is turning into a more involved version of that same joke. It used to be about networking, but not so much anymore.
I Blame Facebook
Facebook had a great idea to allow business, bands, and whoever else to start fan pages. Then people started using that as a way to share a funny line of text. “Click here if you want someone to pull your finger.” Or even the ones that take advantage of your moral outrage. “Click here if you think America has lost it’s way.” I have even seen one that pulls at your heart strings with “Click like if you love your daughter”. Of course some may say that last one has more to do with dealing with the guilt of spending more time clicking stupid like buttons than spending time with your children, but I will save that debate for another time. It got to the point that Facebook caved. Instead of doing something to separate being an actual fan of something or agreeing with an idea, they just switched the fan with a like. The problem is that this dumbed things down instead of raising things to new levels.
Stupid Pages For Stupid People?
The original idea was to find people with like minds that you may want to network with. Do you really want to network with other people who “Don’t like to be lied to?” What kind of important business is there to talk about on the fan (now like) page for “Can I have a coke? Is Pepsi alright?” or “Uh, Is monopoly money alright?” Not much I’m willing to bet. But what about if you want to “fan” the unsigned band Mongrel? Well now you can only “like” them. I think that is pretty lame.
There’s A Shiny Red Button!?
The reality is that Facebook users have shown that they love to push the shiny red button. Pushing that shiny red button will keep the idiots busy for hours. That is fine. The problem is that Facebook doesn’t differentiate. This might increase the levels of brainless fun, but it decreases the levels of powerful networking. Go through the things you once clicked that you were a fan of. Take a look at the walls of every page you have “liked”. How many others are part of that group? How dead is the wall? People only cared enough to click a mouse. They didn’t care enough to discuss the topic at hand with other people who think that way.
Don’t Be A Joiner
As much as it kills me to say it, this is not the fault of the “joiners”. Most Facebook users are nothing more than brainless joiners. Even otherwise smart people turn into brainless joiners when they log into the site. Facebook needs to do something quick to not just cater to that, but to cater to the service as a networking tool as well. Their mistake was trading one for the other. Instead of just switching everything to “like”, they should have given people a choice to keep the “Fan” button. The like pages should have no wall and very little features. Those people have shown they have no interest in anything other than the initial click of that mouse. The networkers (which are many times the same people) have shown they DO want to network. So give them those tools. The important thing though is for Facebook to differentiate the two.
Everyone Is An Idiot, Even Me
So in closing, most people are highly suggestible morons. Idiots are the majority. If Facebook doesn’t want to be the next MySpace (or worse the next Friendster) they need to work hard to fix this. Otherwise the idiots will get bored and move on to the next big shiny red button. Think you can avoid just sitting here clicking a big shiny red button? I don’t. In fact, if you CLICK HERE you can take a test to see how well you can avoid clicking the big shiny red button.
This could also be titled, “What Have You Done For Me Lately?” I follow a ton of people on social networks. So many that there is always someone asking me to go vote for their photo in a photo contest, their baby in a baby contest, and of course their band in a battle of the bands contest. Why should I care about the thing you care about?
Understand what you are asking me to do. Most of the time I have to register to some site I don’t care about, give them my personal info (so they can sell it to some spammer), and then vote for this thing I couldn’t give two shits about.
Now it may seem like I’m saying this just to be an asshole, but I do have a point. Keep in mind that people will feel like they have to go vote for that “cute” baby picture if you have voted on their stuff. Have you been active on their site? Have you shared a link of theirs? If so they will probably be active on the stuff you want them to be active on. That is what social media is all about. So go post a comment on their blog. Spread a link to someone else’s site on your Twitter and Facebook. Scream it loud and proud. Make sure to make a big enough deal about them that they want to return the favor.
Oh, and if you want me to feel the need to help promote your stuff just be active on HeavyAsHell.com. That is what I’m passionate about. If someone was to start submitting links there and spreading the HAH link around to get votes, I would have no choice but to do everything in my power to help them with what they needed help promoting. I say this only to make a point. In social media, cheerleading begets cheerleading. If you work your ass off to promote others, they will work their ass off to promote you.
In closing, if I didn’t vote for that thing you wanted me to vote on there might have been a reason. If I go out of my way to help someone and they do not return the favor, I don’t do shit for them until they do. Most won’t admit it, but they are the same way. So don’t forget the social part of social networking. I don’t give a shit about your thing, but I’ll pretend to if you pretend to care about my stuff. Deal?
So white trash rednecks used to drink Budweiser beer. But what do they drink now that Budweiser is no longer an American Beer? In 2008 Anheuser-Busch sold the majority of their stock to Belgian-Brazilian beer giant InBev. So inbred rednecks have had a few years to decide what to get drunk with. I know they hate microbrews, but at least microbrews are made in America. Want an American made beer? Then a microbrew is pretty much your only choice now. Sure they could sober up but we all know there is no way that will happen. So what do they drink? Do they continue to drink Budweiser and lie to themselves that it is an American beer? Is it a “Don’t confuse me with the facts” kind of thing? It’s like Christian Republicans calling Liberals “bleeding hearts” without a clue as to how that comes across. Wait, aren’t Christians supposed to be the compassionate ones? So why are “Those hippie liberals” called “bleeding hearts” then? These things keep me up at night. How can these people not see how RETARDED these things make them look? Yes, I could mention that whole Sarah Palin thing, but why bother?
The real point of this blog post is actually about the state of political debates and jokes in today’s era. Other than say Jon Stewart, most people are using recycled jokes that make no real point at all. I have a friend on Facebook that does this all the time. There was this joke told where a liberal friend told this joke…
The Pope and Glenn Beck are on the same stage in front of a huge crowd. The Pope leans towards Mr. Beck and said, “Do you know that with one little wave of my hand I can make every person in this crowd go wild with joy ? This joy will not be a momentary display, like that of your followers, but go deep into their… hearts and they’ll forever speak of this day and rejoice!” Glenn replied, “I seriously doubt that. With one little wave of your hand? Show me.” So the Pope slapped him.
Now if you hate Glenn Beck that joke might be funny, but it is a perfect example of what is wrong with political humor now. There is no facts. It’s all spin. This exact same joke was told by a conservative friend only days later.
The Pope and Nancy Pelosi are on the same stage in front of a huge crowd. The Pope leans towards Mrs. Pelosi and said, “Do you know that with one little wave of my hand I can make every person in this crowd go wild with joy ? This joy will not be a momentary display, like that of your followers, but go deep into their… hearts and they’ll forever speak of this day and rejoice!” Pelosi replied, “I seriously doubt that. With one little wave of your hand? Show me.” So the Pope slapped her.
Piss on 'em!
Piss on 'em!
Ok, so we hate them and they hate us and no one should ever listen to the other side? Do I get it now? This is the mentality of America when it comes to politics. Because of this no debate can happen. This is why we will never have
At one point he asked a child what they wanted to be when they grew up. The child said they wanted to be president. Then he asked the child what the first thing they would do if they were president. The child said they would feed the homeless and provide them with homes. So he said that he would pay the child to pull weeds all day and do other hard labor yard work so they could then give the money to a local homeless guy. The child asked why the homeless man couldn’t get a job himself. He then told this child “Welcome to the Republican party”. Now not only is that a massive twist of what the two political parties are about, but that kind of entrapment wouldn’t even be allowed in a court of law! Her lawyer would be objecting left and right! And for good reason too. It’s a twisting of facts. Do all liberals think an entire pay check should be given up to charity? Of course not and I would bet money my friend knows this. He just thought it would be cute or funny to mess with this child’s head. Of course that child is easier to debate with. It’s easy to corner them like he did.
I have a feeling that this type of twisting of facts comes from watching too much Fox News. They are the kings of twisting facts to fit their marketing agenda. Of course MSNBC is close behind for the liberal side. News is becoming less about facts and journalism and more about placating to one side or the other. Now I don’t know if this watering down of journalism came first or if America’s “Don’t confuse me with the facts” mentality came first. Either way it seems to have started around the time when Bush was trying to sell us the Iraq war. It was sold to us that if you were against the war in Iraq that you were against the troops. Ignore the fact that many of the solders over there were against the war as well, but had to follow orders despite their personal beliefs. They sold us the idea that to be a patriot meant to never question our leaders. Ignore the fact that this country was founded on the idea of the people questioning their leaders. This “Don’t confuse me with the facts” mentality has even gone so far as questioning our presidents citizenship, birthplace, and legal right to even be president! Now as I’ve said, I encourage the questioning of our leaders. It’s the patriotic thing to do. However, when those questions have been answered it’s time to move on to the next question. I gave someone a link to a Snopes article on this and they questioned Snopes! They might as well have said “Don’t confuse me with the facts!”
My real worry is that we are getting to the point where we can’t even recognize the facts when they are presented. Opinion and fact are blurring together. After I finish thinking about this, I ask myself What do I drink now?”
Many already know my problems with all apps and games on Facebook. I not only STRONGLY discouraged them, but have pretty much kept a zero tolerance to them for my own account. Although I have not kept a zero tolerance to fan pages and groups, I am still pretty strict. Some may wonder why I wouldn’t join a group of fan a page of something that I totally agree with. Well, the reason is simple. My time is short and I find that the best causes have the most pathetic fan pages.
People see a group that stands for something they believe in and they just click a button and join right up. It is so easy that they put almost no thought into it. Why is that a bad thing? Well, they put so little thought into joining that joining is all they ever do. There are fan pages with thousands of members and a dead wall! I joined Facebook to network and communicate. There won’t be much communication on a fan page with a dead wall. It does better for the cause for me to just post an update stating my belief. Why is it better to NOT join the group or fan page? Well, think about that dead wall. If a cause has a dead wall it makes the cause look weak. It shows that the people that believe in that cause are lazy and will not do much more than click a link to join a Facebook group. It let’s the enemy know that the group in no threat. Where as if you just post an update stating your thoughts on the case, it just opens up communication. No dead wall to let the enemy know it is a dead cause to be dismissed.
So just because I don’t join your fan page for “Pull up your pants you look like a douche”, doesn’t mean I’m going to start walking around with my pants below my waist looking like a homeless bum. It just means I would rather not remind the enemy that people against the homeless bum look are apathetic. So no matter how serious or comical your group or fan page is, do not bother to send me an invite. I believe enough in the cause to NOT join!
