Social Networking GaffesFreddy Woo writes, "My school bully just friended me on Facebook!" No doubt he pokes him, and then demands his lunch money.
Personally, last month a scantily clad young woman confused me with her fiance, with whom I share a first and last name. I'm still not sure she's noticed, but she's going to be mortified when she does.
What's the biggest mistake you've made using a social networking site?
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chthonic, Thu 11 Sep 2008, 14:06)
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Nothing of any real importanceAs primarily I'm not a fan of social networking. I like the other kind.
Online I've been with B3ta for a few years now (I think this is one of the sites I've been lurking about on the longest), occasionally I'll go to slashdot for a bit of discussion or late at night when I'm drunk I'll act like a dick on 4chan.
I try to keep information about my identity fairly limited though, and I don't think you'd be able to trace my lurkings on other sites that much. I tend to keep my online identities separate and fairly isolated from IRL.
This is why I don't 'get' social networking. Somehow these sites are trying to build up a picture of who you are, who you know, your likes and dislikes - even from a marketing point of view this is scary stuff. And who the heck knows exactly how far this will be used?
While I had a facebook account for a year or so (it was only to exchange e-mail contact details with someone) I wasn't prepared to put anything ore than a vague indicator of who I was forward and the account therefore stayed in the background without any further action. I closed it a couple of weeks ago though.
Anyway - back to the topic. It's not quite a gaffe, but it's about all you'll get from me.
Last year I was made up as Underworld were due to play in the UK. I'd acquired tickets and a few of my mates had made plans to go and see them live.
A couple of days beforehand one of my co-workers approached me in the corridor.
"Are you going there Friday?"
Wait, what? I'd not said anything to my colleagues as they wouldn't know who Underworld are. I was also fairly certain that I'd not spoken to this lass in ages.
"Oh yeah - getting the train up at six, going to be a grand night"
She looked puzzled.
To cut to the chase, some of my former school colleagues had decided to have a school reunion - maybe 20 years after they'd left - and had been discussing it on one of been discussing it on Friends Reunited.
I thought carefully about it, and decided that a night of reaching for the lazors in the company of Karl Hyde and Rick Smith was far more preferable to drinking John Smiths shitbeer in the company of people I'm happy to never speak to again.
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