Check it out here:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/20/annoying.facebook.updaters/index.html#cnnSTCText
Sadly, I have a classic abuser known as the "Sympathy-Baitor" on my friends list. I bring this to the attention of the Doing Work Staff to ask if I am simply overreacting and just ignore this guy on my newsfeeds, or unfriend him altogether. I am well aware that there's an option to ignore his wall posts but if he baits another friend into responding I still see the damn post.
Here are his wall posts from the last month and a half, you tell me.
Edward Campos tengo un defecto soy un feo
Edward Campos ''Some people want things to happen, some people make things happen.''
Edward Campos Being patient sucks!!!
Edward Campos Losers make excuses, winners make it happen.
Edward Campos fuck!!! got screwed over again...nice guy got screwed!
RECENT ACTIVITY
Edward Campos Greata!!! my headlight went out! just my effin luck!
Edward Campos is about to have a nervous break down from all of this bullshit! please shoot me!
Edward Campos Amor, amor, amor, AMOR quiero que me vuelvan a mirar tus ojos! amor, amor quiero vuevlar a besar tus labios rojos! como te voy a olividar!
Edward Campos Having a rough week... people that im beginning to really care about or i think thats what it is...think differently!
Edward Campos is about to have a nervous break down from all of this bullshit! please shoot me!
Edward Campos Amor, amor, amor, AMOR quiero que me vuelvan a mirar tus ojos! amor, amor quiero vuevlar a besar tus labios rojos! como te voy a olividar!
BDW, wow so much content to react to, I'm unsure where to begin. I'm like a PacMan Jones at a strip club, I'll just start throwing it oot there and hope for the best.
ReplyDeleteFirst, on football preview, my USC one is close, probably late today or tomorrow. It will definitely be before 12:41 PDT kickoff on Saturday to avoid stating the obvious once action commences. (another common facebook annoyance. "wow, these fires are really making it smokey here", "it's so hot today, trying to cool off", "stuck in traffic, yuck!" this last one is damn scary. Wait, wait wait, you actually think it's a good idea between stop and go's on the 405 to take a timeoot and post this? I understand a text to a friend, "running late for dinner, traffic". But thanks for broadcasting such a helpful observation. Now I know not to take a major freeway during rush hour in Los Angeles.)
But I digress. I realize I've been teasing you with this for the better part of the summer and that's my bad. I try to live my life by under-promising and over-delivering but I encountered some unanticipated yet very welcomed events that have occupied a lot of time, namely looking for a new apartment that I'm damn excited for. So I do apologize for being like that one old school preacher who says, "In closing..." and the patrons perk up knowing if he's not teasing, they might catch the second half of the afternoon's games only to have him get inspired again. 45 minutes later, sorry no 4th quarter comeback for poor Danny Pocket.
Second, the BDW Staffers' wit is matched only by our quick triggers. Let's exercise our God-given digital age gifts accordingly. hahaha, I could not stop laughing at your examples dude. Yes, Destroyers of Sympathy Baitors. (DSB if you will.) Allow me to expand the list of low self-esteemed melancholic SB's to include a special category of SB's: the new mom. We all have them as friends. Mid to late 20's, either family or friend or acquitance. Yes, we do think your kids are cute, but fuck, do you have to bitch about doing everything that's required with being a respectable mom?! Plus, it's amplified because you have unlimited amount of time at home with no adults to converse with except your facebook friends. Look, I'm very happy you are devouting your life to raising a family. I really am, there's a balance to this that makes for a stable family; but "the baby is sick again, got no sleep :-( ", "I'm dead tired chasing these kids around who will not sit still!" Nice. Well, how do you think dad feels? The poor bastard got less sleep than you did, has to work the early shift, and has to eat a cold, soggy PB&J san'mich cause mom was too busy updating her status to pack a decent lunch!
So to directly answer your post title quesion, neither ignore him or defriend him, but slap some sense into him. As Eric Theodore Cartman says, "and stop your bitchin'!!!
Damn Ben, way to bring the blog back with a muthafuckin bang. That post was awesome. To answer your question, I think it's a case by case basis. Now, as far as that cry baby goes, I'd normally say just unfriend the piece of shit and spare yourself the constant misery, however, now that we've introduced the destruction of sympathy baiters, I say you have some fun with the guy first. Rain on his parade a couple more times, seeing as he'll always provide you with the ammo. I do have a question though, what aboot the TMI people, they aren't necessarily baiting for sympathy, they just feel obligated to always tell you how in love they are with their kids, how amazing their life is etc. are these people on the hit list too? If so, what's our approach?
ReplyDeleteI know EXACTLY who you are talking about. We do need to attack these people as well. I recommend we attack these "life is good" tmi-ers with the old debbie-downer routine.
ReplyDeleteThey post: "My husband just bought me flowers and made me dinner for no occasion. I LOVE my life"
and we respond to that comment with a "so sad" followed by a link to a news story about some tragic life ending shit.
haha, sho. btw, I thought you had that Freudian slip earlier on purpose (eSCactly). 'SC baby. we comin'! might have to scheck oot practice one more time today before my preview.
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