I don’t know about you, but for every 20 friends you make on Facebook, you probably come across one that is a total jerk.
Pardon the offensive lanuguage but there is no other way to describe these dirt-bags!
I have a theory about Facebook: if someone is being a jerk to you, they are probably even a bigger jerk in real life.
Yes sure, there is a lot of “fake” people on facebook too. But eventually their true personality shows in their comments and the way they respond to you.
Most of us use social media for all kinds of reasons. My own personal reason for using Facebook, Twitter or Youtube is for three reasons only:
To build relationships with people, establish trust and to deliver value. Period.
However, it seems some people just don’t get this. Some people use social media like facebook to spread their message of hate.
I don’t know why they do this. Maybe their mother did not give them enough care and attention as a child. Maybe they are compensating for having a very small “body part”. Or maybe they are just a bunch of losers.
Who knows?
According to the Economist most people become very miserable when using facebook. Tests have shown that some users experience “envy” when they see their friends happy and successful.
Truth is, I don’t care. There are NO excuses for being a jerk on social media.
If you get one of these jerks, don’t bother responding to them. Just press the “report” or “ban” button and be done with it.
Don’t plan taking revenge on these dirt-bags. As Confucius once said: “If you plan on taking revenge, dig two graves!”.
If you have any suggestions or comments of your own, I’d like to hear them. Leave your comments below:
Don’t plan taking revenge on these dirt-bags. As Confucius once said: “If you plan on taking revenge, dig two graves!”.
Good one I never heard this before. Roger
Thanks Roger – yes it is one of the principles I stick by.
I haven’t come across someone that was persistently annoying… yet.. 😐
Most people go into idiot mode when they are drunk..lol I don’t mind taking the rough with the smooth.. 🙂
Since the advent of the internet and especially social media as it’s given the bitter little person a soap box to stand on. I tend to keep my friends tight and block out the negative voices. I enjoy your comments and views on the market as it gives me rounded perspective on the markets.
Well I don’t think someone needs tests that prove that they’re jealous or envious, that’s pretty obvious for anyone who can use their head to judge things.
But what can you do about it, I mean whatever you say or do, you can’t make all the people to like you, some will like you, some will hate you.
I think it’s called frustration. Frustrated when you see someone that achieved something that you couldn’t do. And it’s easier to release that frustration on facebook rather than face2face.
It would be healthier for everybody to release it face2face, but with all these rules, regulations, people need to hide their own selves and put on different masks for different situations.
I don’t think they should be judged so much, cause maybe if they could, they wouldn’t be in that situation. I don’t think somebody wishes to become frustrated, they just get into that hole.
But people really don’t care about all this, they don’t care about the root of the behavior, it’s much easier to reject and judge and then mind your own business.
For each person that get’s into a situation like this try at least for once to talk to that person, to understand them, to make them feel better. At least you could say you helped one person and then mind your own business. That’s pretty selfish anyway, but with so many people claiming to be warm-hearted and polite or at least putting this mask of politeness, you don’t see any of them reaching towards someone who is lower than them.
People’s behaviour often displays their true feelings about themselves. Leave them in their darkness and they’ll seek light elsewhere eventually. It doesn’t have to affect you, however hard it is to detach…the truth is, it has absolutely nothing to do with you whatsoever. Just leave them to it and delete. Shampoo. Remove. Rinse. Repeat.
Had a business partner that tried to screw over us other two. After we booted him out and bought him out at cost, he sought revenge big time. He ended up getting his brother fired from a credit agency, the cops picked him up for making false reports about a stolen car, and got canned from his USAF job and then fired and sued by the next firm he worked for when they found out about his past. 20+ years later we still keep tabs on him. (Oh, and his wife divorced him and got the kids and house.)
I have this issue, and I might be guilty of being a douche.
Honestly, I’d rather people “brag” or tell stories about their travels, their parties than to start fights on social media.
I’m a little ticked that our valedictorian got us on this stupid site in the first place.
She herself is a nice person, but many in our graduating class isn’t and I don’t envy her for having to put up with the group, but she wanted the job.
Some ecstatic wannabes without a brain and class wanted to use my high school connection to push their pointless views on me. I digress, I hate that? Esp. when I witnessed a few things and they’re too big of an @$$hole to listen. I dropped a lot of people on FB because I didn’t want to fight with them.
Others, because they were acting like D-bags.
The other side of social media is that it leads to really disastrous channel of libel, defamation of character, etc.
Not by the government, but by malicious people we know in real life. Like with high school, somebody in a user’s current life don’t know how to perceive gossip from back in the day.
I’m being candid about this because people really need to understand the potential damage that FAcebook can cause others.
For example, one girl I went to high school with got A LOT of attention from the guys. The school (Fairborn High) already had a reputation for being trashy? THis one girl, very probably at the mercy of peer pressure compromised herself once? She hurt nobody, etc. She was actually a very nice TALENTED person with a lot of discipline? She’s QUALITY people who created a great family despite the junk that people thought about her some years ago.
In any other city, etc. what she did was “bad” but normal? BUt in this school, she was called out in really vulgar terms and nasty vitriol, including the bible thumpers at that school. Which makes me SICK. The bible thumpers did it so they can feel better than others, but they didn’t even CARE that the basis of the SLANDER was rooted out of RACISM. (yes he was a good looking guy who liked her?)
So one day at Powder Puff practice, one cheerleader from the popular clique started mouthing off about this girl.
Mind you, this school was known in the city area as a trashy one, and other girls had done worse.
So when this cheerleader started up with the vitriol, I asked her, “there are other girls who did A LOT worse. WHy are you making such a big deal about XXXXX?”
This cheerleader went on to say, “XXXXX gross because she’s ASIAN”.
Okay. From MY point of view. I had MOVED to this city in the 4th grade from Arizona, Japan, etc. where I was around CLEAN preppy SMART people of all races? “”
The people at this high school were oily, they couldn’t read… as a matter of fact, I do resent that I had to attend this high school which had a .03% minority rate in the graduating class of 500. ANd yes the Asian population unfortunately was .003%. We didn’t get affirmative action like the black kids there, we also suffered racism from the black people in that town. Ask my mother, she was harrassed badly in that town when she waited tables while my dad was completing his Bachelor’s der Your grades suffer when you’re distracted by this pointless drama.
I also know that people go along with what the popular girls are doing, but the popular girls care THE MOST about what others think of them. So this girl’s racism does accurately reflect the racism in this junky town.
The rumors spread about me were not that bad, but people were copying others when one baseless rumor was spread about me because…guess again? I’m Asian.
And people want to know WHY I don’t go to the reunions? The 3 years at that school was more than enough.
So from that day forward, if Facebook is really compromising privacy to fish for dirt on people- they’re guilty of racism. 🙂
People who never heard of Fairborn would not know how to interpret the information from there or how to put it into perspective.
Just think of how a Facebook user could be given the wrong impression of anyone because something was blown out of proportion?
I’m sorry. That’s just the way the cookie crumbled.
Social media is really a channel for political propoganda idiocy in the first place and yes I do mouth off to sock puppets. Myself I use the platform to stop these subsidized idiots from putting words in my mouth for anyone else who’d like to see it.
Facebook REALLY needs to improve the protection for it’s users. It’s not the marketing that we’re afraid of. It’s protection other people.
Like you said, D-bags.
I have a bad habit when dealing with jerks. I tend to psychologically profile these individuals and do a little intel on them and try to figure out what makes them tick. Then I covertly deal with them to make them tock.
Now, I just “unfriend” them as I don`t want to waste my precious time on these unworthy individuals. Social media may bring out the worst in people, but it has allowed me to connect with people of talent, as will as reconnect with old acquaintances, and enrich my world.
Jaja! I agree with you.