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“You talk too much.”

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My friend Tex, a regular at Dragon’s Keep, is on Facebook. We friended each other, and then about a week later I got a Facebook message from him de-friending me.

“Sorry, man. You tweet so often I can never see anybody else’s updates because they’ve scrolled off the bottom.”

This, believe it or not, is the very first time anybody has told me they can’t be my friend because I talk too much.

So I explained to Tex that he can hide my updates by checking a little box. This way he can tune me out and still be my friend.

(Note: I suspect that this is what all my friends do in real-life.)

44 thoughts on ““You talk too much.””

  1. See, this is why I don’t understand the use of Twitter to anyone who actually has something substantive to say, as you do.

    1. I recently joined twitter, and as a friend of mine has said, it works very well for what it was intended for; telling your buddies what bar is hopping tonight.

      Other than that, in 140 chars about all it’s good for is pointing your friends to websites or photos. It is good for that. But it doesn’t really do anything that LJ doesn’t do, and the 140 char limit means it’s pretty useless for saying anything useful on its own.

      Heck, I can’t even say “hello” in 140 chars. I mainly joined Twitter so that I could set my location to Tehran and throw some sand in the gears of the Iranian security forces that were trying to shut down political twittering.

      2. Love it. Anything to fill up the works with hqiz is a Good Idea.

        >Heck, I can’t even say “hello” in 140 chars Speak Old Entish, do we?

      3. I’ve managed to get some substantive posts in 140 characters. It’s like a (badly needed) writing exercise for me – to cut out the excess verbiage, and say it as simply and quickly as possible.

        Of course, I only have like 7 followers on Twitter. It’s not really a venue for soliloquies.

        1. Never thought it would. Like most things we do as political protest, they don’t really make any difference, they just make us feel good.

          There’s some possibility that if a few hundred thousand of us did this, it could cause them enough inconvenience that they give up and find some other way to harass people.

  2. See, this is why I don’t understand the use of Twitter to anyone who actually has something substantive to say, as you do.

    1. I recently joined twitter, and as a friend of mine has said, it works very well for what it was intended for; telling your buddies what bar is hopping tonight.

      Other than that, in 140 chars about all it’s good for is pointing your friends to websites or photos. It is good for that. But it doesn’t really do anything that LJ doesn’t do, and the 140 char limit means it’s pretty useless for saying anything useful on its own.

      Heck, I can’t even say “hello” in 140 chars. I mainly joined Twitter so that I could set my location to Tehran and throw some sand in the gears of the Iranian security forces that were trying to shut down political twittering.

      2. Love it. Anything to fill up the works with hqiz is a Good Idea.

        >Heck, I can’t even say “hello” in 140 chars Speak Old Entish, do we?

      3. I’ve managed to get some substantive posts in 140 characters. It’s like a (badly needed) writing exercise for me – to cut out the excess verbiage, and say it as simply and quickly as possible.

        Of course, I only have like 7 followers on Twitter. It’s not really a venue for soliloquies.

        1. Never thought it would. Like most things we do as political protest, they don’t really make any difference, they just make us feel good.

          There’s some possibility that if a few hundred thousand of us did this, it could cause them enough inconvenience that they give up and find some other way to harass people.

  3. Psh. I had to unfollow a colleague over at twitter – 3 pages of nothing but her tweets? I mean, she’s a nice lady and all that, but hqiz! Enough is really enough. You don’t even come close…

  4. Psh. I had to unfollow a colleague over at twitter – 3 pages of nothing but her tweets? I mean, she’s a nice lady and all that, but hqiz! Enough is really enough. You don’t even come close…

  7. Does that mean that fb tells you when someone has defriended you?

    Oh shucks, I was hoping to do this discreetly… :/ (my acquiantance is… as bad as she was in high school, sigh, I should never have accepted).

      1. You can de-friend people on Facebook and they won’t know it? Oh, hallelujah. I hate Facebook. I wish my actual friends on it would move to LJ or even Twitter, so I could quit.

  8. Does that mean that fb tells you when someone has defriended you?

    Oh shucks, I was hoping to do this discreetly… :/ (my acquiantance is… as bad as she was in high school, sigh, I should never have accepted).

      1. You can de-friend people on Facebook and they won’t know it? Oh, hallelujah. I hate Facebook. I wish my actual friends on it would move to LJ or even Twitter, so I could quit.

    2. You’re his wife, hon. It’s expected that you’ve been filtering his verbiage for years. You’re just listening to those danger signs, like you do with the kids and those menacing silences, so that you can preemptively prevent too much in the way of doom.

      Just let him play with his dollies, and he’ll be fine.

      1. LOL yeah, that’s about how it works some days. I often have to ask my husband to repeat himself because I don’t have the brain capacity to hear him and the rest of the world at the same time.

    2. You’re his wife, hon. It’s expected that you’ve been filtering his verbiage for years. You’re just listening to those danger signs, like you do with the kids and those menacing silences, so that you can preemptively prevent too much in the way of doom.

      Just let him play with his dollies, and he’ll be fine.

      1. LOL yeah, that’s about how it works some days. I often have to ask my husband to repeat himself because I don’t have the brain capacity to hear him and the rest of the world at the same time.

  13. You may also want to let him know that you can create friend groups on Facebook. It’s a nifty feature that isn’t very noticeable with the new layout. When you log in, there are a bunch of links on the left like “Photos” and “News Feed”, and underneath that is a link that says “+Create” — that’s the magic button to start placing your friends and acquaintances into neat categories.

  14. You may also want to let him know that you can create friend groups on Facebook. It’s a nifty feature that isn’t very noticeable with the new layout. When you log in, there are a bunch of links on the left like “Photos” and “News Feed”, and underneath that is a link that says “+Create” — that’s the magic button to start placing your friends and acquaintances into neat categories.

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