top social networking errors

social networking errors

Add old friends and then forget about them

This is the biggest social networking crime of them all. How many times has it happened? You haven’t seen someone for 20 years; you vaguely recognise their name but not their face. They add you as a friend and then after you accept them, you never hear from them again. If this was how you were going to treat them, why bother in the first place? 

 

Adding people you don't even know

If you’re a woman, and just maybe you have the kind of looks and bikini bod that could cut it on Miami’s South Beach, you’re probably used to the term ‘creep’... And meeting them online. Okay, maybe not everyone has a figure like that. Adding strangers is like that annoying chap at a party who slaps everyone on the back as if they were old pals, when in actual fact he has no friends, largely because of this habit.

Write on a wall instead of communicating privately

The driving force behind the success of the most successful social networking site out there is... vanity. People love the idea that others are watching what they’re doing. Tell me this: for what reason would you invite someone to a private party by writing on their wall, other than to show off to all the people on their friends list who you don’t want to come? It just makes you look like an ass, so don’t do it.