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Facebook Etiquette. Dos and Don’ts. Dos. Message Private Matters Instead of Posting On Wall. The fact is that most of their Facebook friends will hear about it in such a public platform. The walls indeed have ears, especially so for the Facebook Wall . Be Mindful Of What You Post.
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Facebook Etiquette Dos and Don’ts
Message Private Matters Instead of Posting On Wall • The fact is that most of their Facebook friends will hear about it in such a public platform. The walls indeed have ears, especially so for the Facebook Wall.
Be Mindful Of What You Post • What you may not realize is that some of your friends in the advertising industry could see your status in their newsfeed.
Call Rather Than Post Personal News • If you need to inform your friends or your family about some important and personal news (e.g. death in the family), don’t declare it out in the public domain. Facebook is a social networking site; it’s supposed to be public.
Reply To Comments Especially If They Are Questions • I guess the least you can do is to acknowledge them by replying something, especially when they are questions directed to you.
Avoid Posting Comments On Every Post • Don’t make it a habit to make some comment on everything your friends post or they’ll start to get suspicious.
Be Careful Of Your Tone • One way we can compensate for the lack of cues is to use emoticons.
Make Friend Requests To Strangers • The idea becomes warped when people add friends merely for the sake of boosting their ‘popularity indicator’ among their peers. That’s not cool.
Tag Your Friends In ‘Unglam’ Shots • What you need to take from this rule is to be sensitive of who you might be tagging in photos, especially those shots which are obviously awfully taken.
Overshare Yourself • Checking out the updates on your newsfeed, you see the same friend updating his status over and over again. Not any insightful ones, but just posts about what he’s doing every ten minutes.
Vent About Your work • Even with your most stringent privacy settings, there’s still a risk that what you post can reach people you wouldn’t want it to reach, and your co-workers and boss are the last people you want to mess with.
Post Chain Status Updates • The intention here is right, but sometimes too much of a good thing isn’t good.
Flame Others • Everyone is entitled to state their own opinion on the free internet, so there’s no need to put anyone down just because you disagree (or worse, don’t like the person).