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#1005 Facebook prof

Dear Facebook Professor [take note usual readers this is how I would like to be addressed from now on], Would be kind enough to respond to my question.? With some friends I am about to start university in England. We come from China and use RenRen which is like Facebook in China. We are told [...]

15 September 2011 at 10:47 - Comments
ANON
This is most interesting. I am from China and a postgrad in England. Chinese people should think about ...
15 September 11 at 11:11
CTI
Can you get flu from a poke?
16 September 11 at 16:22

#1001 good advice for us freshers

Dear Dr I am now going to Uni and I wonder if you have any good advice for us freshers about how we should use Facebook. Do you have perhaps five top do’s and don’ts? I have read some of your advice to people but there is a lot to read and I was hoping [...]

2 September 2011 at 06:23 - Comments
It's a very impressive post! I am so excited I checked your page. Keep up the amazing work. Have a ...
6 September 11 at 13:39
Henry
I can't find my CTU group
6 September 11 at 19:10

#999 emergency exam update

Dear Mariann, Not so much a question but an observation. I have hate the way Facebook tells you what A levels everyone got and the way you can’t not put your results on it. I missed the grades I wanted and feel down when I see all those with good grades. From Sally in reply [...]

29 August 2011 at 20:27 - Comments

#996 I can’t get a guy to back off

Dear Mariann, I can’t get a guy to back off. We had a brief thing but I was not that into him. Now he keeps annoying my friends and following me on Twitter. I have told him to S*** Off but the message is not received. So how rude do I get? I could Tweet [...]

5 August 2011 at 22:05 - Comments

#995 How to understand the poke

Dear Mariann, Maybe I’m autistic, but I never understood the poke. Please enlighten me. From MrPotatoHead via Skype. Ah, now this is all about context: As in whom the poke is from, the time of day and what either recipient is inclined to ‘interpret’ from said non-interaction. Consider how there is a careful temporal, life [...]

3 August 2011 at 13:03 - Comments
Rude
I can’t get a guy to back off. We had a brief thing but I was not that into ...
4 August 11 at 08:35

#987 Shake n vac

Dear Mariann, Should I declare a Facebook vacation or keep updating while on vacation? From Vac in reply to post #986 film grabbing. It will do you good to do nothing whilst you are away. I too am departing for sunnier shores. When I’m hanging with the fabulous set from Capri, shaking my booty and [...]

2 July 2011 at 21:21 - Comments
TrainLines
A hot guy on facebook next to me on the train. I can see his deatils. Is it ok ...
5 July 11 at 17:59

#986 film grabbing

Dear Mariann, It is my birthday and my friends have been watching Bridesmaid‘s, so we are leaving for Tenerife today so they can fight it out in a humorous and film grabbing manner.  One of my friends is going to catch the whole thing on film, threatening unflattering characterture  of everyone.  I don’t want this [...]

25 June 2011 at 08:18 - Comments
Vac
Should I declare a Facebook vacation or keep updating while on vacation?
2 July 11 at 21:07

#984 Facebookclamptitous

Dear Mariann Facebook distracts me. Spending about three hours a day on it – work and home – is this too much? I just revisit people and things – got to make sure has changed. Feel have to be there or miss out. Always happens when I’m offline. From do you have enquiry page? in [...]

24 June 2011 at 07:31 - Comments

#974 reliable honesty

Dear Mariann, How can Facebook be relied upon to be honest? From D.Fraud via email and an invitation to exchange $s via a Nigerian bank transfer. Still waiting for $s. Oh, I don’t know there’s something rather compelling about being kept on your toes. What’s honest for one, is a blatant twist of the truth [...]

31 May 2011 at 19:23 - Comments

#972 untruths

Dear Mariann, If u tell an untruth on Facebook always type with one finger crossed From Anonymous in reply to post #970 sleep with Facebook Oh, the comments, emails and twitter-ers that wind their way to me. Like swallows on a dive down from some high flight of fancy crashing past castles in the sky, [...]

29 May 2011 at 20:44 - Comments