Facebook Friend or Foe?

[SPROGGS]

I need that in dots please?!?

Now why does that not surprise me

[SPROGGS]

Maybe I'm missing something but I don't see how this is an abuse of a friendship?

Hijacking someone else’s friends to bombard them with your business...is not good business practice... and sounds more like desperation.

If they were interested surely they would make their own choice about leaning to dance and would not want to be confronted with advertising crap from a friend of a friend.

I do not think face book should not be used to advertise a business via the back door.. and to provide a thin veil to give a promotion some legitimacy...

Anyway I do not work that way and never will. and I am glad to say there are a lots of respectable organisers who would not either.

[Steven666]

Hijacking someone else’s friends to bombard them with your business...is not good business practice... and sounds more like desperation.

If they were interested surely they would make their own choice about leaning to dance and would not want to be confronted with advertising crap from a friend of a friend.

I do not think face book should not be used to advertise a business via the back door.. and to provide a thin veil to give a promotion some legitimacy...

Anyway I do not work that way and never will. and I am glad to say there are a lots of respectable organisers who would not either.

It's about you being selective about who you're targeting this against. It's obviously nothing to do with what is happening, rathermore what's just rattling in your head about the person in question. Any brief look at your posts here will confirm that.

[Dreadful Scathe]

It's about you being selective about who you're targeting this against. It's obviously nothing to do with what is happening, rathermore what's just rattling in your head about the person in question. Any brief look at your posts here will confirm that.

What an earth are you talking about ?

[SPROGGS]

It's about you being selective about who you're targeting this against. It's obviously nothing to do with what is happening, rathermore what's just rattling in your head about the person in question. Any brief look at your posts here will confirm that.

Ah! your twin

No! I object to all unscrupulous organisers using underhand tactics no matter who they are…. I also notice from some of your postings that you also approve to this type of practice....

Running a dance class is not all about taking peoples money at the door as the evening starts, teaching them to dance then say good night when the music ends.......Yes! there is more.

It's about giving them a great night out and helping them to feel good about themselves and confidence on the dance floor by using your own teaching skills.

Some people start dancing at a low or lonely point of their life just to get out at night. We know because we spend time talking to all our dancers new and long standing or should I say "long Dancing".

Good organises can change people life for the good. By showing interest in the people who attend their classes they can make them feel good about themselves by giving them new skills and confidence to improve their life in other ways. .

It's not about being about being able to spin ten times on the spot without throwing up on your dance partner....

If an organiser uses dubious tactics to get people through the door it just proves to me that this is a club EVERYONE should to avoid.

I trust the mist is clearing from your eyes a little....if not try cleaning you classes

[Lee Bartholomew]

So......

Anyone written a facebook app?

[David Bailey]

I know a Local organiser that blah blah blah

Yeah?

That's nothing. I know a forumite who's very very close to getting an infraction for violation of forum naming-and-shaming rules.

Now I wonder who that is....

I am glad to say that this is not how many of the other forumites operate.

[Steven666]

What an earth are you talking about ?

Hopefully I'm detecting sarcasm in there.

[Steven666]

*snip pointless blabbing*

It's not about being about being able to spin ten times on the spot without throwing up on your dance partner....

I'm still working on it. Got 4 spins on Tuesday though probably not on the spot. I tend to drift left.

[Dreadful Scathe]

Hopefully I'm detecting sarcasm in there.

Actually no, this discussion, and certainly my comments, are about the abuse of facebook. If sproggs has an agenda I don't care as he also has a valid point about the blatent abuse of facebook. Although he should clearly stick to the general

[SPROGGS]

Hopefully I'm detecting sarcasm in there.

Doubt it as it's too subtle for you

[Martin]

Actually no, this discussion, and certainly my comments, are about the abuse of facebook. If sproggs has an agenda I don't care as he also has a valid point about the blatent abuse of facebook. Although he should clearly stick to the general

It is of course good to stick to general.

It can be emotionally hard not to site a specific abuse, when it directly affects you.

Also a specific abuse, does give an example of "what is being talked about"

[Steven666]

Doubt it as it's too subtle for you

Sure is babe!

[flipper]

Facebook Friend or Foe

Friend

[Dreadful Scathe]

Facebook Friend or Foe

Friend

Flipper??! I've not seen you since TV in the Eighties. Flap your fins ! go on flap 'em to signify someone has fallen down a well.

um..flipper the bush kangaroo. no , im getting confused

[MartinHarper]

If you feel someone is abusing facebook to spam you, block and/or report them. Or waste your life complaining about it to people who can do nothing about it. Whatever's dumbest.

[philsmove]

Just be cared full when changing your relationship status

BBC NEWS | England | London | Man killed wife in Facebook row

[Paul F]

Im starting (just starting) to get a little bit bloody annoyed with Facebook. Well, not facebook as such but more with the group membership thing. It's my own fault of course.

It's the myriad of event invitations I get. I seem to getting event invites to far off places on a weekly basis. (Ooo, that rhymes!!) Things like class nights during the week 150 miles away It seems to be turning into a vast marketing tool.
Now I could just leave the respective groups but I cant help but think I might miss out on something if a BIG event does happen or something out of the ordinary takes place.

I suppose if it's that big I would hear about it anyway.

Maybe Im just someone who secretly likes the receiving of messages regardless of how impersonal they are OR...Maybe I just crave being 'in the loop'?

[Astro]

It's the myriad of event invitations I get. I seem to getting event invites to far off places on a weekly basis. (Ooo, that rhymes!!) Things like class nights during the week 150 miles away

I think, oh that sounds good , but when I read the details it's, as you say, geographically challenging.

Got one today, a Mariachi, in Torquay of all places.

[Astro]

Just be cared full when changing your relationship status

BBC NEWS | England | London | Man killed wife in Facebook row

Another thing is, if you get rid of the relationship status altogether, it tells everyone that you are no longer whatever your relationship status was.

So if your status was "single" it says - Honeyball is no longer single.
If married - Honeyball is no longer married
If in a relationship - Honeyball is no longer in a relationship