By a unanimous approval, the world’s most popular social media network right now is Facebook. The behemoth social media company has more than 2.2 billion monthly active users as of January 2018. Its popularity has led to prominent media coverage for the company, including significant scrutiny over privacy and the psychological effects it has on its users. With that said, Facebook as a great social media comes with great social media responsibility. You actually owe it to your followers and friends not to make these really common Facebook mistakes. We are what we purport to be on the Internet, and you don’t want to look ‘stupid’ on the Internet. Let that sink in for a minute.
Save yourself from embarrassing situations by keeping clear of these common Facebook mistakes. People keep doing these Facebook mistakes over and over again on the website and app, and maybe it’s time to stop. Here is the list — and how to fix them.
1. Tagging Someone In A Photo, but they are not in it.
Social media platforms gave birth to a whole new race of humans, Slay Queens and Kings. These ‘royal’ individuals are so interested in statistics and would do anything to get you to like or comment on the numerous photos they share, even if that means tagging you and 99 others! It really makes no sense in tagging someone in an image or post that has no pertinence to them. Are you looking for attention? Making people jealous about your new ride? Or simply hunting for likes? Whichever the case it might be, this is annoying and sadly it makes you look stupid. So stop it.
2. Liking Posts And Photos From 2010.
Yes, the Internet never forgets. Some of the very old posts will still be visible right now. It might be hard to desist from commenting or liking a funny post or pic from way back. But by doing so, you are breathing new life to that post and bringing it back to the newsfeeds of my entire friends list. Old may be gold, but doing this in excess becomes annoying. If you are so interested in someone’s throwback, then like and comment on just one of them once in a long while.
3. Uploading Low Resolution pictures.
On Facebook, stalking someone’s pictures the equivalent of market research. Someone would want to know what their new friend looks like, it’s a pretty standard procedure. The profile picture sets first impressions even before they dig deeper into your albums. If you’ve got a super-low resolution image in there, your beautiful self isn’t getting much justice. Low resolution pics really put off, it might be worth changing them. First impressions last a life time, why not make a little effort for them with nice high resolution pics?
4. Status bombardment.
While Facebook keeps asking you what’s on your mind, it’s not right to post every single thing that is on your mind. Great, you’ve got stuff on your mind, but Facebook is not the platform to paint all your thoughts. Posting so many status updates becomes annoying to your friends and followers. Imagine finding your newsfeed covered with statuses from one person over the day! What you have to do is spread out your posts at reasonable intervals.
5. Generalising a post that should have been specific.
Imagine such statuses; “Women are worthless”, “Men are a disaster, don’t trust them”, “People are hypocrites!”. Generalising your Facebook statuses is vague. It becoming irritating to your followers since the status points to every one of them. We get it, you were heart broken, but it’s not all people on the planet that broke your heart. So stop Vaguebooking and start Facebooking!
