I agree with a lot of the concepts surrounding social grooming. I understand that the concept behind all the methods that SNS sites use to communicate from one user to another are all doing the same thing, which is telling the other person that someone is thinking about them. Definitely a pleasurable thought to have.
There is one aspect that I wish never existed, however. That aspect is Facebook "poking." I HATE poking. Instead of the "remove" button, I wish there was a way to send a "Don't touch me!!" notification to the offending poker.
I have never been comfortable with the idea of the poke. It's like an easy out for people who are too shy to say hi on your wall, or don't have a reason enough to send you a message. And it's just sneaky and hidden enough that if someone gets their poke snubbed, their pride is much better off than a wall-to-wall ignorance would have been.
I think we used to be able to poke someone without being friends with them. That's where my hatred began, I imagine. The idea of these people touching me, virtually or in real life, made me nauseated. Now the pokes I get are mainly from people I haven't had contact with in a while, and I guess they are just using it to get my attention.
I don't mean to sound like a brat or anything, really, but come on. Cut the crap!
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I've always found the poking concept very creepy too. Maybe Facebook should rename it, or do away with it altogether as it doesn't exactly serve any real purpose except as a way of connecting with someone when you don't have anything to say in a wall post or private message or are too timid to take the nerve inducing step of a initiating a facebook chat.
ReplyDeletePoking has no purpose and in new Facebook it's location is completely out of the main frame, so they cant even be seen. It went from useless to forgotten.
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