{"id":3120,"date":"2012-05-30T09:30:47","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T13:30:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/verastic.com\/?p=3120"},"modified":"2012-10-05T10:31:14","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T14:31:14","slug":"how-not-to-send-facebook-messages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/vl\/how-not-to-send-facebook-messages.html","title":{"rendered":"How Not To Send Facebook Messages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is fun. It&#8217;s easy. \u00a0It&#8217;s a nice way to connect to people. It&#8217;s a great way to grow your business. It may also be a great way to raise your blood pressure, if care isn&#8217;t taken. You know those Facebook messages? So annoying! I&#8217;m not talking about the messages that people deliberately send to you (and you alone). I&#8217;m not talking about the messages\/conversations that you understand (that also come from people you know). I&#8217;m talking about those random messages from a person you do not know, that is also addressed to 150 other people. Like this one &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Facebook1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3121\" title=\"How Not To Send Facebook Messages\" src=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Facebook1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"536\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Facebook1.png 536w, https:\/\/verastic.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Facebook1-300x204.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 536px) 100vw, 536px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>How Not To Send Facebook Messages<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>What happens is you receive this message from someone you don&#8217;t know, and the message is addressed to about a hundred other people, most of whom clearly don&#8217;t know the sender either. But it does not stop them from responding with messages like, <em>&#8220;Who is this oh?&#8221;<\/em> &#8230; <em>&#8220;Please remove me from this thread&#8230;&#8221;<\/em> &#8230;. <em>&#8220;The person that started this thread, thunder will fire you.&#8221;<\/em> &#8230; <em>&#8220;Why am I receiving these messages?&#8221;<\/em> &#8230; <em>&#8220;Please, you people should leave me out of this. I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And then, of course, you have those who are responding to the responses with messages like, <em>&#8220;I don&#8217;t know who sent it.&#8221;<\/em> &#8230; <em>&#8220;How dare you say thunder should fire someone? Are you God?&#8221;<\/em> &#8230;. <em>&#8220;Stop replying us, please. We don&#8217;t want!&#8221;<\/em> &#8230; \u00a0And it goes on and on. And on. <strong>And. On.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some of us are smart enough to leave the conversation, so we don&#8217;t get any more responses. Some of us, before leaving the conversation, are ready to blow up. We just want to reply everyone and say, <em>&#8220;For Pete&#8217;s sake, stop with the flippin&#8217; responses!&#8221;<\/em> But then, we wonder, if we do that, what will make us different from everyone else?<\/p>\n<p>So we decide, instead, to take a screen shot of the messages and save it for a post on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.verastic.com\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>www.verastic.com<\/strong><\/a>, and we hope that it inspires other people to not do like the original sender of this message.<\/p>\n<p>That is all. For now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facebook is fun. It&#8217;s easy. \u00a0It&#8217;s a nice way to connect to people. It&#8217;s a great way to grow your business. It may also be a great way to raise your blood pressure, if care isn&#8217;t taken. You know those Facebook messages? So annoying! 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