Comments on: 25 Random Things About Being Gay on Facebook

By: Michael

Michael — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 21:15:23 +0000

@dancie:

Wow you must be a rocket scientist to figure that out.

By: shan

shan — Sat, 24 Sep 2011 20:38:37 +0000

Judgemental and totally LAME! homo pha khai shynrang ne pha kjup doi?

By: dancie

dancie — Thu, 06 May 2010 20:57:42 +0000

This site is gay.

By: Megan

Megan — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 19:00:53 +0000

I had someone friend me, defriend me a day later, then friend me again, then defriend me, now she is sitting in my facebook purgatory… Along with my girlfriend’s mom.

By: Douglas Dreyer

Douglas Dreyer — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 01:04:06 +0000

@Jeremy Feist: @Jeremy Feist: What is nemes?

By: Justin

Justin — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 15:58:20 +0000

TO MYRIOS123. Thank you for your response.

By: myrios123

myrios123 — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:10:00 +0000

An emotional arsonist is usually someone that you were involved in a relationship with and seems to find some kind of satisfaction causing trouble, making innapropriate comments, basically overstaying their welcome while “trying” to be your friend.

Sometimes these folks can be family member or a friend that acts this way because they just don’t know any better. I’m not sure where I first heard this term, but I know some people that it fits well.

By: Luke

Luke — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 07:22:41 +0000

29. If you’re still in the closet, don’t set your “interested in” to “women”. Just leave it blank. Everyone knows you’re queer anyway.

By: Justin

Justin — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 06:03:15 +0000

i have a question for the above person.

What is an emotional arsonist?

How did you come across the term?

By: slee

slee — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:27:13 +0000

#14 is about Jess :D

By: myrios123

myrios123 — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 17:53:04 +0000

I think there are justifications for de-friending: abusive relationships, people who are emotional-arsonists, and stalkers to name a few. I have no problem with people who defriend me either. People come in and out of our life all the time. No one is ever permanent.

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:43:18 +0000

@Kid A: The “literally” drives me berserk. Metaphorically.

By: Travis

Travis — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 01:12:25 +0000

I have a question.

If you get a friend request from someone you REALLY don’t like, is it better form to deny the request really quickly, or just sit on it for a while, not responding? I have denied someone’s friend request 3 times before finally relenting, giving them partial access to my profile.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 00:05:26 +0000

um i just got rid of facebook. too annoying.

but now i have no social life :|

By: Mika L.

Mika L. — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:02:17 +0000

#18 @Steven, wrong site, I really meant gays.com, plural, it’s really just like Facebook, but for gays only ;)

By: Thor

Thor — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 21:44:19 +0000

I’m friends with my mom on facebook. How bad is that >_<

By: Michael Warner

Michael Warner — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 19:40:45 +0000

LOL LOL absolutely brilliant!

By: Me

Me — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:58:15 +0000

Two things:

I never facefuck someone just for the hell of it. My list of “friends” is pretty much just my list of friends. If I don’t talk to you fairly regularly via some other medium, then you’re not on the list. It’s not a place for someone I stood next to at a party 13 years ago, exchanging pleasantries. CAN’T STAND facefuckers (you know them because they have 7 zillion friends listed, but only talk with less than 10 of them).

As for the few long-lost souls possibly worth seeking out to see what they’ve been up to over the years… “Black and white profile photos are lame. So are head shots.” It’s people like you that make it impossible to search out others, because you’re one of 15 people in a group shot taken from 20 feet away in a dark bar. You’re like… three and half flesh-colored pixels. So which John Doe are you? The one I knew in the 8th grade or that one who was arrested for the meth lab in Milwaukee 2 weeks ago? Both?

By: jeffrey bryan

jeffrey bryan — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:53:21 +0000

28. If someone has denied your add request, don’t try again. It makes you look pathetic.

By: Gianpiero

Gianpiero — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:34:12 +0000

I always use the mental filter of not posting anything I wouldn’t want my (college) students to see. Works pretty well. I am openly gay in my profile (as in life, so on facebook), so they don’t have to waste any time speculating. Unfortunately, too many of them don’t realize how much I can see about them. Would rather not know. Long ago stopped looking.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 18:19:47 +0000

@mike:

90s? I was hot in the 70s.

By: Kid A

Kid A — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:45:19 +0000

@Kevin B: YES! Finally. I am sick of “Random” photo albums and “OMG my friends are so random!” That, and when people misuse “literally.” As in, “I literally could eat a horse.” I think you mean figuratively.

By: Jay

Jay — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:43:04 +0000

#21 Peter Davis is actually a pretty cool guy. I’d be happy to part of his “Gay nexus” anytime.

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:21:34 +0000

@Mika L.: Gay.com is a total freakshow. Way worse than facebook. For starters, I never once got any kind of a Superpoke off of Gay.com.

By: Tweety

Tweety — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 17:08:15 +0000

I am amused by how everyone posts these “25 Things…” notes to 25 friends but they don’t realize it actually gets posted to the wall of ALL their friends. Remember, there is no privacy on the internets.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:49:39 +0000

27. Dudes, this is Facebook, not MANHUNT! Ditch the shirtless Profile Pics.

By: Mr. Mickey

Mr. Mickey — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:48:52 +0000

in #21 why do you call Peter Davis a fake Paper Magazine editor. He works or Paper and has been one of our editors for ages. He writes for us every month….

Mr Mickey from Paper

By: mike

mike — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:45:07 +0000

26. Post a current Profile Pic. Facebook is not a TIME MACHINE where you can instantly transport yourself back to the 90′s when you were hot (or at least you though you were hot). You may actually meet some of these folks in person one day. Especially that 19 year old Ukrainian kid whom you promised to fly over to visit Disney World this summer.

By: Kevin B

Kevin B — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 16:21:11 +0000

There is nothing “random” about a list of facts.

This word continues to be one of the most misused words ever!

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:49:52 +0000

One way to avoid awkwardness with family members is to have two profiles. I have one that’s publicly viewable that I use for my mom, co-workers and so forth, and one that doesn’t even show up in searches.

By: Shane!

Shane! — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:49:23 +0000

I don’t understand poking on Facebook either, much less superpoking.

It has been a long time since I was superpoked, and believe you me, if I had been I’d not need Facebook to let me know.

By: Gregoire

Gregoire — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:44:44 +0000

I de-friend responsibly. If some person I went to high school with puts up some racist Facebook status, then I have no qualms de-friending. In fact, I sometimes ‘clean house’ and take off a few at a time. I don’t need more friends, I need quality friends.

By: Fuzzygruf

Fuzzygruf — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:20:52 +0000

I’m am SO de-friending you.

By: Brooklyn Bobby

Brooklyn Bobby — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 15:13:27 +0000

Do I have to stay friends with my ex-boyfriend’s mother? I thought she was a lil weird to begin with now its just strange being friends with her.

By: belacan

belacan — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:43:01 +0000

funny stuff
i’ll put it up on my facebook.
;)

By: Coffee&Chicory

Coffee&Chicory — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:37:13 +0000

18. 45 “favorite bands” doesn’t say that you have great taste in music so much as it says that you have decision-making problems.

Ya know, some of us actually listen to more than 10 or so bands or groups.

By: Jeremy Feist

Jeremy Feist — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 14:34:04 +0000

25. Don’t fall for memes. You’re a sheep if you do. Baaaah.

Hey, totally not my fault here. My friends are completely batshit, and in all likelihood, if I don’t do them, they might put a hit out on me. Although some of them are kinda fun. Baaaaah.

Also, this is from experience, but never ever EVER add family on Facebook. It sounds a little harsh, but my God, they will stalk every single move you make.

By: Mika L.

Mika L. — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:52:27 +0000

Of course you can just join the “gay version” of facebook, and avoid those family issues, on gays.com ;)

By: Flour

Flour — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:42:44 +0000

Facebook is a scary little stalker database, yet absolutely brilliant. Baaaah.

By: Steven

Steven — Tue, 03 Feb 2009 13:09:43 +0000

Yeah! New Mexico gifts! I might be sending out Lotaburger combos later today.