Facebook

[mmegaera]

Obviously I am an utter newbie there (I've had an account for a while, but just started using it this week), and am used to LJ/DW, where my account is my living room and I can tell people I don't appreciate them being rude to me here, but does one's Facebook wall not work that way? How does one deal with someone on one's FL who decides to be a troll about something one has posted, when the rest of the time they seem to be fairly decent? (this is a fellow Bujold listee -- or, rather, he's a former Bujold listee -- and he's on the Bujold Facebook group).

Is the only option simply to defriend them once and for all? Throw the baby out with the bathwater?

Is there a tutorial out there for how to work Facebook on a social rather than technical level? That will teach me how to keep people from being ugly to me on my own wall? Because if there isn't I suspect that's going to be the end of my personal social interaction there. If I can't avoid people being rude directly at me there the way I can here, then I'm not comfortable there. And "just don't interact back" is not an option. I am not a doormat and refuse to become one.

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[mmegaera]

Ah. Okay. I found the instructions on how to create lists, but I can't figure out how to follow them (they say to find the friends section, fine, then they say to click on "more" but there is no "more" to click on [wry g]). This is extremely typical of me and Facebook. I find the interface basically unusable.

Can't figure out how to get rid of the big gray box with the two white circles that happens whenever I cross-post from my blog, either [wry g]. I'm told it needs an author picture, but I can't figure out how to add one, either. It only happens when I'm cross-posting, not posting directly.

I wish I wasn't such a social media putz, but I am. I try to learn...

[annathepiper]

When I look at my Facebook timeline, I can see my lists in the left-hand sidebar, under "FRIENDS", yeah. The "More" to click on pops up if you hover your pointer over the word "FRIENDS", or anything else that appears under that header.

And yeah, when I cross-post, I have somewhat random results with pics, too. Right now stuff I cross-post seems to have hooked onto Vengeance of the Hunter's cover, and I suppose I can live with that. ;)

[mmegaera]

Ahhh... Found it at last. Thank you.

Well, I'm glad to know I'm not the only one who has Issues with cross-posted pics. Although all mine are blank, alas. Seems like Facebook would want their users to be able to assign a pic to all cross-posted posts. Or to not put anything if there isn't a pic. Anything but that butt-ugly gray spot. Oh, well.