Wed. Apr 08, 2009 | 12:24 PM
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Don't be a hater on FB!

If you're like us over here at "Team Tyra" we are constantly updating our Facebook profiles and "friending" old faces. Facebook is awesome, but there can always be a little too much of a good thing. We are broadcasting every detail about our lives 24/7 online now and it seems like there is no such thing as privacy.

Here are a few etiquette rules we think everyone should follow when using Facebook.

  • Only tag a photo of a friend with their permission.
  • Only make friend requests of people you actually know -- not complete strangers
  • Relationship status changes must be mutual
  • Do not write inappropriate stuff on your friend's walls
  • Don't over "poke"
  • Do not leave your Facebook page up in communal places

NEXT: Facebook & Twittering, Plus the Latest "ANTM" Castoff
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I NEED EVERYONE'S OPINION.. This is not making sense to me, and I wondered if anyone could clarify this. I know my boyfriend is not cheating on me, as we have been living together for two years and honestly, we have no social life. He works the same four days, the same hours every week.. and he calls me from work, and I see his number on my phone so I know he is there. He comes home, and I am with him, and when I am in school he is sleeping. (He is on the nightshift) We do not go anywhere without eachother, and our social life is each other. He says I know everything about him, and because I live with him there is no point to add me to facebook......... so he has people he doesn't even know.. people he dislikes... but he will not allow me to view his page. A friend interpreted it as that it is somewhere where he can privatly connect with his friends, or it is his own thing.. because I am involved in every other aspect of his life.. Am I being paranoid, or should I be worried? PLEASE HELP! T H A N K Y O U !
Posted by melissa 04/08/09 7:41 PM
 
I took down notes of the Facebook etiquette dos and don'ts that you mentioned. I don't put too much on Facebook, just answer back to some of my friends' comments. And I won't put a lot of pictures on it. And I will not add to my friends' list people that I don't even know. I see users having over 1,000 friends on their profiles and go, "Do they know these people?" And you can't talk too much about your personal life,let alone your marital status, on Facebook. The poke stuff I'm not into as much. I have found classmates that I have looked for a long time and became their friends on Facebook. It's fun and addictive. I don't like Twitter that much. When I tried to get on it, I couldn't enter my info. It's too restricted a site for me and they only write a few words instead of a full passage or paragraph. Facebook is looser, but you don't want to overexpose yourself too much with your info. Tyra, I commend you for doing this show because some Facebook users are going a little overboard with posting their info on it. You can't let the decadence and excess go overload on there.
Posted by Preston 04/08/09 7:36 PM
 
Hey yall! oh poking is used usually when someone is not on facebook for a long time and u wanna see where they are and so u like poke them. so when u open facebook ur like "Oh, someones worried about me" or whatever. lol LOVE U TYRA
Posted by Kiki 04/08/09 7:22 PM
 
I think that the poke option is more of a game for a lot of people than anything else. I have been in a poke war with someone for over a year. It just is entertaining more than anything for me. I agree with the relationship change idea. I think that breaking up in any other way than face to face is very cowardly.
Posted by Emily 04/08/09 7:07 PM
 
Greetings! As an older viewer of your show I thought you might be interested to know that waaay back (50's) there were "Ma & Pa Kettle" movies ~ and Pa would sometimes make reference to "a poke" ~ with the implication of Exactly What You Might Think! My hubby still uses the term! :D Love your shows!
Posted by Suzy 04/08/09 6:47 PM
 
This is a Test!!..rg
Posted by Anonymous 04/08/09 5:16 PM
 
Hey Tyra! I just watched your show and I wanted to say that when someone "pokes" you and you are not friends with them and you poke them back, they can look at your profile for a month even if you have a private page. Just thought you should know so don't "poke" back!
Posted by Brittany 04/08/09 4:53 PM
 
Hi Tyra! I think that to poke someone on Facebook means to simply let the other person poking you that they are around, a friendly poke. Obsessivly poking probably means that they are stalking you.
Posted by jillian 04/08/09 4:26 PM
 
Tyra Show, I don't agree with the "rules." I like becoming friends with people around the world. You can have pen pals you haven't met before. I've even met some friends from Myspace who are now real-life friends. If you're not making new friends and you're in contact with most of your friends, there isn't even a need for Facebook or Myspace. No one wants to know what people are doing every minute, i.e. Twitter - it's completely narcissistic.
Posted by J 04/08/09 3:39 PM
 
I Love facebook .. actually im addicted . EVERY SINGLE TIME i go on the computer i go ob facebook for hours on end Its Crazy but im addicted =D aslo i agree with all these rules . Mhhmmm
Posted by NativeHunie 04/08/09 3:24 PM
 
Basically poking someone on facebook is a virtual poke. Me and my friends poke each other all the time when we see each other and when we don't see each other we do it virtual. Which is facebook.
Posted by charisy 04/08/09 3:20 PM
 
I can use facebook how I want. The point of doing something like this is to be creative and be yourself. Creativity should not have rules (within reason) unless your hurting someone...
Posted by salina 04/08/09 2:47 PM
 
OH SHUT DA HELL UP DUDEEE AND COME OFF DA PAGE IF U EEN WAN TALK BOUT FACE BOOK GO DO SUMTIN BESIDES WATCHIN WAT OTHER PEOPLE DO DATS DA DAMN PROBLEM NAHWITH YALL PEOPLE U MAKE DA DIFFERENCE ONE LESS PERSON MAKIN A COMMENT GET OFF DA DAMN PAGE DATS ALL!
Posted by LIA 04/08/09 2:46 PM
 
That guy Mark is GAY. Please let that poor girl know to stop wasting her time on him. My Gaydar was goin' O-F-F. The outfit (pink shirt!), the lisp, the evasive answers... Come out of that closet, Mary, you ain't foolin nobody.
Posted by Brian 04/08/09 2:46 PM
 
I think Bittany's (the girl who listed herself as single on fb)face looks like Shawn Johnson's.
Posted by Emma 04/08/09 2:44 PM



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