h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Since I'm applying for jobs at the moment, I'm a lot more cautious about what I write and allow to be posted on my facebook page. I've got my privacy settings as high as they'll go but I still think better safe than sorry.

Yesterday a couple of friends, one a devout Catholic and the other an extremely vocal antitheist, started duking it out over the issue of secularism. Phrases such as 'morally bankrupt' and 'egotistical and amoral' were bandied about and it made me think about how weird facebook is, as well as wondering how to shut these two up whilst remaining friends with them both.

The oddness of facebook is when you see people ripping the stuffing out of each other, as if it was a standard internet, mostly anonymous, venue. I find it a lot harder to have arguments red in tooth and claw on facebook because the people I've got on there are real flesh and blood friends. Harder to compare someone to Hitler when you know they've stood up for you against school bullies.

Also, I have a job interview next week that I'm simultaneously excited about and bricking myself over.

It's weird, all the posts I see about facebook all focus on the annoying aspects of it, makes me glad I never bothered with it.

Goodluck with the job interview! :D

I think he's saying it's his friends that are annoying, not Facebook per se.

Good luck with the job interview!

Yeah, but facebook appears to make annoying friends a bigger problem problem from what I read :D

Oh, HI has little difficulty annoying his friends.

Menthol, you can work with lists, so people you don't want to see certain things won't see them. It's easy, really.

.... and if you don't like what you are seeing, you can just hide individual posts, too