Tag: Facebook

Social Media Vacation Responders

November 17, 2025November 16, 2025 ~ SA Otey

Whenever you take a vacation and then decide to share photos or videos via social media you will have one of your pals say one of these gems…

I wish I could afford a vacation.

Well, maybe if you weren’t so terrible with your budget, you could. This is the worst kind of comment because they are trying to add a guilt trip leg to your itinerary. I get it, some can’t afford vacations, but you shouldn’t try to make others feel bad for enjoying themselves. The point is, don’t share your life on social media

Put me in your suitcase

That’s impossible and illegal. Plus, you might die of suffocation in the overhead compartment.

Drink an alcoholic beverage for me

That’s also impossible; it’s like asking someone to go urinate for you. We aren’t that close, and I’m not going to apply a catheter for you.

I wasn’t invited

No, you weren’t because this is my vacation. If you wanted to go with us, then we should have planned ahead, and you could have purchased your very own ticket. That is, if you’ve budgeted properly.

You should have done “X”

There is always someone who’s taken the same trip as you and attempts to induce FOMO feelings of “you’ve missed something crucial that would have made your vacation 1000 times better”. Sucks to be you.

How to hide your birthday on Facebook

November 8, 2025November 15, 2025 ~ SA Otey

Nobody remembers your birthday. Maybe your immediate family, and sometimes that even gets speed bumps and potholes on memory lane. So when you see someone on Facebook saying “Thanks for all the birthday wishes”, it’s not because they have a plethora of friends with fantastic memories; it’s because of automation.

I typically try to hide the fact that it’s my birthday. When I was on Facebook, I blocked people from posting on my page. I also hid my birthdate in my settings. It’s mostly so I can see who really remembers. One year, I thought I had it disabled the setting, because I got a few messages from people whom I would expect. But then the birthday well-wishes started flooding in.

Facebook is perfect for remembering people’s birthdays and guilt-tripping you the next day for forgetting to wish someone a happy birthday. But let’s not forget that the main purpose of Facebook is to engage in religious and political rants, so you have no friends left to wish you a happy birthday.

How to:

Find your birth date and click the lock.

Enjoy your loneliness!

What is Friendship Day?

August 6, 2025 ~ SA Otey

Friendship Day is another greeting card invented event where you are supposed to enjoy your relationships with others. I say it’s a good time to clean house on your Facebook lists.

Look at your friend’s list
See who has the most friends
Unfriend that “friend”
See how long it takes for them to send you a friend request
Repeat every week until you have no friends

Chances are if someone has 3000+ friends they won’t notice you’ve unfriended them until they see you pop up on the “Find New Friends” or “People you may know” feature. Hopefully, Facebook has it in their algorithms that you don’t surface again.

Have fun, enjoy, and tell a “friend”!

Make Your Hashtags Readable: A Simple Guide

June 13, 2025 ~ SA Otey

There is a time and place for hashtags. They are supposed to be short and readable. #dontdoahashtaglikethis #notproperhashtagusage. Those are hard to read. At a minimum, if you are going to build a long hashtag, use camel casing. #itMakesTheHashTagMoreReadable. If your hashtag is that long, just spell it out as a sentence.

Older folks read the hashtag as the pound symbol. So be careful when starting a hashtag campaign that starts with the pound symbol such as the #MeToo movement. Also, #hashbrowns are delicious.

The Ultimate Guide to Captivating Selfies: Focus on the Lens

April 25, 2025April 24, 2025 ~ SA Otey

Please remember to look at the camera lens and not the image on your screen. It does make a difference. The selfies where your gaze is slightly askew are annoying. It’s even more irritating if you have a group shot and everyone is focused on themselves on the smartphone view screen. Think about it. You don’t go to Olan Mills and look off to the left or right (that’s for Glamour Shots only), you look at the lens!

Should there be WiFi on School Buses?

March 23, 2025March 22, 2025 ~ SA Otey

Some schools are now using your taxpayer dollars to put WiFi on the school bus. This is can have its pros and cons.

The Pros

The convenience of GPS Tracking of the bus to know where your kids are. You can get alerts via text message when the bus arrives so you don’t have to waste your time at the bus stop. Having WiFi could keep the kids quietly in their seats. Reduces the amount of face-punching to other students and or bus drivers since the kid’s occupied with their devices.

The Cons

Cyber bullying would skyrocket. Think of all the passive-aggressive ways kids could be mean via social media to their fellow bus passengers. Why get up and punch someone in the face or body when you can emotionally destroy someone on InstaFaceTok?

The Art of Bragging: Test Your Friends

January 17, 2025 ~ SA Otey

Everyone loves to brag. Whether it’s about your accomplishments or your children’s it’s all about getting a leg up on the competition. But, some people don’t even know when you are competing with them. Here’s a good way to put this to the test.

Pick out one of your friends on Facebook. Next, copy and paste one of their posts, but change out the proper nouns. Try to take similar photos, and share the same status messages from other websites. But, the twist is this, you have to make your status messages better than theirs. See if they notice after a few weeks of this.