Facebook Sluts
Talking to our staff in Ednburgh yesterday I revealed that I had recently signed up for because everyone one else in the ±«Óătv seemed to be on it and I thought I might be missing out.
The trouble is, I went on to say, I’m not actually sure what you’re supposed to do on Facebook. I keep getting invites from colleagues asking me to be their friend…and one senior manager at ±«Óătv Scotland posted a message on my “wall” poking fun at me for not having enough friends.
This is online humiliation….it’s like those days when you’d get on the bus for the school trip and no one wanted to sit beside you. (Sorry…I’m trying to move on from these issues but they keep coming back to haunt me).
Well, staff in Edinburgh are so switched on to all this internet wizardry and one of them - Lucy Adam - explained to me that I really shouldn’t accept every online friendship invitation because I would get the reputation for being a "Facebook Slut".
What a wonderful insult. It tried it out a few times…spitting the words out with unwarranted venom. Then hissing it slyly from the corner of my mouth.
It got me thinking that the world wide web must have thrown up a whole new vocabulary of cyberspace putdowns.
Are there Google Whores out there? Or You Tube Creeps? E-Bay Spivs?
Please let me know.
