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Missy Vixen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 06:07 PM
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Poll question: No, I don't want to attend your "holiday bazaar" fundraiser
I hate Facebook. Let me count the ways.

Facebook is one long experience with those who "friend" in order to push their own social or financial agenda on others. I got a message from a woman I've met twice this morning. She and I have never socialized, aside from belonging to the same booster club for a pro football team for less than a year.

She sells something called "Scentsy". It's evidently some candle replacement item. I'm not interested.

She invited me to a "party" last summer at which one could purchase the above items. I politely declined, and explained once more that I really wasn't interested. She's now invited me to a "holiday bazaar" next weekend.

If the person in question actually had a cup of coffee with me, we chatted on the phone, I saw her socially, I could understand the invite. What kind of clueless freak invites a virtual stranger to their house because they think they're going to profit from it financially?

C'mon, Lounge. What would you do, besides "unfriending" her and dealing with the consequences?
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Kali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 06:40 PM
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1. my worst "party" invite
was from a distant relative by marriage after we moved here to the ranch. It turned out to be a scam for christian action figures and other crappy, made-in-china, all plastic toys for the kids. Prices were insane. I am an athiest. It was awkward.

As for facebook - I still don't get the point of it, and yet I managed to get in a bunch of trouble here because of it. BLEH!
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Missy Vixen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Nov-03-10 06:47 PM
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2. I've had enough of Facebook
There are people there I really enjoy, but I do not enjoy wading through those who want to initiate contact after 30 years when I chose to not have contact with them in the first place.

I'm sorry about the "christian action figures". OMG. Why do people think stuff like this is appropriate?

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