Unless you’re one of those Internet hermits still jammin’ around with a Hotmail address (How’s 1997? Can you bring me back a slap bracelet?), you likely have a few of what you might teasingly call “stalkers.”
How else would you explain the torrent of random acquaintances who, without fail, attack your Facebook
wall with a “Happy Birthday” bomb every year?
wall with a “Happy Birthday” bomb every year?Most of the time, such attention is just an unmerited boost of your self-rated online likability/interestingness. But depending on the enthusiasm level in the fevered fingers of your unwanted BFF, it can also be, how can we say it … hella off-putting.
Here’s what to do when someone goes from pal to parasite.
Here’s what to do when someone goes from pal to parasite.
Head on over to CNN to read my Netiquette column, which I pen weekly with Stuff Hipsters Hate co-blogger,Andrea Bartz.
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