Facebook Sluts
Talking to our staff in Ednburgh yesterday I revealed that I had recently signed up for because everyone one else in the 大象传媒 seemed to be on it and I thought I might be missing out.
The trouble is, I went on to say, I鈥檓 not actually sure what you鈥檙e supposed to do on Facebook. I keep getting invites from colleagues asking me to be their friend鈥nd one senior manager at 大象传媒 Scotland posted a message on my 鈥渨all鈥 poking fun at me for not having enough friends.
This is online humiliation鈥.it鈥檚 like those days when you鈥檇 get on the bus for the school trip and no one wanted to sit beside you. (Sorry鈥鈥檓 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鈥檛 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鈥pitting 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.
