Help keep from driving your non gaming Facebook friends crazy with game posts..

My bit of Facebook Netiquette..

Published on February 23, 2010 By HG_Eliminator In Personal Computing

If you are tired of getting tons of FB game invites and postings pass this tip on to your gamer friends, or if you want to be cool to your non gaming friends on FB use this tip yourself...

Create a new list in friends naming it Farmville for example or {what ever your games name is}, add all your farmville neighbors and save.. now when one of those windows popup asking you to publish say finding a golden egg, look next to the publish button for a lock looking symbol clik it and select custom, then in the new window that pops up select " specific people" in the" make this visible to these people" menu. In the text box below it, Type in Farmville ( it will automatically show the Friends group in a drop down as you start typing it) then hit save and publish, this will send that announcement and only publish to those in that group of people.... as a side note you can also use this to select specific people to send things too by just doing as above by typing the individual names instead of typing in the friends list. do the same with each game making a friends list and using the custom send features to send them to just those for each game or specific people.. remember you will need to use the same group name in the custom send feature as you created in the friends list.. Also it will not auto add new members to the friends list as you add them to a game.. you will have to add them to that games friends list for them to see the game postings you send..

I hope this tip helps you not drive your non gaming pals crazy as well as not flood thier walls with stuff they really dont want to see.

Comments (Page 1)

DethAdder

on Feb 23, 2010

You mean people use Facebook for something other than Mafia Wars or Farmville?

Good tip though

HG_Eliminator

on Feb 23, 2010

yeh amazing int it? hehe

well I have friends who play and many who dont.. I figured a way to keep both sides happy, those who want to see the game posts get them and those who dont.. dont.. I figured I would share the tip with everyone.

DrJBHL

on Feb 23, 2010

OK...you're on the Pizzaville list. And Smedley's List. as well.

HG_Eliminator

on Feb 23, 2010

lol

Sinperium

on Feb 23, 2010

I keep hoping the Mafia Wars people will kill all the farmers at Farmville and then starve to death themselves from lack of food--a win-win situation.

HG_Eliminator

on Feb 23, 2010

LOL sad part is in real life the farmers would win as most farmers I know... were taught how to properly fire a weapon and hit what they aim at.. not spray and pray..

elvee

on Feb 23, 2010

...Or they could do what I do and just hide game posts so I see only what matters to me...

Neoshadow1105

on Feb 23, 2010

My brother created a very specific group called: I don't care about your fish, or your farm, or your freakin war

WebGizmos

on Feb 24, 2010

My brother created a very specific group called: I don't care about your fish, or your farm, or your freakin war

Where can I sign up!

On a side note: For anyone sending me a facebook "friends" invite...If I don't know your real life name or alternate name used on facebook your invite will just be deleted/ignored. And no...sorry...no time for virtual vegetable growing or mafia wars (I can't believe I said that! Virtual farming! What will they think of next!)

PoSmedley

on Feb 24, 2010

And Smedley's List.

I have an app????

Lokthar

on Feb 24, 2010

Neoshadow1104

reply 8

My brother created a very specific group called: I don't care about your fish, or your farm, or your freakin war

well quite obviously he will have to be the first eliminated when my war results in me controlling the majority of the world

Lantec

on Feb 24, 2010

I hope this tip helps you not drive your non gaming pals crazy as well as not flood thier walls with stuff they really dont want to see.

Yes...I can think of 2 moderators who could I would love to see implement this.....well maybe just one now....

...Or they could do what I do and just hide game posts so I see only what matters to me...

that doesn't work with aggregators like tweetdeck.....not sure why

c242

on Feb 24, 2010

I am member of the group 'If you don't care about my farm, fish, park or mafia....LEARN HOW TO IGNORE'

teddybearcholla

on Feb 24, 2010

My brother created a very specific group called: I don't care about your fish, or your farm, or your freakin war

And no...sorry...no time for virtual vegetable growing or mafia wars (I can't believe I said that! Virtual farming! What will they think of next!)

Me neither or quizzes,tests and things like that. I just like to see and hear how my friends and family are doing!!! Unfortunately my children do not want to be friends with me....

Neoshadow1105

on Feb 24, 2010

God bless the creator of the block button

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