Profile Comment Hacking
Ah, the serial commenters who leave all these pics on our profiles. You know the ones I’m talking about, right? Every day, or every couple of days, they will leave these rather large picture comments on your profile, sometimes accompanied with a generic greeting like “Have a great Monday!”.
These folks are harmless, right? They’re just pursuing an internet hobby of sorts. I’m sure they must like RECEIVING these comments which is why they send them out in the first place, right? I’m guessing they mostly think that everyone must like looking at pretty pictures on his or her profile. I don’t really care too much if I receive these images or not. Some are nice to look at. Some even put a lot of creativity into their creation.
That said, I usually delete these serial commenters from my friends list. I did on MySpace, and since there seem to be a LOT of them here on Friend Burst (this site makes mass-commenting to everyone on your friends list very easy), I’ve been doing it here too. One somewhat humorous or visually striking medium-sized image every couple of days is fine, but when your comment takes up 3 screens full of me scrolling down to get to the delete button, bye bye. Multiple comments in a day? Nice not-really-knowing-you.
Maybe I could start putting this image on the right on their profiles… maybe they’d get it… Nahhh
And I didn’t know you. I certainly wouldn’t delete any of my REAL Internet friends over some glitter, but I barely know these folks and they want to put their footprints all over my profile! When these pictures also include comments about the quality of our relationship, yeah, it seems to me to be about as sincere as getting junk mail talking about how wonderful a customer I am.
What I don’t like is fake sincerity. What I find pretentious and presumptuous are these comments about how wonderful our friendship is. About how much you love all your wonderful friends. Including me.
We have a wonderful friendship? Great! Loan me $50.
What to do about this comment spam? Well, the simplest thing to do is just delete. I’m sure if any of those folks read this blog, they will delete me.
Another thing to do is get snarky, and that’s what I’m doing tonight!!!
COMMENT HACKING!!
THE FINE ART OF TAKING A PICTURE COMMENT AND TWISTING IT AROUND TO YOUR PLEASURE…
God… that picture over there is LOOONG!
I got this picture comment on my profile today. Lovely picture of a rose with the word “Monday” below it. Ummm… Yes, it is Monday. Yesterday was Sunday. Tomorrow it is Tuesday. And Wednesday, comes afterwards.
Oh, God, now I got Rebecca Black stuck in my head again!
Surprise me a little bit!
Give me a word other than what day it happens to be today.
Like the ultimate surprise word!
GLITTER! FAIRIES AND UNICORNS!
This nice salutation came in over the weekend (as you might have guessed)..
Umm… I’m a 40 year old grown man. I’m just not into the glitter and fairies and unicorns. Teddy bears, on the other hand… anyways… I am not:
Well, not since college anyways, and that was just a phase.
I suppose these picture comments do serve one function.
I rarely wonder what day of the week it is!
Aaaahh… aaaahh..aaah…
AAAAAHH-CHOOOOO!!!!
Sorry, it’s Springtime. Must be my allergies acting up.
At least these “friends” who love to talk about how close we all are managed to refrain from posting pictures of kitty cats on my profile after Barry’s recent passing.
Oh, all except this person.
Yeah.
This one I kind of liked! (I’m a closet fan of Dora & Pepe..err..Pedro? Whatever the other one’s name is)…
Two underaged Hispanic children and a monkey? Now that’s my idea of a ROCKING weekend!
I was trying to think of a better caption for this… something about that this is why a fence on the southern border won’t solve our immigration problem… but I couldn’t think of anything better than:
Sometimes, the pictures folks leave are very pretty, but confusing. What are they saying by leaving this picture? For example, I got this nice painting of a forest fire on my profile today:
The two deer in the foreground probably aren’t admiring how beautiful the flames are.
What are you wishing me here?
Let’s hack it up a bit…
Now, some people send out these spam-ish comments because they have something of their own creation that they’re trying to promote. I can respect that. There’s this one musician on many of our pages who sends out a music video of his own stuff every few days or so. The music isn’t my style, but I recognize the technical expertise in it’s creation and at least I know why he’s doing it.
Now, I know that we, as a culture, wish each other a “nice day” or the equivalent as a greeting ritual. You don’t really care whether or not I have a “great weekend” when you’re spamming hundreds of profiles at once. Of course, this musician I mentioned feels the need to accompany his videos with that kind of greeting…
Lately, I’ve been responding to Alex’s videos by posting my ukulele videos back at him. I think for that one up there, I also included:
Have a relatively decent mid-morning
Tolerance & Partly Cloudy Skies
Sometimes
Joko
I wanted to go back and make a screenshot of that comment, but I couldn’t. It would go well with this pair from today below.
I don’t think “Alex” sees my comments. As I said, I went back to look for my comment from a few days ago but gave up. Just for today alone, this guy got 17 full pages of picture comments from these serial commenters!!
Makes this “thanks for your beautiful comments” crap seem even less sincere.
Okay, folks, I’m done with my rant about picture comments.
Want to play?
Go to your profile, download one of your “friend”‘s comments, photoshop it up and bring it back here!
I LOVE YOU ALL SOOOOOO MUCH!!
All I know is last time I checked I had over 5500 Friggen Coments since joining here….
5500…………Please Kevin…paleaseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee find a way we can mass delete them…..I am affraid to look anymore,and it’s taking about 4 days for my page to load…..so yea J…..I Hear ya Kid….. :groovy:
:entertained:
I get all those same comment postings and every other day or so I go through and delete the ones that are too long or too sweet or too red (I despise red, it clashes with my purple 😆 ) or are just too too. I don’t mind the occasional “hey, how ya doing?”, but when they come in three times a day from four or five of the same people, I think it gets just a bit ridiculous.
I do like your changes of some of these comments and wish I had your mad photoshop skills!
LOLOL!!!!! Funny. I just leave them up because the glitter graphics and the angel graphics and the flowers make my page look pretty.
I keep thinking they do it because it gets them awarded credit points for being so active. Just the other day two of my female serial commenters unfriended me and I miss them already. It also messes my email at the other site because I have set to notify me of any comments. That’s the only way I know if someone has responded to my comments on their blogs. One time I had about 300 comments because I hadn’t check my email for about 3 or 4 days.
gentleman and ladies: instead of xxxxxx 🙂 , I suggest you either tell your friends that you don’t want comments… or delete them and you won’t have the problem…
Some people like to send comments, for one reason or other, and that’s there prerogative.
Also to stop the very large comments that ruin your page size, there is a code you can put on your css I think to stop that, I’m no expert.
I send comments, I like to do it to be creative, but if a friend asked me to stop, then I would.But they would still remain a friend. We are all on here for different reasons.
You also have the serial Blogger, and the ones that are Poetry serial Blogger…. And that’s ok, they are also being creative.
Lets just have fun:)
Said with Love and Respect ~ Dearne
I’ve been deleting pages and pages of comments tonight. After looking through all those comments, it’s really hard for me to get into the mindset of the whole thing. I can understand someone making comments to send out as a form of expression, but I can’t really understand how someone could look forward to scrolling through pages of comments every day.
I feel as if I’ve been watching an American Idol marathon while snacking on lead paint chips all day.
I really don’t want to be judgmental about something that clearly brings pleasure to so many people. I just can’t understand the massive subculture that takes part in this practice. I demand that someone does a documentary on this phenomenon so I can understand what makes this happen the way it does.
I join these sites to spread my creative wings – it’s a form of expression for me…i hate flowery, glitter type graphics & instead choose to send interesting thought provoking photography or art..everybody is different in their tastes..yes i will send the same comment to everybody because it is a time thing for me, i have a life outside of the pc as most do..i tend to personalise certain comments for those ppl i am closest to & the rest get one comment a day from me just so they know that they are appreciated, included & thought of…perhaps the ppl that do not like pic comments are better suited to Facebook as opposed to sites such as this that encourages pic comments. :entertained:
Here is an example of a comment i would leave though they change daily i have no style..i’m random that way..;)
MUCH LOVE, NICKY X
Guess he opened Pandoras box lol over & out 🙄 😆
I never understood what is that message with “hump day”.
Go Nickster1 GF………. ha ha
😛 :entertained: 😈 ha ha ha
Thanks for making me LMAO!!! I need this! You too huh?? Thought it may just be me.I get them several times a day too, thought maybe they just forgot they already sent me one for breakfast and lunch, then there is a guy who sends me romantic poem several times a day that says love you, EEK!! He sent some nudes to my profile, I nicely sent him a message that said not to send nudes, he hasn’t anymore,but still continues with good morning good afternoon and goodnight poetry, check out my page. LOL, great post Joko. :entertained:
If anyone gets nude picture comments that they don’t want, please forward them to me. 😈
This made me laugh too. I’m having the same problem. The thing that surprises me is how ‘romantic’ many of the messages are–from women–who I’ve never met–talking like we’re bff’s or lezbionic friends (which is ok, but we’re not and I’m not)–and it gets confusing.
I’ve also been getting advertisments in comments. Pictures with prices. Spam supreme sammiches. Those are the ones I’ve deleted rather than the innocuous glitter graphics.
These overposting “free love to everyone” mass mailer types are just a metaphor. For how there got to be so much V.D. in the world.
I usually send out comments once or twice a week. They are comments that I have taken the time to put together and are single comments. I have also taken the time to see what friends accept comments. Those who do, get one. It is simply an acknowledgement of friendship. For this to be a social networking site, I have never heard so much crying over acts of thoughtfulness as I have here. I agree that comments with a lot of attachments and comments being sent every day, sometimes several times a day can be annoying, but for some reason, some people do it. I do not judge them. If it gets to be too much, message them. If that doesn’t work, then unfriend them…I see no useful purpose continually making blogs and bulletins decrying this “problem”. This will happen on a social networking site.
I try to get to know each person that is on my friend’s list…and try to let them come to know me better. Most of the people here will try not to offend you…and if what they do does offend you, by letting them know in a message is more appropriate than blogging or posting bulletins.
Tact.
I have always enjoyed reading your blogs or comments, Joko. I know that you wrote this more about long or continuous comments, but you seem to feel that even short ones that you do personally like are wrong as well. Maybe there should be a way to look at comments before they are allowed on your page (something for future consideration by Kevin and Karen)…or just fix your profile for no comments…..problem solved…with tact.
RC
You have outdone yourself again which is so hard to do….. I’ll be back. 😉
I send a hello comment to new friends, and I try to remember the birthdays. I will try to send comments at Easter and Christmas, but how people find the time to be forever sending those huge pretty meaningless comments, sometimes two or three times a day, amazes me. It is just impossible for me, consequently people think I am ignoring them and delete me for being a non-commenting unfriend! 🙄 :groovy: 🙂
I dont mind comments and actually like them unless its like five in a row within minutes of each other. I think its a nice way of showing your appreciation for someone. But I get your point, sometimes it does go overboard with some, but on the whole I dont really mind. Or perhaps im not popular enough to get as many comments as some do on here
Hi Buddy!
I’ve disabled the profile commenting,and still some friends can still comment.And those comments I’m not sorry for having received (in a rather ‘miraculous’ way )-they’re not ‘glitter’
I’ve looked at my profile page maybe a dozen times. Somebody named “Hawaii” is in love with me. Jealous?
Joko. This is delightful.
I am sorry to hear you are neglected and only receive a comment a day from the same person. One lady thinks so highly of me she sends at least 3 or 4. Everyday…. Thank you for the butseks Rose, Joko. I know she will know what to do with it.
I am promoting my art as well you know. Who can teach me how to do a send all on comment to all my friends? I have never tried until today… Leaving it here so you get two copies, lucky you.
Now I go look for a longcat pic to put on your profile.
I love what ya did with the forest fire one. I am saving that.
Joko, if you don’t mind, I’ll pass. I work in computers. And I have this temp job at the hospital. And I just can’t bring myself to do any photoshop.
If you don’t mind I am going to listen to your Forever Young Vid on Youtube, Hopefully no hard feelings.
one of your cats died? I’m sorry. Haven’t been around the blogs too much lately. RIP little kitty. About the rest of this blog….lol Once in awhile I get a comment from someone that I WANT to see and I have to really search for it, other than that its not a major issue for me. I just dont look. But your take on it made for a fun blog. Have a nice day, Joko. And today is wednesday, in case you’re wondering.
I’ve never been a fairy. I was between two buns once, but I was in college and needed the money. Anyway… Long Joko is long. Smoochie Boochies! :love:
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