{"id":28284,"date":"2011-04-05T01:47:54","date_gmt":"2011-04-05T05:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/28284\/profile-comment-hacking\/"},"modified":"2011-04-05T01:47:54","modified_gmt":"2011-04-05T05:47:54","slug":"profile-comment-hacking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friendburst.com\/blog-new\/28284\/profile-comment-hacking\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile Comment Hacking"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ah, the serial commenters who leave all these pics on our profiles. You know the ones I\u2019m 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 \u201cHave a great Monday!\u201d.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"really,These folks are harmless, right? They\u2019re just pursuing an internet hobby of sorts.\u00a0 I\u2019m sure they must like RECEIVING<\/em> these comments which is why they send them out in the first place, right? I\u2019m guessing they mostly think that everyone <\/em>must like looking at pretty pictures on his or her profile. I don\u2019t 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. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u2019ve 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.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe I could start putting this image on the right on their profiles… maybe they’d\u00a0 get it<\/em>…\u00a0 Nahhh<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

And I didn\u2019t know you. I certainly wouldn\u2019t 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. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What I don\u2019t like is fake sincerity<\/strong>. What I find pretentious and presumptuous are these comments about how wonderful our friendship is. About how much you love all<\/em> your wonderful friends. Including me.
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

We have a wonderful friendship? Great! Loan me $50.<\/strong> <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What to do about this comment spam? Well, the simplest thing to do is just delete. I\u2019m sure if any of those folks read this blog, they will delete me. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Another thing to do is get snarky, and that\u2019s what I\u2019m doing tonight!!!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

COMMENT HACKING!!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

THE FINE ART OF TAKING A PICTURE COMMENT AND TWISTING IT AROUND TO YOUR PLEASURE…<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

God… that picture over there is LOOONG!<\/p>\n

I got this picture comment on my profile today.\u00a0 Lovely picture of a rose with the word “Monday” below it.\u00a0 Ummm…\u00a0 Yes, it is Monday.\u00a0 Yesterday was Sunday.\u00a0 Tomorrow it is Tuesday.\u00a0 And Wednesday, comes afterwards.
\nOh, God, now I got Rebecca Black stuck in my head again!
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Surprise me a little bit!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Give me a word other than what day it happens to be today.
\nLike the ultimate surprise word!
\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

GLITTER!\u00a0 FAIRIES AND UNICORNS!
\nThis nice salutation came in over the weekend (as you might have guessed)..<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Umm… I’m a 40 year old grown man.\u00a0 I’m just not into the glitter and fairies and unicorns.\u00a0 Teddy bears, on the other hand… anyways… I am not:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Well, not since college anyways, and that was just a phase. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I suppose these picture comments do serve one function.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I rarely wonder what day of the week it is! <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Aaaahh… aaaahh..aaah…<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

AAAAAHH-CHOOOOO!!!!<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Sorry, it’s Springtime.\u00a0 Must be my allergies acting up.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Oh, all except this person. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Yeah.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

This one I kind of liked! (I’m a closet fan of Dora & Pepe..err..Pedro?\u00a0 Whatever the other one’s name is)…<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Two underaged Hispanic children and a monkey?\u00a0 Now that’s my idea of a ROCKING weekend! <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

Sometimes, the pictures folks leave are very pretty, but confusing.\u00a0 What are they saying by leaving this picture?\u00a0 For example, I got this nice painting of a forest fire on my profile today:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/p>\n

The two deer in the foreground probably aren’t admiring how beautiful the flames are. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What are you wishing me here? <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s hack it up a bit…<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now, some people send out these spam-ish comments because they have something of their own creation that they’re trying to promote.\u00a0 I can respect that.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 The music isn’t my style, but I recognize the technical expertise in it’s creation and at least I know why <\/em>he’s doing it. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Now, I know that we, as a culture, wish each other a “nice day” or the equivalent as a greeting ritual.\u00a0 You don’t really care whether or not I have a “great weekend” when you’re spamming hundreds of profiles at once.\u00a0 Of course, this musician I mentioned feels the need to accompany his videos with that kind of greeting…<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"
\n<\/span><\/p>\n

Lately, I’ve been responding to Alex’s videos by posting my ukulele videos back at him.\u00a0 I think for that one up there, I also included:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Have a relatively decent mid-morning<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Tolerance & Partly Cloudy Skies<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Sometimes
\nJoko<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

I wanted to go back and make a screenshot of that comment, but I couldn’t.\u00a0 It would go well with this pair from today below. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/p>\n

I don’t think “Alex” sees my comments.\u00a0 As I said, I went back to look for my comment from a few days ago but gave up.\u00a0 Just for today alone, this guy got 17 full pages of picture comments from these serial commenters!! <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Makes this “thanks for your beautiful comments” crap seem even less sincere. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n


\n<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Okay, folks, I’m done with my rant about picture comments. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Want to play?<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Go to your profile, download one of your “friend”‘s comments, photoshop it up and bring it back here! <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I LOVE YOU ALL SOOOOOO MUCH!! <\/span>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n


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