As a member of Facebook, I present myself as a low key but yet fun person. What I hope that people get from my Facebook page is that I am a strong, independent and hard working woman. I always try and stay positive because I choose to see the better side of things instead of the negative. There was one incident where I posted a picture of my boyfriend and I and, a guy that I had dated years ago. He made a comment on the picture saying, “You can do better than that”. I was really upset and deleted his comment as well as deleted him from my friends list as well. These kinds of things happen all the time in social networking and it relates to communication and conflict. The conflict is always someone posting something about you that you wanted no one to know or making rude comments. The approach you take on handling the situation is where the communication takes place. You could one, swoop to their level and argue back or two, speak to the person who made the post in a calm manner. Discussing to the person who made the comment and telling him or her that you really didn’t appreciate what they said will most likely prevent it from ever happening again. These social network pages can cause a lot of conflict but yet, we still contribute to it every day.
I agree with you on trying to stay positive on your facebook page. I as well always try to stay positive, but there are times where I want to be like “screw you so and so!” but I don’t. Even though there I have once or twice ☺. I can’t believe that person would post something like that on your picture. And you are completely right. There are a few different ways of handling a situation like that. The social networking sites and pages can cause major conflicts and it is crazy that people still are completely addicted to it and spend all of their time on it. Great Post!
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