Ten Facebook Commandments

1. Thou shalt not be the "Reply All" person. Yes, you know who we're talking about: the self-satisfied person who repeatedly hits "reply all" on every group e-mail he or she receives. 2. Thou shalt not use "the Wall" as a love parade. Facebook should break in every new member by testing them with this question: the note "I luv uuuuuuu soooooo much baby, I'm lookin at uuu from acrosssss the room, I can't take it your so hoooottttt!" belongs in A) a private message; B) the Wall; C) In a mental ward. 3. Thou shalt not "poke" incessantly. No it's not OK to pursue poking someone you don't know in the hope of him or her miraculously breaking down and begging for the privilege of being your friend. Would you walk up to a stranger in the street and poke them to gain their attention? No, I didn't think so. 4. Thou shalt not wear your heart on your sleeve. For those of you who think the interweb is a therapy session, you're sorely mistaken. Please, for your sake and others', avoid sharing embarrassingly personal details of your life with everyone on Facebook; save them for your close friends and family. 5. Thou shalt not set your profile to public. Think of it this way: setting your Facebook profile public tells people something about you - namely that you want attention and don't care if you're getting it from strangers. Now, this might not actually be the case, but that's how people are going to perceive it. 6. Thou shalt not accept friend requests indiscriminately. This goes hand-in-hand with #5, and should go without saying. It's important to make sure that you don't have a bunch of strangers lurking in your friends list --you have no idea who they really are. 7. Thou shalt not share relationship melodramas. There's nothing more annoying than a Facebook friend who updates his relationship status update every time there is a development in his (or her) relationship life. Just have a fight with your boyfriend? Don't rush to Facebook and change your relationship status from "In a Relationship" to "It's Complicated" to "No Longer in a Relationship" and then back to "In a Relationship" in the span of ten minutes. 8. Thou shalt not list your full address and phone number. Please don't make it easy for ill intentioned people to reach you. 9. Thou shalt not intentionally flood your friends with application requests. To be bombarded by 50 FarmVille requests a day is, to say the least, annoying. If you're unaware, there's such a thing as skipping the invite option. 10. Thou shalt not assume that "anonymous" applications will keep you anonymous. Applications like Honesty Box and Matches are two anonymous Facebook applications that allow you to say things to your friends that you wouldn't otherwise say. Sounds great, right? One must understand, however, why such a concept is a recipe for disaster: You can easily figure out which of your friends are using these applications, dramatically narrowing the number of possibilities. That hateful message you sent to your co-worker will come back and haunt you.