Unless you’re one of those Internet hermits still jammin’ around with a Hotmail address (How’s 1997? Can you bring me back a slap bracelet?), you likely have a few of what you might teasingly call “stalkers.”
How else would you explain the torrent of random acquaintances who, without fail, attack your Facebook wall with a “Happy Birthday” bomb every year?
Most of the time, such attention is just an unmerited boost of your self-rated online likability/interestingness. But depending on the enthusiasm level in the fevered fingers of your unwanted BFF, it can also be, how can we say it … hella off-putting.
Here’s what to do when someone goes from pal to parasite.
Head on over to CNN to read my Netiquette column, which I pen weekly with Stuff Hipsters Hate co-blogger, Andrea Bartz.
Check out the column at CNN.com >>
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