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I have a friend who tells the most ridiculous stories. At first, they seemed quite funny and the rest of us didn’t question her sincerity, but it seems the more we appear to believe her, the more stories she tells and the more ridiculous they become – from being able to eat glass to recently being chased ‘by a big cat, like a puma’, and outrunning it – it’s all so absurd! The thing is, I don’t know why she does this, and it can be very awkward when we all know that she’s lying, but we’ve gone along with it for too long to know how to say anything now. I just don’t know how much longer I can listen to the tales though – even if they are mostly harmless. Should I call her out on it? Name supplied
I am quite a fan of absurdity myself, so I am struggling a bit to see why this is a problem for you all? Perhaps your friend aspires to Eddie Izzard territory where he starts off with an anecdote about a cat purring, and it turns into a story about them secretly drilling behind the couch and planning to take over the world.
It sounds as if this is someone that you see mostly in a group setting, and the rest of the group has been talking about her – and neither of these factors necessarily helps build a friendship. When you say, ‘we all know that she’s lying’, have you actually checked, even by occasionally saying ‘you’re joking, right?’ Maybe this friend harbours some secret desire to become a stand-up comedian and is trying out some material on you!
Whatever the reason, please treat her as you would like to be treated: with kindness, assuming the best and asking her questions if you don’t understand what she’s telling you.
Mary Fenwick is a business coach, journalist, fundraiser, mother, divorcée and widow. GOT A QUESTION FOR MARY? Email mary@psychologies.co.uk, with ‘MARY’ in the subject line
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A frequently asked questions (FAQ) forum is often used in articles, websites, email lists, and online forums where common questions tend to recur, for example through posts or queries by new users related to common knowledge gaps. The purpose of an FAQ is generally to provide information on frequent questions or concerns; however, the format is a useful means of organizing information, and text consisting of questions and their answers may thus be called an FAQ regardless of whether the questions are actually frequently asked.[1]
Since the acronym FAQ originated in textual media, its pronunciation varies. FAQ is most commonly pronounced[according to whom?] as an initialism, 'F-A-Q', but may also be pronounced as an acronym, 'FAQ'.[2] Web page designers often label a single list of questions as an 'FAQ', such as on Google Search,[3] while using 'FAQs' to denote multiple lists of questions such as on United States Treasury sites.[4] Use of 'FAQ' to refer to a single frequently asked question, in and of itself, is less common.
Origins[edit]
While the name may be recent, the FAQ format itself is quite old. For example, Matthew Hopkins wrote The Discovery of Witches in 1647 as a list of questions and answers, introduced as 'Certain Queries answered'. Many old catechisms are in a question-and-answer (Q&A) format. Summa Theologica, written by Thomas Aquinas in the second half of the 13th century, is a series of common questions about Christianity to which he wrote a series of replies. Plato's dialogues are even older.
On the Internet[edit]
The 'FAQ' is an Internet textual tradition originating from the technical limitations of early mailing lists from NASA in the early 1980s. The first FAQ developed over several pre-Web years, starting from 1982 when storage was expensive. On ARPANET's SPACE mailing list, the presumption was that new users would download archived past messages through FTP. In practice this rarely happened, and the users tended to post questions to the mailing list instead of searching its archives. Repeating the 'right' answers became tedious, and went against developing netiquette. A series of different measures were set up by loosely affiliated groups of computer system administrators, from regularly posted messages to netlib-like query emaildaemons. The acronym FAQ was developed between 1982 and 1985 by Eugene Miya of NASA for the SPACE mailing list.[1] The format was then picked up on other mailing lists and Usenetnewsgroups. Posting frequency changed to monthly, and finally weekly and daily across a variety of mailing lists a
Modern developments[edit]
Non-traditional FAQs[edit]
In some cases, informative documents not in the traditional FAQ style have also been described as FAQs, particularly the video game FAQ, which is often a detailed description of gameplay, including tips, secrets, and beginning-to-end guidance.[5] Rarely are videogame FAQs in a question-and-answer format, although they may contain a short section of questions and answers.[citation needed]
Over time, the accumulated FAQs across all Usenet newsgroups sparked the creation of the '*.answers' moderated newsgroups such as comp.answers, misc.answers and sci.answers for crossposting and collecting FAQ across respective comp.*, misc.*, sci.* newsgroups.
In web design[edit]
The FAQ has become an important component of websites, either as a stand-alone page or as a website section with multiple subpages per question or topic. Embedded links to FAQ pages have become commonplace in website navigation bars, bodies, or footers. The FAQ page is an important consideration in web design, in order to achieve several goals of customer service and search engine optimization (SEO), including
- reducing the workload of in-person customer service employees
- improving site navigation
- increasing the visibility of the website by matching/optimizing for specific search terms
- linking to or integrating within product pages.[6]
Criticism[edit]
Some content providers discourage the use of FAQs in place of restructuring content under logical headings. For example, the UK Government Digital Service does not use FAQs.[7]
References[edit]
- ^ abHersch, Russ. FAQs about FAQs. 8 January 1998. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/faqs/about-faqs/.
- ^'About FAQs: Pronunciation'. Faqs.org. Retrieved 2013-06-13.
- ^'FAQ'. Retrieved May 30, 2013.
- ^'OFAC FAQs: Question Index'. United States Department of the Treasury. Retrieved May 30, 2013.
- ^Teti, John (9 September 2010). 'What the FAQ?'. Eurogamer. Gamer Network. Retrieved 21 July 2014.
- ^Kumar, Braveen (Aug 3, 2016). 'The Benefits of an FAQ Page (And How to Do It Right)'. Shopify. Retrieved February 16, 2019.
- ^Government Digital Service https://gds.blog.gov.uk/2013/07/25/faqs-why-we-dont-have-them/
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