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I know, I know, but look:

"Has jst got up a know a sed a wntd a lie in bt nw half t day has gone so dnt luk lyk am gan xmas shopin agen.grrrrr"

Please God, give me strength.

I cull anyone I can't understand. I do like a good bit of culling.

I have quite frightened myself by being able to read that! If you banned morons, facebook would have to shut.....

Oops! My computer's having a dicky fit (it obviously doesn't like Facebook either!)

Oh dear. What is happening to the English language?

If they can't even write properly in txt, they get expunged.

Actually, I lie. If they write in txt at all they are history. If they are other people's people then I snigger, scornfully.

I think a good cull is in order

And if they have full on screaming rows with friends/partners and families 'cringe'

I hide people who do my head in..one such friend would just post constant obsenities directed at her lastest squeeze such as "You're a wanker you know who you are...you'll get yours" and other such witless sentiments, wondered why she kept going out with men seeing as she hates them so much and to publisise how shit challenged she is in the relationship dept made it all the more perplexing...I also struggle, where there is a status update with spelling errors, not to comment with corrections....also depressing updates, RIP updates, anything which doesn't make me laugh updates......maybe its me and I need to go and get a life

I had to cull a couple of people who had updates that were obviously meant to be digs at someone (maybe me. Who knows). If you can't say it to their face then don't say it at all.

i went on a mass cull and deleted 2 racists,a few baby bores (want to cull another one too but can't do it)and anyone who was trying to spam me.
A very good friend (who i am currently in an 'off' phase with) keeps stealing my 'friends' and posts her status updates in either badly spelled/gramatically incorrect french or misheard lyrics,of bands she doesn't like but has read are 'seminal' i think her midlife crisis is in full flow to be honest....

I keep my facebook friends to a minimum. If I don't want to spend a lot of time with them in RL, then I sure as hell don't want to know what they've had for lunch etc.

I am so with you. For some reason the past few weeks have been particularly bad. Endless bloody photos of newborns and scans with 15 comments each along the lines of 'shes gooorjus, when u wana meet up?', drive me insane. I have a couple of nieces, 18 and 22, and thought it would be a good way of keeping up with their lives but I'm going to have to hide them, I can't stand it any longer.

Especially the teenagers whose status updates are always about how 'tired' they are. FFS! (shows age)

YANBU but if you are going to go on about language please bear in mind Moron is not a nice word and i personally find it quite offensive

An idea for a new FB application:

Facebook Assassin. Puts a button on the feed page, and a vote button next to 'friends' status feeds.

3 strikes, they are HISTORY...

If moron applies to people with an IQ of between 51-70 it would seem to be the correct term to use judging by the text the OP pasted?

And OP, YANBU.

Moron is Welsh for carrot

Am I the only one who has no idea what that status update is saying?

I had a terrible FB 'crash' and I accidentally on purpose deleted loads of people. I went from about 100 people to 30 and they are the people whose pics and status updates I am acutally interested in.

whats does that status update actually say in the OP post??

"Has jst got up a know a sed a wntd a lie in bt nw half t day has gone so dnt luk lyk am gan xmas shopin agen.grrrrr"

So-and-so..... "has just got up, I know I said I wanted a lie-in but now half the day has gone so don't think it looks like I am going Christmas shopping again. Grrrr."

In my defence, I have an 18-year old brother.

'"Has jst got up a know a sed a wntd a lie in bt nw half t day has gone so dnt luk lyk am gan xmas shopin agen.grrrrr"

So-and-so..... "has just got up, I know I said I wanted a lie-in but now half the day has gone so don't think it looks like I am going Christmas shopping again. Grrrr."

In my defence, I have an 18-year old brother.'

Sounds like something my brothers would write... and they're 27!

OP - YANBU

Kimi - I never knew that!

Oh dear god.

I have plenty of youngsters on my list and not a single one of them would write incomprehensible shite sentences like that!

Although I was able to decipher it

I also recently had a lovely cull taking me from 230 odd to 99. Most of them had been on limited profile anyway!

If someone was constantly updating in that style they would have to go or be hidden.