I know it is all my own fault for being on Facebook, I do, I do - but it still makes me irrationally demented when I log in to nose at pictures of exes and people I went to school with catch up with true friends and family and every single status is something like, "Takeaway pizza? Don't mind if I do," "Go to the pub? Oh, go on then," "Night out while kids at mum's? Don't mind if I do," "Kings of Leon? Oh go on then." Why do I find this so annoying? I have many other more worrying and urgent problems to occupy my mind - why do I choose to torture myself repeatedly re-reading these annoying updates?
Just to clarify, it is the structure of the sentence that I find annoying; I have no problem with pizza, or nights out, or Kings of Leon for that matter. Right now, I am at risk of redundancy and put the computer on to look for jobs; instead here I am winding myself up about it yet more by starting a thread about it. I'm sure it's something to do with Facebook, and the way it makes you talk about yourself in the third person (and gives you an over-inflated sense of self - it was my birthday a few weeks ago, I got loads of birthday messages from people I swear I don't even fucking know, and found myself updating them to assure them I was indeed having anice birthday, and to thank them all for their kind messages, like I was the fucking Queen or something.)
AIBU?
To start the pettiest Facebook thread ever
PumpkinBones · 11/06/2011 21:39
Seriously I think you need to log off and make a nice cup of tea 
And if you have people on your friend list that you swear you don't know, what's the point in that?
FB statuses that piss me off include:
'I'm so fucking angry now!!' Someone then replies - 'What's wrong?' Reply - 'I'll inbox you.'
The boasting ones which detail every item of clothing bought, how obscenely expensive their DC's taste is, every holiday booked, every item bought for the house, all out of most people's price range.
The statuses that say nothing about the person whose FB it is, only boring details about their DC and what they've been up to. It's like having FB for your DC but in your name.
The FB statuses about 'my baby boy' 'my baby girl' when the DC in question are not babies, in fact they are usually teens. Why do parents do that?
One friend tags her DS in her statuses, referring to him as her 'baby boy' and he's almost 18. 
Not sure what he thinks of this especially when it's on his FB page too, but she refers to him as her baby boy in RL too and infront of his friends. Another friend refers to her DD as her baby girl, to tell everyone DD is 7 next week. Not a baby then.
The text speak statuses.
Urgh, I have one friend who's studying in a different county. He moans about his home county when he's here, and his university county when he's there. Every other fucking status...
Another one posts continual reviews of films, despite, it seems, knowing nothing about the subject... She seems to limit it to script and soundtrack, yet acts like the damn fucking expert. She hated it when I pointed out her defiinition of what made an indie film was correct in the common sense, but not in the industrial sense... Sorry, it had to happen some time.
Mmm I have to say the only statuses I get 
at are the
X thinks some people should have better things to do in their life than GET INVOLVED IN SOMEONE ELSES BUSINESS. What a cow. GRRRR
followed by a load of friends who can tell whether they are "in" or "out" by whether they post "ooh I know what a bitch" or "what's going on hun can I help???"
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