to think you really shouldn't update your Facebook status more than once a day?

[PutTheKettleOn]

I have a friend who is lovely but everytime I log on to Facebook my news feed basically says:

XX is having a cup of tea in bed 7am
XX really should get up now 8am
XX has got to drop DS off at nursery before getting a haircut, phew busy day! 8.30am
XX doesn't like her new haircut 11am
XX has done a poo...

do some people have nothing better to do?? (says me who clearly has nothing better to do apart from whinge on MN )

OP - if you don't like it, use your FB status differently. We're all individuals after all!

I have peaks and troughs of FB activity - sometimes a status a day, sometimes, one a week. Horses for courses.

She needs Twitter.

It depends what happens to you during a day.

Some are pretty crap but I block the boring people.

I tend to remove friends like that from my newsfeed. Just pop on their wall now and again to see if anything interesting has happened - or rely on mutual friends to comment (and therefore I see their status update that way) if anything actually interesting happens!

ahaha, didn't realise you could do that, I thought my only solution would be to de-friend her therefore causing all sorts of offence... thank you SeaTrek!

still think it is weird though...my life is rather dull so i tend to only update my status when something vaguely interesting happens.

YANBU. She needs to spend more time in real life instead of her virtual one. Why does everyone feel the need to be constantly telling the world and his wife the most mundane minutiae of their lives?
Can't stand bloody facebook anyway, I only joined it so I could read updates and see photos from my neice while she was travelling. I have seven friends on it, and that's too many! And as for that blasted 'poke' thing...what's that all about? Either type 'hello' or don't bother!

I don't really mind the mundane ones. It's when people post about really personal or meaningful things via their status, such as :

'xxxx feels really down and betrayed'

me: 'oh dear whats up?'

'xxxx can't really say on here'

FGS!

YANBU. FB is really for the self-indulgent, isn't it?!

I deleted some friends due to relentless, boring updates before I realized you could hide them. Many of them were professional Mummies, updating every minutiae of their PFB's day.

Once you start using your FB status to alert the world to their potty-training, it really is time to go.

But how many times do you check your FB on order to see all these updates?!

She sounds like she has no life TBH. Who the hell wants to read that crap anyway?!

But that's what FB is, so to complain about how someone uses it is absurd. If you don't like it, fine, don't have an account.

5DollarShake, what a patronising, unpleasant post. Professional mummies is a nasty phrase. I bet your 'friends' were devastated you deleted them

Not as bad as a friend of mine who has played out her entire divorce on Facebook (no details spared) along with her feelings of bitterness towards her soon to be, ex.

He was an utter arse, granted but even so! Her DD and DS (in their teens)got to see the whole sorry state of affairs unfold.

Lots of her friends replied to her rantings with platitudes such as 'awwww Babe, he's such a dick'

I have just been aghast about the whole thing really

And I know many many grown women who are desperate to have as many facebook friends as possible (500+). Very sad imo.

i recently deleted loads of my FB "friends" because the constant boring status updates (from people i couldnt give a shit about and in some cases didnt even like) were doing my head in. i now only have a handful of close friends and family on there who i actually care about!

i also hate the attention seeking (am at the lady getting divorced betty - how awful for her kids to have to see that), the boasting, the whinging, the competitiveness, the bitchiness....fb can be good but you have to either rise above all the crap bits of it, or only have your absolute nearest and dearest on it, or just dont be on there :o

I'm sure they weren't bothered in the slightest, Rockbird.

Sorry, but the updates were relentless and utterly mundane to pretty much anyone except immediate family. . Plus don't they have anything else going on in their life?

People are entitled to post what they like, just as the rest of us are entitled to glaze over at what they post. FB clearly recognizes that some people post less than scintillating updates, hence the ability to hide them!

I have a friend who went into a full on panic today because Facebook was "down" for a couple of hours. She's very much the type to give a million updates a day if she can. Some people get obsessed with that site, just hide their updates if you don't want to see them.

My neighbour, her daughter and her friend have done nothing but openly bitch about me via their facebook pages as I dared to ask the daughter to turn her music down whilst she was having a party, which woke my children up.

oh I like a nice juicy gossipy status [needs a life]

It's the vague but attention seeking ones which annoy me too. "xx is really upset and angry!" but then won't say why!! I know people like to vent but if you put something like that up people are bound to ask what's up. If you have something to say, say it fgs.

The status updates I can't stand are those that fish for people to ask "what's wrong?" etc. It's so attention seeking and makes me cringe!

oh god yeah jobhunter i think the term is "vaguebooking" :o