To wonder why some people on facebook think their status updates are remotely interesting?

[ilikeyoursleeves]

I just read one from someone I know that basically outlined all her chores she'd completed today. Why would she think anyone would be even remotely interested?

Feel a bit sorry for them really.

I have loads on my FB who update at least 5 times a day, from their phones, out and about, with a list of their ailments. (it always seems to be those hypochondriac types as well...lost count of the "oooh, got a sniffle, am getting a cold," earth shattering updates.) Just think what sad little lives they have.

Like the 3,000 photos they upload. I even have friends who upload photos of their dinner.

I update mine about twice a year, when something super-exciting happens. Or when I want to (un)subtly indoctrinate people about how evil Nick Clegg is.

And this is different to MN how?

I have a friend who only has moany 'woe is m'e stuff along with the passive agressive 'some people should mind their own business' type of stuff. I have to hide her cos she annoys me so much.

I only do mine when I'm drunk then I have to spend the next day deleting them.

Oh God, there is someone on my FL who is a relative who writes like Vicki Pollard, relays every detail of her ridiculous relationship with a massive "playa" via status update and arranges fights also via status update. The winner was when she arranged to fight a girl from college on Netto carpark.

Cannot believe that we swim in the same gene pool.

Oh, I think my halfwomanhalfsofahalfsister might be a relative of yours Cupcakes!

Then I have my cousin, who I do like, honest, but whose every update leaves you hanging on for more (which is obviously the aim) and you are forced to go and ask supplementary questions...it's like you can almost hear the "badong badong badong" Eastenders theme revving in the background as she types each update. It's all "Had some bad news today....." cue 46 people all saying "oooh hun, hope you are OK, tell me more" Pffft.

She also does this reallyyy annnoyying thingg where shee willll typee extra letterss intoo wordss forr no apparentt reasonn!!!

GAAAAAHHH!

maybe she just has a sticky keyboard?!

@ Cupcakes, what's her name? I think i'll friend request her! Ha ha!

My pathetically needy SIL posts about sex she has had / is going to have in a minute with her husband.

Her: 40ish - tattoos, fake tan and fake tits
Him 50 ish - bald, pot belly and tattoos

Not a pretty picture!

Eeeek - I did this yesterday. Maybe you are a friend of mine, ilikeyoursleeves

So, don't read them.

You can use FB without looking at the updates. Or just don't use FB at all.

Its easy to hide peoples updates

I have a friend who wrote things like 'steaming broccoli, life couldn't get more interesting, huh' or some such and then the next month i discovered she was leaving her husband and setting up home with a new man. I guess she had to hide the reality.

none of my friends post about sex.
I love it when married couples communicate via FB about whose turn it is to do the washing up etc.
(kitchen sink drama)

Unless steaming broccoli was a clever euphemism for something unspeakably filthy.

my FB status's are very mundane and boring, sometimes i list jobs i need to do that day, sometimes i write whats cooking for tea, i moan about being tired or about the kids annoying me! DO I THINK PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED????? NOPE not at all, i post it because its an outlet for me especially on days when i have no adult company! im a saddo FB addict so shoot me! lol

I do want to read status updates of what my friends and family are up to. To be honest, half of the phone conversations I have are also about what my mum is having for dinner or what my SIL's child is doing at school. It is fairly standard to tell people who care about you what you are doing in your boring life.

A man in a queue with me the other day was talking about modern culture and FB, and how ordinary people have become deluded into thinking that their lives are interesting to other people.

They are interesting actually - to the people who love and care about them.

The modern delusion is that only people who appear in Hello magazine matter, and that I should care more about Angelina Jolie's baby photos or diet than the first words of the baby of a woman that I actually know.

So keep posting what you had for tea or what your child's maths mark was today. I care - if I didn't care I wouldn't have you on my friend list because I wouldn't really be your friend.

Hear hear Milly. Great post.

Good luck with that Fiofio.
I don't mind the updates, it's the crap things like click here if you have a son/ daughter/ lesbian lover, I mean what is the point?

I too only have real friends on my fb .so I am interested in their lives..if you add any old random what do you expect

Amen Milly!

excellent post MillyR

I agree Milly. I love the little snapshot insights into friends' day to day lives. And for me the status update is often a conversation starter, the most boring ones can often turn into bloody hilarious threads.

Yeah for milly! I LOVE FB and I love hearing about my frinds and family and what is going on. If I didn´t, I wouldn´t have them on there. What is the point of having a FB account if you never post anything?