to not understand why people have to post every detail of their lives of FB?

[thebird]

My SIL likes to post on FB at least 4 times a day with various comments on how she is feeling...oh so tired today not much sleep last night..feeling poorly today just been sick again....had a bad day at work today lots of traffic on the way home....just baked a cake and here is a picture..Just went to tesco and oh the queues blah blah blah. Perhaps I am just getting old and but I just don't udnerstand this?

Dont get me wrong I thing FB is great and a wonderful way to keep in touch with family and friends but why would you feel the need to share every detail and every thought that runs through your head?

My hands were shaky, I've just drawn blood. Drip, drip. LOL!

"Sitting here with my snuggly lovely hubby beside our roaring log fire on our lovely Turkish rug with a beautiful glass of Bordeaux... good times!"

Oh, fuck the fuck off, then when you get there fuck off some more.

AttentionWhore: "I don't know why I bother sometimes."
AW's Friend: "Oh what's up hun?"
AW: "I'd rather not say. Not spreading my business all over FB hun".

I defriended one old schoolfriend after she posted "I'VE GOT A NEW TABLE! I'VE GOT A NEW TABLE! :) :) :) :)"

Didn't particularly want to friend her in the first place, but this was back in the days when I agonised a lot more about refusing friend requests from people I haven't seen since 1997. I soon learned.

Lol @ RoyalBling I think you may have a career on twitter, why not give it a try?

i do that!

my Fb consists of regular updates of my mundane boring life.
I swear if i get arrested and need proof of an alibi it will be on FB.

If you dont like it dont read it, FB has controls where you can pick and choose which friends statuses you see without blocking them!

On a day like today im at home studying and have no adult company and FB is my way of reaching out and not feeling so alone!!!! Today have given advice to friends about ASD and got support after a phone call from DS school about his behaviour, also found out some interesting stuff about work (am on maternity leave) and got support when i got stuck on an activity for my degree coursework!

FB is fab.........my friends today know that
im supposed to be studying,
that i had a bacon sarnie for breakfast (which resulted in 2 friends having to go buy bacon :0))
that we now have more syrup for coffee than costa and starbucks (accompanied by a photo of all bottles)
that DS is struggling to cope at school today
that DH is on lates tonight so i have to deal with mardy DS tonight on my own :0(

Attentionwhore:'Why are people so mean sometimes when i am always so nice to everyone'

Give me strengh

Really bugs me when people put a status along the lines of -
':'( x' then someone will comment -
'wts up hun xx?' to which the OP will reply -
'dnt wnna tlk bwt it hun'

Or when people write on other people walls (usually teenage girls to each other, of which I am NOT guilty, fyi)
'hey hunni hwz u????? cnt wait too see yew in twn tmrw wht tym dyu wnna meet???? luff yew muchly babes xxxMWAHxxx'

"Oh, fuck the fuck off, then when you get there fuck off some more."
Now that would be an excellent status update!

"lol" UD. Said snuggy hubby then replies to her post.

Bleurgh.

YANBU - everyone knows you save all the details of your life up to post on MN!

I have a friend who posts all sorts of wise-ass quotes as her status...

"by believing that life is the most fantastic gift and worth living to the max your belief will help create that fact"

(and that's a good one!)

"Oh, fuck the fuck off, then when you get there fuck off some more."

Think I will use this as a standard response to any FB 'attention whoring' or 'look at my life its so wonderful' posts.

Isnt that what we do on here....but on FB we may actually know who we are talking to?? On FB I just hide those who I can be listening to (I have a friends DD on there are she likes to say the C word a lot, gets very wearing, lol)

I must admit I hate the posts that read "Doris is sad" and someone'll ask "whats the matter hun" and Dorris says "Oh, dont want to put it on here"....those statuses are very annoying!!

I work in a very quiet office, seasonal etc and we arent busy at the moment.....would prod die of boredom with out fb TBH. Dont understand twitter at all though,not ventured over to that dark side.

Horses for courses xx

It is loneliness isn't it, the more you post, the more you're hoping someone is going to answer and actually talk to you I think.

My confusion is at people like my BIL whose posts are all about going to XYZ to drink after work and failblog links, all the time, but doesn't say anything about having major surgery and later the stitches tear badly.

Yes, and said snuggly hubby can't wait for her to neck the Bordeaux and get to bed so he can put the fire out, fire up the laptop and have a wank to FilthyBitches.com

What's the difference in posting your (far more intimate) details on MN?
If you don't like it on FB, HIDE the posts.
I hide LOADS of posts from certain friends... especially the airy fairy ones.

But how about those who boast about fabulous holidays (with pictures and all) on and on and on

'Yes, and said snuggly hubby can't wait for her to neck the Bordeaux and get to bed so he can put the fire out, fire up the laptop and have a wank to FilthyBitches.com'

"Oh, fuck the fuck off, then when you get there fuck off some more."

This made me lol! I don't post much on fb, so am a really boring friend, but go on most days for a sneer catch up but realise that if people didn't post there would be nothing to read.

I just cannot bring myself to comment much, guess I've not got in the spirit of it.

I have a friend who keeps posting about god. It's very irritating but I don't delete her because it would feel like I was deleting Jesus.

This post is hilarious - I loathe Facebook for its self-centred, 'surely everyones interested in me me me' attitude. I'm not interested, I'm too busy with my own life and I don't expect everyone to want to read every last detail about me either.Why would they?

Oh gawd, I know someone who posts every detail of their life on FB but seems to have a very selective memory about what she posted before.

Example - X is furious that her company is refusing to pay her just because she has been off sick for 30 weeks this year. She can't help having [insert obscure illness she is currently self-diagnosing with]

        X's friend   I didn't know you were sick - haven't you been on 6 foreign holidays this year?

       X:  No!  Of course not!

       X's friend:  But the pictures are on your facebook page.

       X:  Um, ah, that was before I was sick

       X:  But two of them were last month - you posted about all the       
           things you did including white water rafting, bungee jumping and 
            other extreme sports

       X:  [silence]

I have a colleague who is quite overweight and always reckons to be on a diet but troughs her face all day long with chocolate and crisps and other crap, then attention-whores on fb about oh I'll never be slim and I'm so fat and oh this diet isn't working it's just not worth all the hard work

Cue lots of "you're not fat hun" "keep going hun it'll be worth it" "you're doing so well hun" comments

I had to hide her from my updates as I found I was really struggling to hold back the urge to post "stop eating shite all day and get off your arse and MOVE more"