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?

got thrush just put canistin creme on minge LOL hope it works ;)

Oh Madre that colleague of yours sounds like me
.... but at least I don't post it on fb and I do laugh at myself and my perpetual "diet"....

I can't quite fathom why - or, indeed how - people post in detail about their diarrhoea or vomiting bugs, or their hangover symptoms.

"oooh, been comin outta both ends this mornin nevah drinkin again lol, goin back to bed now lol"

I mean, WHAT??

The times when I've been so ill I have been in that state, I can barely grunt to DW, barely MOVE. I just want to crawl under the duvet and make it go away. The last thing I'd feel like doing would be going to the computer and telling the world about it.

Oh I know a couple of people like that. We are having problems concieving a second dc, and a friend on FB who is pg with her 2nd and is constantly posting aobut the what she is feeling, and has one of those ticker thingies as well. Aother friend talks about personal things about his relationship.

THIS is a classic example from someone on my FB.

On 5th January
"Cant wait to book our holiday to lagganas zante 2moro! 7nyts pure blis wiv jst me n my man x x love u hun x x"

On 6th January
"IM ENGAGED!!! MY GORGEOUS FIANCE ASKED ME LAST NYT!! :) IT WAS BEAUTIFUL XXXXX"

On 9th January
"went from being "single" to "engaged"

Then on 11th January, back together

"Somewhere between the late night text's, the long smiles, the warm hugs, the laughs, the good times, the sad times, and the painful times .. I fell In Love ♥ love u hun xxx"

I mean, I'm happy that they're happy or whatever but seriously? All over Facebook? Is nothing sacred?

On priciple i do not do FB.

I do not need to know you baked a cake, bought socks, booked a holiday.

I only wish to hear these things if accompanied by a genuinely funny story.
In which case you will be my friend and will have told me yourself.

Befriending these people only encourages their delusion that anyon eis interested. Don't do it!!!!!

oh god yes - this one took the piss when i was overdue with DS, and my friend posted this on my wall for all to see:

''Hey there Summerbird - you still overdue? How did your cervical sweep go? - any luck?''

As if i would fecking respond to that one on my wall??!! - 'oh yes 'friend of SB', she got her fingers right up my fanjo and had a good sweep around, was walking like John Wayne afters but you know how it is....'

FFS

You all have some very inarticulate and dreary friends.

Admittedly I am not on FB but if I were I would have a good old cull of anyone who used text speak never mind updated me on the contents of their kitchen cupboard.

Jesus Madre, that'd drive me fucking mental! I'd have to hide here from my news feed or I'd be tempted to tell her the truth!

I have a couple of attention whores on mine, one in particular drives me barmy, with her constant 'Life is shit, woe is me' emo statuses...then when people ask 'OMFG HUN R U OK BUBZ', she says 'Don't really want to say on here'- WTF?!!!?

Someone on my Fb (and I have 164 people) took up my Most Recent posts with 11 inane pieces of shite yesterday. (and that was just the moment I actually checked, remember, so how many times in a day does she really update????)

My worst bugbear is the neverending minute by minute, pant by pant, push by push account of every single fucking birth on OBEM. Are you watching the television or just trying to bore me into a coma with your fucking updates? If I wanted to watch people having babies (which, tbh, in and of itself is so Emperor's New Clothes it deserves a whole other thread) I'd be bloody watching it instead of being made to almost watch it by stealth because of your upfuckingdates.

To the people who admit that they are guilty of this, why do you do it? Why? Genuinely interested.

The 'attention whore' ones with lack of details, I call vaguebooking and tell them to stop it underneath.

If you're not going to 'fess up all the who/why/when/where's then don't bother.

[defriends everyone]
[passive aggressive x infinity]
[no takebacks ...(channelling my 9 yr old)]

LOL

I've got a 'friend' who is constantly attention-seeking, usually cryptic references to relationships she may or may not be having.

Then she gets into conversations with sympathetic friends underneath.

Then around 4 hours later she deletes the entire thing as she realises what a she sounds.

It's a pattern you'd think she'd learn from....

A Mum from DS school recently treated us to a full on heartfelt eulogy to her Cat.

Same woman posted a "why God,why?" piece when her Dad had a heartattack.

Two days after this then posted complaining about missing her two weeks in Turkey. (how inconvenient of her Dad)

She regularly posts messages to her son regardless of the fact he is 9, doesn't have a FB account, and they live in the same house.

I swear she is worth her weight in cream cakes for the entertainment value alone.

It was very funny listening to my DP trying to explain/justify FB to two of her friends - who just kept saying - but why would we put the content of our lives online.

think twitter is LOT more upbeat

you dont get depressing epople on twitter

On Sundays I just have to log off.

"Sitting in front of a roaring olive-wood fire, the wind outside is howling but I'm so content.....my adorable children are playing with their organic handmade wooden toys, my organic chicken is in the oven, nestling snuggly next to my organic butternut squash and Jerusalem artichoke roasted vegetables. Sigh of contentment"

Are they arse. They're watching the 'Enders omnibus, with stonking hangovers, the kids are fighting over the wii, the husband is down the pub, and she's got packed lunches to make and uniforms to wash before tomorrow.

yes you don't need to watch telly any more, just log on to fb and you'll get up to date commentary on all the most popular programmes

Fridays are the worst - 300 updates of "TGI Friday!" "Friday woooohooooooo" "The weekend starts here!" "No work for 2 days woop lol"

I know it's Friday. I have a little calendar on my screen that tells me it's Friday. I've been at work all day knowing it's Friday. Why are you telling me it's Friday?

Katie, I think you must have the same person as me...In honour of this thread I've just been and looked at someone who I can't unfriend (would be like kicking a puppy) but have hidden, and she's already "woop wooping" that it's nearly the weekend. (this is someone who started work again after about 10 years of SAHM) but is now, obviously, the only mother ever to have gone to work in the whole wide world.

Oh, god, yes, the weekend-lovers. They make such a big deal out of it, like it's all they have to live for. Can't they get over it?!

My DP has just posted a whoop can't wait for the weekend on FB. Shall I unfriend him?

This just in from a twat friend-of-a-friend:

"girls wkend in Mn'chstr got a feelin its gunna get messy"

This thread has inspired me to banhammer half of my friends list....

i like to see what is going on on FB but rarely post there. i can also check what my teenagers are up to.