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?

Those of you who hate it, why are you on there? I'm asking myself this question. I actually sigh with boredom when I log on, so what am I doing???

I don't hate it. I use it because I'm a member of a group on there and it's where we go to chat.

It does have a bit of a fuckwit magnet to it though.

toddlerama I'd get rid of it, but all my crops would wither :o

My B&SIL have conversations over face book (while in the same house) about what they want to do to each other in bed... using code language. Like we're never going to figure that one out.

It wouldn't be so bad but they are both friends with their own daugther (13 years old), each others parents and all their nieces and nephews (all nieces and nephews are 16+ but still). It's gross... I got fed up one day and posted back "We get it you have loads of sex!". 6 family members thanked me for saying something. It hasn't stopped them.

They also post alot using the word scrummy e.g. I love my scrummy hubby so so much. Love you babes xxxxxxxx. Scrummy should never be used unless talking about puddings.

So why do you read it all?

Serious question.

I am not on Facebook, so I don't understand.

Do you have to read all about your friends' bowel movements before you are allowed to log on to your own accounts or something?

toddlerama - I use it to talk to friends and family abroad. Haven't had time to set up skype yet, but once I do my fb account is going!

They pop up on your homepage, and pollute it with their blatherings until you "hide friend's activity"

My God I danced for joy the day I found that button.

It's the boasting that got me. I deactivated after 3yrs.

I knew I had to as whilst on holidays taking pics of the DCs, I was actively thinking..'ooh, that'll be a good one for FB' etc etc. How sad.

I don't miss it at all.

I have one friend who mostly just writes about her great sex life. 'Steak and sex tonight,' (it's a regular event for her), 'partner lying beside me in post-coital haze how amazing was that,' 'I love steak and bj,' and variations on that theme. There are people begging her to stop, some tactfully, some not so much, but she hasn't gotten the message yet.

I quite like inane blathering compared to that!

at ohboob

(are you oohshit by any chance?)

ohboob seriously!!!

Summerbird73 you make me ROFLOL

This is brilliant...so funny!

A girlfriend of my husbands friend does exactly the same thing. "I think I'll do the ironing", "it's Pimms O'Clock", "Is it too early to have a vodka", "the kids are driving me mad"...and so it goes on.
Every minute detail is splayed across her facebook page for anyone who gives a damn to read.

She went to a wedding and from the top table kept sending updates and photo's to her facebook page. "drinking vodka and dancing" Well woopee doo!

If it gets to the stage that you can't go out and socialise in real life without sending updates to facebook, then you really are spending way too much time on there and need to get re-acquainted with real life.

*actual "friends" stautus.

friend please pray for my dad I am just now rushing him to hospital.
friend's son !?

friend is playing pet society

ummm shouldn't you be driving not facebooking? and if your father is about to shuffle off this mortal coil should your son learn about his grandfathers untimely death via Facebook?

I also hate that people think pics od their dinner that they made (and which usually looks pretty shit) is something that everyone actually wants to see!

I call it "Bragbook"

Just booked holiday to the Maldives only our 4th one this year.
My hubby is so wonderful.
My children are so gifted.
I've lost 3lbs this week that's 14lbs so far.
Bought new car today
and so on

at ohboob too - seriously???? Bet they don't have any sex at all

People who post in the middle of doing somethign awesome- to tell you theyre doing something awesome.

Well it isnt that awesome...or you woudn't have thought oh yes let me fb that.

Or horrible "facebook friend" who constanly posts.."cant stop looking at precious little baby girl..." vomit.

Well you can stop because you arent loooking at her now. Because right now you are posting bull shit.

I just checked mine and it was sadly all of interest to me Maybe I have a better class of friends and family.....though i am sure I bore them all to death with my inane twaddle!

Uploading 395 photos all exactly the same of PFB...and giving him some vomit inducing nickname.

Tweeklebottoms having his dinny-winny. (identical to the other 394 photos of Tweeklebottoms we've seen this week)

I might just link this thread to my FB status. (And see how many of my 164 friends I've still got tomorrow)

I have one friend who does the constant status updating but in huge paragraphs so lists all the ironing, washing etc...then comments underneath on her own status to carry on!

I also do not understand why couples leave messages on each others walls . Surely the sole purpose must be to attract attention / brag to others? Otherwise you would just say it / message inbox / text it? I cant stand it!

Bucharest - I DARE you!!!!

I am so tempted

Agree with all these!
And also the people who make sure not a single detail of their holiday is left out by uploading every single photo they took on holiday. Fgs do some editing people! We do not need to see 10 versions of the same view!
Ditto with identical photos of children.

Oh I see Bucharest has just mentioned that :)

I actually canned 2/3s of my friendlist.

It was the right thing to do.

I actually don't get that many updates anymore, but they don't make me want to kill people either so winners all round!