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?

Totally agree, why would people share their private lives so publically. Obviously some people don't mind.

"Currently fashionable Bad Thing X is reeeeelly reeeeelly bad. I am posting this because I want to show everyone how reeeelly reeeelly deeply I care about Bad Thing X. If you agree, and think Bad Thing X is bad too, post this as your status for just one hour. If you don't do this I will think you are an eater of babies and everyone will point at you and de-friend you."

well i've yet to see a FB status where someone wants a debate about getting a finger up the jaxxie (see other thread)

uqd

loads of my fb post these inane messages too :(

Unquiet

There is also one otherwise reasonable woman who always puts her DDs' names between ickle hearts.

like this

"just dropped

yeah, but it's alright to do it on mumsnet.

well mn is different

if you don't like fb ...don't use it

Love this thread, and as much as I love FB I can agree with a lot here!

The ones that really get me are the 1 word statuses such as "arghhh!!"...always designed for a reaction and always guarnteed to get someone to ask "whats up hun??" Then there may be some inane commetn vaguely referencing someon whos annoyed them - and when someone else asks whats up - they will say "I will PM you" - arrgh yourself - why not just do that in the first place !!!

but I don't get the fb slagging off

thats what the status updates are for

don't add any old random so you have 658 friends if you don't want to see their status updates

Newgolddream, that winds me up so much! I have a couple of people on my Facebook who actually do it every day. Or posts like "Oh FFS! Why don't you just get lost and leave me and husband alone, pathetic bitch!" and then everyone replies and says, "What's up, X?" And she's reply, "It's nothing, just fed up."

Or, "I GIVE UP!" "R u ok X?" "wats up hunni?" "X, are you alright? What's happened?" etc. And the person just never replies and then makes a post half an hour later saying, "Lying in bed, about to watch a DVD and then get some sleeps! :)" so they quite clearly got over whatever it was and didn't feel the need to inform their worried friends.

My friends 20+ yr old daughters are always putting on their page ' I love my amazing sister/mum/dad/brother, they are the best in the world...this is nice but do they have to say it on f/b everyday?
One of the daughters has a 2yr old baby and puts msgs of everything she says and does including pictures of the latest trendy patterned fancy pants with nappy style insert that mum has an obsession with that shes recently ordered.
Another brother of a friend also writes monthly updates 'found the one' pics included then 'things aint going gr8' and finally 'I have to make a hard phone call' this is usually updated a day or 2 later by 'I think I've made a terrible mistake' this is followed by messages of sympathy from his friends/family EVERY TIME he goes out with someone it bores me to the core.

Haha salsmum

I have a friend who uses her Facebook status to complain about her husband, at least once a week she writes a lengthy post about how incompetent he is either as a husband, dad or housemate, usually followed by a conversation spanning about 50 comments where she and a bunch of her female friends tut and roll their eyes about "typical men".

Babylann, I blocked my sister from my news feed because she does that alot, and not just about her husband. It's so immature

Didn't someone once say that the pen mouse is mightier than the sward?

oops sori 'sword'

Isn't it? I can't even begin to imagine how furious I would be if DP ever did that to me but luckily I know that will never be a problem as we have respect for each other, which she obviously doesn't have for her husband. It's wrong on so many levels.

And don't even mention farm fekin ville !!!!!

New to Mumsnet - can't stop LOLling at some of these especially Reality! Its all

sooooo true isn't it?

I have a high school age cousin, once a day they post a status saying something like "Like this status and I will rate your looks and personality". And then, sadly, about 25 young girls like the status and he replies to every single one of them.

Oh, I've thought of another one!
Someone on mine like me, shacked up with a Furriner, insists on writing all her status updates in both languages. I know that, in itself that's reasonable enough, but it just makes my teeth itch every time I see it.

I have Italians, Spaniards, Germans, and a Dane on mine. Should I be google-translating every bloody update (well, all 3 I do annually) so no-one misses out on a snippet of my boring little life? (she is another of the "baby smiled!" "baby shat!" "baby slept" brigade)

unquietdad.... brilliant!!

Because people are obsessed with themselves.

Twitter was the natural step on from FB. Cut any pretence at sharing reasonable useful and interesting info and just tune in to witterings on My Life By Me.

I find some blogs very similar.

Just because most of us are capable of stringing a few sentences together doesn't mean we should.

I think atthearwash has got it summed up completely.

People are disillusioned into thinking that they really are THAT important...that they are some sort of minor celebrity and that everyone is really interested in what they do on a daily/hourly basis.

What they need to do is to step back and take a few months offline to re-acquaint themselves with real life.

I do think these people have problems that they don't see. If your life is so full and so great...then why would you spend so much time online updating your facebook?

And no, I am not on facebook. I had an account on there for a few months, didn't do updates or anything, just looked a few people up and was pretty unimpressed.