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?

I did....

all 5 of them

and then I got carried away and added the cunts from school/work etc

all 20 of them plus the 5 friends were boring ass-holes who just wanted to brag.

There ends my farcebook experience.

See, if you don't add cunts then your facebook won't be full of people being cunts.

Got up because I couldn't sleep: LOVE this thread!

I only fairly recently joined FB, actually it's probaby nearly a year ago now! and I only did it because I am in Australia and it's the easiest way to share photos etc. with friends and family.
I also only did it when they improved the privacy settings.

I have hidden at least 3 people from my news feed because of their terminally tedious updates; there are a couple more I should still hide, I'm sure. But I did get a shock when one of my supposed close friends (who went a bit odd after I had DS) defriended me - for no obvious reason - I'm assuming I had bored on too much about what we had been doing, or the weather here, or perhaps it was because I had a pic of DS as my profile pic instead of my ugly mug! I don't know - and I try hard not to care but it still bugs me.

I haven't defriended anyone myself yet, list isn't big enough to need culling - but no doubt I will at some point.

One of the most annoying people on there though is my sister - I mean, what can you do? she's dreadful but at least she doesn't update too often. Just when she does, it's all this "I luv my children they are thecentre of my universe if yr children are the centre of yr universe post this as your status" or the ones about sad stuff that apparently 90+% of people won't post. I did actually comment on one of them that no, I wouldn't say I "liked" it because the spelling was too bad!

Grrrr. I shouldn't waste time with it but I like seeing people's photos...

My sister posts about having a bath! 'off for a bath, see you all in 20' or 'going for a dip, back soon'

Does she think people really care about that? Think she did me a favour deleting me, tbh!

Me again...

The thing that bugs me is: DH has a FB for keeping up with family overseas, mainly. Oftentimes he says to me, "Oh, look at the pics X Y or Z has posted on FB." Things that are totally not interesting. Pics of themselves posing in the mirror or pics of the view outside their window.

To me, it seems like they are of the mindset that, if it isn't on FB, then it didn't happen. They seem to need it to be validated. IYSWIM.

Also, lots of people we know post all social interaction and invites on FB. If you don't read it then they don't text etc to invite you along.

I have had friends look at me like I have 2 heads because I have asked them directly to contact ME if they want to ask me something. To which one whined that it was "a lot of effort" as I didn't have FB.... she is one of the people who post 1000 pics of her hols and spend most of hol updating her status.... DH tells me that with a face like

EXACTLY CheekyLittleSox. So want to post that on my version of your fb friend.

To anyone not on FB - neither my dh or my brother will go anywhere near it!

my DH has a faceboook but he hardly goes on it. He logged in a few weeks back after not been on it for a good 2 months and he had no notifications at all. His response was 'well i can see im lovedm im shutting this shite thing down soon'

im on mine everyday

my cousin in oz posted a pic of his little girl (18mo) running around the flat with toilet roll hanging from her bum cheeks.

I mean - FGS!

I've found a lot of people I knew from 20 odd years or so through FB. OK, we are not close friends though once were with some, but it was nice to say hello, see what they are doing now (and what they look like) and just nice to see that they are still alive really. Will probably defriend them after the initial, 'hello, how are you etc'. Also, living far away from family and friends - it's a nice easy way to touch base in a casual way and see what they are up to. I usually know more about my niece than her mum does and she lives at home. FB is only what you want it to be - just don't have any annoying or rude idiots as 'friends'.

Also found a long ago friend about 2 years ago and just said hello and had an update. Visited her profile a short time later to find lots of RIP messages as she had died. It was a weird and sad way to find out that someone had passed away - but glad in a way that I knew, she was such a lovely girl.