Couples facebooking when they're in the same house - oh come on!

[Bennifer]

Anyone else find this irritating. Couples who post their status for the other person to comment on it, and so on, when they're in the same house. Why do it? AIBU?

Agree Fag no wonder the world is full of people who have absolutely no social skills and teenagers (or worse, adults) have to be taught how to shake hands as they have no idea how to behave when they are introduced to someone . I do quite a bit of interviewing of young people and am constantly amazed at just how badly many of them project themselves - I am sure FB has its place for overseas/long distance friends & relatives but other than that............. are your lives really so full that you really can't use the telephone/email/old fashioned post anymore?

YANBU, its awful seeing the lovely dovey messages to each other etc or the children. I also hate the constant updates re children, no one else cares if they learned a new word or read their reading book.

Cereal - the sad truth is that there's only so much of other people's happiness that people are prepared to stomach

And there's a thin line between sharing happiness / boasting / subjecting others to endless attempts to resolve your own insecurities.

I miss mail, telephone CALLS and a good natter over a coffee. I'm only 30 for gods sake.

It's the telephone calls I miss the most, there is nothing like juggling the kids, making dinner, making a cuppa and folding the washing all the while balancing the telephone between your ear and shoulder while your mate shouts the best piece of gossip or generally putting the world to rights down the line. Mobiles, FB and texts just dont cut it.

We do it I'm afraid. Not the snootly wumwums lovey stuff but conversations via IM if we're three floors away from each other!

But then we met online, so I reckon we're allowed.

And there's a thin line between sharing happiness / boasting / subjecting others to endless attempts to resolve your own insecurities.>>

This exactly. I've had to hide a good friend's status because she's constantly gushing over her partner, saying how much she can't wait for him to come home, how lovely he is.

What she actually means is that's she's happy that for once his attention is on her and/or he's not cheating that much. Big time overcompensation trying to convince herself. Sadly this seems a trend on fb with some of people, there's nothing wrong with a bit of fun or slushiness but constant...it's a case of 'just who are you trying to kid'?

I have to admit we do it, but as a work colleague pointed out, most of my posts to dh are mildly abusive . No, we take the piss out of each other on fb and dh gives as good as he gets. Said colleague also said that they were very funny.

That said, I can't stand slushy posts. I do it once a year, on our anniversary and that's all he's getting.

I think it's sweet. Though admittedly I do particularly like it when they bicker.

My DP and I watch telly while he fannys about on twitter etc, and ill make a witty crack about something on the telly and he POSTS IT ON TWITTER AS IF IT WERE HIS OWN. Hanging's too good for him, if you ask me.

I can't stand the moochkins, smoochkins stuff, especially when there's TMI. I enjoy the funny stories about offspring though.