Sound biting your WHOLE life on Facebook

[MollyMission]

Reaaly? Am i interested in the fact that someone has cleaned their house today, is exasperated that little darling has trodden poo thro the house or has got soaked to the skin on the way back from school?

Ok - so I sound ire a very little bit but honestly draw the line at Ohhhh i farted like a good un today ....... Today I shall wear pink ...... Oh god help me, roll on school on Monday.

Rant over - if anyone can decipher this then bring it on (lol).

I am about to hide one friends updatesas she shares too much. I really dont want to know she 'cant wait for hubby to get home for our special night' etc.
TMI!!!!!!
Its either that or how thoroughly miserable she is.
The other one that irritates is an adrenaline junkie I know who is either skydiving, base jumping or 'bored'.
Thats the problem when you have hobbies that cost the earth and you have to go to work too..

Oh yeah - suggestive FB suicide notes. One of my 'friends' (acquaintance really) has depression although I didn't realise until a post to that end came up. There were something like 400 comments! She's pregnant now... hope that works out OK.

Frilly - agree about idea of checking in at hospital.

I mean it's not like I want anything bad to happen to these people, but it does get my goat.

I cannot bear an old friend of mine (she is 32) who posts those trout pout, camera held out posed pics of herself, constantly, like she spends all her time doing her makeup then posing and photgraphing, using every moody photography app, blurry, blah blah blah. Upside down on her bed, i have never seen someone pout so much.
She sted the other day that she was having a facebook clearout for the sake of her family, so i 'unfriended' swiftly in case she was thinking about keeping me! :)

What about the one's teenage girls constantly send (I know 'cause I look at my daughter's friends) of themselves blowing out their cheeks with one finger pointed to their mouths (why?) endlessly. And then pictures of themselves glamourous out partyting or whatever, and the comment below from friends is ALWAYS 'stunnin' hun' xxxxx, you're such a babexxx OMg lol xxxx And they're always declaring their love for each other, surely they cant all love each other so much? Sometimes I'm tempted to write "Would you girls ever put an original thought down and stop all being clones of each other!!" but then I don't want to be weirdo parent stalker, so I dont.

the cryptic ones are the attention seeking ones imo. They want everyone to post, "ahhh whats up?" etc

I agree with usualsuspect. The irony of coming onto MN to moan about the mundane updates on FB. Like we're supposed to give a rat's arse about you feeling so superior to your FB friends.

I like my friends. I like to read the odds and sods about their day. that's why they're my friends. If you're so much better than all that then what are you doing on here? Go off and live your fascinating real life.

Being a fairly mundane person with a very dull life, I don't mind the "just had a lovely lunch at the Cockroach & Alligator"/"curled up on the sofa enjoying a coffee, watching the rain outside" type posts as I like those brief little windows into my friends' everyday lives. The ones that grate on me are the "let's post some cryptic/random crap and somehow fool ourselves it's in aid of charity" (seriously. WTF?) or the "re-post this if you think cancer is bad/mums are great" chain-type rubbish.

FB and mumsnet are two completely different things so.get over yourself Gwendoline, there's no harm in having a mutual moan!

nightswimmer I know exactly what you mean as my teenage cousin does this ALL the time (yes - that same odd pointy finger pose) but then there's part of me that quite likes it because at least they are all confident whereas at that age I would've been over the moon if someone had called me even vaguely pretty let alone stunning!

The worst ones are definitely the TMI ones - "I'm so tired this morning after hubby got back from weekend away ;) ;) ;)" type thing. JUST NO.

I have a friend who announced she has no pubes. She posted song lyrics as a status "I got passion in my pants and I ain't afraid to show it" and someone commented "no that's crabs lol hunni xxxx" to which she replied "You can't get crabs if there's no hair down there ;)"

YABU.

I still don't get why people are 'friends' on FB with people they are not actually friends with in RL. As for having to keep colleagues, random school run mums etc, just tell them that you are spending far too much time on FB at the moment and are going to freeze your account. Then delete them.

If you only have people you actually like and care about on FB, you will not mind their mundane status updates. When I see a post from a friend about 'kids in bed, wine in the fridge, curry on the way' I think, 'good for you, relaxing after a hard day', not 'For fuck's sake, how boring'.

No they're not. Don't delude yourself. MN is FB without pictures.

I can cope with the status updates, my pet facebook hate is when people have ridiculous 'middle' names. For long enough a family member had mybabiesaremyworld as her middle name. It's now something to do with her boyfriend. I suspect she may be a member of nethuns. It's quite embarrassing.

I have a friend who has recently posted a photo of her mum's WOUND, following a lumpectomy.

WTAF?

Why, just why, does she think we need to see such personal things?

I have an old college friend on FB who lost half his leg after a motorbike incident, and he posted a picture of his stump, the way it had been stitched up was an upwards curve and he'd stuck 2 googly eyes above it so it looked like a smiley face. I thought that was really good, that not long after such a horrible thing happened he could laugh about it.

Lamborghini, my sister does that too and I thnk she's another one that soundbites everything as well (so I'm told by other people, I don't have a facebook)

My friend told me that she put a picture on of her gums after dental surgery, her blistered feet,the kids cuts & scrapes and even her bathwater after dying her hair. It's bizarre it really is

Gwendoline I beg to differ, mn is a great place where you can vent your feelings and get honest advice from people who don't know you. I don't think is post on FB about ny PND or other issues surrounding the birth of my DD, I feel like mn is the perfect place for that and I don't see it as attention seeking.

Whereas to post it in FB would be.

Well I have just shamelessly stolen availed myself of the haiku and am off to make it my status
I haven't updated it for days am useless entertainment for my friends

While getting occassionally irate about some updates, and hiding them if the person makes me irate too often, and also not really liking the cryptic stylee of update, I am with the people on this thread who say "mundane" updates are what FB is for.

I actually am more annoyed (although not that annoyed!) by people who only post every six months with major updates. What's the point of that? If your update is that major, you should be telling people properly not hiding it in a timeline where it might get missed. One of my friends posted something passive aggressive about not liking updates about children. Others have said they don't like updates about illnesses. If I listened to everybody I would never update at all. It's my FB page, I will put whatever I like and not second guess myself because someone doesn't want to know that I had to clean poo out of the understairs cupboard this morning. I didn't actually put that, I do have some standards - but I might! And I also might put a witty comment about literature or politics or something well erudite like that. And if someone wants to unfriend me or hide me, fine!

And breath. H'mm. Obvioulsy I am more annoyed than I thought.

I lurve facebook and post random shit, do I care, do I what. Don't like it unfriend me.

I had my first ever round robin letter in a Christmas card this year, that was truly boke inducing and made me want to lob a brick at the house it came from.

I have a daughter of a friend on fb - her spellingand general murder of english just makes me want to Ie: 'So bord w8ing 2 start work y did the poxy bus have 2 tern up 15 mins early gggrrrrrr' and 'Wot goes arround comes back arround a big belever on that xx' arghh

I have a friend on Facebook who is always moaning and making snarky comments about 'mundane' status updates from others and how people use Facebook like a diary ect but then tells us he has been to the gym, how far he has just run, what he is doing at work ect. He also puts some quite offensive or rude things on his statuses then if someone comments about it not being right he says it is his Facebook and he will put what he likes, well yes that is kind of the point. You put what you want, I will put what I want.
I have a friend who makes me laugh with her statuses, one will read how lucky she is and how much she loves her boys ect ect. The next one will rant about one will rant about how her children have ruined her life and how horrible everything is.
One thing I can not understand is why people air their differences over Facebook, either couples slagging each other off or family disagreements. I am ashamed to say certain members of my family are very much like this. At one point my Facebook represented an episode of Jeremy Kyle. It actually made me feel very sad and I did say to a couple of them that I felt Facebook was not the place. I would rather read mundane stuff than my family calling each other some of the most horrendous names ect.

I have a friend on FB who refers to her "little lady" in EVERY SINGLE update she posts. I have literally never seen her use the child's name. I may be being irrational but every time I see it now I feel homicidal.

I see some ridiculous FB stati, however I really liked this one:

Let's eat Grandad!
Let's eat, Grandad.

Correct punctuation saves lives...