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Sound biting your WHOLE life on Facebook

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MollyMission · 20/05/2012 20:59

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).

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manicbmc · 21/05/2012 10:49

I do like that one.

I don't post statuses very often and when I do they are often boring things like, 'off to the pub' and such like.

I have some of dd's friends on FB and like to wind them up in a gentle way. Only one of them does the teenage passive/aggressive statuses and I tend to hide her posts.

AmazingBouncingFerret · 21/05/2012 10:54

I posted before and after photos of my operation. I was damn proud of the results and relieved that I wasn't permantly paralysed. I wanted to share that with friends.

Buckingfiatch · 21/05/2012 11:04

I always think "here we go again" when I see "is single", then an hour later "is in a relationship", "is married(but actually isn't)" updates every other day whenever they have a row with their boy/girlfriend.

And obviously the REALLY obvious attention seeking ones who are after getting their egos massaged.

Apart from that, I couldn't give a toss what anyone puts on their status. It is their Facebook to put whatever they wish on it.

LauraShigihara · 21/05/2012 11:07

I discovered I was too irritable for Facebook and had to delete my account. The status updates, the horrible attention-seeking posts and relaying the tiniest details of daily life were of constant annoyance.

I have friends who use it, really lovely, clever, funny women, who come across as stupid or needy or both. It was changing the way I thought about them in real life.

WorraLiberty · 21/05/2012 11:08

I like...

"Punctuation is the difference between helping your uncle Jack, off a horse and helping your uncle Jack off a horse"

dontwakeupyet · 21/05/2012 11:15

Argh there are so many annoying things that people do on Facebook!

-People who post pictures of their dinner - not a special dinner or anything, just their bog standard Wednesday night dinner - usually accompanied by the caption 'nom nom'
-Status updates about the weather - 'it has stopped raining' - wow, I am so glad you posted that as now I dont have to look out of my window to check myself!
-The attention seeking ones yep, and when people check in at a hospital.
-A few people I know only post about their trips to the gym and how many miles they did on the treadmill
-I know someone who only ever posts about the sleeping status of her two kids.
-People who take pictures of the mountain of christmas/birthday presents for their 'little princess'.
-People who write a massively long status about how ill they are, with full details, and then before anyone has replied, they comment on their own status with an update. One guy even posted a link to the wikipedia page of his condition (it was far from life threatening and no one had asked!)
-Oh god and the people who write 'morning all' and 'off to bed, night FB peeps' as a status.

Obviously everything on my own facebook wall is funny and witty, and everyone cannot wait to hear about what I am up to

lamborghinicountach · 21/05/2012 11:18

AmazingBouncingFerret - yes, but this is a photo of her mothers' armpit & boob, post surgery.

I just wonder if her mum knows and how she would feel about it?

Bertrude · 21/05/2012 11:22

Mundane stuff doesn't bother me.

Reading chavs friends arguing with their exes on the other hand, that's what I have facebook for. Hours and hours of pure entertainment. Especially when they start posting naked photos of each other as revenge

Jins · 21/05/2012 11:25

I soundbite my life on FB. Well actually I deliberately soundbite only the trivial stuff. That's what all my friends do. We take everyday trivia and try to make it amusing. We all happily chat away on each other's walls and on each others pictures and don't think anything of it.

Occasionally I remember that I have a few people on my friends list who are on Facebook everyday (I can see that they've been playing games etc) They never update their status and rarely comment on anything. I bet I annoy the crap out of them. Every so often I go through my friends list to limit their access to my wall but I really see it as their problem rather than mine.

I'm happy to be deleted or blocked. It happens - couldn't care less really. They are usually only people that I've accepted to be polite and they add nothing to my day

TallyMeBanana · 21/05/2012 11:42

Bertrude Hmmmm wonder if we live in the same town, that's been going on a lot lately.... girls posting pic's of naked ex's I mean

Pandemoniaa · 21/05/2012 11:50

It's the endless (bad) pictures of dinners that feature highly on my list of irritating FB soundbites. I've got a friend who does this. Every single time they eat out and, tbh, they don't eat out anywhere so spectacular that I need to see another blurry image of a portion of catsick lasagne. In every other respect she's lovely so actually, I'd rather not defriend.

Top of the list has to be those people who send their partners the sort of message that nobody who isn't in a sexual relationship with them wants to see. Send a fucking text or a private message! Don't treat the rest of us to the knowledge that there's a "hot and tasteee spread on the table when you get home, hun".

Nobody has to be a sodding philosopher on Facebook. But don't those people who write these streams of banal consciousness ever think they might be boring the pants of the unfortunate readers?

HipHopOpotomus · 21/05/2012 11:54

I love my FB but then I don't have people I don't like, or who wind me up as "friends".

I love to see what they are baking, what and where they are eating/drinking, i dig photos of the family, keep in touch with cancer therapy progress, follow them cycling around France, and getting through an earache and I love to see what my gorgeous teenage niece is doing now old enough to be clubbing.

Ok the Emos are hard to bear but I'm keeping them in situ for now. I try to ignore / but my nephew is very vulnerable and lives so far away - at least there is some kind of connection with him.

Ignore, block, edit and delete. It is all in your power.

Tangointhenight · 21/05/2012 12:18

I do like to hear about peoples lives, but not when they only post to say argh I'm sick or post a bitchy message intended for their ex!

Have to say the hospital check ins make me eye roll want to kick something and I hate it when people air their dirty laundry :o
They get deleted!

BonnieBumble · 21/05/2012 14:43

How does the close friend list work? If I add friends to the list, does that mean that only they will see my updates?

porcamiseria · 21/05/2012 15:06

here is a very simple solution:

DONT GO ON FACEBOOK

i got a new phone and was checking 2-3 times a day. My annoyance factors tripled

now I check fortnightly, job done

how do you hide people BTW??? I want to know

knowitallstrikesagain · 21/05/2012 15:16

To hide updates from certain people:

Hover over the right hand side next to their post. A down arrow will appear. Click on it and you can set preferences for how many status updates you receive from this person or unsubscribe from all updates. I have done this for many friends who play scrabble/farmville/all the other games I don't care that they are playing.

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