to find these FB status updates totally nauseating

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just seen one celebrating an anniversary along the lines of "8 Happy Years today, go team us yay..! 12 years of love, 8 of marriage, we have done pretty well. Love you X"

Is is just me or are these totally nauseating....along the lines of hey everyone look how happy we are and how wonderful our life is.

I am probably going to get strung up as some miserable cow but just not sure why people feel the need to announce this stuff...wouldn't you celebrate this with your partner privately rather than pass on your love and congratulations via FB?

My young cousin and his first girlfriend have been nauseatingly declaring love for each other using cutesy nick names etc... Have blocked them, but I do worry about these young uns not realizing that what they say on FB will always exist in the ether.... On day when they are someones boss / famous / with a jealous new partner those comments will get dug up! He he he

"My young cousin and his first girlfriend have been nauseatingly declaring love for each other using cutesy nick names etc"

MY dd and her bf statuses can be really heavey and those cutsey pie names and lovely dovey pictures oh to be 19 again

No, no, no. You're not a misery if you bleurgh at the sugar sweet statuses. Not at all. It's all in the wording, the lack of self awareness, the belief that you're the only person in the Universe to experience what you're status-ing about. THAT'S what's so funny. I'm not miserable at all when I read them, (I may cringe slightly though.)

Feckwanger!
Lolz

When people "check in " at A & E I never comment.

It's obvs not life threatening as they wouldn't be on FB - they are bored to fuck after waiting 4 hrs to be seen and or needing an "attention" fix

I just signed up to FB 6 months ago to join a student group for my new degree. I de-friended every single one of them because their status updates and constant posting of photos and silly "metaphysical" posts was getting to my nerves and putting me off them (in real life they're quite likeable really!). Thank you so much to the person who posted here that there is a way to stop updates and "likes" from showing... I feel liberated now!

I really must be getting old, but I just can't stand the amount of nonsense people like to post about themselves. I definitely find much more interesting when people keep an air of mystery about some parts of their lives. I really couldn't care less about what these people eat, wear or what their babies are doing every second of the day...

And I thought I was a FB cynic before I came on here. This has turned me around a bit.

FB is designed for sharing, so of course people are going to overshare because everything is subjective. I find it invaluable for keeping up with friends abroad and in other parts of the country. I hide people whose constant wittering annoys me. Mostly my friends posts make me laugh. It is always useful for instant baby advice as most of my friends have babies. If I don;t want to look at their baby pictures I don't. I am a bit nosy so this suits me.

If my friends posted nothing but icky status updates on their great lives then I probably would not be friends with them in the first place. I have met people who are objectionable and boastful in person (I will call them "feckwangers") I think it is proven that people will always put a version of themselves forward that they believe shows them in the best light this is human nature.

Maybe people need to get some tuition on the security options in Facebook and then they can tailor it to get what they want out of it. If you don't like triva on other people's lives then it isn;t for you, but just because it isn't for you please don't tell me my life is obviously unfulfilled/I am living a deception which will soon fall apart/I am needy/a show off etc etc etc. After all we are all on mumsnet posting trivia are we not?

I think you are a bit miserable. The ones I hate are :-(. Fishing for people to ask what's wrong. I never bother asking but do go back and read later because I'm a nosey cow!

I love/hate those updates.

I admittedly laugh when people make declarations on FB. Especially when people wish their children (especially those who are aged 0-5) a Happy birthday via Facebook
eg.
"Happy birthday to child Mummy loves you so very much hope you have the bestest day ever"

I really do hate boasty type statuses though. Sometimes you don't want to block boasters because life isn't black and white and you might happen to be related to them...

ThisWeekonFancyPuffin
People that change their names on Facebook make me stabby.

*'

And how much did I 'LOL' when I went on FB this morning and saw the following: photos of child in high chair covered in chocolate, status of 'if you treat me like shit I will leave you', details of someone's son being so upset about missing sports day, and a few complete wankers from work boasting about big redundancy pay outs
Stil love this thread!

"Facebook has bred a culture of over-sharing and the majority just accept that without question"

yes but... if you feel someone is oversharing then presumably you are one of those facebookers who uses it to rubberneck other people's lives while hardly ever contributing yourself? I mean, it's a social networking tool but clearly is also used for Voyeurism by those people who say 'you use facebook sooo much, don't you?'. If anyone ever says that to me in a snidey way I always add them to my list of people who can't see most of what I post but really I think if they don't like it then why don't they take control of their facebook rather than expecting me to censor myself for their sake?

Maybe I will start asking them how they know I am on there so much if they don't use it.

Fb is nauseating

Yup yup.

'I love my husband, I love my kids, I love my friends, I love my life'

Bleurrrrrrrgggghhhhh!!!!!!!!!!!

I read one of those share pictures yesterday made me

" i used to wonder what people were thinking
now I have facebook I wonder no more"

duellingfanjo I'm not a facebooker at all, never mind one of "those" facebookers.

I dont like the fact that in using fb a lot of people (not everyone) have regressed back to about ten years old . I find it really immature, but i understand people like it and its not doing any harm to anyone.

Ah ok.
I think if I had no facebook I wouldn't give a stuff about if other people did but that's just me I guess.

I don't give a stuff - I don't have to see any of it thankfully. This doesn't mean I am unaware, it's a social phenomenon and one which I happen to think isn't such a great thing, hence my comment.

I've used the information in this thread and gone through my friends list. Most of us use FB to share thoughts, information, pictures etc but we also link to news items and have a bloody good debate.

In case the people that I class as friends but never actually post anything are like the posters on this thread I have now restricted their access to my updates.

I think DuelingFanjo has been on it as long as me by the sounds of it. It didn't improve when young people migrated from bebo and businesses started using it for marketing.

Its not about not caring about it, even if you dont have a fb you cant get away from it.
And you are kind of seen of as a bit weird not to have one, as even people kids/dogs and probably cuddly toys for all i know have one these days!

I post an anniversary message to dh, it's also to remind all the miserable bastards who said it wouldn't last two weeks that they were wrong. Very wrong.

If you have FB nauseating...

Leave the bastard!

at Sallyingforth

Have to say that I have changed the way I use facebook quite a lot. I still post a lot of photos but I try to stop myself from posting anything which can be misinterpreted or which is about my feelings, particularly if I am feeling negative. I have set up lists so that I can automatically exclude swathes of people from seeing certain things. Also my facebook is visible only to friends and my photo albums are quite strictly locked-down.

Some people have facebook open to all but many are like me I think, only 'oversharing' with their small friends list.