To be sick of complaints about Facebook

[Sallyingforth]

Currently three of them on the first page of AIBU.

If you don't like something on FB, complain on FB - not here where it won't make the slightest difference.

FB is optional, it's not an essential element of life and you can manage perfectly well without it. Everyone did so a few years ago, and many of us happily still do.

If you choose to use FB and expose your life to it then you'll just have to accept the way it works.

Agree. In my job I am constantly getting people reporting problems with FB

Someone wrote something on their wall and I think it's about me

Answer to that - don't look at their wall then!

You're right, it's a choice. You can choose to go on it or not. People should take some personal responsibility.

Facebook has caused more issues in our house than anything else (we have teenage dc's). Wish it would just GO AWAY.

i do not share my life on fb at all only use to keep in touch with friends and family and i am also very wary of what picutures i put up but now there is this timeline everyone can see what i have been tagged into for the last few years i deleted each tag, but would rather have the option of showing or not showing my fb time line

Complaining on AIBU about anything doesn't make the slightest difference about anything, so don't know why you're restricting this remark to complaints about FB.

It's just another way of communicating with each other and of course people will have complaints about it, just the way they would about people communicating negatively by email/phone calls/direct conversation.

I haven't read the threads you're talking about but why shouldn't people gave a whinge on here, regardless of the medium used to upset them?

YABU. Don't read the threads about FB?

Can't stand all the "I hate FB, FB is the devil whine whine whinge whinge"

If you don't like facebook don't fucking use it, numbskulls. It's not compulsory, Zuckerburg won't hunt you down and make you set up a profile at gun point, and nobody gives a bollocks whether you are on it or not.

Most of AIBU is moaning about something and the same subjects come up over and over again. Don't see why Facebook as a subject is any worse than any of the others.

Does this thread make it 4 threads complaining about Facebook?

So, to clarify. We can whinge/moan/post in AIBU only when (amongst other issues):

• we have an upsetting/irritating/concerning encounter face to face
• we have an issue with a phone call
• we receive an unpleasant letter through the post
• we are sent an email that angers us
• we read something on the internet that we disagree with
• we watch something on TV that irks us

but not about Facebook, we're not supposed to complain about Facebook at all, ever, because we can quite easily not read stuff on there (as with emails, MN, t'internet in general) and there are some people who don't use it and never intend to.

YABU.

Facebook and social media alike are part of life these days. If you don't like it, fine, don't use it.

Others will continue to use it and continue to need advice on situations arising whilst using it.

You, however, can hide threads about it very easily and your MN experience/life can be relatively FB free.

YABU
If you don't like reading threads about FB, don't read them. If you don't like people whining or whinging then why are you on this board at all. By the way, why on earth would I complain to Facebook that some of the people I have chosen to be friends with are imbeciles. I somehow don't think that is what their complaints system is for.

Is an Internet forum named Am I being Unreasonable a good place to spout nonsense that peeves you and ask for others opinions on the matter. Hmmmm, yes, I think it is.

I loathe facebook.

I only ever went on it under duress and now I don't have it, life is so much better...not that I ever got that into it, but still.

I get a bit annoyed when I see people, grown ups, I mean, complaining about a website that is essentially a teenage social tool though I admit it is useful for people who genuinely want to share photos and updates with people far away - funnily enough it seems to be people who use it to keep up with those they see every day, who have the most problems with it.

I think it is the real-life/internet crossover which causes a lot of the grief.

I often want to stand on something and shout 'just deregister' but I am too polite to do that. Seriously though, who needs it. It's a load of rubbish.

I don't have Facebook but I still think it's evil, and I do read threads about it just so I can comment on its evilness. It amuses me and you know what - I think I'll carry on, if it's all right with you. Or, actually, even if it isn't.

Besides, usually there is more to the problem than Facebook itself so one may be able to help on the other aspects.

FB is good for keeping up to date with a few companies I am intetested in but I do not use my real name on there. FB seems to cause so much misery.

DS1 has it, I wouldn't touch it. It is full of 13 year old girls covered in slap and posing weirdly while they call each other gorgeous. The boys boast about footy, bikes and material possessions. What's not to like?

Sallyingforth are you Facebook's Mum?

at Annie

Facebook is shite, isn't it?

It is one of the two things I am proud to have never indulged in: Wearing a scrunchie and Facebook, Arsebook, Wankbook, OversharingCuntyCringeBook Blah BlahBollocksBook and so on.

There's a Facebook section on MN isn't there?

I wish to god it had never been invented. It seems to have caused more misery and grief than it has happiness.

But I don't understand your beef about people moaning about it here. Nobody forces you thread the threads after all.

Meant to say forces you to read.

I don't understand it either, it's like saying 'I loathe reading The Mails website', well...don't read it?

Maybe fb has a sinister addictive quality, they know they shouldn't be going on it but just can't help nosing about what other people are up to themselves.

I've had an account for years but have only recently started using it, and there are some pretty funny pictures etc shared and you just hide the bollocks.

Ouch! Some of the responces are harsh!

YANBU but your thought is what people will say in response to your thread

Ha typo...responses^

This ecard thing perfectly describes what you're saying. I love it static.someecards.com/someecards/usercards/1294528155051_a.png

Without fb Jeremy Kyle wouldn't have run for so long

Agree with OP - I've used FB, loads, for years.

Mostly to keep in touch with the people I hang out with in RL, who are overwhelmingly 30-50 year olds who go to see the same bands that I do & use it to co-ordinate pub rendezvous & crash space, but we do also chat a fair bit.

Dh's band use it a lot for marketing & promotion.

So I don't see it as a teenage thing, really. My feed atm is usually full of gig listings, political rantings, tattoo designs & people taking the piss out of each other in an amicable manner.

But it's useful - I'll post tomorrow 'Where are we all meeting before the Mission gig in Nottingham on Friday?' & there'll be a thread discussing it. It'll be Wetherspoons, but there'll be 5 days worth of good-natured chat to amuse us all in our lunch hours.

Obviously, it would also be possible for me to use FB to pick fights with my extended family & bitch about people whose children go to school with mine. But I'd rather not, so I don't. Is simple.