To think pretending to be pregnant on Facebook isn't funny?

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Today one of my friends posted this status on Facebook:
"Guess it was too good to be true... im pregnant!"

People were getting excited and emotional and congratulating her. Someone asked how far along she was and she said 8 weeks. I was a bit concerned because it didn't sound like she was thrilled about it and I know she's been having a difficult time recently so it wouldn't be the best timing but I put congratulations because I wanted to be supportive and she sent me this message:

"sorry u should not have liked or commented on my status so now its ur turn Now you have to pick one of the 14 below and post to your status. This is the 2014 breast cancer awareness game. Don't be a spoil sport choose you poison, and change your status xxx 1) Damn diarrhea 2) Just used my boobs to get out of a speeding ticket 3) Anyone have a tampon, I'm out 4) How do you get rid of foot fungus 5) Why is nobody around when I'm horny? 6) No toilet paper goodbye socks! Post with no explanations. 7)Someone offered me a job as a prostitute but I'm hesitant. 8)I think I'm in love with someone what should I do? 9)I've decided 2 stop wearing underwear. 10)I still love my ex. 11)I really don't know how 2 tell anyone and I'm sick of hiding it I'm gay. 12)Guess it was 2 good 2 b true I'm pregnant. 13)Just won $7000 on a scratchy. 14)I've just found out I've been cheated on for the past 5 months.Post with no explanations."

Some of those statuses are just stupid but some of them, like saying you are pregnant or have been cheated on could tug on people's heartstrings. I was concerned so I can't imagine how her close friends and family felt! I think pregnancy is a life changing event and not something to joke about.

AIBU to think this isn't funny (and doesn't raise cancer awareness) and am I being a spoilsport not to take part?

wtf why would people do this??

Its got fuck all to do with cancer, its all about attention seeking

If you want to help a charity, give money or volunteer. Posting stupid shite on facebook about running out of toilet roll and using your socks does bog all for cancer charities neither is it informative/raising awareness.
Similarly being photographed without make up is not "brave".

its horrible. does this really raise awareness and money for cancer? I keep finding threads on AIBU you click on them then someone says "ahh now got your attention sign up for...." some of these are actually personally very upsetting. one is about giving blood/bone marrow. I would dearly love to do this but am on the exclusion list so cannot. DH used to give blood but had to give up due to an illness and reading this made me genuinely upset. why, why why, have these started up.

This explains all the stupid status updates I have seen over the last couple of days. I was only talking about deactivating my account today so I think I will do it. Luckily I never like or comment on these updates so I won't get the stupid messages.

The only thing about deactivating my account is there are people I do enjoy interacting with so I will miss that but it is always through private message and looking at photos. Maybe I will give it a go and see if I miss it.

I did try deleting every one apart from a few close friends and family but kept getting friend requests from the people I had deleted!

Surely if the aim was to raise money and/or awareness, there should be details on how to donate or information on how to spot the early signs of cancer/ urge people to go for smears or get their symptoms checked?
If not, it's attention seeking bollocks. Such stunts are not hilarious or helpful. The make up free selfies seem to be a massive fishing around for compliments. And No, I do not want to see your cock in a sock!

Sorry, feeling tired so going off at a tangent but when I saw cock in a sock qazxc I instantly thought of my cockerel and not the other sort of cock. oh dear I really am getting old.

mummymeister

This sort of puerile brainless bandwagon joining nonsense makes me glad I'm no longer on Facebook

Its pure shite stuff like this. I always ignore them. I don't care if people think I'm being a spoilsport blah blah blah, its stupid.

That one about 'I just used my boobs to get out if a parking ticket'

I saw that a few weeks ago, thought it was tacky anyway (I believed it ) so no way would I ever have clicked like.

I fell for the "I'm pregnant" update on FB yesterday. I was fairly surprised as said friend is 45 but obviously not impossible that she's pregnant so i sent her a message to say congrats etc.

To which she replied with the "now it's your turn" message. I don't fucking think so, grow up the fuck up.

Of course it's mindless and pointless but you can just ignore. Very judgemental saying everyone who uses FB is a moron, guess this will just turn into a pat yourself on the back I'm too good for FB now thread as these inevitably do.

Hmm, I don't think I'd be posting any of that on my facebook page. Sounds a bit juvenile and not the kind of impression I'd want to give people.

These pregnant statuses have popped up on my newsfeed over the last couple of days. To start with I believed them but haven't commented due to my extreme jealousy own issues. I'm desperate for a baby at the moment.

Is this really what this is? Have seen one or two of those statuses flying around. There are some really serious issues on there that are being totally trivialised, this is why I think I am going to deactivate my FB account.

you can just ignore

Why would I ignore when I thought a friend was pregnant though? Fair enough if she's posted about flashing boobs to avoid a parking ticket or whatever.

I was about the tenth person to post, including close friends and family members.

Just seems fucking stupid.

These statuses don't just affect the person posting either....what about the one saying they have been cheated on or they are still in love with their ex. Pathetic.

Fortunately very few of my FB friends indulge in this type of crap.

Although this did make me laugh.

Ignore now is what I meant now you are aware, these things do the rounds every so often on FB, fortunately 99% of my FB newsfeed is free from them as I don't find them funny in the slightest.

It's like being back at school, showing that you have understood the latest in-joke. It makes me cringe. I thought it was v clever of someone at Cancer Research to quickly pick up on the selfie thing to actually get donations rather than "awareness". Lets face it, you'd have had to live your life with your head in a bucket to not know cancer existed. And being "aware" that it exists does not mean you would recognise the symptoms, nor help find a cure. "Awareness" means sharing info that is actually useful.

However, I do like FB as a way of easily keeping in touch with people, I have a couple of closed groups that I belong to as well - it's much easier to stick a FB post on there and we all work out when to meet up, rather than having a round robin email that ends up with loads of replies as we go backwards and forwards arranging things. Likewise, seing pics of friends and their kids, particularly those abroad.

I don't know of 1 person who don't know about cancer.

I think it's gone to far with statues like this.

it's not the fault of FB, it's the fault of the fools you have on it.

I've got fewer than 40 FB friends, all are actual real-life good friends and family. Not one random person i went to school with 20 years ago, no weirdos from down the street. and you know what? i've seen not one make up free selfie, not one ridiculous status, no attention seeking for me it's just a great way to keep in touch, share photos, make plans.

delete these people, no one has to accept a friend request from Carl from 4C or a random third cousin twice removed

Sad to say, some of my real-life friends who actually manage to bring up kids/have good jobs are also the sort of muppets that believe things like "share this link, 1000 iPads are being given away because they are unsealed and Apple can't sell them". Sigh...
(My rule is, if you wouldn't believe a random stranger who walked up to you with a too-good-to-be-true offer, why would you believe a random post on t'internet?)