to think people who live their lives through facebook usually have the least to say?

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am I right?

You'd hate me op. I add many pics of my children, if I have an interesting dinner. Thank my friends for coming over in status's, Selfies etc. Im fairly busy but I just love fb. I figure it's my fb and anyone who gets annoyed can hide me.

YABU.

It's impossible to generalise. And how does one define "living your life through Facebook" anyhow? Is there a checklist, anywhere that can be used to ascertain this as fact for a particular individual, or is it all based on your opinion?

Good point lacktoast I should have written and/or. I tick probably 3 of them myself.

Depends. I give updates on DD regularly. I'm certainly not neglecting her or not busy taking care of her. It takes 2 seconds to snap a pic and hit upload. It's not hard to live life and include facebook at the same time if you want to share what's going on.

Usually they have the most to say thats why its great having them on facebook. Things like well now my boyfriend shagged that whore his dicks gone mouldy he can have her cause we all know shes done x/y/z etc. Ahh I love it its what facebook is here for How else would you get the town gossip!

I have 3/5 there too manic.

Of my Facebook friends the most prolific few posters have very busy lives.

Hmm.
I have two fairly prolific Facebook book friends. One doesn't have a lot to do, she is a SAHM with one DC who is at preschool and no hobbies. The other one is a single mum, runs her own full time business, two DC, a VERY full and active social life, lots of hobbies. So I'm not sure you can judge really
I, on the other hand, only post a couple of times a week, but I have loads of time free, so where does that leave me?

II was called ths swot at school too. :D

I mainly use it for keeping in touch with faraway relatives.

I do post pics of the DC too often, but this is something a lot of friends and family do. Its nice to see what they're up to, especially ones we don't see often.

I don't do poo updates and very rarely post food pics, unless I've baked something and am all excited.

Oops YABU.

Tbh people who post stuff im not interested in get hidden. Jve no doubt (and take no issue when) people hide me.

My main bugbear is when one partner posts something about dinner or similar for her OH then the OH posts "was yummy babez" and so the conversation goes on.

Who are you posting that for

Some do, some don't. I don't know why it causes such angst among people.

"Or some people live far away from relatives and use it too keep up to date."

Or in my case use the telephone, email and Skype to keep in touch (because none of my family are on FB)

I tend to agree Rhine. It annoys me when people at work are more interested in looking at Facebook than getting on with their work! There are also the daft ones who post about what they are doing while off sick!

I don't understand why it's always the people who don't use FB who sneer at those that do, Its never the other way round. If takes seconds to uoad a picture or write a status on your phone, so no I don't think that the more your post the less you enjoy life. Some people post crap but indeed this reflects life as some people talk it!

Sometimes that's true. I have a friend who posts statuses before something happens like
"Looking forwards to a catch up with our gorgeous princesses" and then tags the friend they are seeing and an old photo. This goes on for a week and then eventually they meet for a cup of tea and a piece of cake, where they check in, twenty photos are created into an album with photo tags like #oldfriendsarethebestfriends #teafortwo and copious photos of their princesses who are not gorgeous in stupid outfits, then the second they leave the place there is a status "amazing time catching up with my bestie"

stuff like that REALLY pisses me off.

I don't mind photos of what people are doing though at all!

Totally agree with treacle.

And pmsl at the irony of threads started on MN (often by prolific posters) slagging off fb users as tedious internet obsessives with no life!!!

Yet another sweeping generalisation thread about fb.

Why do you care so much about it? If you see all this nonsense on fb then presumably you're on it quite a bit too?

Mn is fb without pics imo.

Live and let live !!

but you can read interesting things on mn, all I see on fb is "going to bed". "just made yummy lunch" etc etc

who he eff cares

If you don't 'effing' care maybe you should eff off and leave people to do as they please.
Fb is not mandatory, moaning about it is boring. Who knows what's really going on for some of these people, they may crave interaction/validity and just have no one to talk to. Fb lets them reach out in a way that suits them.

I don't use fb much but when I was in the depths of despair and too anxious and depressed to ask for help I really thrived on just the sort of stuff that you probably hate. It helped me, it might be helping others too.

And actually there are plenty of threads on mn where people discuss what they had for dinner, what their pets do and how tired/stressed/skint they are.

Bloody faceache snobbery. I'm at home at the moment. Dh is ill. Really ill, the mental health crisis team have been coming in daily. The pain got so great yesterday that it was touch and go whether to call an ambulance, and that's with the controlled drugs he takes. Faceache is my only contact with the outside world at the moment, right down to asking my son if he can drop some milk off, because in the five minute breaks I occasionally get, he happens to be on. If you don't like it, clear the 'friends' you don't want, or hide their posts, but fuck off with being so judgemental, I do not post what dh is going through on facebook because I don't want to worry about family and friends. They know he's poorly and that's enough. Point being, you have absolutely no idea why they are posting trivia, sometimes it's the trivia that keeps you fucking sane.

That's exactly what I meant. Sorry to hear about your DH, hope things get better soon.

Maybe you just have really dull friends?

Sounds like it, Fairy.
OP, if all you see is 'going to bed' etc., I think FB is the least of your problems. You need some new friends...
Bunbaker nobody is saying FB is the inly way to keep in touch with friends/family - of course you could use Skype, email, telephone etc., but for some perhaps FB is the easiest/most convenient? I use the things you use as well as FB, FWIW.

I don't get why people with FB profiles browse without often posting tbh. What's the p