Boring Facebook updates

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I find reading peoples Runtastic updates on Facebook so tedious! Why do I want to know that so and so has just done an invigorating 15 mile run and is feeling fantastic! AIBU and a proper miserable cow to just not want to know? And they post a little map of their route and everything?!

So according to mn you can't post happy updates cause that's boasting, negative updates are attention seeking, every day statuses are tedious, political/opinionated statuses are too controversial, no pictures of... Anything at all, no quizzes, no links... What can I post dear mn?

bloodydoghairs add me on facebook im all over doggie statuses we cant get ourcdog that far he is scared of the road

One woman on mine is always moaning about how ill she is, head, throat, chest, everything and has already been in A&E twice in the last 6 months. But when she's well she's always writing about how she never gets ill. Oh and teeth, that was a two-weeker. I keep her just to remind myself how lucky I am

She also does those 'Where did we meet?' statuses. And all the answers are, 'Facebook hun x'. In my head I wanted to write 'I added you because you were all over my DPs page like a rash you dirty little bitch'. But I didn't. And he closed his account.

She also does the 'inbox me hun'.

I find the most annoying people are those that most nothing. Nothing ever. Now it's possible they have me on their list of acquaintances and they only share stuff with "friends" but in most cases they "friended" me on FB. Why do that if they are not prepared to update people with their news? I think I'm going to move all the non-posters onto a restricted list not sure why they should read by drivel if I'm not allowed to read theirs.

My not by.

My SIL is a facebook grief vampire. A baby died in the area I live, it was very sad. SIL posted a status about it.

"OMG can't believe it, rest in piece on the rainbow bridge bubba xxxx :( :'("
"Wots happened?!"
"Cant say on ere babe ill inbox ya. A friend of a friends baby died last night :( xxxxxx"
"omg rip"
"OMG how sad whos baby was it"
"Cant say hun xxxxx"

She didn't know the baby's family at all, yet was inboxing people with the 'juicy' details. She does it constantly with all sorts of tragedies and deaths. It's awful.

I read an article which said that the worst FB updates are the self congratulatory ones and the ones which shove other people's opinions down your throat.

So "Just taken down the Christmas decorations, now relaxing with wine...BLISS!"

Fuck off.

And

"Fat people should be made to work in fat camps to pay for their medical treatment!"

FUCK OFF!

Boozey you can post REAL news. Such as "Just found out I'm going to have a new job in December!"

Or "We're moving to London!"

NOT descriptions of your day to day life designed to make it seem more magazine-like than it really is.

"Children in bed, house tidy, watching a movie with my special one" accompanied by a picture of two glasses of wine with a filter on to make it look more attractive.

I can cope with boring. Different things are interesting to different people. Presumably the person who posts it knows or hopes that there are people who will be happy/interested to know about it.

It's the smug ones I can't cope with. My least favourite from the Christmas period:
'Oh, I do know how lucky I am. Presents all wrapped and under the tree, cupboards bulging with food, relaxing with my beautiful family with a bottle of wine and don't owe a penny to anyone' BLEURGH!

And the hugely awkward overshares:
'Well thanks for that, I guess I know who my friends are. Even my own sister betrays me. Well she's got a fanny the size of America so she can fuck all my boyfriends for all I care and just fuck off. I'm moving on.'

I think I might have about 85 friends on facebook, I can count on one hand how many can spell and use punctuation. What I don't understand is...a lot of these peole went to the same school at the same time as me. If I learnt how to spell, why didn't they?

Boozy I love the happy status's. It's the endless every minute of the day week in week out shite that I hate. The drama lhamas that seem to constantly lives out their lives on there for all the world to see. And yet when you ask them what they're are on about they reply with. 'carn't say on here too mani nosey bastards reading'

Charming don't you think?

Marjorie I agree. Think I'll put the non posters ever on a restricted list as well. Good idea that.

Oh and I forgot the endless stream of pouty selfies, which of course are there purely to get the "oh, so gorg hun xxxx" comments. Ugh, so obvious and cringeworthy. Just a new pic in exactly the same pose (and silly duck face) as yesterday's and the day before and the day before... I can only imagine these people have self-esteem issues and need to keep hearing other people say how beautiful they are. Kind of sad really.

"Has anyone else been subjected to seeing photos of the content's of a FB friend's baby's nappy..."
No, but it would definitely be more interesting than what my new FB friends post!

"How about "Does anyone on here know the number for Tesco in X town?" Surely that must be high on the list of FB statuses to dislike, as being totally pointless"
Arrrrggh! I feel like commenting with "you're online, and in the time it's taken you to ask on here you could've Googled the answer yourself"

"What can I post dear mn?"
Vidoes of crows tobogganig down snowy rooftops on plastic cartons does it for me Boozey. Or the piss-taking posts of parody pages such as "Britain Furst"

What BoozeyTuesday said.

Seriously. The threads on MN about how boring FB is are getting very boring themselves.

just read something on my Fb- friend of a friend of a friend thing

" Just to tell yis me mam pastaway this morning"
presume they meant 'passed away'- and of couse sad- but really
WTF!!!

Lol that the threads are now boring about boring fb statuses

I love them, we can all judge together.