I know I don't have to go on there but I like it generally for keeping in touch with friends I don't see that much. But why does it turn nice pleasant people into smug idiots? If I read one more 'feeling blessed' status, (usually either about something very mundane that happens to everyone like spending time with your kids or incredibly boasty) I will not be responsible for my actions well I'll probably just moan a lot and post on here.
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To think the Facebook 'feeling blessed' status should be renamed 'feeling smug'
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TwentyOneGuns · 21/04/2016 13:34
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EddieStobbart ·
22/04/2016 15:51
I find it jars a little when people use expressions that they never use in RL and I never hear anyone say they are "feeling blessed" so for me it falls into that context. I have a similar reaction to the use of the word "vile" on MN - see it all the time on here (yep, inc my own posts 
) but rarely hear anyone I know say it. I've seen it ("vile") used in really weird contexts on MN, like the poster has gone out of their way to use it.
manicinsomniac ·
22/04/2016 16:04
I have a FB who breast feeds her 2.5 year old and her 5 month old which is fine, she has made Facebook accounts for them both. She is known to post as the children a status along the lines of "Just had delicious milk from mummy" - feeling blessed. And she tags herself
I'm not especially bothered by the feeling blessed thing (though don't see it much - if I did it would probably start to grate) but that has to be the worst facebook crime I've ever heard of. Unbelievably nauseating and actually almost unhinged!
I tend to follow that rule (can't remember where I first saw it) that anything I post on facebook has to be either amusing, informative or entertaining. Anything else doesn't get to go on there. Obviously people have differing ideas of what things are interesting but it needs to be so to at least some people. I can't imagine anyone in the world caring that a baby has just had its milk, a woman is about to eat her yummy dinner or that it is raining outside.
GraysAnalogy ·
22/04/2016 16:09
Yes, language evolves, including via misuse, and dictionaries reflect this.of course 'blessed' has religious connotations, however keen you are to disavow
When did I say it didn't, let alone show I was 'keen to disavow' 
If your problem is with the English language then sorry, can't help you there. You'd have to travel back in time to sort that one out, not blaming people on facebook.
OneMagnumisneverenough ·
22/04/2016 16:30
lol - not quite sure what was in it, it was meant to be cream of mushroom. It tasted of, in the following order:
hot (spice hot not temperature)
bitter
sour
mould
socks
I added 4 sachets of pepper and 2 of salt and it then tasted of:
hot (and crunchy.. )
salt
sour
mould
and more salt
then socks
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NameChangeMum456 ·
23/04/2016 16:45
I use blessed due to the phrase "counting your blessings" which I picked up through FlyLady. It was a really positive way to remind yourself of all the lovely things that you had either managed to achieve or had happen that day, and of learning not to take things for granted by seeing the positivity in them, even the small things.
It would be very easy to get my "violin" out and feel very sad about my situation, that's a lot of grief, stress and depression to cope with for anyone, but my "count my blessings" mantra actually served to keep me positive.
I'm more of a cello person anyway, if I were to play anything strings based, and my actual instrument repertoire is flute and perhaps saxophone if I tried really hard. 
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