to think some of my friends comments on facebook about their kids make me want to vom!!

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This is a bit lighthearted really not bothering me that much but omg some of the status's my friends write on facebook....

'x is so proud her beautiful baby has done a burp'

'y is bursting with proud about the fact that she has the most gorgeous little boy in the world who is so clever and wonderful cos he's drawn a face'

I always want to write...do you think that you're the only people who've ever had kids? All parents are proud of their kids, we don't need to know everytime your child blinks how proud you are!

geez....

"bannaz"? That actually makes me feel homicidal. Is this person some sort of "gangsta"? You can almost see the stupid downwards point as they say it. "You, it iz me bannaz, blood."

Oh they can be so irritating - but I guess I am a little guilty of that, but I spend most of my time counting down to wine on FB, got one friend of friend who FB me who does it all the time, if you look at status always saying the same thing. IMHO if you put a status up it should at least be amusing to some rather than depressing!

btw - what does boak mean?

Also another pet hate is hearing really important news from people, found out really good friend was getting engaged on fb and hadn't phoned to tell us! When I say really good friend, mean speak on the phone 2x week etc and godparent to dc!! Outrageous!

I hate it too, though most of mine involve lack of sleep or knackered-ness....

"boak" is a sort of dry vomit noise, I gather.

YANBU

A friend of mine gave birth about a month ago, since then everyday we have pictures of the baby on fb with cheesycomments...Alright, as you know most of newborns are not really cute when they are first born (included mine) but what I annoyed me most, make me cringe its the comment from the friends : OMG she is ridicuslously(sp?) beautiful, what a stunner..etc..and let me tell you she is quite ugly bit its normal she was just born, why the need saying bullshits like that ?????

I have to post this irrelevant rant.

A friend posted "How do seedless grapes grow, are they magic?"

So I commented "They are grown from cuttings, and have a genetic fault meaning the seeds inside them never harden"

sHE REPLIED "hAR HAR HAR COLDITZ U SAD COW!"

She asked, for God's sake!

I ended with "Yes, I'm a sad cow. Or maybe I'm just intelligent and articulate, who knows?"

Completely irrelevant but I had to get it off my chest/

Well pity me, because I have had to block a BABY My friend was a tad over enthusiastic and set him up his own account...ok so it's pushing the bounds of good taste but we'll let it go...except that the baby was updating several times a day with the colour, frequency and consistency of his poo being the main topic. Closely followed by 'places I have recently vomited.' Given that my friend was also constantly boasting updating us all on how many hours a night the baby was sleeping, I just couldn't take any more and have blocked the baby.

This is a good friend BTW, who is highly educated and intelligent. She is going to be so embarrassed when she looks back on this.

Does the baby also play Scrabble, post his favourite videos, do "Which TeleTubby are you most like" quizzes and so on?

I wouldn't know, thank gawd!

lol - glad i'm not alone in this!

Like someone else said, the odd proud comment about kids is fine and nice to hear
'first word', 'first day at school', 'amusing incident'...i put stuff like that on myself about my own kids.

It's the women who can only talk about their kids, every single post is referring to their kids...makes me think geez, you really have nothing else in your life do you?

How's this for sad (not one of my friends but a 'friend' of a friend)
Status: Poppy thinks Steve McDonald is a very naughty boy!!!!!!!!!
The postee was a small fluffy dog who was apparently watching Corrie and was so appalled by the behaviour of a fictional character that she felt compelled to type in... no mean feat with paws!
I have also ignored friend requests from the babies and toddlers of people I hardly know

I think the problem comes from having people as friends on Facebook who you really don't give a shit about.

We have recently moved so I don't see my friends as often as I like anymore but I love seeing pictures of them and their children. I agree that some status updates can be a bit cheesy and mine tend to be of the more cynical kind but they are your friends and you should be interested in their lives, not sniffy because they are not erudite and amusing enough for you.

If you are not, delete them and leave them be.

Having said that, I have deleted old school friends on the grounds of poor grammar.

Oh, re Steve McDonald, last Friday a whole succession of people I used to work with had status updates concerning Stacey - poor Stacey, I'm in tears etc etc. Was racking my brains trying to think 1) who poor Stacey could be and 2) what could have happened to her when one reply mentioned Bradley. Then it clicked. They were all banging on about East fucking Enders.

"Hide" option went into overdrive, I can tell you.

people set up facebook accounts for babies and children??? sorry but that is someone who has way to much time on there hands, which they shouldn't have when they have said baby/toddler!!!!

I am SICK of comments about 'the twins' xfactor im assuming!

YANBU it is sooo annoying, so what why does everyone have to know.

oh my goodness provincial are you for real, thats just so bad how can any sane person do that.

Uuurgh. This is why I no longer have a FB account.

I really dont care if "X loves Y til the day we die" or "Baby has put on 2lb's this week - CHUBBBBBY BUBBBBY!".

I also do not care if "X is at work " (via mobile) and "X is now home from work with wine - good times" and I seriously really DO NOT need to know that "X is feeling horny, BABY!" BARF!

I do not want to see baby pics/old school pics/wedding pics etc...or any bloody pics but if you feel I must see them and you are close enough to me to have my personal email address then use that or bloody well show me in person.

Sorry, rant over

Colditz - thanks for the info re grapes. Can now add this to my list of 'things I have learned on MN'

I know someone who has set up a FB account for their dog

YANBU

My BIL is guilty of pointless, cringe-worthy posts although they have nothing to do with babies. He keeps posting about spending the evening in with his best mate (meaning his wife) or yesterday, he posted he went to the cinema with his 3 best mates, in this case, his wife and 2 boys. Glad he loves his family, not glad he feels the need to go on about it!!

Oh and virtually every day he starts off by saying today is going to be a 'yes' day. Then he gets loads of his friends telling him he is an inspiration.

I would hide his feeds if it were not for the fact that occasionally he posts something very (accidentally) amusing and I need to take the piss out of it share with DH.

LOL - "I have deleted old school friends on the grounds of poor grammar" - I'd be right behind you on that, if I were using FB.

Thankfully I've lost track of everyone from scool (30++ years ago) and have no wish to contact some past work colleagues!

Going self-employed was a good move for me (no more office politics to concern me, after ~15 years and three employers).

Agree totally with tombliboobs. It's better people are proud rather than some of the arseholes out there with kids.

I hate the ones that are about how the kids are doing their head in or they'd rather be at the dentist than with the kids (that was an actual one yesterday!!)

That's much sadder than celebrating burps and new words.

Georgimama & beanies - I feel your pain! When we are forced invited to go to DH's gran's for lunch on a Sunday I have to spend 3 hours trying to work out who DH's Gran, Mum and Aunties are talking about, wondering who all these weird things are happening to. Yep, you've guessed it - Eastenders, Emmerdale or Corrie (or sometimes X Factor).

FFS! Are your own lives not interesting enough that you have to talk about fictional characters as if they're real?! Argh!