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Original poster

To find cryptic FB status updates highly irritating?

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MrsWobbleTheWaitress · 04/03/2010 19:03

What's the point? Either write a proper status, or keep schtum. What are you hoping for writing something cryptic?

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ASecretLemonadeDrinker · 04/03/2010 19:35

....eh? A bat as in flappy Soupy bat?

PortBlacksand · 04/03/2010 19:36

yes

giraffesCantCeilidhDance · 04/03/2010 19:38
nannynobnobs · 04/03/2010 19:39

They really grate my cheese. Even worse are the sympathy vampires who post nothing but relentless waves of self pity. One guy I know is lovely in RL but every single status he posts is about how he can't get a woman because they all go for the losers and bad boys. He even posted an open poll once, asking all the females on his friends list to message him if they fancied him. Seriously. Then he posted a chatty update with the results!! I wanted to savagely beat him with a frying pan.

ToccataAndFudge · 04/03/2010 19:39
shivster1980 · 04/03/2010 19:41

YANBU - one of my pet hates. It is incredibly attention seeking! I am incredibly nosey though so it gets on my nerves even more

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MrsWobbleTheWaitress · 04/03/2010 19:41

I don't mind the jokey ones, but a friend has just written 'wishes she knew how to help...' or something like that. So I thought I'd be nice and say 'what's up?' and she said '...people who can't be helped'.

Desperate to say 'FFS, why are you posting this? Can't be arsed trying to dig for any further information'

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ToccataAndFudge · 04/03/2010 19:43

ooooooooooo there are a LOT of people lurking on this thread if my FB feed is anything to go by PMSL

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MrsWobbleTheWaitress · 04/03/2010 19:43

hehehehehehe

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uglymugly · 04/03/2010 19:44

Sometimes I think I should get a Facebook account; then I get worried about what I might accidentally see, especially having looked at:

failbooking.com/

It wasn't my fault I found that site. I just went on to LOLcats, as you do, and there was the link.

bonkerz · 04/03/2010 19:45

i love my (stick with me) brothers ex wifes oldest daughter (my step-neice?) she is 19 one 4 year old and one on the way. Talks completely in text talk which i find amusing and the other day was asking on FB where she could buy a baby blue leather pram and said she had seen D&G bottle and shoes and silver dummy online and wished she had £300 to buy them......then 20 minutes later posted to say money was sorted and she was getting the D&G stuff.....she got a social loan for it!

Must add i havent seen this girl since she was about 7 apart from at my mums funeral 5 years ago!

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MrsWobbleTheWaitress · 04/03/2010 19:45

failbooking is a very, very funny site!

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lovechoc · 04/03/2010 19:47

I don't use FB but DH does and I've witnessed him putting on cryptic status updates now and again. i don't really see the point. better to just be blunt with someone rather than beating around the bush. It's irritating.

Some of his friends do it too.

LadyintheRadiator · 04/03/2010 19:49

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mothernature · 04/03/2010 19:57

you lot are so funny

thisisnotwhoyouthink · 04/03/2010 20:05

sorry completely OT, but I just wet myself at "they really grate my cheese"

I only have a few UK people added to fb, so I will be shocked if anyone I know changes their status per this thread!! (I only know a few people being fairly new to the country!!)

plantsitter · 04/03/2010 20:06

I love doing cryptic status updates and I will admit it is shameless attention seeking. But people ignore it if it annoys them.

LyraSilvertongue · 04/03/2010 20:23

I have a friend whose statuses are often things like:

xxxxxx might as well carry on, or
xxxxxx has already waited too long.

If it requires further questions to make it make sense, don't post it.

Sunshinemummy · 04/03/2010 20:41

OK I'm posting the vague update above. If you're one of my friends I give you permission to out me as a mumsnetter!

ManyTimesAnHour · 04/03/2010 21:09

I may change FB status to 'that grates my cheese'

shockers · 04/03/2010 21:19

"VB really grates my cheese".... I'm going to put that on now and make all my friends wonder who VB is

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MrsWobbleTheWaitress · 04/03/2010 21:22

Shit, just got in trouble posting that MN update!

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DuelingFanjo · 04/03/2010 21:24

YANBU.

I have a theory that anyone who posts 'I know something you don't know' is pregnant, anyone who posts about how much they are drinking - is pregnant, anyone who says they don't feel very well - Pregnant.

StewieGriffinsMom · 04/03/2010 21:28

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GoblinWand · 04/03/2010 21:28

"its when 20 people then say "oh no hun whats up? xxxx " and the OP goes "oh nothing never mind"

WTF?!"

oh yes!! half the time I think nothing is wrong! They just want the attention! Winds me up really. Now, if im pissed off, with say..Dh (as I often am), I could say "GoblinWand is pissed off" then lots of "whats up?" "u ok" etc. Now, if I put "GoblinWand is pissed off as husband is a lazy twunt who has not took the bins out despite being asked for the last 3 days" well, then i get instant gratification, as all my fb friends instantly agree with me that dh is in fact a twunt! So, I know which way is more satisfying!