...to hate this kind of facebook status?

[BessieBoots]

"Emily thinks some people should try to be nicer."

"John thinks someone is in a mood today and is taking out their problems on him."

"Jane really wants to slap a certain someone."

It makes EVERYONE paranoid to read this kind of status!

Wouldn't worry me at all unless I had a guilty conscience. I would hide the post if it bothers you.

"Tabby says that people who post this kind of stuff on facebook need to get a life"

It's called "vague-booking" and should be limited to one's 14 year old Emo cousin, however, my 36 year old well-educated friend with a cracking job is far better at this. It's like the blueprint of passive-aggressive behaviour.

E.g. - her latest 4 updates:
xxx joined the group You only talk to me when you want something...

xxx became a fan of You Are Online and I Wanna Talk To You, But I'm not saying Hi First.

xxx joined the group Why did you text/I.M. me if you don't even want to talk

xxx became a fan of Yes , i joined that group because of you , and yes , i want you to read it. ·

Someone I know joined a group called "I want to smack someone who's on my facebook friends list".

But I DO want to slap a certain someone, and if that certain someone happens to read my status perhaps they will think twice about committing the slappable offence again. Simples.

facebook is just shit

I have one of those friends. I call it attention seeking status.

Facebook can grow arms and legs if you let it.
I recently trimmed my friends list down to 41 people who I actually talk to and have a positive relationship with on there. After some passive agressive meddling by my DSIL, she got the chop as well.
I can't understand why people have hundreds of 'friends' on facebook. It's fantastic for keeping in touch with friends and relative who are far away, and the odd old school friend who is still really lovely. As for everyone else, sod em, is life really any better with them on your list of friends?

Yes Mrs Yamada, but everyone else will think you want to slap them too...

I hate the stealth boasting.....like I read today, 'Happy Mother's Day to all of the people who have to do all the work, no nannies and no help....x, y,z I salute you..' Why not write, I don't work and live off my children's father and have a cleaner(which is all she has), instead of insinuating that she has a team of 'staff'.

She also posts about being out of the country when it's only her partner who goes away....so something like, really hoped to be over in NY but due to the 3 month trip to South Africa, we can't. (her partner is in South Africa, not her.)

It's ok, they all know I mean Mr Yamada.

My 13 year old stoops that low and I tell her not to because it's pathetic - only I phrase it more nicely than that!

I know the state of my bil and sil's marriage just because of updates on Facebook. I don't bother reading them now.

well my "vaguebooking" will make sense to you if you cared to follow previous status update

exactly MrsYamada - if you don't know who it's about - tough shit - you're obviously not "in" (or you're just in a different group of friends).

I'm with you. It's childish and tedious.

YANBU - I also hate all the cryptic attention seeking stuff, like

'xxx is ready to explode'

'xxx is tetering on the edge of the abyss...'

without any explanation. It just makes me think 'oh fuck off' and not acknowledge it on principle.

It's more exciting that 'Just been to the coffee shop and now I'm coming home to put the hoover 'round and watch jeremy kyle'. Then and hour later...'Just had a cheese sandwich and a glass of water'.

(That's not what I've been doing btw.)

YANBU, thankfully no-one on my fb does this

posie I have a friend who does the boasting you mention too - it's a shame really as she posts about how her hubby spoils her etc but then I also know that he gets drunk, shouts at her etc and I think she's trying to pretend to herself she's happy

I like fb and I only have a very few friend on there and I like to see their updates and pics but I just don't add people I don;t know really well

yes but Cider - many people on their FB friends may know what it's about - just because YOU don't doesn't mean that they should expand on it for everyone.

I have RL friends, family (well - 2 family members, on exIL's and my brother), MN friends etc on my facebook.

I'm not going to sit down and make posts to "specific" people (using the padlock) if I want to share something that only my RL friends would actually know what I was on about.

So everyone reads it.

Likewise my RL friends often see "vague" posts about MN that make perfect sense to MNers but not a shred of sense to them.

One of my status updates yesterday

"s thinking that 3.40 until 4.50 (and still waiting) is a lot longer than "about half an hour"..........why am I not surprised???????"

Do you know what that was on about? No - neither did a lot of my friends.........but it did to some of them,

Some of you just need to take a chill pill (ooo haven't said that for years ), or get off FB.

YANBU. FWIW my FB updates usually involve something about the immediate consumption if wine!

YANBU - but let's face it - FB is all about attention seeking, well in many ways it is.

'Facebook can grow arms and legs if you let it' - how true!!

I knew what you meant