needy but secretive status updates on facebook.

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they annoy me.
or shoudl i be more tolerant and sympathetic.

people who write how dreadful their life is etc etc., but wont' respond to you in the chat facility but do let you about the situation in a personal email. iykwim.

i have one friend who does this all the time. ok she has problems. but to me it is like a wimpy child.or perhaps i am being a bitch.

can't bloody find you..........found someone of the same name.......but am sure it's not you

It's the 3 sisters (2 live in the same house) who do constant 'you're the better sister', 'no you're the better....' 'blah f'in blah'. She's sat beside you just tell her. My page ended up full of family members telling each other how wonderful each other were. Or people who think it's twitter, 'wey hey it's friday, time to get drunk', then 'I'm at the pub' step by step evening updates until the 'I've got a hangover'.
One a day is enough unless something really interesting is happening or you are very funny. Rant over. I have very few people left visible on my page!

'wey hey it's friday, time to get drunk'

Am i on your friend list scaredy?

No poshwellies! Actually I was partly jealous and it was 'Weeeeeeeeeeeeeey heeeeeeeeeeeeeey, etc. But lots more e's.

Am more hateful envious of those who are childfee and declare they've spent a luxurious week away supping champagne in the bahamas...

The lucky bastards.

The ones on my list seem to be long the lines of "XXX thinks that people need to GET A LIFE!", followed by about 6 comments "What's up hunni has someone upset u? xxx"

Oh dear, am occasionally guilty of this - but I do at least elaborate if anyone asks. But then aren't status updates always a kind of teaser, that some of your friends will 'get' more than others?

A few of us did "thinks some people have an over exaggerated sense of self importance" and I got so many PMs even threatening messages I had to explain the irony of the message!

I get fed up reading a particular person's vaguebooking and step by step getting drunk every night whilst complaining her partner is going for a change occasionally!

Please can I hijack here and ask a Q? This padlocking malarky - I have a bad farmville habit and feel awful for my non-farmville friends constantly seeing the notifications on my home page. Can I block the notifications so that only farmville friends can see them? How?

Thanks and sorry.

Oh! good question cain! I'm bookimarking now in case anyone knows :O)

YYYY - and tell me so I can tell my lovely but irritating farmville addict friend to block me too!

If you don't want to see farmshite notifications (or cafeworld or whatever)
when they appear in you news feed

hover over the text and a "hide" box pops up at the right

click it and you will hve teh option to hide the person, or the farmshite. click farmshite and bob's yer uncle

NO MROE FAMSHITE!

tell your mates

wohoo, I have hidden EVRYTHING now! No mroe farmshite, world or war(?!), other people's horoscopes!

"his padlocking malarky - I have a bad farmville habit and feel awful for my non-farmville friends constantly seeing the notifications on my home page. Can I block the notifications so that only farmville friends can see them? How?"

Yes you can.

You need to go to edit friends and "create a new list" and put all your FV friends on it.

Then next time you go to post something from FV click on the little padlock sign before publishing the post, and then on the drop down list that appears choose "customise", then on the drop down list choose "specific people" - and put the name of your FV friends list in the box and "save this setting"

Then it will only be visible to the people that you've put on your FV list.

Oh - and a little tip for those of you that do post lots of stuff visible to only certain people or "like" things a lot........try and clear up your profile page by deleting irrelevant posts.........otherwise your "status update only" friends will just see "X has no more posts"

Fantastic, thank you!

no problem - you have to remember to do it every time you post something, but once you've done it a fwe times you'll get pretty quick at it.

it's the 'poignant' quotation status updates that get me. the implication is that they are wise, deep and ohsointeresting.

oh but I am blinks

Thank you thank you thank you... no more farm/mafia/zoo shite. Hooray!

I have a friend whose every status update is a small-time misery like 'X is knackered and has to go to work tomorrow ' or 'X has a headache and feels sad ' or 'X wishes it wasn't Monday tomorrow '. My god, it is boring. She's a nice, intelligent person with a lot of interests - I can't fathom why she chooses to be so dull on FB.

Just wanted to get that off my chest.

of course you are an exception TAF...

How do you rate my last status update then?

" ooooo look at that - I just got my P45 in the post!"

YANBU, and it bugs me when I see it on here too.

Ie vague but slightly worrying posts that cause others to have to ask for clarification and ask twenty questions.

Presumably so that (like in RL) they can then think 'well I wasn't going to tell them but they did ask', like my mum does when she makes tearful faces which force those around her to interrogate her as to what's wrong, then acts like she prefers to keep it all private but we insist on knowing her business.

etc.

I must just say CainInThePunt, your username is fanfuckingtastic