To find all these things about Facebook immensely annoying?

[BloodyBen10]

Grrr. Warning: I am having grumbly kind of day. But I mean, really ...

Right, these are the things:

• Smug status updates along the lines of, "I think my DD is so special and wonderful and she is the only one to have done X or Y or been invited to Z." Nowt wrong with a bit of pride, but humility's good too, no?
• Gushing responses to the above like, "Yes, your DD really is the loveliest/most special/most amazing child in the world."
• Members of the same family writing on each other's walls how much they love each other, and you are wonderful Mum/sister/whatever and I love you to pieces, etc, etc. On their walls. Not private messages. Just backwards and forwards, backwards and forwards saccharine outpourings, for everyone to see. I think it's lovely when family members love each other this much, I really do. I just don't get why they're so public about it, IYSWIM. It's kind of private/personal, isn't it?
• Pets with their own Facebook pages, who seem to be so intelligent that they can post their own status updates. And call their owners Mummy and Daddy. FFS.
• Attention seeking cryptic status updates, which just beg for a response, because they don't quite say it like it is.
• A friend who I know goes around interfering in other people's business, judging, being hot and cold, etc, who posts a status update about the importance of treating other people how you want to be treated.
• Friends who are teachers who can't spell or use grammar properly.
• Utterly mundane status updates about what people are having for tea or their plans for doing housework that day.
• Friends who write a kiss ('x') after every single post, no matter what it's about nor how many times they've posted. I don't kiss friends on the cheek in person after every single line of conversation, FFS!

Good God, it's driving me batty! I know, I know. I don't have to use it. But it's handy for keeping in touch and sharing photos with friends and family overseas. Still, I logged out earlier after posting a response to something irritating, and reflecting afterwards that I was very close to being a bit mean.

I think I need to hide a lot of friends' posts to keep my blood pressure down! Is it just me and is this all about me just having a grumpy day? Or does this kind of thing make anyone else want to eat their own arm?

Rant over.

....errr and these people are your friends?

Some of it irritates me, like the school mum who writes her entire jobs for the day, and yes I mean, hoover, polish, pop to Lidl, clean the budgie cage etc etc..

Yaaaawwwwwnnnn.

Give it up!

Millions of people have.

You are not missing anything.

I use the term "friends" in the Facebook sense, mrsincommunicado. Facebook's a bit black and white like that, isn't it? I mean, you have friends and that's it. Not old acquaintances, colleagues, family, arch enemies, the woman round the corner, the mum of your child's friend, etc.

Most of the people I spend time with day to day either aren't on it or sort of lurk, a bit like I do.

I just thought of another one on the loo: my friend's son who's just graduated from law school, and yet can't spell, punctuate, string a sentence together. I can barely understand his posts. I can't believe how much money he's going to earn despite his illiteracy!

Lots of really little things are bothering me today. I am being pretty unforgiving, I think.

Off to sort myself out with a hearty roast.

... and will think about your suggestion, bibbity. Not a bad one. Not bad at all.

LMAO!
I agree with all of thise points, some facebook users are great and put up witty coments that brighten up my day and I am genuinely interested in their news but some of the self indulgent posts ranging from, going to bed, having a shower to what they are having to eat.
Then you get the melodramitic why is my life so bad and everything happens to me etc. I get really annoyed by these as most of these posters have jobs children friends families and lives that many people would love to have.

I have got to the point now that i just see the funny side of it all although I completely see your point on all of the above and 100% agree!

Bloodyben10, I love your idea of filing these people into different groups, you can do it for your own personal viewing, so set up some groups e.g. incredibly boring neighbours, attention seeking twunts etc, and it'll cheer you up no end.

Mmmmm roast - lamb, beef, pork?

I hide loads of people for these crimes! My friend's 13 yo DD likes to put extra letters onn herr wordss annd all herr frieendss doo it tooo. My dear friend constantly updates us on what 'Li'l X and my princess baby girl are the cutest wee bubbas and I luv them hun xxxoxxox'. I love her to pieces but can't read that shite.

Plenty of people are just too banal for me to constantly be reading

Eric, my 16 year old cousin adds letters to his status all the time, gets on my goat.

I hate the XXXXX is so proud of her big boy, he's done his first poo on the potty and waved it down the toilet afterwards.

Ick.

Oh the extra letters thing drives me absolutely insane!!!! Why why why? I have deleted someone over this. I also hate the fact that people join every single sodding group. What is the point? Then you get the group invites for some crap that you really couldn't give a toss about.

I have a friend who literally puts on her status that she needs a poo, then says how much better she feels after she has been for a poo. TMI?

It is useful for keeping up with friends etc and arranging group nights out and stuff but thats all I use it for now, I got so fed up of the whole bloody thing that I deleted about 100 people from my so called 'friends' list.

If you don't like it and it irritates you that much, then opt out! Simple!

Am loving the arch enemy group idea. My 19 year old cousin does the extra letters thing too, weirdly she uses excellent spelling and grammar in real life.

YABU

I think the weirdest people are those who claim to be lurkers on facebook, not really doing facebook like other people but still they seem to be completely aware of everything anyone else posts. How can that be if you are do uninterested?

so not do

I deleted my facebook account for all the reasons above and more and BOY AM I HAPPY

bben, is it in a chicken brick though?

delete your account then if it bothers you this much

I had a 'facebook friend' who ticked many of the original points and I got a bit tired of reading the conversations on FB between her and her friends so I hid her posts but strangely enough that only made me want to read them more. I took the drastic action to remove her as a friend from FB and of course now she doesn't speak to me anymore. Whoops...bit of a mistake, I have made my bed and thus must lie in it etc....

One way to get to keep contact with (true) friends and family )esp those overseas) would be to use.... dum dum dum.... e-mail.

Some accounts have limits on storage or size of files being sent, but Google Mail (for all the evil some might tar Google with) seems to be quite OK for sending photos and with a storage limit of over 5 GB, won't get "filled up" very easily.

Use FaceBook perhaps to let someone know you plan to e-mail a few photos (and don't send 50 in one e-mail...5 to 10 would make more sense) and limit how much time you spend checking any status messages.

Seriously glad my family (3 sisters, several nephews and niece, and 4 of their children {great nieces ?} ) don't seem to be using FB - or if they are, have never told me

PS Had thought you were meaning the many FB link buttons on various daft web sites, which simply annoy the hell out of most non-FB users.

Yes, very lol

I have FB friends who do all of the above - collectively; I wouldn't be friends with any one person who did them all! On the whole, though, I like it. It's put me back in touch with people I no longer see but miss. We're all too old (or, er, busy posting on forums) to be constantly poking & commenting - but it's really nice to keep half an eye on pals I thought I'd lost, and know they're keeping half an eye on me

FB: 80% good, 19% annoying, 1% psychopath.

My step sister can only post about her daughter & bf, it would appear....constant post after post

"I luv mii likkle babbie gurl andd mii boiifriendd so much, they r mii lyfe, mummie luvs her likkle Bella boo"

Yes, spelt like that! Grrr...so I hide her posts. I can't be bothered getting wound up about it.

I don't get why people get so wound up about what others do on their statuses on facebook, if you do not want to read it, hide it, simple! I have hidden a few people on facebook as I didnt like their language and terms they used. I do roll my eyes at some of the status updates but don't let any really bother me, their status their choice of what to write!
The only time I became irritated about status updates was when a few members of my family were using them to act out an episode of Jeremy Kyle (ie a slanging match), in my opinion family disagreements should be private not splashed over facebook for all to see!

fb has caused us so much shit with dp ex and her nutty family that I'm seriously considering either deleting my account or creating another one excluding her and all her family which will be a shame as some of them are genuine friends but there you go.

I loved fb to start with but I'm getting fed up with it now, I get nervous when I log on to see what abusive messages I get from his ex over her unreasonable demands about his girls.

dont care what they write- if its nauseating I just hide them.

I just cant stand the use of text speak on FB.

I have a FB friend who will write 'really' as 'rele' and 'again' as 'agin'

Pointless.

My husband calls it 'bitch book' because I go on and get so wound up by all the comments, that I end up bitching about people!

Totally agree with all your comments and have a few of my own!

1. a lot of people use it as a forum to make snide comments in order to get back at others who have annoyed them.
2. hate really annoying people who like to boast about what they have just bought for their house. They also boast about what their partners have just bought them ie my new 40'' lcd 3d t.v has just arrived today' or 'Ive just come home and my darling hubby has bought me an i pad. I love you so much'. Both these comments have been from the same couple. Get me a bucket. I feel like telling them to shut up! lol Will say no more in case they are on here and I am identified!