4 Awkward Moments in Facebook "Likes"

[NSFL]

Originally Posted by Ironhorse

http://facebookfails.com/

I hate how they resize pics on this site so you can't read it until you actually go to the picture.

[Muta]

Originally Posted by Weiser Wonder

I have friends on facebook that I keep as friends because it's just fun to watch the trainwreck that is their life.

Wow... you and me both, man. You and me both. I've used that exact phrase to describe why I keep some people on my list... they're trainwrecks, and don't even know it. Here's a list of trainwreck types that make me so angry, and yet I don't do anything about it:

1 - Statuses that involve constant updates of your baby and anything that has to with your baby. I don't care that little Jackson or little AJ learned how to poop in his trousers, keep your baby news to the people that matter - your immediate family. Spare the rest of us your pain. Either stop forcing these non-important life experiences down the rest of our throats, or GTFO off the Internet.

2 - People who end their statuses in "."... ie: "John Smith is." So you're a period, now? What the hell's up with that? Finish the sentence properly, or don't write anything at all! No one gives two gorilla turds that you're either a) an attention whore who has run out of statuses but still wants people to sadly know you exist, or b) doesn't know how to use the status function. Bunch of flippin' amateurs. Again, GTFO off the Internet if you don't know what you're doing or have anything relevant to say.

3 - People who fill out quizzes - Do you think anyone ******* cares what celebrity you look like? NO. Do I look interested in the latest score you achieved in Bejeweled? **** NO. Is my life so depressing to you that you need to enlighten it with your barrage of non-important information and quiz results on a minute-to-minute basis? Geezus ******* NO. So stop it, right now, with flooding my comupter screen with digital diarrhea.

4 - Status updates that include the word 'hubby'. What, your significant other doesn't have a name? I don't care that he's your husband. I care that he has a name. 'Hubby' is a degrading term that demeans the sanctity of the individual character that is your husband, or what is left of your husband's character anyways. You stole it from him when you started materializing his very existence. "Hey everybody, this is my hubby." Good for you... what's his name? "I don't remember." That's what I thought. The only thing worse than this is people calling their significant other 'hubby' when their not even married yet. ****, that makes me mad. Nobody should ever be in a rush to use this word. If my girlfriend called me that, I'd violently barf all over the place. Good thing she doesn't, if anything but for the safety of her carpets.

5 - Another piss-off I have is people who don't post any of their info on their profile, ie. school, work, birthday, interests, hobbies, whatever, but damnit, they definitely do have time to post their relationship status. Because, you know, that's gotta be established amongst the masses, it's more important that anything else that involves, you know, you. Screw your name and whatever it is the **** you do, your engagement to Wally Waxoff is a life-or-death situation that people need to know. You signed up for a profile, but lord knows you'd NEVER tell someone where you work, or what your favourite TV show is. As long as hubby is bringing home (some of) the bacon, you'll keep that relationship status fresh and ready!

6 - Lastly... people who try to re-add you as a friend after you've taken them off your list. I took you off for a reason - what could POSSIBLY make you think that by you requesting my friendship, it's going to happen? Take a hint, realize you aren't my friend anymore, and move the **** on. Mutiple friendship requests, followed by (unsurprisingly) mutliple friendship rejections, makes you look creepy and gives me reason to install a pipebomb underneath the gas tank of your car. And no, that's not considered a gesture of friendship.

So, back to work.

[Flashpoint]

Maybe... Facebook isn't for you... I mean, it seems to make you pretty angry. Maybe you would be happier without it?

[onetwo_threefour]

Maybe the status "John Smith is." is a metaphysical existentialist statement where the person is confirming the fact of their being in a philosophical statement that you are failing to appreciate.

[Bar-None]

That Horatio photoshop is hilarious. Bad time to be out of thanks!

[Tron_fdc]

[albertGQ]

Originally Posted by Muta

Wow... you and me both, man. You and me both. I've used that exact phrase to describe why I keep some people on my list... they're trainwrecks, and don't even know it. Here's a list of trainwreck types that make me so angry, and yet I don't do anything about it:

1 - Statuses that involve constant updates of your baby and anything that has to with your baby. I don't care that little Jackson or little AJ learned how to poop in his trousers, keep your baby news to the people that matter - your immediate family. Spare the rest of us your pain. Either stop forcing these non-important life experiences down the rest of our throats, or GTFO off the Internet.

2 - People who end their statuses in "."... ie: "John Smith is." So you're a period, now? What the hell's up with that? Finish the sentence properly, or don't write anything at all! No one gives two gorilla turds that you're either a) an attention whore who has run out of statuses but still wants people to sadly know you exist, or b) doesn't know how to use the status function. Bunch of flippin' amateurs. Again, GTFO off the Internet if you don't know what you're doing or have anything relevant to say.

3 - People who fill out quizzes - Do you think anyone ******* cares what celebrity you look like? NO. Do I look interested in the latest score you achieved in Bejeweled? **** NO. Is my life so depressing to you that you need to enlighten it with your barrage of non-important information and quiz results on a minute-to-minute basis? Geezus ******* NO. So stop it, right now, with flooding my comupter screen with digital diarrhea.

4 - Status updates that include the word 'hubby'. What, your significant other doesn't have a name? I don't care that he's your husband. I care that he has a name. 'Hubby' is a degrading term that demeans the sanctity of the individual character that is your husband, or what is left of your husband's character anyways. You stole it from him when you started materializing his very existence. "Hey everybody, this is my hubby." Good for you... what's his name? "I don't remember." That's what I thought. The only thing worse than this is people calling their significant other 'hubby' when their not even married yet. ****, that makes me mad. Nobody should ever be in a rush to use this word. If my girlfriend called me that, I'd violently barf all over the place. Good thing she doesn't, if anything but for the safety of her carpets.

5 - Another piss-off I have is people who don't post any of their info on their profile, ie. school, work, birthday, interests, hobbies, whatever, but damnit, they definitely do have time to post their relationship status. Because, you know, that's gotta be established amongst the masses, it's more important that anything else that involves, you know, you. Screw your name and whatever it is the **** you do, your engagement to Wally Waxoff is a life-or-death situation that people need to know. You signed up for a profile, but lord knows you'd NEVER tell someone where you work, or what your favourite TV show is. As long as hubby is bringing home (some of) the bacon, you'll keep that relationship status fresh and ready!

6 - Lastly... people who try to re-add you as a friend after you've taken them off your list. I took you off for a reason - what could POSSIBLY make you think that by you requesting my friendship, it's going to happen? Take a hint, realize you aren't my friend anymore, and move the **** on. Mutiple friendship requests, followed by (unsurprisingly) mutliple friendship rejections, makes you look creepy and gives me reason to install a pipebomb underneath the gas tank of your car. And no, that's not considered a gesture of friendship.

So, back to work.

Why have an account then? If something made me that angry and I have control over it, then I'd rid my life of it.

Maybe you need to reevaluate your anger management skills

[NSFL]

Originally Posted by Muta

Wow... you and me both, man. You and me both. I've used that exact phrase to describe why I keep some people on my list... they're trainwrecks, and don't even know it. Here's a list of trainwreck types that make me so angry, and yet I don't do anything about it:

-Rant snip-

So, back to work.

That is a lot of anger man. I think it would be healthier for you to leave facebook. And no one is forcing you to read it.

Edit: Maybe you were joking. For your sanity, I hope so.

[4X4]

I felt the exact same way, Muta. So I deleted my account. But it was a bit tough to do because I loved all the pics that my friends and family would put up. I especially miss the pics my overseas friends would post.
But man, all those status updates and friendship requests got too annoying. Another thing I didn't like was when one of my friends would come and post on my wall something stupid like "Ooh, man!! You missed a huuuge party. I got so wasted man! You shoulda been there!!"
Hello! My parents and aunts and uncles are on here. I don't want them seeing that stuff. So first I turned off my wall entirely, and then the dumb crap like requests for games and quizzes and friends and whatnot finally made me delete my account entirely.

[Muta]

Originally Posted by NSFL

That is a lot of anger man. I think it would be healthier for you to leave facebook. And no one is forcing you to read it.

Edit: Maybe you were joking. For your sanity, I hope so.

Think more like George Carlin, and it'll sound more comical when you read it. That was the point.

[NSFL]

Originally Posted by Muta

Think more like George Carlin, and it'll sound more comical when you read it. That was the point.

Ah, gotcha. I was thinking, holy frick, that is some serious rage there.

[Muta]

Originally Posted by 4X4

I felt the exact same way, Muta. So I deleted my account. But it was a bit tough to do because I loved all the pics that my friends and family would put up. I especially miss the pics my overseas friends would post.
But man, all those status updates and friendship requests got too annoying. Another thing I didn't like was when one of my friends would come and post on my wall something stupid like "Ooh, man!! You missed a huuuge party. I got so wasted man! You shoulda been there!!"
Hello! My parents and aunts and uncles are on here. I don't want them seeing that stuff. So first I turned off my wall entirely, and then the dumb crap like requests for games and quizzes and friends and whatnot finally made me delete my account entirely.

I found FB is really only good these days for pictures and communicating with friends overseas. I've found that the good ol' telephone call, or the nicely-written email, are more my preference for communicating these days. Whereas at one point, I was against the phone - now, I like it, since I can actually hear a voice.

And the whole 'parents' thing.. yeah, the coolness factor just goes down once they come online. Where you once could be a savage, you now have to be a gentleman.

[BlackEleven]

Originally Posted by 4X4

I felt the exact same way, Muta. So I deleted my account. But it was a bit tough to do because I loved all the pics that my friends and family would put up. I especially miss the pics my overseas friends would post.
But man, all those status updates and friendship requests got too annoying. Another thing I didn't like was when one of my friends would come and post on my wall something stupid like "Ooh, man!! You missed a huuuge party. I got so wasted man! You shoulda been there!!"
Hello! My parents and aunts and uncles are on here. I don't want them seeing that stuff. So first I turned off my wall entirely, and then the dumb crap like requests for games and quizzes and friends and whatnot finally made me delete my account entirely.

I felt the same, but I discovered you can ignore updates from certain users. It's always the same people doing it, so I just set facebook to ignore any status updates from them. I don't get why someone would update status with "...is tired" or "...is washing the dishes". I mean do people thing I care about every mundane detail of their lives? And I agree that people with kids are the worst for this.

Facebook is much more pleasant now that I get a minimal amount of status updates and more updates about new photos, events, etc...

[Muta]

Originally Posted by BlackEleven

I felt the same, but I discovered you can ignore updates from certain users. It's always the same people doing it, so I just set facebook to ignore any status updates from them. I don't get why someone would update status with "...is tired" or "...is washing the dishes". I mean do people thing I care about every mundane detail of their lives? And I agree that people with kids are the worst for this.

Ah, that's what i forgot. Mundane status updates.

Such as... "___ is at work." Really? Good for you. So are 4 billion other people on the face of this earth, all of whom couldn't give a rat's ass if you are too.

[bradster57]

Originally Posted by Muta

1 - Statuses that involve constant updates of your baby and anything that has to with your baby. I don't care that little Jackson or little AJ learned how to poop in his trousers, keep your baby news to the people that matter - your immediate family. Spare the rest of us your pain. Either stop forcing these non-important life experiences down the rest of our throats, or GTFO off the Internet.

Absolutely great post. So tired of hearing about kids of "friends" I barely even know. Although FB does have that wonderful HIDE feature.

[united]

Originally Posted by Muta

Wow... you and me both, man. You and me both. I've used that exact phrase to describe why I keep some people on my list... they're trainwrecks, and don't even know it. Here's a list of trainwreck types that make me so angry, and yet I don't do anything about it:

<Rant>

So, back to work.

7. People who can't figure out how to block updates from applications or specific other users and then complain and get angry about it.

Sorry, had to be said by someone.

Edit. Beaten to it.

[4X4]

I used to have one girl on my facebook that listened to music all day and would update for every song that came on. Plus she'd tell the world the contents of her lunch - as she was eating it... Like, wow! Thanks for the update!

[habernac]

Originally Posted by bradster57

Absolutely great post. So tired of hearing about kids of "friends" I barely even know. Although FB does have that wonderful HIDE feature.

so why keep them on your friends list?

[CMPunk]

Exactly.....if you hate these people, why have them added? Any really...it's Facebook...why kind of earth moving, soul searching kind of updates are you expecting?

[Resolute 14]

Originally Posted by habernac

so why keep them on your friends list?

"Prestige"?