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Things that really irk you on Facebook

  1. Vaguebooking

For anyone not familiar, vaguebooking is when people post “woe is me” comments such as “I just don’t know how I’m going to get through this!” or “I trusted him and this is how he treats me!” or “Worst day ever…”, but give no detail or context.

  1. Misused apostrophes

I find a lot of memes very funny and want to share them, but won’t, because of errors in spelling and grammar, particularly misused and overused apostrophes.

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Things that really irk you on Facebook

  1. Vaguebooking. For anyone not familiar, vaguebooking is when people post “woe is me” comments such as “I just don’t know how I’m going to get through this!” or “I trusted him and this is how he treats me!” or “Worst day ever…”, but give no detail or context.
  2. Misused apostrophes. I find a lot of memes very funny and want to share them, but won’t, because of errors in spelling and grammar, particularly misused and overused apostrophes.
  3. People posting pictures of their meal-of-the-moment, saying, Look what I’m having for (insert meal here)! I find the signal-to-noise ratio on FB to be low. I’m hardly on it.
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Things that really irk you on Facebook

  1. Vaguebooking.
  2. Misused apostrophes.
  3. People posting pictures of their meal-of-the-moment.
  4. Easter egg posts

My own term- I’m sure there’s an official one.
Example: Your status is about the most recent episode of GAME OF THRONES and everybody is talking about the most recent episode of GAME OF THRONES except one person who posts the comment “Hey Jon give me a call me I need to ask you a question about Photoshop”. It’s something completely unrelated and that should be done either by PM or as a timeline post. (While I have friends in their 80s who use Facebook just fine, I have to say this is most common among Facebookers over 60 who don’t quite understand how it works.)

Extra points if it’s a buzzkill Easter egg post: Everybody’s talking about Bruno Mars or something light and making jokes and somebody posts “Jon, remember Shirley we used to work with? She died of rabies, funeral’s Thursday if you want to go”.

(I’m sure I’m not the only person who has these.)

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Things that really irk you on Facebook

  1. Vaguebooking.
  2. Misused apostrophes.
  3. People posting pictures of their meal-of-the-moment.
  4. Easter egg posts
  5. People who don’t use their real names, or use their middle name instead of their last name

I get that there are legitimate privacy concerns with things like Facebook. But you can set your profile to be invisible to web searches, and tweak your privacy settings so that no one you don’t approve sees your updates. Enforced use of real names is one of the only good things about Facebook.

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Things that really irk you on Facebook

  1. Vaguebooking.
  2. Misused apostrophes.
  3. People posting pictures of their meal-of-the-moment.
  4. Easter egg posts
  5. People who don’t use their real names, or use their middle name instead of their last name
  6. Husband-wife joint accounts, e.g. “Deb AndDonny Brown.”

First thing I think is, “OK, which of you got caught cheating?”

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Things that really irk you on Facebook

  1. Vaguebooking.
  2. Misused apostrophes.
  3. People posting pictures of their meal-of-the-moment.
  4. Easter egg posts
  5. People who don’t use their real names, or use their middle name instead of their last name
  6. Husband-wife joint accounts, e.g. “Deb AndDonny Brown.”
  7. People who share WAY too damned much anatomical stuff.
    “The diarrhea was better today, a little more substance” or “Damn my nipples are itching”.
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Things that really irk you on Facebook

  1. Vaguebooking.
  2. Misused apostrophes.
  3. People posting pictures of their meal-of-the-moment.
  4. Easter egg posts
  5. People who don’t use their real names, or use their middle name instead of their last name
  6. Husband-wife joint accounts, e.g. “Deb AndDonny Brown.”
  7. People who share WAY too damned much anatomical stuff.
  8. Seeing 10+ different friends posting the same lame political links
35891

Things that really irk you on Facebook

  1. Vaguebooking.
  2. Misused apostrophes.
  3. People posting pictures of their meal-of-the-moment.
  4. Easter egg posts
  5. People who don’t use their real names, or use their middle name instead of their last name
  6. Husband-wife joint accounts, e.g. “Deb AndDonny Brown.”
  7. People who share WAY too damned much anatomical stuff.
  8. Seeing 10+ different friends posting the same lame political links
  9. Anything telling me that I’m 93% unlikely to repost it. Reverse psychology fail, my friend.
35892

Things that really irk you on Facebook

  1. Vaguebooking.
  2. Misused apostrophes.
  3. People posting pictures of their meal-of-the-moment.
  4. Easter egg posts
  5. People who don’t use their real names, or use their middle name instead of their last name
  6. Husband-wife joint accounts, e.g. “Deb AndDonny Brown.”
  7. People who share WAY too damned much anatomical stuff.
  8. Seeing 10+ different friends posting the same lame political links
  9. Anything telling me that I’m 93% unlikely to repost it. Reverse psychology fail, my friend.
  10. People I’m “friends” with but never interact with yet get invitations to play whatever Candy Crush or Farmville style game they’re doing.
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Things that really irk you on Facebook

  1. Vaguebooking.
  2. Misused apostrophes.
  3. People posting pictures of their meal-of-the-moment.
  4. Easter egg posts
  5. People who don’t use their real names, or use their middle name instead of their last name
  6. Husband-wife joint accounts, e.g. “Deb AndDonny Brown.”
  7. People who share WAY too damned much anatomical stuff.
  8. Seeing 10+ different friends posting the same lame political links
  9. Anything telling me that I’m 93% unlikely to repost it. Reverse psychology fail, my friend.
  10. People I’m “friends” with but never interact with yet get invitations to play whatever Candy Crush or Farmville style game they’re doing.
  11. Putting more money in the pockets of that #&^%@! Zuckerberg.
35894

Things that really irk you on Facebook

  1. Vaguebooking.
  2. Misused apostrophes.
  3. People posting pictures of their meal-of-the-moment.
  4. Easter egg posts
  5. People who don’t use their real names, or use their middle name instead of their last name
  6. Husband-wife joint accounts, e.g. “Deb AndDonny Brown.”
  7. People who share WAY too damned much anatomical stuff.
  8. Seeing 10+ different friends posting the same lame political links
  9. Anything telling me that I’m 93% unlikely to repost it. Reverse psychology fail, my friend.
  10. People I’m “friends” with but never interact with yet get invitations to play whatever Candy Crush or Farmville style game they’re doing.
  11. Putting more money in the pockets of that #&^%@! Zuckerberg.
  12. Baby pictures. Babies are ugly as fuck, and I don’t want to see them or read about them.
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Things that really irk you on Facebook

  1. Vaguebooking.
  2. Misused apostrophes.
  3. People posting pictures of their meal-of-the-moment.
  4. Easter egg posts
  5. People who don’t use their real names, or use their middle name instead of their last name
  6. Husband-wife joint accounts, e.g. “Deb AndDonny Brown.”
  7. People who share WAY too damned much anatomical stuff.
  8. Seeing 10+ different friends posting the same lame political links
  9. Anything telling me that I’m 93% unlikely to repost it. Reverse psychology fail, my friend.
  10. People I’m “friends” with but never interact with yet get invitations to play whatever Candy Crush or Farmville style game they’re doing.
  11. Putting more money in the pockets of that #&^%@! Zuckerberg.
  12. Baby pictures. Babies are ugly as fuck, and I don’t want to see them or read about them.
  13. Getting “friend” requests from hot women who don’t really know me and probably aren’t even women!

New topic: Record Labels, Past or Present

  1. Apple (the Beatles’ old label)
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Record Labels, Past or Present

  1. Apple (the Beatles’ old label)
  2. Playtone Records (the fictitious company from “That Thing You Do” is an actual company, co-founded by Tom Hanks)
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Record Labels, Past or Present

  1. Apple (the Beatles’ old label)
  2. Playtone Records (the fictitious company from “That Thing You Do” is an actual company, co-founded by Tom Hanks)
  3. A&M
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Record Labels, Past or Present

  1. Apple (the Beatles’ old label)
  2. Playtone Records (the fictitious company from “That Thing You Do” is an actual company, co-founded by Tom Hanks)
  3. A&M
  4. The Famous Charisma Label
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Record Labels, Past or Present

  1. Apple (the Beatles’ old label)
  2. Playtone Records (the fictitious company from “That Thing You Do” is an actual company, co-founded by Tom Hanks)
  3. A&M
  4. The Famous Charisma Label
  5. Sun Records
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Record Labels, Past or Present

  1. Apple (the Beatles’ old label)
  2. Playtone Records (the fictitious company from “That Thing You Do” is an actual company, co-founded by Tom Hanks)
  3. A&M
  4. The Famous Charisma Label
  5. Sun Records
  6. Bang Records
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Record Labels, Past or Present

  1. Apple (the Beatles’ old label)
  2. Playtone Records (the fictitious company from “That Thing You Do” is an actual company, co-founded by Tom Hanks)
  3. A&M
  4. The Famous Charisma Label
  5. Sun Records
  6. Bang Records
  7. Laff Records

Producer of novelty and comedy “party” records, many by comedians who became huge (e.g. George Carlin, Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor).

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Record Labels, Past or Present

  1. Apple (the Beatles’ old label)
  2. Playtone Records (the fictitious company from “That Thing You Do” is an actual company, co-founded by Tom Hanks)
  3. A&M
  4. The Famous Charisma Label
  5. Sun Records
  6. Bang Records
  7. Laff Records
  8. Luniverse Records

Dickie Goodman created “Universe Records” to put out the novelty, comedy single “Flying Saucer” with comedy partner Bill Buchanan. When they were threatened with a lawsuit by another company already using the name “Universe Records,” Goodman and Buchanan changed the company’s name to “Luniverse,” and hand-wrote an “L” in front of “Universe” on every .45 they had pressed.

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Record Labels, Past or Present

  1. Apple (the Beatles’ old label)
  2. Playtone Records (the fictitious company from “That Thing You Do” is an actual company, co-founded by Tom Hanks)
  3. A&M
  4. The Famous Charisma Label
  5. Sun Records
  6. Bang Records
  7. Laff Records
  8. Luniverse Records
  9. Rhino Records