I’m teetering on the brink of defriending someone who posted at least twenty updates about the status of her nose recently. “It’s bleeding” “it hurts” “doctor says it will hurt for several more days” and so on. This went on for days. I can’t imagine who she thinks cares.
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One of my Facebook scourges are the people who have nothing but children pics including their profile pic. Uh, yea, I have kids too, but they’re not my identity. I have a good friend that just had her baby and I know she will never have a pic of herself on her facebook account ever again because she’s that baby-crazy. There’s another on my feed that not only does the vague “having a really bad day so ask me what’s wrong” but she’s one of those ALL CAPS TYPERS. EVERY STATUS IS ALL CAPS ALL THE TIME. I don’t really get the religious glurge since I tend to offend those kinds of people 
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I have a Facebook friend who posts pictures of her child every damn day. She also has a photo album called ‘‘Watch Me Grow Weekly’’ which features a photograph of her kid, taken in the same clothes in the same position, every single week. At least once a week she posts an entire photo album with about 140 pictures of her kid. She celebrated not only his birth day but his due date anniversary.
And then this:
Ya think?
This person used to be smart, funny, and fascinating, and now she has transformed into an example of my absolute greatest fear… that parenthood is some kind of vortex that sucks away everything unique and special and interesting about you and turns you into a baby-talking fool who has no aspirations or interests outside of child-rearing. It doesn’t help that many of her friends encourage her by acting like her child is the most fascinating thing on the planet.
I realize that sounds harsh, but I miss my friend.
I feel you on that. I could go on at length about this topic, but to keep it Facebook-related, I’ll just share that I too have a friend that I know from online, who is smart, witty, and who used to talk about all sorts of stuff – gender issues, distance running, books she’d read, etc. She was just an interesting person. Then she had kids, and decided to start a photography business, and now her entire feed is nothing but “art photos” of her kids, shills for her business, and cute anecdotes about how one of her kids mispronounced a word. There is seriously no trace of the person she used to be. I was really optimistic that this was going to just be a “first year of parenting” thing, but she has two kids and the oldest is 5 now, so I think it’s permanent. And yeah, it’s the same thing with loads of her friends online giving her constant reinforcement by begging for more kid photos and LOLing at every cute story. I mean, really?
This isn’t exactly a ‘major’ peeve, but it is an annoyance. A lot of people dump the most BORING photos onto Facebook. You know… the kind where you’re at some sort of gathering and people just stop and smile for the camera, doing nothing interesting. Two or three such photos is fine, but when you have scores of photos where people are posing unimaginatively… it gets to be pretty tedious. We really don’t need to see a dozen photos of you and your bestie smiling for the camera, folks.
On an unrelated note, I find the hostile anti-religious remarks on Facebook to be a lot more grievous than the religious comments, even when I strongly disagree with the religious views expressed. I figure that the folks who are voicing those religious view are just sharing something that’s dear to them to them. The overt anti-religious hostility is a great deal more unseemly though, especially for Facebook.
Ay-fricken’ men. I’ve got one good friend, bless her heart, who exchanges pulic lovey-dovey posts with her man almost every day – well, except for the several days in the past two weeks where he was in jail (twice!) for various outstanding warrants. Jeepers.
I have the same complaint that a friend mentioned to me about FB: wheres the return-key function? Hit enter and away it goes, half-done. My work around was to write what I wanted to say in Word & then cut/paste it as a post,
but to steal their line (because its on point and true) “Return to Post? Not a fan”.
Oh, and the 486 character limit Hoovers farm animals.
There’s a Facebook game for that.
This.
It’s not that I censor myself but I regret not putting my dad on a filter from day 1. Every picture I post he must comment on. All my friends: oh, who is this?
It’s not that he’s being creepy- he’s retired and bored shitless.
My pet peeve:
Passive aggressive people that post things like this:
It sure would be nice to do (x) but someone - I won’t mention names - had to ruin it.
Arg. Just deal with that person directly!
I’ll confess to being mostly guilty of this. When I joined facebook almost 5 years ago, I had just become a mom and was spending a lot of time sending baby pictures to a medium to large sized group of family and close friends who live far away (and who genuinely wanted said pics, I swear!) Since they were all on facebook, I found it easier using the uploading software on there than through hotmail, and it was easier for the recipients too, some of whom were still on dial-up and had trouble receiving big emails full of photos.
Once I had joined, I found it to be a nice side benefit that I was getting in touch with old friends and other minor acquaintances who I enjoy keeping in vague touch with in this way. I’ve continued posting regular pics of the kids for my original purpose, and very few of much of anything else because I don’t really take a lot of pictures in general. Sure, I know most of my facebook friends don’t give a crap about pictures of my kids, but I have always just figured people who want to look will, and people who don’t want to won’t. Didn’t think about anyone being annoyed by it, and am not entirely sure I understand why someone would be… Lots of my friends post albums that don’t interest me and I don’t feel put out by simply not looking at them. I do get being annoyed by the transformation of formerly interesting friend into boring baby mind, but the pics themselves seem inoffensive to me.
I do have a picture of myself as my profile pic though.
I have a retired uncle that recently posted a comment on one of my friends’ status updates. As in, one of my FB friends posted a status update. I commented on it. The friend’s Wall settings were apparently open enough that my uncle saw my comment appear in my feed, and then he went over to comment also even though he is not FB friends with that person. Gah.
Shift + Enter will give you a new line.
My boyfriend’s penis is dear to me, but comments about it are best kept to myself. Keep your glurge out of my feed, and you won’t have to deal with my hostility to your glurge.