I’ve don’t recall ever having seen one of my friends post about a new house or car.
Otherwise it’s very varied, since I have friends from various parts of my life: my extended family, friends from work, friends from the Bronx, friends from when I lived in Colorado, friends from Panama, friends from what I do for recreation. I see posts on food, music, politics, and all kinds of stuff.
i have all kinds of crap on mine but one in particular gets my goat. I have one lady that lost over 100# about 10 years ago. Everyday she has pics of herself in ridiculous poses and a huge smile like she is a model. She never responds to anyone’s posts. She is no kid nearing 50 I think and to be fair she does photograph well but just overdoes it.
You realize you can block everyone on FB except your son, don’t you?
Facebook is what you make of it. I have spirited political conversations with friends from online – we all met up after a favorite website closed down, and have our convos in groups. The rest is keeping up with family from back home, and talking to some people I went to school with who I really do care about. It’s nice. The second stuff gets dramatic and turns to bullshit, I’m gone.
Just “lose” the invitations from people you don’t want to interact with. I’ve lost many!
So unfollow her. Problem solved.
I was speculating based on how she wanted to explain that it wasn’t bragging.
FB is de place to brag , post your new brands ,and also the place to get mad and spill your private shit gone are the days of fun post ,I actually took a fast, a break from fb one time because I was tired seeing fights, beheading nude pics of friends who lost their phone and some else posting in their acc and fatal car crash
FB is the some total of the friends and pages you like all depend on what type of vomit feed you get
Hmmm…
My Facebook feed is full of pet pictures, comic book news, airplane stuff, history jokes, and the occasional update from my cousins in Argentina (which I always “like” despite not having enough Spanish to know what the heck is going on).
No one in my circle of friends has purchased a car in the past four years or so, or a new house in at least ten. We are a very dull and settled people, but we do share when one of our kids graduates or gets married. That might count as bragging for us old folks.
Clearly none of y’all are on Pinterest, if you think Facebook is braggy. 
I am with the OP. To me FB is one big dick being waved about. I almost never find anything remotely interesting in what my friends post there. Life is not all about your holiday trip to bermuda or the lobster you had for lunch. In my group at least, no one ever talks about ‘real’ life.
And the irony is that a couple of people that I used to get real communications from have completely stopped doing this since they started with facebook.
So for me, the only reason I use facebook is that it seems to be a reasonably good way of (nominally) reconnecting with people from my past, and (assuming FB does not go the way of the dinosaur) will be a permanent way to keep connected with people, regardless of how often they move or change job.
But if I want real, personal exchanges with them I have to do that the old fashioned way – via email. 
Facebook is a lot of tools.
Yikes! That must’ve been awkward…
fb is like the matrix, but wait instagram is now the “in thing” tho
What I find irritating about FB is when people do nothing but post links. No comments about the links, just links. It’s especially irritating when it’s glurgy or preachy. I’ve blocked a lot of stuff from my feed just for my own sanity.
Makes me wonder if I spent face-to-face time with any of these friends would then just hand me articles to read and pictures to look at? No one converses any more… I find I spend less and less time on FB - generally a quick check to see what my daughter’s up to (she lives 800 miles away) and a quick scan of the rest, most of which I just ignore.
What about the people who likes to give life advice?
Apparently she likes both pina colada’s and long walks in the rain.
Oh yes, I do. And I have recently. I realized that where I was becoming ‘visible’ was when I commented on something. So now I no longer comment, I’m just a voyeur for the family pics. 
I don’t get this. You don’t consider friends’ vacations interesting? If they walked up to you in person the day after they got back from a vacation and said, “I had the best vacation in Bermuda! Want to see some photos? I want to tell you all about it!” you’d immediately think, “Ugh, I don’t care - it’s not all about you”?
I mean, most of my conversations with my friends aren’t deep, serious, life-troubling stuff. A lot of the time it’s normal everyday stuff. “Hey I went to see (movie). You saw it, right? What’d you think?” “There’s a new ramen place in town, let’s go sometime!” or “Ugh, I had the worst day at work today.” as examples. But if that stuff is too mundane for you, I don’t …like, I just can’t parse the concept of a friendship that doesn’t include exchanges like the above.
You’re right. Facebook is a Tool. a giant fuckin’ Tool!
I don’t do Facebook. I somehow convinced my daughter to text or email the pics to me! Well, it didn’t take much. Seems she’s as proud of showing him off as I am of looking.
To be honest, I’m more interested in someone’s new car than their political opinions. But actually the worst thing about Facebook is vaguebook, which is when people need you know that something big! is happening to them, but won’t tell you what. Usually this is in the form of prayer requests for unspecified reasons. Or a “thanks to those of you who have supported me through this difficult time.” Vaguebooks are the worst calls for attention.
I still have too damned much fun on Facebook. I love my Doper friends, I love getting in to silly brawls with relatives over politics and religion. I love sharing recipes and pics and conversation with people too far away to visit but most of all I love the support from my autism parenting groups. I don’t have a single friend who brags about their life. I have found myself envious a time or two.
Sometimes I do wish friends would spend more time with their cameras turned the other way so I can see what their doing, not just their faces.