I have a number of FB friends from high school, 75% of whom turned out to be fundies. No big surprise, really.
I have one FB friend who was from sophomore year of college. She managed to last a semester before dropping out. Now, in her thirties, she is still a huge party girl. Sample status:
** My last night in Vegas…lets see what kind of trouble I can get into!!!**
and
** Dear God, where are my pants?**
and the topper:
** Could someone please explain to Congress that the 700 billion dollars they use to bailout businesses could be spent better bailing out actual citizens- pay my fkn student loans, cc bills, rent and electric! its my tax dollars anyway! wtf!**
A girl had changed her relationship status to “Its Complicated” and someone posted beneath it…its only complicated to the person that cannot admit there is no relationship. Go ahead and change that to “Single”, trust me.
Hm, I don’t seem to get the proselytizers, but I did have to block two people. One was my hardcore Republican friend (seriously - he works for the Michigan GOP now) with whom I could not refrain from arguing*, and the other was my cousin who takes inanity to new levels. Okay, I just went and looked at her wall, and she’s had TEN updates in the last day. TEN. Several of them are related to Farmville and other stupid shit, and the others are equally pointless and boring.
Like this: “MMM–In n-OUt Burgers…I plan on trying that 5 Guys place–heard it was NOT “all that”–we are SO lucky to have IN-n-OUT Burger here on the West Coast :)”
*On Facebook. In real life, we got on beautifully.
ETA: I just scrolled further down my cousin’s wall and came across this: “I tend to believe that the gov’t MAY have murdered Pat Tillman…on purpose!”
I was asked to join a group the other day titled “No Dog Should Ever Be Abused! Ever!”
Seriously? What about “Murder Is Wrong!” and “I Don’t Like Thieves!” and “Don’t Beat Your Wife! Ever!” Who the hell would join a group so painfully obvious?
As far as status updates…I have one friend who seems to get status updates and private messages confused. Hers frequently says things like “Baby I can’t sleep I’m thinking about you i miss you already” and “I just love you sooo much pumpkin i wanna see you tonite i can’t wait i’m making steak.”
I don’t need to know this crap? And why not punctuate? Even just occasionally?
I view Facebook as a cocktail party. Be amusing/witty if you can, polite if you can’t, and keep your sex life, political views, and religion to yourself. That’s not why any of us are here.
Me too - but, I only feel left out because as soon as someone posts something too religious/political/just plain fucking stupid I delete them from my friends. I think I might have said this on here before but I am a cold, hard, Facebook meanie.
I only see a small percentage of my Facebook friends regularly in real life anyway, so I reeeally don’t care whether people I don’t actually like are on my friends list or not.
What namby-pamby planet do you live on where the idea that crime, cruelty, and killing are bad is obvious? I could point you to any number of societies, even segments of this society, where they’re either SOP or positively aspired to.
As for most idiotic FB status. I went to school with a girl who I know have on my friends list, last night, I got this in my news feed. AWwWW HaDdA LonG Day… GOtta LuVa’h NiGGa Who GItZ DowN in Da KitCHeN!! {GottA SuRPRiiSe 4 Meh HHMMMM} OUt Witt dA BaDdeSt LaytAh…*
Wow, she’s even so lazy she doesn’t even do the UpPeRcAsE/LoWeRcAsE thing.
Of course, if she has a Blackberry Storm like my sister, it could just be an accident. If you more than just barely touch a letter and jump back off of it, it becomes a capital letter. I no longer worry about capitalization when I use it.
These two things remind me of two friends that I have that are brother and sister. The boy is 21 and the girl is 15 or 16. The boy posts status updates that are waaaaay tmi. As a matter of fact, after he posted the one about ‘maybe we can try some new whips on Monday, I love you Susie,’ I actually sent him a PM asking if he really meant to put that in his status. He laughed at me. That’s ok, but, I mean, *your dad *and your stepmom are reading this. They really need these explicit details of your sex life??
And, his sister types out everything and I mean EVERYTHING phonetically is some cutesy bullshit speak. You = yeww, to =teww, etc., etc. I think I’m going to hide her soon because I cringe every time I read one of her updates.
My mother in law and I get into political arguments all the freaking time on Facebook (lately it’s been mostly about the “Ground Zero” Mosque). Outside of that, the two of us do get along great though.
Aside from that, one of my big pet peeves is people who post updates like “None of it even matters anymore.” or “Nobody cares about me.” and when folks post to ask what’s up, they don’t go into it.
That, and all the Farmville/Vampires/Gangsters/whatevertheheckelse people put on their Facebooks and try to get everybody else to join.
Really, no sane government on earth would convict you. And all people would bless you for your wisdom. 