Passive agressive nonsense on facebook...

[TheGoofster]

Here's another one.

I have a friend, and at least 10 times a day he posts about how his wife is the greatest wife / person in the world.
Now don't get me wrong, I appreciate the fact that he loves his wife, and thinks she's great. I also love my wife, and yes, I do think she is the best wife in the world, but I don't think that all of my friends want to keep reading over and over and over how I feel about her. Plus it quickly becomes very trite.
If my wife plans a special surprise party for me, and all of my friends show up and throw me some huge party, then sure, I might make a post saying how great my wife was to do that. On the other hand, if my wife wipes my kid's nose, I don't think that calls for a FB post saying that she is the best wife in the world.

 

[TheGoofster]

It's a great feature that you can hide wall posts from specific apps, so for instance if you don't want to see any Mafia Wars posts from anybody you can hide them. Just hover over the upper right corner of the post and you'll get the option to Hide posts from that user or from that app.

Just wanted to add my thanks to everyone elses for your pointing this out. I didn't know about it, but since you mentioned it, I've already started putting it to good use. No more Farmville or Mafia Wars or Castle Wars updates

 

[KristaTX]

Besides people who post constantly or who post idiotic stuff, I also hide people who post vague-yet-intriguing things but don't answer questions when you ask things like "What do you mean?" or "What's wrong?". It's similar to how I've learned to disregard certain people on the DIS who never respond to their own threads . Don't invite me to take my time to interact if you aren't going to interact back .

 

[BLTtinkerbell]

Many of these posts have made me laugh!
I am new to FB. I got a friend request from a friend of my cousin's. I don't know this person! I clicked ignore. Why on earth would this person send me a friend request? Is it to have many "friends"? The people on my friends list are close friends & family, not people I have never met.

 

[dollydell]

Many of these posts have made me laugh!
I am new to FB. I got a friend request from a friend of my cousin's. I don't know this person! I clicked ignore. Why on earth would this person send me a friend request? Is it to have many "friends"? The people on my friends list are close friends & family, not people I have never met.

Some people just want a lot of friends, but are you sure it wasn't an accident? I had someone show up as someone I may know once and didn't realize until after I sent the friend request that it wasn't the person I had been thinking of, that it was someone else a friend knew with a very similar name to the person I thought it was.

 

[BLTtinkerbell]

Some people just want a lot of friends, but are you sure it wasn't an accident? I had someone show up as someone I may know once and didn't realize until after I sent the friend request that it wasn't the person I had been thinking of, that it was someone else a friend knew with a very similar name to the person I thought it was.

I didn't think about it being an accident. I noticed that this person is on my cousin's friend list, so I thought that was how he got my name.

 

[Ilike2Lurk]

When you type a sentence, you are actually using words. It's kinda cool.

Cute

How about I spell it out for you

Mature people don’t need to post a public whah-whah when they are having an issue with a friend

You can talk or type. You can "actually use your words". Whatever. But why involve 100+ of your Facebook friends in your little spat? Why not just contact the person you are having issues with directly?

It is kinda cool to be mature

 

[disneyhand]

It's a great feature that you can hide wall posts from specific apps, so for instance if you don't want to see any Mafia Wars posts from anybody you can hide them. Just hover over the upper right corner of the post and you'll get the option to Hide posts from that user or from that app.

I'm pretty new to facebook. I knew how to block a person and have already done that to 1 of my 12 friends , but I didn't know that I could block an app. Yea, bye bye farm whatever that is, I'm otherwise happy I don't have to block that person!
Thank you!

 

[Eeyores Butterfly]

I guess I am having a hard time understanding why "adults" would feel the need to make their disputes public. If they don't return your phone calls, send them a private message on Facebook or e-mail. If they still aren't replying, then just wash your hands of the matter. Why stoop to their level? I honestly lose a lot of respect for people who resort to using social networking sites as ways to publicly "get back at" friends. It's one thing to say that you are stressed and leave it at that. We all need to do that sometimes. It's another thing to purposely use it to let somebody else know you are mad at them (while letting everybody else know that you are having some sort of friend disagreement.)

 

[GottaGetToDisney!]

Did anyone happen to catch SNL this past weekend? Ryan Reynolds was in a skit where he played a house music celebrity singing his new song "Status Update". I can't remember all of it now, but the lyrics were something like:

Danny is going to Costco.
Danny is glad it's Friday.
etc etc...

I thought it was hilarious!

Gotta Get To Disney!

 

[NotUrsula]

All I've got to say is that y'all are making me feel really good about my decision to avoid Facebook!

 

[SNylund]

This is why I don't facebook, myspace, twitter etc., haven't the time or remote desire to do these things. Why, why is the question, is life that boring? Go out do something, get a 2nd job, work with blind kids, don't understand all this excessive computer use at all.

An older lady from my Dad's church was emailing me about a technical problem in my line of expertise and I emailed her back some advice a few times, then next thing I'm getting an "invite to join this person's facebook?" Whaaa T this lady is almost 70 years old and is facebooking? What's next 80 year olds on Adult Friend Finder? Give me a break.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

 

[wildernesslodgelover]

This is why I don't facebook, myspace, twitter etc., haven't the time or remote desire to do these things. Why, why is the question, is life that boring? Go out do something, get a 2nd job, work with blind kids, don't understand all this excessive computer use at all.

An older lady from my Dad's church was emailing me about a technical problem in my line of expertise and I emailed her back some advice a few times, then next thing I'm getting an "invite to join this person's facebook?" Whaaa T this lady is almost 70 years old and is facebooking? What's next 80 year olds on Adult Friend Finder? Give me a break.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

yeah, that is how a lot of people feel about message boards!

 

[princessesrule]

Another pet peeve is when you have someone cancel or say they are too busy to do something, yet they find the time to post to facebook at least every hour.

 

[Scurvy]

This is why I don't facebook, myspace, twitter etc., haven't the time or remote desire to do these things. Why, why is the question, is life that boring? Go out do something, get a 2nd job, work with blind kids, don't understand all this excessive computer use at all.

An older lady from my Dad's church was emailing me about a technical problem in my line of expertise and I emailed her back some advice a few times, then next thing I'm getting an "invite to join this person's facebook?" Whaaa T this lady is almost 70 years old and is facebooking? What's next 80 year olds on Adult Friend Finder? Give me a break.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

. . . says the person with over 300 posts on here since August. I'm on Myspace, Twitter, and Facebook and I don't think I've updated the three combined 300 times in the last 2 months.

I enjoy Facebook, but as with anything else it has the potential to cause problems. I refuse to get sucked in to passive aggressive nonsense on there. If one of my friends can't deal with conflict like an adult and uses their status to make oblique comments aimed at someone else, that's an automatic "ignore" from me.

 

[Sparx]

here's the greatest post of today:

so and so is trying to figure out what she did, where she went wrong, whether she's been lied to, and what to do now. Spanish class. Text me.


its the last four words that really get me. why tell random people to text you? why not just text whomever you want to talk to?

 

[MushyMushy]

here's the greatest post of today:

so and so is trying to figure out what she did, where she went wrong, whether she's been lied to, and what to do now. Spanish class. Text me.


its the last four words that really get me. why tell random people to text you? why not just text whomever you want to talk to?

LOL, you must be friends with my 18 year old sister-in-law!

Hers are always like: Bored. Math class. Text me.

or

I wish I knew what was going on. Text me. Going to bed.

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

LOL, you must be friends with my 18 year old sister-in-law!

Hers are always like: Bored. Math class. Text me.

or

I wish I knew what was going on. Text me. Going to bed.

Followed the next morning by a complaint how they got no sleep b/c people keep texting them.

Yes--I've seen this happne.

 

[cinmell]

I have a friend from high school who does this and a relative who does this.

You know the types--they post some nonsense and you can tell that someone peturbed them, so then everyone grovels (sp?) to find out the scoop.

It just gets so old. Now with facebook--I get to see it all the time.

Oh I hate those too! I really hate the people that are always cryptic and dramatic with their statuses. I have a couple of fb friends who are always dramatic and very cryptic. They just crave attention and the "Oh my God" responses.

A month or so ago one friend (cousin) had her status as almost died last night.... Of course there was the slew of OMG what happened, I hope you are ok, OH NO! posts. When people asked what happened the only response was, I'm fine, anyone want to go out tonight? What's up with that crap?

And then there's the people who post constantly about stuff that nobody cares about. Making dinner. 30 minutes later it's eating dinner. Then, just finished dinner. Watching tv, going to bed, blah, blah, blah.

 

[ckay87]

This is why I don't facebook, myspace, twitter etc., haven't the time or remote desire to do these things. Why, why is the question, is life that boring? Go out do something, get a 2nd job, work with blind kids, don't understand all this excessive computer use at all.

An older lady from my Dad's church was emailing me about a technical problem in my line of expertise and I emailed her back some advice a few times, then next thing I'm getting an "invite to join this person's facebook?" Whaaa T this lady is almost 70 years old and is facebooking? What's next 80 year olds on Adult Friend Finder? Give me a break.

Not that there's anything wrong with that.

And yet....here you are.

Funny thing about Facebook - it's pretty darn similar to these boards except it's with people we actually know.

I'm sorry, but it cracks me up, people coming on here acting like they are too good to Facebook. We FBers are at least interacting with people we know in the flesh. I'm not saying one is better than the other. In fact they are quite different. The difference is, if I were to die today, most of my FB friends would know and probably care. When a FB friend posts an issue, event or problem, I actually care. FB friendships are ones which directly correspond to real-life, in-the-flesh interactions.

So in comparison, if any "social" website is a waste of time, take a look at your address bar right now.