Posted on 10/12/2011 9:05:58 AM PDT by Kaslin
7) The Fan Boys.
I have no idea why some guys think they can show up on Facebook, find some attractive woman they’ve never met, talk about how pretty she is in every photo, compliment her excessively, and somehow turn that into a relationship. Does this work for anyone, ever? You never hear any woman say, “Oh, I met my boyfriend on Facebook! He just showed up every day, kissed my ass relentlessly, and then of course, it all ended in hot monkey sex!” What you do hear, however, are attractive women privately referring to people like that as “creepers,” as in, “That creeper creeps me out!”
6) I Just Tweeted To Say I Hate You.
It’s no shocker that people don’t see eye to eye, but it’s hard to understand why they would follow someone on Twitter who they vehemently disagree with on every issue just so they can show up over and over again to note their disagreement until they’re blocked. They’re like a cuckoo clock that pops out every hour to scream, “I just had to let you know you’re so wrong!” What in the world is that supposed to accomplish other than briefly annoying another human being?
5) Hey, Stranger, Can You Buy A Plane Ticket To Get To My Meeting?
If you’re having a Tea Party in Pig Lick, Arkansas, or you’re going to be in a play in Snooty Junction, Illinois, and you want to invite your Facebook friends, that’s fine. But how about taking 5 minutes to group all of your local friends into one list so you’re not needlessly bothering people you barely know who live 1500 miles away?
4) The G+ Smug Crowd.
Was there really a huge group of people out there saying, “Wow, we already have Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Myspace, but what we need is ANOTHER social network” before G+ hit the scene? Of course not. Honestly, I was hoping G+ would fail miserably, not just because Google is already an obnoxious monopoly that spies on you in your virtual underwear to get more info to sell, but because I didn’t want to spend time on yet ANOTHER social network.
And what’s so great about G+ anyway? Hangouts that almost no one uses? Freaking circles? Facebook has that feature, too, and no one seems to touch it. Yet from the moment G+ beta went live, my stream has been deluged with cartoons and comments about how much better we are than the poor schmucks who are still just on Facebook. Seriously? C’mon, G+ is just a classier version of Myspace; so get over yourselves!
3) I AM TALKING IN ALL CAPS!
ARE YOU PAYING MORE ATTENTION TO THIS BECAUSE IT’S IN ALL CAPS OR THINKING, “THIS IS REALLY FREAKING ANNOYING!”? I’M GUESSING THE LATTER BECAUSE TYPING IN ALL CAPS IS LIKE SHOUTING. STOP SHOUTING AT ALL OF US, JERKFACE!
2) Click “Like” On My Mental Breakdown:
This is where I earn the heartless Larry David moniker for saying something most other people think, but don’t want to say. Oh well. Let’s just get it out there.
It’s really strange to see people sharing their most intimate feelings on a social network with people they don’t “know” in any meaningful sense.
This is not just because social networks are famously overrun with nasty tempered trolls — poor creatures whose sole purpose in life is to try and fill the emptiness in their souls by mocking other human beings’ pain — but because it’s just inappropriate. It’s bizarre to tell hundreds of people whose only interactions with you have been giving you a thumbs up when you say “I love the troops” that you’re feeling soul-crushing depression or having a mental breakdown. Granted, when you’re not close to a lot of people and you’re feeling awful the thought process may be “any port in a storm.” If you’re in that situation and want to deal with it online, how about hitting up a counselor on LivePerson who can give you some REAL help or alternately even talking to some people who at least know you a little bit privately so you may be able to deepen your relationship by letting them give you a shoulder to cry on?
1) Facebook “Groupers”:
Hello, this is Facebook writing to alert you that you’ve been added to a group, “Stupid Group You’d Have Never Joined For Any Reason.” You were added by your Facebook friend, “person that you don’t even recognize.” You may also notice that you have 56 notifications. That’s because he not only put you in this group without asking; he made sure you were alerted every time someone said something on the page like, “How did I get in this group?” or “Who put me in this group?” or “Why am I in this stupid group?” Yes, we at Facebook don’t think this is obnoxious behavior. So we don’t even give you a setting to prevent people from adding you to groups without your permission. Ehr..what? Would leaving the group and unfriending the person work? Well, yes, but…that seems like an extreme step and…oh, you did it. Too bad. He was just creating another group, “Click Like If You Hate Stupid Facebook Groups,” that you could have gotten in on.
Block the app. I even block messages from games I play, just don’t like them in my main feed.
I joined Facebook to look up old acquaintances I hadn’t seen in years. I’m glad I did about half the time and sorry the other half.
“The worst ones are those who spew their liberal opinions, assuming that, of course, everyone will agree with them. It never seems to occur to them that they might offend somebody, or that some people log on to Facebook for fun and relaxation, not to hear bigoted political rants.”
THIS!
I give people 3 strikes, and then they are gone.
I cancelled my Facebook account for this and a number of other reasons. It’s TMI most of the time.
I agrees with all of it! I do go to FB and have connected with much of my far flung family and I also play games.I do not share personal details at all and do not allow my comments made on other’s pages to be read by all.No one has access to my page unless they are a friend.I hate being added to groups!
Exactly.
My wife’s cousin is a “priestess” in the Episcopal Church and she loves hammering us with pro-gay, pro-lib, big-government crap. She’s constantly insulting those of us who belong to churches with more traditional stances on morality - and her own mother is the target of most of those comments. Mind-boggling.
You can block the farmville posts by clicking on the arrow on one of the posts and blockage the game posts.
You can block the farmville posts by clicking on the arrow on one of the posts and blocking the game posts.
Isn’t it though? I never got on. Or on Twitter either. I listen to people I work with talk about their families and friends twitting them about what a great pot of coffee they just made or “I’m now vacuuming the living room” or “brb, going to the bathroom” and posting equally vacuous stuff on FB. I decided life was too short to spend it absorbing other people’s banalities. As for posting stuff about myself, I’m well aware of when my life is boring, routine, or thrilling. I don’t need an audience, and I don’t need somebody to pat me on the back everytime I have a great BM.
I’m glad there’s not a “Posting Articles About What the Left is Up To” because I would be the #1 offender.
I and my family left that church for those very reasons.
It was a couple of years back and we had to get signatures to get the marriage question on the ballot.
The rev signed it but would not mention about it , though he said to to the coffee time after and get the signatures
My wife and I went and low and be hold most of them would nto sign it because they must have thought it was a trick question, a couple said they had no problem with it and so we only got a few signatures and never went back .
How on earth can these people turn up to church and then go against the Holy Bible but then say they believing the Bible
I’ve heard it mentioned many times before this that liberalism is a mental disease and boy I found out how true that was.
Thanks, I will do that.
My wife and I met in the Episcopal Church. It’s the only positive I took away from my short time in that denomination!
I used to post religious, scriptural and/or devotional items when I used Facebook. I avoided political issues because I knew there were folks like this cousin just waiting in the wings to attack and denigrate.
I don’t believe Facebook posts convince anyone to change his/her mind on anything.
I managed that by deactivating my account.
Thank you for that info.
I love my granddaughter, but I think she is going overboard on Farmville.
The ones that weird me out are the people (some of them co-workers) who complain about their job.
Not once in a while, like once a week.
Liberal friends probably don’t like what I post on Facebook. Most of what I post is links to news articles or videos with my impressions. I very rarely rant, but what I post usually is to shoot down liberal ideas, policies, or make their chosen ones look bad.
The more erudite and scholarly the source the better. People dismiss sites like Fox News out of hand, but when it comes scholarly journals, foreign news services, original sources or raw video they don’t dismiss it so easily (although I have still have gotten the “Where do you get this stuff, Fox News?” remark). I figure I’m educating the ignorant and giving ammunition to like minded friends
The person I de-friended refers to Fox News as “Faux News,” and she is always ranting against it. Unlike you and most other conservatives, she never posts news articles, videos, or other sources to support her opinions. She just shoots off her big mouth.
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