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The ones I find doing this most often are typically people who are starved for attention, want to be the center of attention, and can't get enough. They collect hundreds of friends on their account in order to pad their numbers and feel popular. It's one thing to be bored or boring, and post some mundane comment on there from time to time, but some of them feel the need to be on there everyday, several times per day posting every thought that passes through their unoriginal little minds. At least most of it is harmless.
The funniest ones are the hot girls who post some trivial statement on their wall or fish for compliments, followed by a gaggle of hard up dudes who validate and "like" their comments.
I started to see my "friends" in a different way from all of the annoying posts. I was getting friend requests from people that didn't make sense. I had to suspend my account to get a break from FB. It's liberating.
I have Facebook, and I look at it daily, but rarely post anything, maybe respond if someone directly asks me something. One of my "friends" is my niece, who is in her early 20's. I love my niece, although I almost never see her. Well she takes up about 75% of what is written daily on the account. She is also very very religious which is obvious by her postings. The thing that really gets me is she posts pictures of herself, either alone, with her husband, with her dog or with friends. There is at least 1 picture a day, sometimes 3-4. I have never known anyone in my life that takes more pictures of themselves and then on top of it posts them. I'll give you an example. Today there is a picture of her in her pajamas on the floor with her pitbull dog, and 4 pictures of her with various people at an ulgy sweater party. She talked about her back pain and staying in bed all day on pain pills, that she has her period as well, that God blessed her and she was given a Starbucks gift card, and then she was doubly blessed when they didn't charge her for the coffee because she had to wait so long. Is it just me or do you find it ridiculous when people have to write about where they are going to, what they are doing, how they feel, what is going on in their life, and numerous other things daily?
This is one of the reasons why I took my aunt off of my FB page...actually anyone who is in the "older" generation or I put them on the "friend list", where they cannot see anything but my profile picture. I am also in my mid-20's and FB is a way to share via social media. I get annoyed by other people's FB status updates, but I'm never annoyed by them posting pictures. I think people who are missing excitement in their own lives or are not progressing in life like they want, often get jealous or envious when looking at the pages of the others on FB.
I had one annoying aunt on my page who would try to challenge EVERYTHING I would post.......not knowing that I have like 3000 friends on my FB, and my posts are really not even directed at her. I want to share with my FRIENDS, not with aunt Suzy, but many people feel obligated to accept a family member's friend request. FB is a great way for me to keep in touch with my past college buddies and high school friends. I noticed a lot of my aunts would also gossip about EVERY facebook status update I would make. They would ignore all the positive updates, but would only focus on the negative updates. I hate to say it, but aunts are notorious for being at least a little envious of their younger neices.
Your neice posting pics should not annoy you, unless she is doing something to embarrass you or the family directly. It seems that she is posting mostly POSITIVE things, such as her luck, and feeling blessed. Who in their right mind would get annoyed by that..............unless they were a little jealous? I'm just saying....maybe you need to take a break from FB.
I have Facebook, and I look at it daily, but rarely post anything, maybe respond if someone directly asks me something. One of my "friends" is my niece, who is in her early 20's. I love my niece, although I almost never see her. Well she takes up about 75% of what is written daily on the account. She is also very very religious which is obvious by her postings. The thing that really gets me is she posts pictures of herself, either alone, with her husband, with her dog or with friends. There is at least 1 picture a day, sometimes 3-4. I have never known anyone in my life that takes more pictures of themselves and then on top of it posts them. I'll give you an example. Today there is a picture of her in her pajamas on the floor with her pitbull dog, and 4 pictures of her with various people at an ulgy sweater party. She talked about her back pain and staying in bed all day on pain pills, that she has her period as well, that God blessed her and she was given a Starbucks gift card, and then she was doubly blessed when they didn't charge her for the coffee because she had to wait so long. Is it just me or do you find it ridiculous when people have to write about where they are going to, what they are doing, how they feel, what is going on in their life, and numerous other things daily?
I am eighteen, going into college, and am proud to say I don't use Facebook or Twitter.
I was reading something interesting the other day about how for some people, dopamine is released in the brain when someone "likes," a Facebook or twitter post, and essentially the reason they do this is to receive constant external gratification. I suppose it's all related to self image concerns , which seems to be a greater concern for younger people, which is why I encounter it even more than some of you probably do. I personally have always been a private person and don't particularly seek external gratification, which is why it is flustering for me to observe this. I may have insecurities of my own, but I would rather deal with them on my own accord than try to compensate for it by flaunting my endeavors on the web. I also prefer to keep a close circle of friends but don't particularly care for what I consider trivial information.
It is a shame because it is off putting for someone like me to encounter this behavior constantly in social situations. People yapping about this latest trend (which will be defunct in a week), tooting their own horn about their blog/profile etc, its really not even pleasant to be around. I find social media causes people to be more self indulgent and tend to socialize by attempting to one up the other person. This is one of the reasons I personally have a hard time breaking in to large groups, which is why I was glad to read your post. Nice to see others think the same thing.
Suddenly, my high school friends, college friends, co-workers and family members were all in one place and the fact that I'm a pretty private person creeped me out a bit about that.
Hah, yes! Well Stated!
...and that I, in my minds eye, see these people as kids and teens, not as middle aged adults! Sometimes the past should stay in the past!
I have Facebook, and I look at it daily, but rarely post anything, maybe respond if someone directly asks me something. One of my "friends" is my niece, who is in her early 20's. I love my niece, although I almost never see her. Well she takes up about 75% of what is written daily on the account. She is also very very religious which is obvious by her postings. The thing that really gets me is she posts pictures of herself, either alone, with her husband, with her dog or with friends. There is at least 1 picture a day, sometimes 3-4. I have never known anyone in my life that takes more pictures of themselves and then on top of it posts them. I'll give you an example. Today there is a picture of her in her pajamas on the floor with her pitbull dog, and 4 pictures of her with various people at an ulgy sweater party. She talked about her back pain and staying in bed all day on pain pills, that she has her period as well, that God blessed her and she was given a Starbucks gift card, and then she was doubly blessed when they didn't charge her for the coffee because she had to wait so long. Is it just me or do you find it ridiculous when people have to write about where they are going to, what they are doing, how they feel, what is going on in their life, and numerous other things daily?
Some people choose Facebook to air their feelings about stuff, just like others use City-Data. It's very easy to cut down what you get from her, as I'm sure others have explained by now.
To each his or her own, but I really don't understand the thought process behind posting every mundane thing you do all day. What personal satisfaction is there in posting how many loads of laundry you did that day? When I was in college and younger, I used to post quite a bit, but the older I've gotten the more I prefer privacy and for people NOT to know what I'm doing or where I am. Everyone can use their page how they choose - if they want to post all their chores and constant updates on their child's potty training progress, then more power to them, but I've started clicking the unfriend button more and more. I don't want to read that stuff.
I have friends who post every single thing also ---- from what they're eating (along w/pics of the food) to what TV show they're watching (while posting about it on FB). I don't mind it. I do find it funny, though, because I very rarely post anything on FB. If there is something I like, I'll "share" it but as far as posting? I may have actually posted 10 things in the past few years that I've had FB.
Twitter? I don't get it at all. It makes NO sense to me whatsoever.
Tumblr, Intagram, etc? Don't have them.
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