Everyone loves Facebook it seems. Except the parts we hate about it.
Here, I have compiled a list of the top twelve most commonly complained about Facebook habits. Maybe you agree – maybe you’re guilty? Either way, we all know someone who has committed at least one of these offences at some point. Enjoy!
1) Gushing about your wonderful snuggly partner in every single status update. I loathe people who do this so much that I wrote an entire article about it!
2) Bitching about your ex in every single status update, once the love goggles have fallen off and you’ve realised he’s an idiot. I have never been exactly sure what these people are trying to achieve; it only makes you look immature, and your ex glad they got away! (For the record, “So-and-so is totally over her ex and had a great day with her girlfriends, who are so much better than men anyways” sort of statuses are also really annoying, and quite transparent…)
3) Fishing for sympathy in your status updates (usually because you have neither partner to gush about nor ex-partner to bitch about). “So-and-so wants a hug : (“, “So-and-so had a really crappy day” etc – you know the sort of thing I am talking about. Inevitably, twelve people will pop up saying something like “Aww, babes, huggles!”, which makes you feel better about yourself, somehow. Again, this just makes you come across as small and needy. (more…)
My dad, with all due respect, is crazy paranoid. He guards his PIN number with his life at ATMs, covering the keypad with his wallet and free hand, while dialling the numbers covertly with the other. He shreds bank statements and receipts, then distributes the shredded paper between all the different bins in the house, to make it harder to re-piece the documents. He cuts up all his old credit cards into tiny tiny pieces, then puts them in a margarine tub in a drawer which contains all their dead predecessors, and I swear he will ask to be buried with it, literally taking the secrets locked within their chips to his grave. He has nothing to hide, he tells me, but everything to fear, for the world is out to get you. So it’s no great surprise that he is constantly warning me to take the same precautions. (more…)
Now stop gushing all over the internet about it!
Oh dear. I appear to have started some sort of Facebook feud…
Last night, after yet another one of my acquaintances came out of the woodwork and admitted that a mutual friend’s status updates of the past few weeks have been making them want to gag every time they log in, I did something I never thought I would do, and started a statement-making Facebook group. The gist of my group – “You’re in love. We get it. Now stop gushing all over the internet about it!” – is pretty much self explanatory. We’ve all seen them at one point or another; we all went “aww” the first few times, but now we just roll our eyes. (more…)
