My name is Stephanie and I love me some Facebook. I flip over to it often obsessively throughout the day liking post after post. Smiling, grinning and even occasionally laughing out loud. Now I know not all Facebook status updates are fuzzy and warm. I enjoy the snarky and the sassy, even the occasional sarcastic or braggy post, but there are some Facebook posts that I have quite simply had enough of and beg of you to never, ever post again.
#1. The Over sharer: “Oh I am so sick I was up puking all night. It was coming out both ends!” TMI people! If you want to post you are sick, go for it. Even use that silly little green face to really get your point across but enough with the descriptors of how many times you puked and what colour it was. Disgusting.
#2. The Compliment Whore: “Gawd I just hate this picture of myself.” or “Looking a little rough, but oh well”.” LIAR! Nobody every puts up pictures they truly hate of themselves. That would be just stupid. You are not stupid are you?
Hmm maybe I need to rethink this one.
#3 The Vague Booker: “I have such exciting news I’m bursting. Oh, but I can’t tell you until tomorrow.” Then how about you just wait until tomorrow to tell us huh? How about that idea? Vague booking is so 2013.
#4 The Extreme Bragger: “Can’t believe I was just offered ANOTHER trip. Oh how to fit it all in?” Really, is this the kind of bragging you want to put out into the world? I think you can be proud, excited and gracious at the same time. Some people could do with working on a little balance.
* Flip side. Brag much? Yup. I get it, sometimes you do have to shout it from the rooftops, but can we please try and balance it out with a cute story about your kid, a personal goal you are working towards or how you paid it forward this week? Thanks.
#5 The Super Curser: I get it, every once in a while a girl has got to drop the F Bomb, but when you are cursing a blue streak in your Facebook Status updates, I am hitting unfriend. Related: I am a prude.
End of Facebook rant, for now? Have any you want to add?
Crazy Shenanigans says
I’m also not a fan of the one who posts the same photo of their kid 9249384 times. It’s the same pose and face but just a different outfit!
SassySis says
Ha Ha – thanks for the laughs – love this one
Victoria Ess says
A subtype of the vague booker is the person who posts status updates about his or her low mood, such as “:(” or “so sad…” or “need a hug.”
Sarah Robinson says
Bitstrips. ‘Nuff said.
courtney b says
ugggh i hate the compliment whore!!! those are the worst!
Reese says
I agree with you 100% and I have gotten to the point of just unfriending people. One that I recently unfriended thought it was appropriate to post a photo on Christmas of all the toys they gave their kids. Brag much? Also it just made me sick to see how much stuff these kids were getting. Waste of money and totally spoiling. It said a lot to me about this person and I decided I didn’t want to be friends with someone like that.
Anne Taylor says
Yep, I can relate to everyone of those status updates hahaha You are a prude? Who’d a thunk it?
Secret Agent Woman says
I’d add the passive-aggressive posts that carp about some unnamed person.
loriag says
Thanks for the smiles today. Those are great.
Jenn says
I agree with all of these!! Just because it is so easy posting a new status, it does not mean you have to share everything! I’ve read quite a fair share of TMI statuses… sigh
Rossana says
Okay – have another one…couples on FB posting lovey dovey, back and forth to each other – drives me nuts. It like PDA’s – take it offline, thank you! Great to have a healthy relationship but do you need to let everyone in on your conversations?
Ok – rant over. 🙂
Secret Agent Woman says
These make me physically ill.
Aileen Hamill says
Absolutely loved this! I think you read mind:) #3…..you nailed it!!!!
Rossana (Beingglutenfree) says
LOL, yes definitely coverd a lot of them. I may be quilty of the food one…. :).
kyooty says
Prude away!!! I like my own prudishness.
Kristy says
You hit all the ones I hate, too! I actually had a friend post that she LOST HER MUCUS PLUG! Yeah, that was an “unfollow all posts” for me.
I also detest the “I’m so in love with my significant other I just want to post about it all the time” Facebooker. Makes me think the opposite is true.