So, I meant to do this regularly and forgot. Post your friend's ridiculous, stupid, AW-y, etc. status updates.
This is from someone I went to grad school with. I only keep her around for the entertainment value.
"So grateful that when the back to my new diamond earring fell off, I caught it before it had a chance to fall out of my ear completely thus my losing it entirely. They cost a pretty penny. Looks like they'll be going back and I'll be exchanging for a whole new pair. Phew. Such a close call!!!"
I have a friend who's SUPER anti-Obama and ant-liberal. The day Obama announced his plan about gun control, he up and joined the NRA out of spite. And recently, he posted an article calling pro-choice people "pro-death".
I'm on a defriending spree. Lately it's been a few cavemen types I just didn't want to see anymore. For the most part my FB friends are pretty uneventful and don't post too much dumbass stuff.
Oh, wait. I do have a lot of AWy constant self photo posting types. Mostly younger girls I used to bartend with. I can't imagine being that into myself, or desperate for attention. Not sure what it is really.
Post by bullygirl979 on Jan 19, 2013 10:13:03 GMT -5
Agree with Motzie, most of my friends are uneventful. I do, however, keep one person around that I knew in grade school. She is my age (33) and is constantly posting stuff about her love life. It usually goes like this:
day 1: OMG, I am IN LOVE with xxxx. He is the BEST boyfriend ever. Aren't I so lucky??? day 7: I cannot BELIVE that yet again I was FOOLED by ANOTHER guy pretending to be a good guy. xxx is SUCH an asshole. So glad we broke up. He is such a douche. NEXT! day 14: yyyyy is the sweetest, most wonderful man EVER! He brought me flowers and made breakfast for me. He is such a great boyfriend. yyyy, I LOVE YOU!!!! day 25: UGH...yyy is SUCH a pig. I don't date assholes who get drunk and hit on my friends. He is so disgusting. I must have been drunk the entire time we dated.
And repeat 500 million times. Trainwreck.I.Can't.Stop.Watching.
Post by exploding people on Jan 19, 2013 12:50:47 GMT -5
My cousin is constantly bitching about gun control, calling the president a crook, etc.
I have another friend who decided earlier this week she's going to post a new abortion "fact" every day until the 22nd. They're all long-ass diatribes about teenagers getting them in secret, late-term abortions, and how Planned Parenthood lies about their statistics.
I have a few friends that annoy me, but I've hidden them. One in particular just posts every day about going to the gym, her daily workout, etc. I get it, you're going to the gym. I do too, but the whole world doesn't need to know or care.
I have a friend (who I know through DH and I ONLY see when w/ DH) that is also anti-Obama, anti-gun control, etc. I don't care if you don't like Obama and didn't vote for him, but his tirades about both of these issues - I hid him because of it.
Then I have a friend's DH who is similar to the guy above. I'm actually not friends w/ him on FB, but DH is and I hear about his posts through DH. DH has now also hidden him. But not before deciding to respond to as many of his posts w/ facts that completely kill the point of his rant.
DH's FB page was up, so I went and read the posts from our friend's DH. OMG. But what I find interesting - about 90% of his posts go unliked/uncommented on. I have a feeling we aren't the only ones rolling our eyes at him and in my DH's case, blocking him.
One FB friend that I've known forever as we grew up attending the same church is so open about absolutely everything. Her period, boobs, roommate, work, what she thinks of about her family, her sexual relationships... I feel embarrassed for her.
Agree with Motzie, most of my friends are uneventful. I do, however, keep one person around that I knew in grade school. She is my age (33) and is constantly posting stuff about her love life. It usually goes like this:
day 1: OMG, I am IN LOVE with xxxx. He is the BEST boyfriend ever. Aren't I so lucky??? day 7: I cannot BELIVE that yet again I was FOOLED by ANOTHER guy pretending to be a good guy. xxx is SUCH an asshole. So glad we broke up. He is such a douche. NEXT! day 14: yyyyy is the sweetest, most wonderful man EVER! He brought me flowers and made breakfast for me. He is such a great boyfriend. yyyy, I LOVE YOU!!!! day 25: UGH...yyy is SUCH a pig. I don't date assholes who get drunk and hit on my friends. He is so disgusting. I must have been drunk the entire time we dated.
And repeat 500 million times. Trainwreck.I.Can't.Stop.Watching.
I think we have the same friend... My is a friend's sister. I can't delete because her sister is one of my best friends. She went from in a relationship to single at least 6 or more times in 2012. Why not wait to see if there is anything really there before telling the world you have a BF just to tell them a week later that it is over.
Oh, one of my cousins just posted today about how Obama signed a bill in private/secret making free speech illegal. I'm losing patience, especially because no matter what I say, his friends jump on me and he only tells them to back off because I'm his cousin, not because he's had a revelation of any kind.
Post by mariafromnj on Jan 20, 2013 20:40:32 GMT -5
I have a friend that is really sweet but still wants to be voted most popular. She asks every person she can to be friend. She asked a co-worker of mine that she met while visiting my job. She asked a friend of mine from out of town that she met one night for 20 minutes. She also likes everything from everyone.
Oh, one of my cousins just posted today about how Obama signed a bill in private/secret making free speech illegal. I'm losing patience, especially because no matter what I say, his friends jump on me and he only tells them to back off because I'm his cousin, not because he's had a revelation of any kind.
I have an update to my cousin's status. It contained a link to a youtube video of a Fox news segment. The bill isn't new, and it was passed in the usual manner, going through the House and Senate. I posted a Snopes link and now my cousin's friend, who used the N-word twice in his comments prior, got up in arms and just called me a B.... and told me to stop being a C. All because I pointed out that my cousin, who said he'd delete racist comments, might want to delete his friend's comments where the n-word was used.
ETA: My cousin just deleted all his comments. There are interracial marriages in my family and my cousin hates racial slurs. He also sticks up for me, despite our differences in political opinion.
My uncle is on an anti-Obama crusade, and my cousin posts almost every hour about the emotional rollercoaster he's riding, while also professing his love for his fiancee. He'll be 40 this year, in case you were thinking he was a 15 year old boy.
Post by starrieskies on Jan 21, 2013 13:36:55 GMT -5
I have one person on my fb feed who annoys me like none other. She's always posting about how lucky she is to have her man, and her life, blah, blah, blah. Normally this wouldn't bother me, but I know the truth.
Her "man" is a 33 year old man child who doesn't have a job, isn't looking for a job, and refuses to follow up on job offers that she has gotten for him. He's been unemployed for over a year. He refuses to move in with her, although he's ok with her paying his rent. In the year that they've been together, he has managed to burn through all of her savings, and now she's using her credit cards. She tells me that he doesn't have any money because he has to pay his ex's child support. The thing is, I am pretty good friends with his ex, and he hasn't paid child support in 9 months....
Every post on facebook is a "Look at me!! Look at how perfect my life is!!" But when I see her in person all she does is complain about her "awesome man".
I don't have any interesting FB friends. My trainwreck ex-friend defriended me a while ago, but I hear about her escapades from mutual friends. She hastily moved in with an unemployed guy (who's in a band), adopted a shit-ton of rescue dogs, and they break up/make up on a weekly basis, which is done via public FB posts. Neither one of them can afford to move out of the house, so she lives on the first floor and he lives on the second floor. Good times!
ETA: I do have one crackpot friend from middle school. He thinks Newt Gingrich is God. I've hidden him though.
I've got a facebook friend that I went to high school with who is a freaking train wreck. She's not overly-sharing or anything like that, but she's been broken up with her boyfriend at least twice, and has been engaged to him two separate times in addition to the other breakups, all over the course of the past year. She changes her relationship status every time this happens. The worst part is that she has two kids and he's got three; I feel really terrible for their kids.
I have am friends with a girl on facebook who graduated from high school a few years behind me. She is a nurse, and the other night was asking how much infant Tylenol can you give a 4 month old. I am thinking that if you are a nurse, you should know this. She is also the same person who is complaining about not having a cell phone for another 2 weeks because they can't pay all their bills. Also while pregnant with baby #2, was whining and crying on facebook about having no money and that combined, her and her husband(cheated on her after she had a miscarriage or at least this is when it came to light.) make too much money for government assistance.
Oh, one of my cousins just posted today about how Obama signed a bill in private/secret making free speech illegal. I'm losing patience, especially because no matter what I say, his friends jump on me and he only tells them to back off because I'm his cousin, not because he's had a revelation of any kind.
I got home last night and H was talking about this... He watched the fox news link and is all up in arms now about how Obama is taking away our rights... I pulled up various articles explaining the bill and how it was NOT done "in secret" as claimed. He brushed it all off as if I was the one making stuff up.
It amazes me how far apart we've grown, and I'm constantly annoyed.