Johnny
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Post by Johnny on Dec 7, 2015 13:32:58 GMT -5
The only thing that bothers me is racist nonsense. I've implemented an unfriend rule now for people who insist on posting that shit. I used to tolerate it, saying "well, normally he's a cool bloke", but now I'd rather just get it off my feed and making me angry.
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Burst
El Dandy
*inarticulate squawking*
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Post by Burst on Dec 7, 2015 13:38:49 GMT -5
I honestly miss how Facebook was when I first joined it circa early 2006-ish. Actual status messages (though I think Twitter usurped that role), activity tended to be more limited to just your university circle of acquaintances, no sort of pressure from family to accept their friend requests.
I felt fine sharing photos back then because it was just your circle of friends, but now putting pictures on Facebook feels like you're showing them to the whole world.
I mostly still use Facebook because it's an easy way to stay in touch with friends that are widely dispersed, but that's about it.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2015 14:09:49 GMT -5
One of the things I find funny/dislike about Facebook is the tendency for people to put their personal lives out there. So I don't get on it much, but there's this one particular person who I couldn't help but notice: 1. She got married in May of this year, to the "love of her life." I remember it because she kept posting about it. 2. Fast forward to August of this year, she's in another relationship with some dude. Always posting pictures, and this is her "love of her life." I tend to keep what goes on about my relationship private because I feel like if I post too much and I broke up with my girl, then there's going to be a ton of awkwardness. All of a sudden you're posting pics of each other and then it just stops. To me that's awkward and I couldn't handle the "what happened?" questions. In this persons case, she got MARRIED and is in another serious relationship within 6 months of each other and no one seems to say anything about it. It's so weird. Not sure where I'm going with this but that's one of the thing that irks me about Facebook, the "look we're so happy" posts. It's all a facade. I think if I got married and then divorced a few months later, the last thing I would want to do is get into another relationship. BTW, if I remember right, she never came out and said she wasn't married anymore, but during the summer she kept posting pics and always hiding her hand so it was kinda obvious something went down. I also had a buddy of mine who went through the exact same thing, met this super hot chick, always had posts with hashtags and then a year later he puts his relationship status as divorced. Sometimes your relationship works out better if it weren't in the public eye on social media. Chill and enjoy each other's company With those types, they're often trying to convince themselves of the strength of their relationship. It's as if it getting put down on the screen makes it more real somehow. It doesn't. You knew deep down you've been drifting apart the entire time you've been seeing each other. Like you said, keep it under your hat a little. Your being with someone ain't really anyone else's business and it's arrogant to think anyone else should care. Not that you need to be clandestine about it either, just ugh.. Moderation. No one likes the lovebirds that are both in Facebook that are always like the first or second commentor on the other's posts. WE. GET. IT. Do you?
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domrep
Hank Scorpio
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Post by domrep on Dec 7, 2015 14:18:53 GMT -5
One of the things I find funny/dislike about Facebook is the tendency for people to put their personal lives out there. So I don't get on it much, but there's this one particular person who I couldn't help but notice: 1. She got married in May of this year, to the "love of her life." I remember it because she kept posting about it. 2. Fast forward to August of this year, she's in another relationship with some dude. Always posting pictures, and this is her "love of her life." I tend to keep what goes on about my relationship private because I feel like if I post too much and I broke up with my girl, then there's going to be a ton of awkwardness. All of a sudden you're posting pics of each other and then it just stops. To me that's awkward and I couldn't handle the "what happened?" questions. In this persons case, she got MARRIED and is in another serious relationship within 6 months of each other and no one seems to say anything about it. It's so weird. Not sure where I'm going with this but that's one of the thing that irks me about Facebook, the "look we're so happy" posts. It's all a facade. I think if I got married and then divorced a few months later, the last thing I would want to do is get into another relationship. BTW, if I remember right, she never came out and said she wasn't married anymore, but during the summer she kept posting pics and always hiding her hand so it was kinda obvious something went down. I also had a buddy of mine who went through the exact same thing, met this super hot chick, always had posts with hashtags and then a year later he puts his relationship status as divorced. Sometimes your relationship works out better if it weren't in the public eye on social media. Chill and enjoy each other's company With those types, they're often trying to convince themselves of the strength of their relationship. It's as if it getting put down on the screen makes it more real somehow. It doesn't. You knew deep down you've been drifting apart the entire time you've been seeing each other. Like you said, keep it under your hat a little. Your being with someone ain't really anyone else's business and it's arrogant to think anyone else should care. Not that you need to be clandestine about it either, just ugh.. Moderation. No one likes the lovebirds that are both in Facebook that are always like the first or second commentor on the other's posts. WE. GET. IT. Do you? Or the ones that post a video and then tag their significant other and they say "babe this is you!" Ugh.
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Post by Zaq "That Guy" Buzzkill on Dec 7, 2015 14:27:16 GMT -5
With those types, they're often trying to convince themselves of the strength of their relationship. It's as if it getting put down on the screen makes it more real somehow. It doesn't. You knew deep down you've been drifting apart the entire time you've been seeing each other. Like you said, keep it under your hat a little. Your being with someone ain't really anyone else's business and it's arrogant to think anyone else should care. Not that you need to be clandestine about it either, just ugh.. Moderation. No one likes the lovebirds that are both in Facebook that are always like the first or second commentor on the other's posts. WE. GET. IT. Do you? Or the ones that post a video and then tag their significant other and they say " bae this is you!" Ugh. Fixed for sad accuracy. I hate that word.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2015 14:33:33 GMT -5
Or the ones that post a video and then tag their significant other and they say " bae this is you!" Ugh. Fixed for sad accuracy. I hate that word. Seconded.
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riseofsetian1981
King Koopa
"I met him fifteen years ago. I was told there was nothing left."
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Post by riseofsetian1981 on Dec 7, 2015 15:05:21 GMT -5
Usually the posts that kind of boggle my mind is individuals posting about getting drunk, hating their parents, or the classic "I am so lonely and depressed." Then a friend will comment "What's wrong?" and their response will be "Don't want to talk about it."
The only racist posts that typically bother me is the obvious ones against President Obama. I understand not liking his policies or not voting for him, but Jesus Christ, some of the posts I've seen against the man is so blatantly racist and threatening that it's a wonder the Secret Service hasn't visited their homes. I saw one friend who posted a status about President Obama needing to go to the same theatre where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated and experience the same fate.
That's usually not the worst of it either. Usually get those posts saying "Need to nuke all turban wearing individuals or sand people." Replace "sand people" or "turban wearing" with racial epithets of course.
For me it's the attention seeking, overly racist/threatening status, and drunk picture taking that typically make me roll my eyes in disgust or scroll down immediately.
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Matt
El Dandy
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Post by Matt on Dec 7, 2015 15:16:01 GMT -5
"She folds her napkin in a triangle. What she does next I can't WAIT to try" or anything along those lines of click bait.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Dec 7, 2015 15:35:10 GMT -5
"She folds her napkin in a triangle. What she does next I can't WAIT to try" or anything along those lines of click bait. Anything that even remotely resembles that kind of title automatically gets ignored by me. I don't care if the article has the cure for cancer, the winning lottery numbers for the next ten years, and an invitation to a pyjama party at the Playboy Mansion, I'm not clicking on it out of principle.
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Dr. T is an alien
Patti Mayonnaise
Knows when to hold them, knows when to fold them
I've been found out!
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Post by Dr. T is an alien on Dec 7, 2015 15:50:59 GMT -5
I block posts and reposts for a whole lot of websites anymore, as well as many specific people.
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Deleted
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Post by Deleted on Dec 7, 2015 16:17:27 GMT -5
Any time someone has one cause that gets applied to everything. So any time something newsworthy happens, like the attacks in Paris a few weeks ago, it gets used to make a statement on that one thing. It's opportunistic to the point where it makes them look like a jerk.
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Rave
El Dandy
Perpetually Bored
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Post by Rave on Dec 8, 2015 4:42:14 GMT -5
When the Supreme Court ruled in favor of gay marriage, there was this one guy I was friends with at the time posting how they were "disappointed" about it and playing the religion card. Promptly unfriended them. Don't need that on my timeline. Anything that makes it to snopes. Jesus how does the same bs get re-posted so often? Is google that hard to use when you see something extreme sounding? I still see these from time to time (mainly that stupid bit about posting a disclaimer so Facebook doesn't use your stuff), but I managed to eradicate the biggest source of it from my timeline a while back when I introduced my aunt to Snopes. Spider under the plane toilet seat, ice snake causing hypothermia, you name it, she posted it without checking it first. Now if only she'd stop with the animal abuse posts...
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Eunös ✈
Dalek
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Tolerated, just not practically liked.
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Dec 8, 2015 5:47:55 GMT -5
People post pics about humanity being idiots or why they are surrounded by stupid people. Like they themselves are perfect in everyway and can do no wrong.
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Post by Hit Girl on Dec 8, 2015 7:19:56 GMT -5
Any bullshit story or meme that suckers in naive, gullible grandparents.
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Post by Sir Woodrow on Dec 8, 2015 7:36:51 GMT -5
Inspirational quotes, especially romance-related ones like something to the effect of "If he cared, he wouldn't walk away," or "When I was young, I would chase, but now that I'm older, I would replace." Ever notice that many of these come from older women that can't seem to keep a man around? Maybe........... you are the problem. Ever think of that? Oh god yes I have women like that in my family
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Futureraven: Beelzebruv
Bill S. Preston, Esq.
The Ultimate Arbiter of Right And Wrong
Spent half my life here, God help me
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Dec 8, 2015 10:24:40 GMT -5
"If you believe [x], unfriend me."I have a couple friends on my feed who post this at least once a month. Roll my eyes every time. I swear, something about the Internet has really convinced even some of the most lucid, rational, compassionate people I know that they have bigots or ideological traitors in their midst on freaking Facebook and must be rooted out. It's especially disheartening when these guys wish their buddies well on Thanksgiving and claim to value friendship, yet the next week they're willing to throw it away over a difference of opinion on some piece of Obvious Outrage Bait on Slate or Salon or HuffPo or whatever. Such are the times we live in. It's the absoluteness about that for me. Nope, I'm not gonna try to argue my side to show you how I see it, no I won't try to make any compromise. Just leave. Obviously there are some people where you find out you just won't get along, but at least have a go at understanding each other first, otherwise you end up in an echo chamber where none of your thoughts are challenged and you don't grow.
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Post by Alice Syndrome on Dec 8, 2015 11:09:54 GMT -5
The one going around accusing a girl of being a "crisis actor" because dipshits think every brunette that escaped a school shooting must be the same woman
EDIT: F-words quoted at points in this video
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Post by Hit Girl on Dec 8, 2015 11:12:53 GMT -5
People posting probably fake pictures of missing children with some shit like "this boy is aged 5, and has been missing in Lima, Peru since 1978"
Yes, I'm sure I'll be able to help.
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agent817
Fry's dog Seymour
Doesn't Know Whose Ring It Is
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Post by agent817 on Dec 8, 2015 12:14:02 GMT -5
People who always rant about their personal problems. One person who is a good example is a friend of mine who seems to have problems everywhere she goes. I once told her that nobody is without problems, because a lot of people have them. I like this person, but I feel like I respect her less than before because of what I had been told from a coworker about how she acted one day when she went into work. Also, the rants that she posted got my respect level for this person to drop a bit more. I once told a different friend that if someone wants to get problems off his/her chest, then he/she should speak to someone about them, not tell the world about them.
It's like I said, I like the person, but I can't help someone if he or she seems to bring on the problems his or herself, especially if the person is doing little to solve them.
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Fauxnaki
Unicron
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Post by Fauxnaki on Dec 8, 2015 12:28:23 GMT -5
JPEGs with text in it. You can use text on facebook stop making it bigger and in my face, I might just start putting all my status's in JPEG so everyone has to pay more attention to me.
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