Facebook rant (awkward friendship stuff)

I have a cousin who either posts messages to her daughter or else reposts those uplifting 'thought for the day' type things (several a day).  I don't want to hide her messages as she does respond to my posts fairly often and I wouldn't want to lose touch (I don't have that many cousins)

This thread has got me thinking. Anyone who uses facebook uses it all for different reasons I suppose.  Some to share all the strange weird and wonderful thoughts in their lives, some to announce things or show off their baby photos (etc), some to keep in touch or meet new people, some to just keep tabs on other people, some for politics-political agendas, to spread crap around the internet, and so forth...  So it really isn't a one size fits all kind of thing anyways and we should have the right to control our own social media destinies.   

I do wonder how often I post stuff that people don't like and they hide my feeds.  It's their perogative mind, but I just hope I'm not an annoying cow.....     

Another Facebook pet peeve of mine is when people post cryptic status updates.

It's called VagueBooking and I haaaaate it too!

Even if you don't have someone's posts hidden from your newsfeed, Facebook is kind of weird sometimes in picking what it wants you to see.

Exactly what I was going to say. It's not always possible to know everything that someone posts about and that's not your fault.

I do wonder how often I post stuff that people don't like and they hide my feeds.  It's their perogative mind, but I just hope I'm not an annoying cow.....     

I don't really mind if people hide any of my posts or even block me altogether. And I would hope that they don't mind if I do it to them. There are a lot of people I have to block completely for my own sanity - they're either annoying or really boring (and I'm not sure which is worse). I used to hide people who were offensive, then I came to my senses and decided it was OK to unfriend those people. Excellent decision!

Then there are occasional individual posts that I hide - endless pictures of animal cruelty (which I agree with politically but don't want to look at while eating my lunch), uplifting and inspirational bilge (I'm definitely with you on this one BostonDiner), baby pictures (the ones UnBabyMe misses) and things like recipes that are so long that they take up too much space.

Hiding is good.

All interesting thought and points, everyone!  And pb you are definitely not in the least bit annoying, I can't imagine anyone wanting to hide your posts.

Oh my god! All the recipes! Something happens at the end of the day and all these recipes come flying into my news feed. It's so annoying. I have a "friend" from high school who is the queen of vaguebooking. People ask her what's wrong and if she even responds, she tells them she's going to private message them. How about you do that in the first place??

PB - your posts aren't annoying at all.

And pb you are definitely not in the least bit annoying, I can't imagine anyone wanting to hide your posts.

PB - your posts aren't annoying at all.

Aww thanks, that's really nice to know.      

I actually don't mind if people block my posts, I just don't want to be known as an annoying cow- because if I am, I can change, I swear! 

I just don't want to be known as an annoying cow- because if I am, I can change, I swear! 

We love you just the way you are! 

I actually don't mind if people block my posts, I just don't want to be known as an annoying cow...

Why would you even think that? Silly! 

I'm pretty sure that someone, somewhere, at some point, can be and will be annoyed with just about anything. In fact, some people seem to spend their lives being annoyed by a whole host of things - I ain't got time for that!    Way I see it - my Facebook is for me. So if someone doesn't like what I'm posting or commenting about, then they are welcome to block me or unfriend me or whatever. I like to think my friends, my true friends, accept me, even if we don't all like the same things (and wouldn't it be boring if we did?). And to be honest, the idea of Facebook itself is a bit ridiculous in terms of who are *really* your friends - a small group? Yes. 300+ people? Lol! 

I have one FB friend hidden from my feed because the *only* thing she ever puts up are memes about God/Jesus/Praise the Lord/etc.... Nah, I don't want to be seeing my feed clogged up with that. Also, I like the occasional meme - but if the only thing a person *ever* puts up are cutesy, vapid memes without having anything original of his or her own to say, then that's another good candidate for being hidden. 

I think I'm missing the recipe thing that people are talking about? Either that or it doesn't bother me. I do like recipes! I don't think I link them very much (if at all?), however, although I might talk about what I made for a meal - hopefully in a brief description. 

I think I'm missing the recipe thing that people are talking about? Either that or it doesn't bother me. I do like recipes!

I like recipes too, but it seems that when someone links to one on FB it doesn't truncate it but puts the whole loooong thing right there on my page. It's FB's fault, not the fault of the person posting it. But either way, I immediately hide them. I really have problems with things that take up that much room!

And to be honest, the idea of Facebook itself is a bit ridiculous in terms of who are *really* your friends - a small group? Yes. 300+ people? Lol!  

I wonder how different FB would be if it didn't advertise how many friends (and which friends) you had..... I'm sure some people add people they don't really know just to get a higher friend count and look more popular.    We all know the more friends you have on FB the cooler you are!  

Chary, I think I know what you mean, but I can't recall having too many issues with it - maybe my FB friends on the whole don't post recipes very frequently?

We all know the more friends you have on FB the cooler you are!  

Oh no! But I don't want to be cool! 

For the longest time, I prided myself on being 'Average Facebook User' with *only* ( ) about 135 FB friends. Now I have a few more, I'm losing my Average Edge. 

Oh no! But I don't want to be cool! 

For the longest time, I prided myself on being 'Average Facebook User' with *only* ( ) about 135 FB friends. Now I have a few more, I'm losing my Average Edge. 

Hehehe.    Time for downsizing?    I hope I make the cut!   

Hehehe.    Time for downsizing?    I hope I make the cut!   

Hehehe! I don't like to cut people though!  At least if they defriend me, then I know - ok, cool, they didn't like me - whatevs (removes the pressure, hahahaha!). 

I don't mind recipes if they're tried and true. It's these other recipes that say at the top "repost this recipe to your page so you save it". Well, by reposting it to their page, it goes onto all of the newsfeeds of their friends.