Also on facebook are the oversharers. If I have become one of these people due to my love of Justin Bieber or other silly things then I apologize, but I am talking about these other people who make it worse for everyone.
My friend sent me the status of someone she knows. Their comment was how they are trying for baby #2. What??? You just announced this to 350 of your "closest" friends? I was shocked. Now people will be asking all the time about it. what happens if there are issues or complications or God forbid you lose your baby. Do you want those 350 "friends" commenting on? What do I care. Based on my limited knowledge of this person I am sure they would post any medical issues that came up as their current status.
There was a girl I used to be friends with who posted all the time and I swear was pregnant for like 1039438 months. Her pregnancy seemed so long because I am sure she peed on the stick, told her husband, then immediately posted it as her status update. I am sure if people asked her how far along she was, that the answer was like 10 days. I ran into her at a party and evidently wasn't friendly enough to her because shortly there after I discovered she defriended me. I figured this out because my news feed was without her hourly status updates. Word on the street is that I missed the pretty much play by play of her birth and thoughts on breastfeeding. I have never been so happy to have been defriended.
Then there is the debbie downer. The one who always has the sad story or her day or life or whatever is bad. It might be raining all over Austin but I assure you the rain is the worst where she is. Just stop. Oh and people commenting on these comments, you stop as well. You are only giving them what they want and will help to continue this horrid cycle. Just ignore it and roll your eyes like the rest of us. Or email your friend who is also friends with this person and talk about it. That is what I have been doing. I just want to shake the girl and say "Get yo shit together and stop whining about everything on FB"
This will be a 2 part series. The next part will simply be a list of ways to make a successful status update. I know you will want to back in for that. really I would just include it here but I seem like I have been a bit word heavy on the posts lately so I am saving my words for another day.
Ha! So true Taylor! I love it and completely agree. Your being defriended was the worst. I had a facebook friend that would post cryptic things like: "is today the day I find out I'm pregnant?"
ReplyDeleteI think there's a second degree to the Debbie Downer and that is the vague poster, where they post something like: "I never knew it could get this hard," and then that prompts people to comment and ask them what's going on.
I meant being defriended was the best...stupid brain:)
ReplyDeleteOh I am so glad we are in agreement!!!
ReplyDeleteThis was a great post! There should be a list of questions we should all ask ourselves before posting something. The first question should be "Am I trying to get people to feel sorry for me or pity me?"
ReplyDeleteI call FB, "BragBook" or "I need validation Book"! Why I go on it every four or five days is a complete mystery to me...I should just follow Carrie and Jay's lead and not even mess with it. Anyways, miss ya' girl! But I still keep up with the blog because it always makes me laugh:) By the way, I've been watching the Bachelorette. I think it's the Mormon guy.
ReplyDeleteI can take a lucky guess about the girl who had the baby and your depiction of the oversharing was correct. I must have texted an unnamed friend at least ten times about the inappropriate book statuses that girl with the baby had. Like seriously, "Baby took his first poop." Did I need to know that? No. Did I just become stupider reading that? YES.
ReplyDeleteMan, I knew by reading this that you had to be a very unpleasant person. Def not a parent and I hope god never allows you to be one because of how ignorant and rude you are. If you are lucky enough to ever be a parent, you will see what your friend was going through. Every step of being pregnant and having a child is a BIG DEAL. Something hopefully you will never have the pleasure of knowing. An insensitive person like you doesn't deserve it. What you are complaining of your friend doing, is the EXACT same thing you are doing here. Whats the difference of posting a bunch of shit people could care less about here vs. Facebook? You are no better.
ReplyDeleteWow if you were my friend I would defriend you just for being so pathetically vapid and petty. You are obviously a very jealous and insecure girl. If you don't like something someone else posts why not just block them? Seems the rational thing to do. Oh no, I guess you needed something inane to blog about on this riveting blog of yours.
ReplyDeleteI am going to go out on a limb here and guess you don't have kids (thank god). Here's a tip: don't. You clearly are too cynical and shallow to pass along anything kind or useful to another human.
Don't give up your day job. This covetous blog will get you no where of substance. Girls like you are laughable. Good luck in your misery and keep those legs closed tight, for all of us.
First off this post wasn't mean to offend people but clearly my last 2 commentors were offended. These 2 are also the only commentors that I don't know. The rest are friends and people I know.
ReplyDeleteThis blog is just for fun and my friends usually get a kick out of it. Perhaps because you don't know me the humor was lost on you. I don't know. This whole post started because of a friend sharing a status update with me that they thought was a ridiculous overshare and they said "You should do a post on this", so I did. I wrote about the overshares that came to mind and these were them.
Thanks for the comments though. It was pretty exciting to get my first negative comments and the most blog views ever!
All I can say is hahahaha! Taylor is the best aunt ever and would be an amazing mom if you knew her. Way to cause a ruckus Tay! My favorite commenter is the one about facebrag because it is so true! Real Simple did an article on oversharing that was right up this alley.
ReplyDeleteHa, so glad I came back to read this! I like how "Sle Man" and "RAX17" are using old school AOL instant messenger type usernames.
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