How do you feel about your "friends" posting mind-numbing details about their daily lives on Facebook and Twitter?

Have Your Say Sep. 08, 2012 - 05:38AM JST ( 10 )

Order by Time Order by Popularity

10 Comments

0

borschtSep. 08, 2012 - 09:08AM JST

There's a valuable technique I've learned when you realize that Person A posts 95% minutia about their lives, you skip it and, without too much anger, move on. If the 5% is useful/interesting/amusing enough.

One reason not to just unfriend them is your information is often transmitted to Person A's friends as well. Skipping their posts is a small and easy task to pay for that.

By the way, a Facebook account can be set up so that only your real-life friends and family can see it.
0

BrainiacSep. 08, 2012 - 09:33AM JST

I can't believe the number of my "friends" who use Facebook as a daily diary. They post photos of what they had for lunch and dinner, they tell me what they did at the gym, post photos of it raining outside their window, etc, not to mention endless photos of their young children being "cute."
1

zenkanSep. 08, 2012 - 10:04AM JST

Love it or hate it, it is still a choice as to whether we look at it or not. The "cute" pics etc. are sometimes frustrating but I can't complain: as soon as the number of friends goes above 10 or 20 then, statistically, there will be more posts that irk us. As long as the advantages outweigh the frustrations I'll bite my tongue! (at least ON Facebook: what I say in real life may be completely different. It's like complaining about work - a social pressure valve)
0

Loki520Sep. 08, 2012 - 01:02PM JST

Use the "list" function to sort your "friends" into various lists. And turn off notifications for the lists of the diary users. They can always PM you if they have something direct to say.
3

Frank VaughnSep. 08, 2012 - 02:26PM JST

I take it with the proverbial grain of salt. And being 10,000Km away from most of them I enjoy a lot of it.
-2

Harry_GattoSep. 08, 2012 - 03:43PM JST

I log in to FB every two weeks, make any comments and replies as necessary and then log off again for two weeks. People do post so much dross so there is usually no more than five minutes spent per visit.
2

Pattie InoueSep. 08, 2012 - 04:26PM JST

Frank vaughn @ my exact sentiments!
0

DentShopSep. 09, 2012 - 10:43AM JST

I am a voyeur so I "like" when people, especially losers that I know, post intimate details of their life on Facebook. My real friends on Facebook are not that interesting but people I know only a little are.

I deliberately keep a lot of losers on Facebook for entertainment. Their breakups, sackings, bankruptcies, family court heartbreaks, bad nights out, complaining, attempts at political thought, evictions and debts remind me that my life is actually pretty good.

Facebook is a bit like an old-school freakshow or a modern day Fox reality show. If it werent for the losers, I wouldnt check it anymore.
2

Rick KisaSep. 09, 2012 - 03:14PM JST

Not all is bad... a friend of mine jokingly posted a job advert, which I jokingly applied for. I got the job and have been in it for the last 4 years! I think people should know there is a security risk in telling everybody everything about yourself. People should know that facebook is viral: something you jokingly sent to a friend about your health, may be known by 1 million more people including those not your facebook friends. It may be known by your employers and enemies alike. Careful.....
1

CarcharodonSep. 10, 2012 - 08:20PM JST

Those people get added to the ignore list, I never see their posts. It's pretty easy. I see what I want to see.