Facebook asks millions of people every day “What’s on your mind?” And millions of people answer. Sometimes I really didn’t want to know, but somehow the people still share.
Currently I don’t have any status updates from friends that are over sharing – partially because I started hiding the updates from the worst offenders.(thanks FB for this fancy feature)
The biggest update issues I have are the related to too much information. But there are two kinds of information I don’t care to hear about on Facebook. The first kind of TMI – I don’t care what you are doing every second of every day no matter what. I don’t care you just finished flossing last night’s popcorn out of your tooth. I really don’t care that you added peanut butter to your grocery list. And I really really really don’t care that you changed the channel on the TV.
The second kind of TMI you get on Facebook is the personal information. I don’t want to know about your bladder infection. I am glad you and your partner are happy, but I don’t want to know the details of last night’s adventures. And for the sake of my sanity, please keep all information about what came out of your body to yourself.
What I really like is the people who come up with a clever status for all to share. These are few, but they are gems. Recently I discovered a blog that talks about the gems, and I love them!
Have you seen a status that made you want to steal it and claim it as your own?
Kira said:
http://www.lamebook.com is also pretty good.
I can’t stand vague status updates. Especially when people put something up, specifically so someone will ask them what’s up. Why not just put the answer up in the first place so no one has to ask?
I am also not a fan of “deep thoughts” people or people that do nothing but complain.
Ha.
sixofclubs said:
I forgot about lamebook – it is pretty good. I always have to laugh at the people who don’t really get what the status update is and they will start conversations with people via their update. (i.e. Hi Mom – are you coming to dinner?)
Lydia said:
I know I’ve read some I thought were really clever but not clever enough for me to remember, apparently. Overall, I don’t care what people put there. Like you, if they get excessively annoying, I can just hide the person’s updates on my feed. There are about 6 I’ve done that with.
My one guilt is Farmville. Yes, I play it. There’s so little I do that’s mindless “fun” that I allowed myself to get sucked in. Until the past few weeks, I never allowed it to be posted on my page but now I let a few things go through. I don’t want my friends who aren’t familiar with hide to get bombed.