I said a few days ago that I was going to sit down and write this week, and yesterday a friend of mine made a post on Facebook about how fake Facebook is, and it got my little head thinking about not only how fake Facebook or Instagram is, but what the most annoying things on Facebook are. So I took the liberty to make a list of ten things that annoy the crap out of me on social media. And before anyone says anything mean, I know that I am guilty of about more than half of these things, so yes in part I annoy myself.
- The friend who is always posting about cleaning their house. I get it, kids are messy people in general, they are walking domestic tornadoes. But I can almost 100% guarantee you that you are not spending 7 hours a day reorganizing the little ones toy corner, nor are you spending 2 hours on your hands and knees scrubbing and scrubbing. Let's be honest friends, you are Instagraming or Facebooking the one corner of your house that is clean, then you are back to shopping online or watching you DVR. You are kidding no one.
- The friend that is always optimistic, like this "Flood waters are spilling over from the torrential rains we have gotten recently, at least there is always sunny days after the rainy ones." Seriously? There is destruction every where, cars and houses are ruined, and the most creative thing you can come up with is look forward to the sunny day?! C'mon friend at least acknowledge that some thing disastrous has happened. I get that optimism boosts morale but some times that overly-sweet-over-the-top sentiments are annoying.
- Being random just to be random post, this one is one that bothers me to no end. It goes like this "If sunshine had a smell it would smell like bug's butts, because Internet." It's not funny when a 15 year old does these posts, and certainly isn't funny when a man or woman who is knocking on the mid-thirties door is doing it. You are not funny. You are just putting words together to try to be a hipster or something. Please Stop.
- Extremist friends. This is a touchy subject, but you can not rely on the extreme side of anything may it be left or right leaning because they will always sensationalize a situation to get a stir out of the right people. This piggy backs into people who believe in extreme conspiracy theories, people who think all Conservatives hate the LGBT community, and all Liberals who think all Conservatives are bigots. I know we are free to think and write our opinions, but you have to sit back and see that extremism in anyway isn't the best policy for a nation of people who are actually politically in the middle. Stop spewing this garbage, please.
- Selfie queens/kings. Do I really need to elaborate? Okay, here is the thing, selfies are awesome when you post them sparingly. I like seeing progress shots of my friends that are losing weight, or even the ones that have mastered a new make-up technique. And I even enjoy the selfies of friends that are out at a social event of some sort. But, I do not need to see your flared nostrils and duck faces EVERY.DAMN.DAY. You are beautiful no matter what, you do not need to keep posting yourself to get validation. You should be able to validate yourself, not 100 likes on Instagram or Facebook. This also wraps into selfies at inappropriate places. I was in New York City this past summer at The 9/11 Memorial site where the reflection pools are, and you would not believe how many people of all ages I saw taking happy selfie pictures in the footprint of where over 2,000 people were killed. That is an inappropriate selfie opportunity. So is taking selfies at funerals, and yes I have seen Instagrams of people at funerals.
- Back handedly passive aggressive towards a person statuses, like this "Everyone knows you are a dead beat mom, bitch you are crazy" WELL, you went all the way to call the person out, you may as well tag them or some thing. I get we all get frustrated over things and we feel we need to vent, but you kind of just look childish doing this. Let it roll off your back, if the person is that bad karma will be their punishment.
- People who talk about themselves in the 3rd person, I will use my name as example "New and improved Erin is up and running and there is nothing that can ruin my mood." Usually followed by annoying hash tags like #onlyonelifetolive #singlemom #truestory.
- Like and Share this meme and so and so will donate $128,025,789 to starving children in some foreign world. No they won't. Not going to happen. Please stop feeding into this bull crap. The only trend on Facebook that actually raised money was the ALS ice bucket challenge. Sharing a picture of a cornucopia is not going to end world hunger.
- The play-by-play friend. This is the person that will post about 3,4945 times a day and it will be the most redundant, mediocre things like "Woke up rolled over made breakfast" "Out the door here comes my Starbucks pumpkin spice coffee #fall" "Took the little one to the doctor he is 43.2 pounds. At least he likes my food" and so on. Being a stay at home mom or even a single mom or dad is a lonely place. Sometimes the only person you have to talk to is a 3 year old. So these friends turn to social media to give us a play-by-play of their life. I care about you and your life but I do not need to know the time and date and all the details of the things you ate for breakfast lunch and dinner, and I certainly do not need to know when you went to the bathroom. Not my business, and by doing this you are only inviting people in to keep criticizing your life, you do not need that kind of negativity.
- And last and maybe the most irritating are braggers, braggers of all sorts. I like knowing that my friends are being successful in life, but there comes a time when the bragging gets old. You know the statuses that have a certain air about them, like hahaha I did this and no one else can. Or look I made my Pinterest inspired fall decor come out perfect I bet you can't. It's like a new level of domestic bullying almost. Stop bragging you sound full of yourself and ain't nobody got time for that.
What about you? Are there other Facebook or any other form of social media behaviors that bug the crap out of you? Let me know!!
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