Why do I care about your vacaton, facebook, youtube videos?

[slide_into_first]

I'm not on facebook- can you tag someone who is showering at 24 hour fitness?

[cardinalkarp]

I understand the vacation photos. It is bragging, but whatever.

Tagging I am not a huge fan of, but I understand why some people might like it.

Not a fan of "checking in". Just feels like dumb bragging. Also people who post a picture of just about every meal they eat. I don't care what you are eating every damn meal.

Going on vacations & posting pictures is considered bragging? I don't use Facebook but my wife does & as someone said its kind of used as an easy way to catalog pictures. I'm pretty sure she doesn't "tag" anyone unless they request it (or can't they just tag themselves or something if they view a picture & like it?). Seems silly to get pissed off about it, if you get that upset about stuff like that (which is the primary purpose of FB) why even have an account...delete that SOB, you will likely be happier w/o it.

[Secret Weapon]

Ha yeah I thought the whole purpose of Facebook was so you could easily show photos and share stuff with friends

If that annoys you, then maybe you shouldn't be on Facebook

[tlombard]

I barely skim through 99% of the updates my friends post. I'm mainly using FB for events (two of my three softball teams use FB to track game times and who will or will not be there for example)... or pictures of hot chicks in bikinis. I haven't even updated my status in a year and my profile pic is three years old. Bikini shots are the only reason anyone should ever post vacation photos by the way. Am I still FB friends with people who I haven't talked to in years? Yes. But only because they post pictures that are either embarassing or hot from time to time. Otherwise they are gone.

I can't pass on the chance that someone will do something stupid and get caught. A couple of weeks ago some girl that I met once at a bar for a friend's birthday (she found me on FB that night) just started going nuts on there. After a minute I figured out that it wasn't her. Her husband had gotten ahold of her FB account and was just going absolutely ape sh-t. He was spilling her business everywhere. He was going through her messages and spilling her friends' business. Turns out she is a horrible person and mother (three kids, only one of which is definitely her husbands). She would just take off and leave on trips without even telling him before. He would come home to a note saying when she would be back. Her middle child (which definitely isn't her husband's) was in the hospital and instead of being there she was out banging some guy named Dean. It was crazy. He noticed that she posted nothing but half naked pictures of herself or nude but strategically covered and had a lot to say about that. I just couldn't stop following it. There was so much insanity. Apparently what happened is that she took one of her trips to meet a guy she had been talking to for months on FB. She took a ton of money out of the bank account and took off to Pennslyvania to go to a Def Tones show and bang this guy from Puerto Rico all weekend who she literally met on FB and had never met in person before. I wondered how much of it was true so the next day I talked to the mutual friend and she informed me of even more that this girl has done. She has told the mutual friend of 5 long term affairs that she has had and that was a year ago the last time they hung out.

FB brings out the crazy in people sometimes and those train wrecks like that make it worth spending two minutes a day skimming over the stupid stuff.

[IMADreamer]

damn, that chick might be the worst person in the world.

[heyzeus]

Yeah, I'd want to follow and read that too. FB, finally coming through with value.

[Popeye_Card]

I understand the vacation photos. It is bragging, but whatever.

Tagging I am not a huge fan of, but I understand why some people might like it.

Not a fan of "checking in". Just feels like dumb bragging. Also people who post a picture of just about every meal they eat. I don't care what you are eating every damn meal.

Going on vacations & posting pictures is considered bragging? I don't use Facebook but my wife does & as someone said its kind of used as an easy way to catalog pictures. I'm pretty sure she doesn't "tag" anyone unless they request it (or can't they just tag themselves or something if they view a picture & like it?). Seems silly to get pissed off about it, if you get that upset about stuff like that (which is the primary purpose of FB) why even have an account...delete that SOB, you will likely be happier w/o it.

I'd consider it bragging. Not that it's bad. But isn't that really the point of putting the vacation photos on a public space? "See? Look where I/we went! Isn't this cool?"

I'm not pissed about it. I do it too.

[tlombard]

I just really wish she didn't take all of the crazy stuff down. The next morning I went back and her account wasn't there. Then she came back a day or so later but all the fun stuff was gone. I should have been taking screen shots of it the entire time so I could have shared it with those who didn't get to see it.

Oh, another piece of info that was shared by her husband that night is that apparently one of her friends likes to exchange a blow for blow in the parking lot if you know what I mean. Wish I could remember more.

[jim]

I understand the vacation photos. It is bragging, but whatever.

Tagging I am not a huge fan of, but I understand why some people might like it.

Not a fan of "checking in". Just feels like dumb bragging. Also people who post a picture of just about every meal they eat. I don't care what you are eating every damn meal.

Going on vacations & posting pictures is considered bragging? I don't use Facebook but my wife does & as someone said its kind of used as an easy way to catalog pictures. I'm pretty sure she doesn't "tag" anyone unless they request it (or can't they just tag themselves or something if they view a picture & like it?). Seems silly to get pissed off about it, if you get that upset about stuff like that (which is the primary purpose of FB) why even have an account...delete that SOB, you will likely be happier w/o it.

I agree. I got off of facebook as well, but one of the things I will miss is a vacation my sister and niece are taking soon to Paris. I'm sure I'll see the pictures eventually, but it would have been more convenient if I had a f/b account.

I really agree also with why don't you just delete your account? dreamer the very thing you are [expletive] about are exactly the things I miss about f/b. It was all of the other b/s as to why I got rid of it.

[docellis]

it is pretty easy to ignore everyone except who you care about on facebook. block feed, unsubscribe, etc.