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September 2012 Moms
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Emilia Antoinette
10.03.12 at 41w5d
FB Pet Peeves
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I'm going to biitchslap the next girl I see who still has her wedding picture as her profile picture, even though her wedding was over a year ago.
I get changing your profile pic to your wedding pic on or around your anniversary, but seriously people. Get over yourself and post a more recent and realistic picture.
/rant
*Deep breath*
Anyone else have a pet peeve they'd like to share?
Emilia Antoinette
10.03.12 at 41w5d
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Re: FB Pet Peeves
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When people you know are miserable and heinous in real life, but act so happy and enthusiastic in their Facebook statuses I want to stab them.
*looks at Avatar and siggy and hides behind mands*
My FB profile pic is from my 20 week update. Probably should put a more recent pic, but I loves it.
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I have a pet peeve that turned awesome.
This chic from high school hates Obama. Whatever, lots of people do, but she posts Obama hater posts all the effing time that are like three paragraphs long.
Last week she posted that Obama is now taking over Facebook posts because one of her typical rants about his administration was deleted so omgthegovernmentcontrolsourFB!!!!!11!!!!! Multiple people commented that posts will get deleted when they are flagged by your friends. She was floored.
I'm glad that I'm not her only "friend" who thinks her updates are BSC.
Or, on the flip side, people who only post vague, pity-me statuses about how crappy their life is and how everything they encounter is so unfair and/or hard. [Insert emo song lyrics here.] Gag.
There are a lot of photographers around here and they ALL seem to think it's a great idea to hold contests for free photo shoots... like "post a photo of your cute kid and the person with the most likes on their photo gets a free photo shoot!"
So I'm constantly bombarded with messages and wall posts - "Please vote for my baby!!" I totally roll my eyes and delete it. No, I won't vote for your kid, you're just annoying me.
Also, really unspecific status updates like: "I don't know if I can handle this anymore!!" Everyone comments with things like "Oh no! What's wrong!"
Oh please, either spill the beans or keep your drama off FB.
Any pictures of pregnancy tests = barf.
I could go on and on. I'm ultra bitchy today.
This expressed my issue much more clearly.
Mel - you can't tell your pic is from your wedding day. And it's funny, The end.
Mands and other person I can't remember. I said FB, not TB. No hiding needed.
One of my 'friends' changes her profile pic and cover photo once a week to a different wedding pic and she got married over a year ago. RAWR.
Emilia Antoinette
10.03.12 at 41w5d
I have a co-worker that has been doing this all week. I have no clue what is going on but she is really pisssed at someone. I find it all pointless.
People who post their kids as their pictures all the time. I get the whole proud parent bit, I have 3 soon to be 4 of my own, but I have a face too, and about 20 albums for the kids.
People who CONSTANTLY send game aps. I have clearly NEVER played a game on FB, have no time for that garb and it ranks number one on my irritating FB peeves. I will delete you and consider you hijacked if you irritate me with that mess. And NO, I dont feel like blocking each and every lame app you send me...Its easier to just delete YOU.
Also, the lame pictures of things like a chick in a bacon bra, or 50 bottles of whiskey, or stupid sayings. If its funny, by all means. If it is lame, check yourself and stop reposting dumb stuff you see on everyone else's page.
I'm judgy today...eew. I think I need to grab myself a little pick me up starbucks or something because this could turn bad.
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THIS 100%
I think we should all unite today and reply to these people with "Sorry your life sucks. Better luck next time."
Emilia Antoinette
10.03.12 at 41w5d
The requests to add my birthday to some calendar app. Doesn't FB make this easy enough? I don't want another stupid app.
Ditto everyone else on the vaguebooking.
The public FB breakups -- I'm talking like getting into fights on a FB status. Especially if there's a kid involved. This happens rarely, but the last one was like an freaking soap opera drawn out on my FB newsfeed.
"Vaguebooking" is now in my vocabulary, thanks! This is one of my worst.
Also, if your profile pic is only your pet or your child[ren] and not you, it's annoying.
I feel like I develop a new FB pet peeve every day...I think I have some pregnancy rage.
1.) Uninformed political rants. Some of the things people come up with are so outrageous.
2.) Self portraits in the bathroom mirror (bump photos excluded). I don't need to know you're putting on makeup, while drinking a Bud Light, 2 feet from your toilet.
3.) People who have 3429302 self portraits taken with their camera phone. 99.9% of them are horrible.
4.) Also, the other day, a former close-friend, also pregnant, posted about being 2 cm dilated at 35 weeks. First off, most of the FB world doesn't care about your vag. Second, I hope your braggy 'Doctor says baby is going to come early' post means you'll walk around 4 cm dilated until 41 weeks.
Phew, that felt good.
So that being said, who wants to be Facebook friends?
My biggest pet peeve is FB Mom's that only post about their kids. We get it. Your kid is great. But when your status updates for the whole week revolve around "Taylor made a dookie as soon as we got in the car today, LOL" followed 2 hours later by "Napping with Taylor" and then later still "Had a great day with little miss Taylor!" It's overkill. These are status updates taken from an acquaintence's page yesterday. I have her hidden so I don't have to read her stupidity everytime I log in.
And when new Mom's update their employment to "Mommy--2012 to present." Really? You had to update your work experience to reflect that you're a Mom now?
FYI, my SIL keeps posting vague updates and no one responds to them. I find it totally hilarious.
Nancy James 9.1.12
Calvin Donald 8.27.14
This, 100x over.
Also, people who post major political rants when they aren't actually informed and are just repeating the rhetoric from the very far right or left.
And, finally, people who thread-jack. I have an acquaintance who pregnant-jacks random threads all the time.
Example: Status- "I just discovered cherry limeade Crystal Light and it is fantastic!" Reply- "Oh, now you're making me thirsty. And that's SOOOO unfair because I'm pregnant and I'm trying not to drink too much so I don't have to pee so often."
My biggest ones are the people who constantly update their status, overuse exclamation points and share waaay to much information. I went to college with a girl that basically provided a play-by-play of her L&D, which combined all 3 pet peeves into a series of ridiculous posts.
"Going to the hospital!!!!!!"
"Officially in active labor!!!!!'
"Cervix is not dilating enough so it's time for pitocin!!!!!!!!"
~The Bumpie formerly known as SpartyMom2B~
I don't normally have wedding pictures up as my profile picture because I have more recent ones of myself, but it is currently a photo from my wedding because it's the last one I have of me and my dad before he died a couple weeks ago. I don't have a better one to change it to at the moment. I probably get side-eyed from my friends, but that's because almost none of them know he died.
A pet peeve I have is of anyone posing and taking a picture of themselves in the mirror.
I also hate posed photos where it's a line of girls and the ones on the end have their hands on their hip. It screams "sorostitute" or self-conscious-about-my-body's-curves-but-too-vain-not-to-take-a-photo-to-document-I-was-here.
My FB profile picture is of my son - just my son. I'm always BEHIND the camera these days...I don't know if I have any recent pictures of myself! haha.
I hate political posts on FB, I find them as useful as bumper stickers. Your post that you found bashing the candidate you don't like isn't changing my mind. I have done my own research and weighed my own morals based on who I am voting for. Please stop filling my news feed with pointless forwards.
I had a FB "friend"- we worked together about 10 years ago- message EVERYONE on her facebook account a detailed explanation of the birth of her daughter last year. Not just messaging a few select people, she sent it to everyone with the disclaimer that everyone is asking about it and doesn't want to send it out 10 different times. So instead she sends it to all 100 people. I don't care how you weren't dilating and what not. I was not impressed.
Never mind that this was before we were TTC, but I can only imagine what it would feel like for someone who had had a m/c, or were having trouble TTC.
I deleted her last week after her 10 different blog entries in one day about their recent family road trip. No thanks, not interested!
My profile picture is a shot from July '11 when I did my trash the dress pictures. (I got married in April '10.) Whoops. I love that picture, though, 'cause I look *in Kelly Kapoor voice* A-MAY-ZING, but I didn't want to AW all over FB with bump pictures and I don't have any recent shots until our maternity photos are done on Friday.
My biggest FB pet peeve is people who upload blurry cell phone pictures of their babies/kids all day long. I know you're a SAHM and you love your child, and yes, he's cute, but there's no reason why anyone needs to see 8 photos of him in a day doing normal stuff - sleeping in his crib, eating breakfast, falling asleep in front of the TV, riding in the car seat, playing with his toys, snacking, and so forth.
And they're all BLURRY. Please, for the love of your child, learn how to hold your cell phone still or invest in a point and shoot.
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A friend who has fertility issues (trying unsuccessfully to get PG for maybe 4 years), posted her BFP announcement on FB. One of the comments was "Yay, so glad it finally worked!"
This really irked me, but I don't know if I was being overly sensitive about it. Nobody said anything (including me) but it rubbed me the wrong way. I think maybe its because the girl has never been open on FB with her fertility struggle. I also know the commenter IRL & she's kind of a jealous biitch. The kicker is she has her own fertility issues, so that's why I'm not sure what direction she was going with the comment. Maybe I was the only one who thinks it was rude & tactless; a simple congrats would've sufficed.
I hate when people post there workout at the gym everyday and pictures of the healthy food they eat. I'm glad you are healthy and all but I don't need to know what your eating for each meal and what workout you are doing daily.
I also hate when all people post about is what they are selling such as arbonne, Mary Kay ect. If I want to freaking buy something I will contact you and bragging about your amazing life and your white Mercedes you won isn't going to get me to join the arbonne team if I haven't already so shut up!
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I have a cousin who posts stuff about being an athiest 12-15 times a day. Dude. Your .gifs are not going to change my opinion on my faith. I made a comment a few months back about it and she deleted me. Her newest friend request is still sitting unanswered on my account. I get posting something once in awhile, but literally 12 times a day? I just think you're an idiot at that point.
Nancy James 9.1.12
Calvin Donald 8.27.14
When people post things like this:
Enough said.
Also, I have a friend on facebook who, EVERY SINGLE NIGHT, posts an instagram of his 3 kids sleeping. I know some people consider their kids' leg hanging off the bed freakin' adorable but seriously, no one else cares.
I agree with all the posters who cannot stand the poor me comments.
I also hate when people update their status one day to complain how horrible their life is and then the next day all they can say is how great their life is, are you the same person or did you remember your medication today?
I have blocked numerous people for the political postings. I don't mind that you have an opinion (even if I disagree) but if you fill my entire newsfeed you are getting blocked.
And finally, I cannot stand the people who tell everyone how great they are and how everyone should be just like them. Ex. Girl posts how she doesn't need lousy ex because she is taking care of everything herself and she supports herself and her 5 kids and doesn't need his drama or to be supporting his laziness. 1. You are on welfare, 2. You just got evicted, 3. The bills you do pay are paid for by your mother and 4. You don't work but since you now go to school (we are paying for that by the way) you feel as though you should be critical of how everyone is running their life..... Please remind me again how you are supporting yourself and your 5 children. And FTR I am glad you got rid of the loser but you should have done it a long time ago. I mean his FB profile picture was a staged picture of a child passed out on a bed with an empty whiskey bottle and an empty pack of cigarettes on the table in front of the bed- and you just now figured out he is a loser.
Well I feel better now
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BFP #4 Miscarriage 6 wks
BFP #5 Due August 10, 2015
FB is boring for me now because apparently I've blocked updates from the majority of my 500+ friends.
1. My aunt gets upset with my mom, and deletes us all from her friends list. Then a week later, she friend requests us back. Um, no. Then she tells everyone we won't accept her request without admitting she deleted us as part of her tantrum. I hope I'm that cool when I'm 65.
2. Not a pet peeve, but what actually bugs me the most is that I can't be funny anymore. Too many farking relatives.
I get so annoyed when people post the same status like every day. One guy I know works out at 6am then heads to work for 8am. It says this EVERY day followed by "Have a great day everyone!" UGH! I blocked his status updates.
Another is when people bring their drama on FB as their status and update it several times. Your 28 years old, time to grow up and move on!
1) The constant status updates. I don't care about what's on your mind or what's going on in your life every waking moment of the day. And some people just have no filter whatsoever. There was a girl who once posted about being upset that her period had started and she was really looking forward to having sex that weekend. Uh, WTF? Did I really need to know that?
2) When my little cousins post 'ignant' shiit like this:
'Fck dese games u stay tryna play...rns? Im done takn da shiit u stay tryna hand me..' or 'Im fna make it inda world'....Are you sure? Do you even know proper English?
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I despise political ranting, regardless of if it's from a conservative or liberal angle. It's ALL annoying to me.
I'm also incredibly sick of people selling 31 purses, Scentsy crap, Mary Kay, etc. I had to hide my SIL's mom because she sells this "Juice Plus+" pill and everything she ever posts is about nutrition and how great Juice Plus+ is, and how it's basically a cure-all for anything that ails you, INCLUDING INFERTILITY. I kid you not...one of my friends and I were discussing IF on my wall once, and in pops SIL's mom saying that a lot of women are infertile simply because their nutrition is bad, and if they'd take JP+, it'd turn things around so fast, and she personally knows at least two women who had IF for a couple years and got pregnant within a couple months of starting JP+. The friend who I had been talking to actually does have IF issues (PCOS) and was so incredibly offended. I had to message SIL's mom and tell her I didn't think that was appropriate. Pretty sure it fell on deaf ears, though...when we were at the hospital for MIL's mastectomy, she came and sat talking to this other family who were waiting on their own mom's double mastectomy and was telling them all about Juice Plus+ and how much it'd benefit their mom for her to get her nutrition in check. I was mortified.
I get annoyed at this 1 friend that puts what she is doing everyday in her FB status then puts I love you Dh's Name(tagged of course) and her DD's name.
OK we know who you are married too and we know what your daughters name is. This is also the same girl who counted down everyday during her pg and til the time her DH got out of jail.
Then she gets mad when I did not invite her to our wedding ( it was basically family) and then asked about a Baby shower for me, I told her we weren't having 1...she's BSC. She thinks we are still tight like we were in college, and truthfully I have not seen her since 2007 and have no desire to see her.
The recent religious posts. Jesus died on the cross for you so if you truly love him and appreciate his sacrifice, like this picture. Aside from the fact that not everyone is Christian or even religious for that matter, I seriously doubt that Jesus is testing your loyalty through Facebook.
I have one friend, who now is actually more of an acquaintance, who posts all.the.freaking.time about her personal issues. And her posts are not subtle. She goes into a lot of detail about serious drama. One day she posts something that I probably would have died before ever airing out publicly, and someone called her out on it, asking her if it was really necessary to post something so personal on Facebook... She deleted the person from the post and her profile.
The constant game requests. I just don't care.