Facebook – pet peeves

The phrase pet peeve is a pet peeve, but I can’t think of an alternative. dammit!

Personal messages on people’s wall: ‘Hi mike, did you get anywhere with that insurance claim?’

What’s all that about !? if its a personal message send a text or an email, or at least a facebook message. why-oh-why would anyone ask things like this in a public way so that all of Mike’s friends can see it?

Wives, husbands, partners, boyfriends and girlfriend comment etiquette.

This is a big area, and makes me cringe more than most. Personally I think the rule should be that you don’t ‘like’ or comment on a partners comment, photo or link. oh really? you like this link or status update by your boyf, you think its funny? you think he’s brilliant and clever and you want everyone to know you do??

Then there’s the ‘reply’ to a boyf/girf/hubbby/wife comment. The worst case is when its about the kids, discussing how brilliant your little treasure is, and how cute that cute thing he said was. three or four comments back and forth in front of everyone, so all your mutual friends can see.

Don’t get me started on the ‘luv ya babes’ stuff. that’s just criminal, almost deserves defriending.

There is of course the incessant posting of proud kiddy photos.

This is one of the many annoying things that i do way too much. Also, the mobile photo upload of something ‘fun and interesting’ i’m currenting doing. guilty as charged. i can’t help it. Along with the ‘check in’ to show that i have an interesting life. again, guilty as charged. And the ‘funny’ status update. I do too much of that too… and in retrospect, most of the time, less than funny. Then again, in my defence, if no one tried to entertain through status updates it would get very boring very quickly.