Facebook is not: a confessional, a shrink's office, a diary, etc.

Yeah, one of my freinds is sick and all his updates have been about it the past few days. Not anything that bad though. Just... Head hurst, not feeling well, damn cold... etc.

Here's another one from the Jesus/Porn girl:
Kitty: is finding myself lately really missing being a "girlfriend" which is funny cuz i've never *REALLY* been a girlfriend....not really, I just pretended to be one...but I never really was one. and beyond that, I miss/I want to be a "future wife" or a "current wife" really bad right now....which is REALLY odd cuz i certainly have never been one of those. and a mom too....wierd girl-ness all around lately....blah.

It must be in some language I don't speak because I don't understand a word of it.

Oh my God. I always find it weird when girls openly admit to being desperate to find a husband. I mean, if you wanna get married, that's cool, but what guy is gonna date a girl who has "Singly and desperately looking for a husband to spend the rest of my life with!" as her status?

Exactly. My guy friend was "talking" to her for a little while and I just wanted to smack him back to reality. She works in a daycare or something and talks all the time about "her kids" and how she gets baby fever a LOT. Maybe she should work on not being so desperate and Jesus obsessed all the time. I got no beef with Jesus. I do, however, have an issue with people who talk about Jesus like they're sleeping with him every night.

HAHAHAAA! I know exactly what you mean. It's so weird.

I have on friend, and I've mentioned her before, who married my first "real" boyfriend. Every single status update is "Loving life as mommy and wife!" and then she says whatever she wants to add. It's weird and Stepfordish!

This thread makes me a little sick right now. I want to refer back to the topic about having nothing left to talk about.

I hate statuses that are nothing more than cliches.

"I won't frown because I never know who's falling in love with my smile."

Then goes the horny boys:

"Girrl u got a beautiful smile.."

Hahaha!

There's this dude that I'm friends with on Facebook. Marisa is friends with him and so he's friends with me, you know how it goes.

He's engaged to be married (he only just turned 20 and she's 19 I think). So, he used to text Marisa all the time about how he was in love with her, and he'd move to Vegas if only she'd ask him to and she would just not respond cos she didn't know what to say.

The next day his status messages would always say stuff like "I'm so in love with [fiancee]. I never want anyone but her."

And then he'd text Marisa and tell her that he madeout with a girl at a party with him fiancee was out of town and whatnot. And then tell Marisa he was in love with her a week or two later, and this just continued until they kind of stopped talking altogether.

The guys and his fiance also have status arguments. Which is really great. I'm sure they'll regret it once they mentally mature past grade school.

Cognitive science shows that the brain doesn't reach full maturity until the average age of 26. Up until that point the logic centers are under developed in comparison to the emotional cortexes, limbic system, and all its implications, is still the king. Esentially, a person is going full force on emotion until the mid twenties, which can play out quite prime and amusingly this day in age via the status update.

Did anyone else get deleted by Cupcake? I can't find her on my friends list. She just... went away.

Eddy rejected my freindship. I was desvestated. Cupcake though? Don't Know.

He deleted mine, too. It's fine. He does that.

It's totally real. We aren't friends, but we went to high school together. That's the quarterback for you.

"Jess _______: Dude, Seriously? He's Being so rude! I just want to be loved.Some boyfriend..."

This girl is thirteen. She is my best friends little sister. what is happening to this world?

I was dangerously close to making an emotional status update and then I thought of this thread. Thank you.

I get that urge a lot, and I always talk myself out of it. It's so annoying when other people do it.

But lately, I feel like all I post about it school. And that's pretty lame.

Can I reply to this a month later? Why the hell not?

I took a 19th century poetry class early this year. The professor was the worst one I've had the bad luck to encounter, but it made me remember why I loved Dickinson when I was little. She's witty, off-kilter, and was fairly rebellious in her writing.

Plus, I used a dash in a poem this week. Oh, Dickinson, how you shaped the world of poetry as we know it. What would modernism be without you?

I remember when it was just college kids. I never felt like I had to censor myself. It was better times for facebook. Now I talk to my mom through fb, which is cool and all since she lives far from me. But yeah, bosses on fb, family on fb. Everyone!

You know, you don't have to friend everyone. Also, there are filters.

Just to add some perspective to the conversation:

Zuck: Yeah so if you ever need info about anyone at Harvard
Zuck: Just ask.
Zuck: I have over 4,000 emails, pictures, addresses, SNS
[Redacted Friend's Name]: What? How'd you manage that one?
Zuck: People just submitted it.
Zuck: I don't know why.
Zuck: They "trust me"
Zuck: Dumb fucks.

Source

I'm not too worried about the drama, I just don't want to join your fucking Farm or Mafia. Or whatever.

Well family and work friends I feel I ought to have on there. I'd really rather just get rid of my dad because he's annoying, but that just makes me think of Stan's dad in the South Park episode about fb.

Filters are too much trouble. If I have to filter it, I may as well not say it at all. I can tell people annoying/obsessive shit in person if they care enough to hear about it.

The Farms are racist.

Why is it always a black sheep that wondered off the farm lookin' all sad??

I recently deleted- My grandma, my grandmas cousin, my cousin, a family friend I've known my whole life, my sons friends, my friends friends who only ever post about NA their recovery and God.

I didn't think any of those people really needed such a heavy dose of my daily neurosis.

In other words, those are all the people I normally behave infront of. I can talk to them everywhere else, I shouldn't feel I must censor myself because the are on my "friends" list.

Hand over mo-fuggin' fist, mang.

I don't know why, but the black sheep are more rare and prized than white sheep in the game.

...I play lots of facebook games. It's my shameful secret that unfortunately anyone who is fb friends with me knows about. I have three fb accounts: two just for games.

I can't afford real video games anymore, and with school and two jobs, I haven't had time to play anyway. So fb games are my outlet. Plus, I play with my mom. It's funny since we have the same internet friends these days.

That is funny. People are absurd. The saddest thing about religious people like that is that they think they're helping. Bah.

I don't worry about expletives in my status updates. And one of my few pictures has a pot leaf and the word "marijuana" in the background. But I don't make it my profile picture. My facebook page also states that I'm gay. There are a lot of things that I don't worry about that other people probably do, but I don't talk about drugs or lesbians in my status updates. I guess that's where I draw the line.

I swear if I get one more damn Farmwille request im going to punch a baby in the face.

You can block Farmville and other apps.

God knows I have.

Yeesh.

Preach.

I recently posted this on my boyfriend's wall and he had to remove it because he was scared his mother would see. I thought it was hilarious...

I have occasionally said 'shit' in front of his parents and they look very uncomfortable. I don't know why, seeing as they're constantly making uncouth jokes about Pakistanis. Surely a 'shit' here and there is harmless by comparison.

My gripe is people who update their status to say how much they love their boyfriend or girlfriend:

"I cannot wait 4 sleeps till I see you! I love you so much!"

There's a time and place (their wall perhaps?)...

That is crazy. I have some preachy in-laws on my Facebook and I say things directed to them just to mess with them and they don't even get it. Its funny. The way I see it I'm not editing myself for anyone I know because they know how I am and just accepts it. Except no illegal stuff of course.

There are certain places you should edit yourself. It's just having manners. Facebook is a casual place where one interacts with friends, therefore it is not one of these places.

I hate though how companies use it to spy on potential employees.

I have everything on my facebook set to private, so only my friends can see everything. If you're added to me, then you should be prepared for the fact that I say fuck. I'm friends with my mom on FB, if I'm gonna say this shit in front of my mom, I'm not gonna NOT say it because I don't know someone very well!

Also, Harriet, that fucking video is insane. I don't know if it'd be as funny if it was American made. The accents where you are make everything fun/funny. "I love shit. I'm a pig"

"Four sleeps"? Oh-fucking-brother.

I keep reading that in a Tonto voice: "We make four sleeps until full moon come! Heap big party then, Kemo Sabe!"

The only person I ever met who used "sleeps" as a measurement of time was five years old.

So, this chick just posted a picture of her positive pregnancy test...

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew...it's all peed on and stuff.

WITH PREGNANT PEE!!

Yeah, and there we go. My problem isn't with the people themselves. It's with that fact that they breed.

I like you.

Oh Z, you're such a power flirt.

What can I say! A vomiting emoticon brings out the flirt in me.

Hell thats nothing. I have a friend who kept updating her Live Journal every few minutes while giving birth. Updates where like... I want my damn epidural.. and whew epidural is in now, but its not helping much. I'm starting to crown.... they can see the head...eek. Then finally.... ahh I just gave birth, say hello to blah blah blah...

Zach, I might have thrown up a little.

Zach, your friend needs to get a life.

by the way, is your full name Zachariah?