I’m sure by now 80% of people on the internet have facebook pages. I’m also quite positive you are familiar with “twitter”, which in facebook land is your status update. I have an issue with the madness of these facebook updates. There are three clear issues with this newfound sensation. They are frequency, content, and grammar.
Frequency. I know times are tough out there. Unemployment is a big issue and companies across our ailing country are tightening the old belt quite a bit. Most staffs or divisions of workers are stretched pretty thin these days leaving us all to do the work of multiple people. Somehow despite that, I see people putting 5-10 updates per day. Where does one find the time to update the rest of the facebook world as to what they are doing all day long?? Better yet, why would someone want the world to know what they are up to at all times in the day? I am baffled by this! I kind of enjoy my privacy. I know what you are going to say… Jeff you have a freakin’ blog, privacy what? My response is that is quite different than alerting the entire world as to my whereabouts or thoughts all day long. It’s pretty simple to see. I even think a complete idiot like Britney Spears (lights are on, but no one is home) could see my point here. Are they looking for attention? Maybe they weren’t hugged enough as a child and this is their way of feeling loved? Are they fishing for a response… possibly compliments? I don’t get it. Alerting the world you are going out for the night and you’re not coming back until the morning sounds to me a lot like, “Hey, come rob my place. No chance of anyone being there to catch you”! Good thing George W Bush didn’t use twitter or we would have seen updates like, “George is giving the ok to bomb cave xyz at 1800 hours”. The troops on the ground would have gone to the bombed caves and found nothing but a note reading, “George W…LOL”.
Content. I see updates that I can’t fathom wanting to share with people. I mean if you feel the need to share with us, I would encourage you to think about what you are posting before you hit update. Some things should be personal…I have seen facebook updates like “Tom is going to bed” or even “Grace is reading a book.”. What’s next?? Am I going to start seeing crap like “Justin is in the bathroom sitting on the toilet”?? I guess that’s better than the other extreme. I’ve seen this update, “XYZ loves to date losers… he is cheating on me, again!” and I’ve even seen one that said, “XYZ is having bad day… just got back from the hospital. Mike is ok, the stab wounds didn’t cause any serious damage.” Really? You thought that was something that should be posted for everyone to see? Where is the line people? At this point there is no line! That is so far past the line that when you look back, the line is now a dot : )
Grammar. I have a request for all the facebook update people. If you are going to let me know what you are doing all day long, and sometimes with way too much detail… could you at least use good grammar. Why did I see an update that read, “Jess is dinner with the girls”? Or maybe you’d prefer “Colleen is 2 bottles of wine”?? How hard would it be to put “Jess is out for dinner with the girls”? Unless of course Jess has some weird friends I don’t know about that are straight out of Silence of the Lambs… and Jess really is dinner, lol. If that’s the case I stand corrected and I appreciate the update because I’m certainly never going to dinner with your friends moving forward!! Maybe I was wrong and these updates are useful??
Frequency. I know times are tough out there. Unemployment is a big issue and companies across our ailing country are tightening the old belt quite a bit. Most staffs or divisions of workers are stretched pretty thin these days leaving us all to do the work of multiple people. Somehow despite that, I see people putting 5-10 updates per day. Where does one find the time to update the rest of the facebook world as to what they are doing all day long?? Better yet, why would someone want the world to know what they are up to at all times in the day? I am baffled by this! I kind of enjoy my privacy. I know what you are going to say… Jeff you have a freakin’ blog, privacy what? My response is that is quite different than alerting the entire world as to my whereabouts or thoughts all day long. It’s pretty simple to see. I even think a complete idiot like Britney Spears (lights are on, but no one is home) could see my point here. Are they looking for attention? Maybe they weren’t hugged enough as a child and this is their way of feeling loved? Are they fishing for a response… possibly compliments? I don’t get it. Alerting the world you are going out for the night and you’re not coming back until the morning sounds to me a lot like, “Hey, come rob my place. No chance of anyone being there to catch you”! Good thing George W Bush didn’t use twitter or we would have seen updates like, “George is giving the ok to bomb cave xyz at 1800 hours”. The troops on the ground would have gone to the bombed caves and found nothing but a note reading, “George W…LOL”.
Content. I see updates that I can’t fathom wanting to share with people. I mean if you feel the need to share with us, I would encourage you to think about what you are posting before you hit update. Some things should be personal…I have seen facebook updates like “Tom is going to bed” or even “Grace is reading a book.”. What’s next?? Am I going to start seeing crap like “Justin is in the bathroom sitting on the toilet”?? I guess that’s better than the other extreme. I’ve seen this update, “XYZ loves to date losers… he is cheating on me, again!” and I’ve even seen one that said, “XYZ is having bad day… just got back from the hospital. Mike is ok, the stab wounds didn’t cause any serious damage.” Really? You thought that was something that should be posted for everyone to see? Where is the line people? At this point there is no line! That is so far past the line that when you look back, the line is now a dot : )
Grammar. I have a request for all the facebook update people. If you are going to let me know what you are doing all day long, and sometimes with way too much detail… could you at least use good grammar. Why did I see an update that read, “Jess is dinner with the girls”? Or maybe you’d prefer “Colleen is 2 bottles of wine”?? How hard would it be to put “Jess is out for dinner with the girls”? Unless of course Jess has some weird friends I don’t know about that are straight out of Silence of the Lambs… and Jess really is dinner, lol. If that’s the case I stand corrected and I appreciate the update because I’m certainly never going to dinner with your friends moving forward!! Maybe I was wrong and these updates are useful??
I don't think I ever wrote that I was "reading a book," Jeff... usually I try to keep my updates somewhat interesting ;-)
ReplyDeleteBTW Twitter is separate from Facebook, they are two different things!
Grace I said Facebook update was the Facebook version of Twitter.
ReplyDeleteAnd I wasn't singling you out. I just used random names... Grace happened to pop in my head. You should be honored : )
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