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I was reading a post earlier about facebook and how its not the place for some things...AND i totally agree!!!
Don't get me wrong...I love facebook and since I live overseas it is the perfect way to keep up with people!!
But why do people think it is ok to update their status during labor and let everyone know how dilated they are? or how the baby dances on their bladder in the middle of the night and they hope they don't have to pee more than twice tonight? or anything else you would probably never tell a stranger passing on the street!!!!
Has anyone else seen TMI status updates?!?
Haven't seen much TMI in person but have you seen Lamebook? There are some real doozies on there. www.lamebook.com --hilarious!
I agree, I wouldn't say any of your examples to a stranger, much less post it on Facebook!
Oh man, I couldn't agree more. It also really freaked me out when my ex's statuses (statii?) used to come up in my newsfeed talking about how horny he was. God bless the filtering settings; now I never have to see his weird updates again!
I completely agree! I had a friend update us on her nipple discharge! That's so disgusting! I wish there was a nice way of saying "Nobody cares, or wants to know about it."
For the dilating labor stories, I love to know because my entire family is 5 hours away so it's awesome to know what's going on with the baby instead of calling every five minutes. Everything else, they can keep it! I usually update on what I'm cooking for dinner lmao!! And that's really it. M uses it as promotions for his club and only updates when he's there! I guess we're lame!
The updates that drive me INSANE are the pathetic-pity-seeking ones. I hate it when people fish for pity on any forum, but for some reason facebook just makes it worse to me. Examples of things I've seen (and I have actually de-friended some ppl for being debbie or donald downers):
X hates life today.
X doesn't understand why people enjoy hurting him.
X : Is there ever an end to the depression?
X wants to go back to two months ago when he was happy. Depression sucks.
X is done with everything
etc. blech. Get a shrink and a life, and stop being so freakin whiny!
Lol, since I wrote that original post, I have to agree!!!
I also second lamebook - I spend hours on there, cracking up. People put up pics of their kids first poo in the potty! Come ON!!
I live hours from where I grew up, so I like FB for the "catching up" aspect, plus I hate to talk on the phone - but I really am over all of the TMI.
@Corgi - TOTAL Debbie Downers... ugh!
I totally agree, sometimes people do post TMI on there.
CorgiTales - Haha I have this same problem. I get so annoyed when I see people post about how their life sucks, and that they are done with everything. I'm like "Is posting this on facebook, really helping you. Go see a shrink or something." and you see like all these comments from people below "Awe, I'm sorry. I hope you start feeling better. Cheer up." I'm like "If they are really deppressed, you telling them to cheer up is not going to work, and if they aren't really depressed, then why did they write this on here in the first place. To get pity that's why." I mean seeing it once in a great while is one thing, but I mean I see one like everyday.
Sometimes I get mad at my college friends too, because they will be like posting about how they are so heartbroken over a guy they only dated for like 3 days, and no I'm being serious, only 3 days. I guess that's possible, but I mean like a lot of my college friends do this, and then you know the next week after that they are over it, and have moved on to the next guy, and it starts all over again.
omg...thank you, thank you, thank you for sharing lamebook.com!!! i have seriously spent the last 30 min looking at it!
i think the lady sharing pics from her 'waterbirth' in a blow-up kiddie pool (while her poor daughter has to watch) beats anything that anyone i am friends with on facebook could ever come up with!
and totally agree with the downers. most of the time people that are like that in real life bother me...and now facebook has made it worse and in-escapable (if thats a word)!!
I second the debbie downers comment, ejs!
Someone at work here posted something similar to, "I put my pencil in my ear because it was itchy and it made me laugh"... me and my other co-workers were like WTF?!
Ugh, I was JUST talking to FI about this. I'm "friends" with a couple of people who find it necessary to update me/FB several times a day on their childrens' potty training progress. I DO NOT CARE how many pairs of underwear your child soiled today or if they went "pee pee on the potty." Arghhhh
Haha, I regularly read STFUMarrieds and STFUParents, where people post Facebook overshares. It's how I get my kicks during the day!
I had been annoyed by all the prayer requests people had been posting because my grandma was really sick and I could have been posting about that but didn't want to bring people down. I didn't post about her at all until she passed away and it felt weird when I finally did, but I realized that people wanted to say something to me and facebook was the only place they could and they wouldn't do it unless I posted first. I'm glad I did.
Agreed. I've hidden a lot of people who update their status every 10 seconds (I'm pretty sure that's what Twitter's for) or my favorite - a guy from high school is always "making dinner", "going to class", "cleaning out the brita filter" - really guy? Wow, what a gripping life you do lead. I think some people get too political on FB too - it's a facebook status, not the comment board on Huffington Post.
I'm also not a fan of e-rings (that's what you wonderful ladies are for) or sonograms on FB.
The ones that irritate me the most are the whines. Like 'too bad people don't like to return phone calls'. 'I really though there were some people you could trust....guess not'.
Ugh....I don't want to know that you're in a random fight with some random person, is facebook really the place to broadcast a fight?
OMG someone really updated about labor?! Was this actually during? Soooo much wrong with that. Def TMI
I haven't had too much experience with TMI on FB. I agree about the Debbie Downers. I'm thinking, 'so why not get off your a$$ and do something about it!" I also am connected to a former co-worker who is constantly patting himself on the back in his status updates. He says "has 500 friends now" or "feels good about turning down $$ becuase he doesn't work with people with no integrity". ??? What's really ticking me off lately is all the @*&&%@(! FIsh Aquarium, Farmville, Mafia Wars, Who Gives a Crap requests people send. Yes, thank you for the filtering!
Okay, I'm done with my FB vent. Carry on! 
It is interesting how personal people get on FB, I usually only update my status once or twice a week, if that. My husband refuses to update his status b/c he thinks its stupid :)
I'm not so much annoyed by the "debbie downers" as worried about them. I'll cop to being someone who regularly posts a "sorry you feel badly" or "hug" in response.
Passive-aggressive posts, like the "Too bad you can't trust anyone," do annoy the bejesus out of me, though. If it's too personal to give eveyone all the gory details it's too personal to talk about on the interwebs. Enough with the manufactured drama!
Thanks for getting me hooked on lamebook people lol! I can't believe people have conversations like that where everyone can see.
Yes, I agree, and lamebook is awesome! I also think FB status updates should have a character limit like Twitter!
@ arizonabride - I feel you on the stupid FB apps crap. I have people who are always inviting me to do stuff with those apps, the same people, over and over and over again. Helloooo, I didn't respond/ignored you the first 645,943,237 times you asked what makes you think I will respond this time?
@ MissAsB - I got hooked on lamebook too! Lol. I didn't even know it existed before this post!
I can't believe I've never heard of Lamebook until today... I have just spent the last hour looking at it. Super funny stuff - people are so outrageous!!!
Oh Thank You for posting the link to Lamebook! I need a good laugh today! Although, I'm quite disturbed by Gayle's Family Fun photos with the Dads and two kids making beer can stacks. ??? Let's hope they just pulled those cans out of the recycle bin!
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Thank you, thank you, thank you for lamebook! haha
I don't use FB anymore... it creates a false sense of friendship & people get pyscho over it. Like "Why did you delete me" blah blah drama.
I'm totally with you on the:
"Suzie had a horrible day today"
And she is then expecting 800 of her closest friends to be like "Aww why hun?" Seriously... enough of that.
OMG. Trying not to laugh out loud at work is hard work! Lamebook is too hilarious!
Totally just peed a little... (haha is that tmi!)
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Yes, I agree, some people just don't know when to stop sharing! I think my updates like "Bella loves rainy days" and "Bella thinks today is a baking day" aren't looking so TMI now.... :)
Bella
Ughh, YES – I agree with people annoyed by the TMI and pity-party posters on FaceBook. I have one “friend” who I went to high school with who is a repeat offender for both types of posts. 90% of her status updates for the past year have been passive-aggressive message to/about her husband (“xx wonders if she is the only adult in this relationship!”) or WAY TMI about her recent birth. The doozy update (that did make me literally want to barf a bit was)
“xx hopes she goes into labor soon, or they will have to BREAK MY WATER for me!!!”
1. That just sounds gross and wrong, no one is going to “break your water” for you. I’m sure it has a medical name, whatever exactly they would be doing; and
2. TMI (ugh, barf)
I feel like the ones where people say they are sad are cries for help.
The ones I really don't care for are the, "I'm headed for Starbucks" (again) or "I'm up with insomnia" posts. Seems like it is always the same couple of people and the same post that add nothing new to the conversation.
I won't do status updates anymore unless it's something exceptional for this very reason!
BUT, does anyone have that one Facebook friend who always makes pithy, funny, insightful status updates? I have a friend like that, and I always love it when she updates her status because I always laugh. She was made for Facebook!
Edited to add: I checked Facebook out of curiosity after I posted this, and what do you know, Miss Starbucks has a post about going to Starbucks and Miss Insomniac had a post about not being able to sleep last night! Funny!
I agree with this 100%. I have had friends post the same thing, about being dilated and waaay TMI about giving birth.
Just awful.
Then they post way TMI about their friggin kids. "Johnny pooped in the bathtub! Cindy spit on me!"
No, seriously, I DO NOT CARE. I long on once a week, if that, as a result.
@gabrielle- I have seen those passive-agressive wives, too! One time, a co-worker was out late on business and his wife posted "wondering where my husband is!" and a bunch of the people who were out with him immediatley got the status update because they were connected to her, too.I have another friend who is famous for crap like that.
@Mrs. DG- I have several friends who always have awesome status updates. I think that's what keeps me on FB.
I appreciate the pregnancy updates b/c it's nice to see how things are going when you have friends and family scattered around the globe. I guess some details are TMI but I don't mind the gory details.
I like to make my status updates (for facebook and gmail) quotes from recent TV shows that I know a lot of my friends like. Most of our friends watch True Blood and there are always 2-3 really funny/well written lines per episode. I would put them as my gmail "away message" for the week. I missed an episode one week and got a bunch of messages asking for the "quote of the week".
Some of my fav quotes from the past season: "If a tree falls in the woods, it's still a tree aint it?" and "They're like teacup humans"
too good to pass up...
(in going with the tmi during labor, birth ect...)
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