I agree that everyone above this post was being completely ignorant about civilization and society and stuff, but from this post on everyone is completely brilliant and amazing.
Just because the US is a very religious country and their people speak much of what they beleive in no way makes them un-civilized. I have very few friends from the states and rarely see these posts but I always shake my head at any religious or political status updates and find it hard to resist to commenting my mind.
Yeah, had to block a family member because of that. I got sick of being the only one trying to present the opposing opinion and/or he and his friends having an ideological circle****, every 5 minutes when he posted something.
Are you saying that no one outside of the US blocks people in their news feed because they get sick of preachy posts? Wow, I’m not sure if that’s implying advanced civilization or not. I do it all the time, but I’m from the US, although I don’t see any of my friends from outside of the US finding it any more appealing to be barraged with that on a daily basis. In addition it’s always from someone that I have to resist the urge to troll based on their non-facebook posted behavior.
Hiding the “games” portion of FB should be sufficient to deal with that, unless you have any friends who consistently ask for help in their status updates… I’m fortunate enough not to.
And endless updates about work: going to work, being at work, coming home from work, being on-call from work and wondering what to do with days off from work.
I have a friend on facebook who literally updates her status every ten minutes… it’s like facebook is her diary, everytime i open it up on my phone the newsfeed is full of her spam it’s awful T_T
Hide her in your newsfeed, then visit her page if you want to know what’s going on. I am fortunate enough to only have one friend who does that crap all the time. And because of her retarded relationship habits, it’s just…..sigh. I also do this to people who frequently use “Ugh” as a way to begin/end a sentence. Because it never applies. WHY?! WHY!? “Ugh, I want those shoes ;D” Makes NO SENSE. Please, my beloved friend, go die in a fire now.
na i dont have those people on my facebook anymore! blocked!!! no wait… not blocked just hiden so i can still go and perv at there page if i wanna but dont have to put up with the mind numbing rubbishness that is there lifes!! SORTED!!
I tried hiding a friend`s page, because I couldn`t stand the politcal/religious BS anymore… I couldn`t refrain from perving on their page and writing REALLY sarcastic comments, so in the end I had to just block them. I have no self control
I just assume they know how I am, and let it roll. I’m sure I’m blocked from many a newsfeed for this. And it kind of makes me laugh/cry on the inside.
It’s not about saying what you think. I, for one, am fine with hearing peoples’ well-considered opinions, especially if the person is open to honest, friendly, constructive discussion. What I find annoying is when people use their Facebook status for copy-n-paste activism, faux-inspirational stories, urban legend health scares, or to jump aboard the latest moral outrage. Then, of course, there are the people who suddenly become a lot braver and more opinionated when they sit behind a keyboard.
There’s a difference between saying it and spamming it, though. Talking about a particular “srs” topic once or twice is fine, but when the person keeps going on about it, likely frequently, it gets annoying, even when the reader agrees.
All my friends on FB post religious and political stuff all the time. Mind you, we are all over 50. The once person I blocked is an arrogant bastard who just has to post something (he thinks) amusing on EVERY post by his friends. No need to block the friends with the games – just block the games.
I dunno… sometimes blocking/hiding people due to games is necessary. One of my fb friends is on the verge of this because she has been on a two-week long crusade against people who cheat on FarmVille. She warns all her friends every.single.day. that if she finds any of them on a list of cheaters she will remove them, and as much as I don’t want to fire you guys I want to leave items for my REAL friends, and sorry, that’s just the way I play the game… *headdesk*
Sometimes she mixes it up with the rant about how polite farmers click “like” when accepting news feed bonuses.
LOL! When I was playing games my friends were all very aware that I had a couple of sockpuppets to help me. I HATED the fact that they required friends in order to play them. I don’t like asking people for stuff in real life, let alone for a stupid game that I’m just playing to pass the time.
The only thing I hate more than politics is people discussing politics. I would be friends with more people if they would just stop talking about these 2 things.
Politics matter. Your Farmville does not. I’d rather see people engaged in religious or political debate than that video of the monkey peeing in his own mouth again.
I think most people are pretty much done with Twilight anyway. They’ve all moved on to insulting thirteen year old girls who can’t sing. Then again, I just insulted her…
Of course not. I’m a supporter of Palestina and I’ve deliberately added some Israel-supporters to my friend list (deliberately because I don’t know them for anything else – we got into a Palestina-Israel discussion online). It’s so interesting to have a look inside someone else’s thoughts. Just talking with people who share your beliefd will make you arrogant and narrow-minded.
Nicely said. I added someone after a flame-war that entailed him finally admitting that his views were “Nazi-esque”. I WISH it weren’t so tl;dr because it is great fodder for this site. And would probably inspire another delightful flame war. Sorry, my point is pretty much what you said. I like to have open debates.
Probably also applies to complaining in your status update, posting three or more status updates in a day, commenting/liking anything posted by someone you haven’t seen IRL since high school…
If we can’t be happy and post excited posts about some exciting plans,
If we can’t be sad and post a depressed post about something bad going on in our lives,
If we can’t be thoughtful and post some song lyrics,
If we can’t be desperate and post a cry for help,
If we can’t be angry and post a bunch of nonsense curses,
If we can’t be so in love that we post how much we love someone,
If we can’t get drunk and post a completely unintelligible status,
If we can’t be preachy and post our opinion on something,
If we can’t be sheep and post chain-statuses,
If we can’t be boring and post what we’re currently doing,
It’s not so much that you can’t post any of those things…but its about how often you post a specific type of thing. If someone does a chain status once in a while, its amusing. I might even join them. If ALL their statuses are chain statuses, and they are posting daily or more? I’m probably going to block them from my newsfeed.
Same goes for ones that are tmi about babies and their bowel movements. Those people get blocked quickly if that’s the majority of their posts.
You can’t handle the truth!
I guess that’s true…
Ture.
Actually that doesn’t happen in countries more civilised than the US
Let us know when you find one, then.
Yeah, look either to the north, south, east, or west of the US
Now, not to knock your ignorant attitude or anything, but you’re seriously claiming, for example, that Mexico is more civilized than the U.S.?
Well, considering that you apparently live exclusively in caves, that statement might make sense. Warmer down there, after all.
Well now you’ve just contradicted yourself, by being ignorant yourself.
Good sir, I do believe you dun goofed.
Everyone above was being ignorant. But you, sir, are even more so, which is funny since you were trying to prove a point that you weren’t ignorant.
Also, there are plenty of civilisations (geddit, it’s a civilisation, they are civilised) that live in caves, Mr Judgemental.
I agree that everyone above this post was being completely ignorant about civilization and society and stuff, but from this post on everyone is completely brilliant and amazing.
Just because the US is a very religious country and their people speak much of what they beleive in no way makes them un-civilized. I have very few friends from the states and rarely see these posts but I always shake my head at any religious or political status updates and find it hard to resist to commenting my mind.
actually i blocked a few ppl from the US because of that and I live in Germany
Yea I’ve blocked a few people from the US for that too… and I’m from the US. Sigh.
Yeah, had to block a family member because of that. I got sick of being the only one trying to present the opposing opinion and/or he and his friends having an ideological circle****, every 5 minutes when he posted something.
Oh, go start a war or somthin
Are you saying that no one outside of the US blocks people in their news feed because they get sick of preachy posts? Wow, I’m not sure if that’s implying advanced civilization or not. I do it all the time, but I’m from the US, although I don’t see any of my friends from outside of the US finding it any more appealing to be barraged with that on a daily basis. In addition it’s always from someone that I have to resist the urge to troll based on their non-facebook posted behavior.
Also applies to any Farm/Mafia/Vampire/Cafe/Septic Sucking game requests
Guilty!
Hiding the “games” portion of FB should be sufficient to deal with that, unless you have any friends who consistently ask for help in their status updates… I’m fortunate enough not to.
I guess posts about taking a dump is more of what people want to read about.
oh god yes
Pretty much. That stuff is humorous.
Also applies to posts of “I HATE MY LYF Y CANT EVRY1 JST GO DIE”
And endless updates about work: going to work, being at work, coming home from work, being on-call from work and wondering what to do with days off from work.
I have a family member added on facebook who, every day, never fails to post “omg going to work how sad
” at about noon. Eeeevery day.
And saying GOOD NIGHT every frickin’ NIGHT!!!
Goodnight all.
Yeah, I have those people as well.
at least you have those who only post interesting or funny things like a good video on youtube or something from status shuffle
and those who ramble on, taking 3 or 4 sequential posts to describe their misery in gory detail
I have one that every Friday posts “I’m soooo glad today is TGIF”.
I don’t think she actually knows what TGIF means
Basically Facebook sucks and we should all eat our computers.
…Are you gonna eat that space bar?
Yeah, but the really religious people drive me nuts, and I do go to church!
My Grandpa is like that. XD “Goodnight, all my friends, may the Lord bless you.” pretty much every day. XD
Could I use that and replace “…may the lord bless you” with “…may cthulhu not devour you while you sleep”?
I had to block Foursquare because of my cousin. Every day it was “Walmart”, “Donut Shop”, “Grocery Store”, “Park”, etc etc etc.
I have friends that travel the world and don’t use Foursquare. Why does she think that’s interesting?
DEFINITELY applies to that.
Sick of everyone putting their bedroom-personal bleeding heart crap all over their Facebook.
I have a friend on facebook who literally updates her status every ten minutes… it’s like facebook is her diary, everytime i open it up on my phone the newsfeed is full of her spam it’s awful T_T
Hide her in your newsfeed, then visit her page if you want to know what’s going on. I am fortunate enough to only have one friend who does that crap all the time. And because of her retarded relationship habits, it’s just…..sigh. I also do this to people who frequently use “Ugh” as a way to begin/end a sentence. Because it never applies. WHY?! WHY!? “Ugh, I want those shoes ;D” Makes NO SENSE. Please, my beloved friend, go die in a fire now.
That’s right, its a lot easier to just ignore anything bad that happens to other people, as long as it doesn’t happen to us it doesn’t matter.
See also “Study reveals Facebook use increases exponentially with number of useless status updates”.
i found that ive been blocked for quoting funny one liners from various sources.
Perhaps you’re not as funny as you think you are?
…did somebody say dead baby jokes?
‘Cause I think I heard somebody say dead baby jokes.
I wouldn’t block those
how many dead babies does it take to operate a meat grinder?
try red vs blue, much more successful
ur naem lolol
na i dont have those people on my facebook anymore! blocked!!! no wait… not blocked just hiden so i can still go and perv at there page if i wanna but dont have to put up with the mind numbing rubbishness that is there lifes!! SORTED!!
I tried hiding a friend`s page, because I couldn`t stand the politcal/religious BS anymore… I couldn`t refrain from perving on their page and writing REALLY sarcastic comments, so in the end I had to just block them. I have no self control
I just assume they know how I am, and let it roll. I’m sure I’m blocked from many a newsfeed for this. And it kind of makes me laugh/cry on the inside.
Yep. Say what you really think and you’ll lose some friends.
It’s not about saying what you think. I, for one, am fine with hearing peoples’ well-considered opinions, especially if the person is open to honest, friendly, constructive discussion. What I find annoying is when people use their Facebook status for copy-n-paste activism, faux-inspirational stories, urban legend health scares, or to jump aboard the latest moral outrage. Then, of course, there are the people who suddenly become a lot braver and more opinionated when they sit behind a keyboard.
There’s a difference between saying it and spamming it, though. Talking about a particular “srs” topic once or twice is fine, but when the person keeps going on about it, likely frequently, it gets annoying, even when the reader agrees.
I know some people have “hidden” me for posting antiracism-articles and such. Don’t really care.
Is there a way to find out if someone has “hidden” you?
I kinda hope not…
I don’t think so. One of my band members posted “Okay, that’s it. Hide.” under one of my statusses so that’s how I know.
All my friends on FB post religious and political stuff all the time. Mind you, we are all over 50. The once person I blocked is an arrogant bastard who just has to post something (he thinks) amusing on EVERY post by his friends. No need to block the friends with the games – just block the games.
I dunno… sometimes blocking/hiding people due to games is necessary. One of my fb friends is on the verge of this because she has been on a two-week long crusade against people who cheat on FarmVille. She warns all her friends every.single.day. that if she finds any of them on a list of cheaters she will remove them, and as much as I don’t want to fire you guys I want to leave items for my REAL friends, and sorry, that’s just the way I play the game… *headdesk*
Sometimes she mixes it up with the rant about how polite farmers click “like” when accepting news feed bonuses.
Every day.
True, that. Social feed and games feed are (should be) two different areas.
LOL! When I was playing games my friends were all very aware that I had a couple of sockpuppets to help me. I HATED the fact that they required friends in order to play them. I don’t like asking people for stuff in real life, let alone for a stupid game that I’m just playing to pass the time.
If I make reference to a friend of mine as “arrogant bastard” I don’t think he/she would be on my list of friends actually!!!
You’re right. He’s not, no more.
This is so annoying.
The only thing I hate more than politics is people discussing politics. I would be friends with more people if they would just stop talking about these 2 things.
Politics matter. Your Farmville does not. I’d rather see people engaged in religious or political debate than that video of the monkey peeing in his own mouth again.
lol- anybody see last night’s tosh.o? that was not a monkey!
Has anyone seen the man with the golden voice!?
THANK YOU!!
I thought I was going to be the one to have to say this.
Damn str8 yo’!!! Well said!!!
Hahaha, I did actually. I totally want to rent Tiptoes now.
amen.
Or posts about Twilight.
I think most people are pretty much done with Twilight anyway. They’ve all moved on to insulting thirteen year old girls who can’t sing. Then again, I just insulted her…
This is true, unless every single person you know shares the same beliefs as you. So yeah, pretty much impossible.
Of course not. I’m a supporter of Palestina and I’ve deliberately added some Israel-supporters to my friend list (deliberately because I don’t know them for anything else – we got into a Palestina-Israel discussion online). It’s so interesting to have a look inside someone else’s thoughts. Just talking with people who share your beliefd will make you arrogant and narrow-minded.
Nicely said. I added someone after a flame-war that entailed him finally admitting that his views were “Nazi-esque”. I WISH it weren’t so tl;dr because it is great fodder for this site. And would probably inspire another delightful flame war. Sorry, my point is pretty much what you said. I like to have open debates.
I like you.
I don’t see that religion has anything to do with blocking someone. I think application invites and endless link posts are what annoy me the most.
Well duh!
Probably also applies to complaining in your status update, posting three or more status updates in a day, commenting/liking anything posted by someone you haven’t seen IRL since high school…
Or constantly commenting on sporting events, LIKE I DO!
Also applies to people who post song lyrics for every status because they think they apply to their life.
One tends to wonder…
If we can’t be happy and post excited posts about some exciting plans,
If we can’t be sad and post a depressed post about something bad going on in our lives,
If we can’t be thoughtful and post some song lyrics,
If we can’t be desperate and post a cry for help,
If we can’t be angry and post a bunch of nonsense curses,
If we can’t be so in love that we post how much we love someone,
If we can’t get drunk and post a completely unintelligible status,
If we can’t be preachy and post our opinion on something,
If we can’t be sheep and post chain-statuses,
If we can’t be boring and post what we’re currently doing,
What do you WANT our statuses to say?
It’s not so much that you can’t post any of those things…but its about how often you post a specific type of thing. If someone does a chain status once in a while, its amusing. I might even join them. If ALL their statuses are chain statuses, and they are posting daily or more? I’m probably going to block them from my newsfeed.
Same goes for ones that are tmi about babies and their bowel movements. Those people get blocked quickly if that’s the majority of their posts.
I tend to answer…
That’s what private messaging is for.
That’s fine, but most people abuse that priority.
That’s not “thoughtful”, that’s pretentious.
Once again, that’s okay, but most people do that over the smallest things.
I do that too, so I can’t fault that.
When you do that, you clog up everyone’s news feeds.
You end up making a complete ass out of yourself when you do that.
I’m all for free speech, but no one wants to hear that.
That’s annoying as hell.
That’s what Twitter is for.
Are you really being thoughtful if we’re posting someone else’s words?
…uh…these Axies aren’t labeled…
I’d honestly rather read post about politics than the crap I usually see.