Seven Common Facebook Pet Peeves
I absolutely love my Facebook. Here I am going to share with you some user-generated facebook pet peeves. You know, the petty, minor annoyances that other people create that make us shake our fist and (occasionally) curse a little. Here are seven of common Facebook pet peeves.
1. The Poster
Girls sometimes when you walks away from your computer to get a bottle of water, and when you come back, what!! you’ve got 12 status updates from the same person, letting you know that in the 30 seconds I was gone, they ate a bagel, drank some coffee, had an epiphany, got married, and found a link to a really cute cat. Nothing anyone does is so important I need to see an update every 6 seconds. Truly.
2. The Downer
My friends grandmother used to say, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, keep quiet.” I wish a few people on Facebook had heard that! We all have a few friends who only post snarky things about other people, or comments about how tired, sick, bored, or wretched they are. Stop it! No-one’s life can be so negative all the time! You’re bringing me down!
3. The Savior
This started as merely an e-mail pet peeve, with so many forwarded messages from allegedly deeply religious friends trying to “save” you with some uplifting, or worse, spiteful forwarded message. Hello! If I’m going to trust one of my Facebook friends with saving my soul, it’s not going to be the one who seems like such a hypocrite!
4. The Anti-Grammarian
This phrase bugs me: your welcome. This one too: whats there problem? … Get it? Grammar. Try some. Making such obvious grammatical errors makes you look like an idiot.
5. The Lurker
This is sort of the online version of a stalker, the girl (or guy) who seems to reply to every status update or link or photo you post five seconds after you post them. How can they be watching you so carefully, unless they’re stalking you?
6. The Game Addict
I admit I’m a FarmVille addict, but I don’t send every one of my friends request to join me, or send me gifts, and I don’t fill my wall with my FarmVille activity. But I do have some friends who do, and it drives me crazy!
7. The Friend-Maker
I have a Facebook friend who has more than 2,000 other Facebook friends. How is this possible? Even if I friended everyone I’ve ever met, I don’t think I could top even 500. How does he have this many friends? I’ll bet he’s never even met half these people…
These are just a few of common Facebook pet peeves, but I’m sure there are bound to be more as more people start using it… argh! Which of these users bugs you the most?
