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For The Love (& Hate) Of Facebook

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We accept friend requests from people that haven’t crossed our mind in 20+ years while ignoring ones from those we see weekly and we “friend” people we’ve only met once.

Throughout the day and overnight, profile pictures are updated, new jobs are added, relationships go from “it’s complicated” to “engaged” or “single” to “married”, honeymoon photos are posted, followed by ultrasounds, followed by baby announcements.

We bitch and complain hoping for a little sympathy.

We attempt to be funny amidst our pain.

We gloat and boast to make ourselves feel better or to express gratitude.

We share our lunch, pets, cocktails, garden, children, vacation and favorite quotations and song lyrics.

We support products and opinions we favor.

We promote ourselves, our blogs, our writing and our skill set all in the hopes of a click-through.

We poll our audience, ask for advice and often give it unsolicited.

We post status updates that either need a degree in physics to decipher, demand commentary, or at the very least, a “like”.

We get our world news, entertainment and weather by scrolling through our News Feed, in addition to the exact location of our “friends” at dinner (provided they have “checked in”).

As much as I hate to admit it, Facebook has become an enormous part of my social media life and I do all of the above.

Almost daily.

It has become a favorite pastime waste of time and my preferred way to connect.

Love it or hate it, remember with just one click of a button [POST], you could ruin someone’s day, destroy a marriage or end a friendship. Think (and please spell check) before you post and always remember “blocking” is your friend.

Facebook is a wonderful and wacky menagerie of our lives today, it’s like being a voyeur, but it should never be taken too seriously.

I do not presume to know you any better because we are “friends” on Facebook and always remember that what you see isn’t always what you get, we all have private lives.

Or at least we should.

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  1. This is so true. Sometimes I wonder why people post some of the things they do on FB. And yes, I have clicked on “block” “unfriend” or at the very least “hide” on my news feed. Because I really have a choice as to what kind of messages make my day, right?

    Also, why is it important for some to get as many friends as possible? Friend of friends of friends…do you really need to “Add” them? Especially for us moms who post pics and updates about our kids on FB – it’s like handing out a flyer on the street to strangers showcasing your family just because you like to “share!”

    Seriously people, think before you “Add” and “Post” – it’s for your own good. 😀

  2. I definitely have a love/hate relationship with FB. I love being able to connect with friends from long ago and stay in touch with ppl once we moved. There are some ppl whose status updates drive me insane and yet I cannot bring myself to unfriend them.

  4. AMEN to that. I don’t understand why “adults” put the things that they do on there. Some things should be kept private, not for all of the internet to read and judge.

  5. I love/ hate Facebook. I would never get to the point where I’ll delete my account, but I’ve most certainly not hesitated to unfriend people. I don’t understand some people’s need for Internet drama!

    Great post, Tonya!

  6. Seriously, people take Facebook way too SERIOUSLY! It’s just Facebook after all. I really use it as a form of entertainment and a way to catch up with friends. That’s it. I really think that I do have a secret love/hate relationship with it. I wish that I could just go inactive for awhile but I then I feel like i would miss out on so much going on in people’s lives that I don’t talk to all the time. But it could be cleansing too… Hmm..we’ll see.. But I doubt that I’ll ever get off it completely. 😉

  7. Oh facebook. Such a silly thing that people turn into something big.

    I always wonder what we will think of all this when we are old. I mean, this is uncharted technological territory we are carving out. What will this age look like in the history books?

    And also will all those drunk status updates come back to bite us in our 80-year old asses? My guess is yes.

    🙂

  8. Oh Facebook. How it’s evilness has invaded our lives. I spend more time there than I used to but not really on my personal page.

    And I’m starting to get friend requests from people I haven’t talked to since high school. If I barely talked to them now I’m not going to talk to them now. Ugh.

  9. OH man, I got so ANGRY with something I saw on FB around last year at this time and now it doesn’t matter a lick. It’s a pretty crazy thing when you think about it…

  10. The first paragraph really resonates. I seriously have ignored a friend request from my cousin for 2 years. Yet, I met someone at a party and added her immediately. Go figure.

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