I admit it, I am on facebook. Primarily to see pictures of my 2 year old niece who lives in AZ. Yes, I have a few friends -- mostly friends from my post-college years.
While most of my 'friends' will post interesting links, discuss various topics, or at times post humorous pictures, once in a while, I get something lke this:
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Sheets on beds changed, two loads of laundry done, bathrooms cleaned, vacuumed through the house, errands run, and now I can sit and enjoy a spinach salad with blueberries, walnuts and Asian sesame dressing. Looks like the sun is trying to peek out. I think a walk around the lake after lunch. — feeling great.
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No offense to the person who posted this, but
this is not news worthy! Why on God's green earth would you post such unnecessary drivel for all your friends (and the NSA) to see?!? Has our desire to keep people informed about ALL of our day to day life come to this? Does anybody really care?!?!
And then there are those people who constantly post pictures of what they eat for breakfast/lunch/dinner (isn't there a thread here on that?!?) -- really? What's next? Posting a picture of the 'aftermath?" (I've seen that too, btw). Granted, I have posted pics of food I'm eating in two scenarios -- 1: when Mrs. Z is away (visiting our niece in AZ), I post pics of what I've cooked so she doesn't need to worry. 2: When I am travelling and am eating sometihing different -- last week, I was in Germany, and posted a pic of my dinner: Filtepfannchen mit Kasespastzle und champignonrahmsauce which I ate at a typical outdoor beer garden in Triberg, Black Forest. I don't travel there much, and neither do most of my friends -- so I'd say that qualifies as a little more 'news worthy.'
Then there was my friend (who is now on facebook ignore list) who, every night, before going to bed, would post, "'Night neverland." Ok - that was maybe cute the first 100 times -- on second thought, that was NEVER cute. Ok - you are going to bed. Whoopieee. I don't really care when you go to bed, what your agenda is for the day, or what you are eating for dinner.
I understand the use of hash-tags on twitter. But -- don't use them on facebook, or here, and DON'T FREAKIN' HASHTAG everything!! Hashtags are supposed to help by tagging/grouping important things together. So tell me, why would someone want to group things that have the word, "#the" or "#and" in them?!?
One more thing -- for the love of all things sacred -- just because you took a picture with your smartphone, that doesn't mean you have to post it -- especially if the picture came out blurry, fuzzy, or under/over exposed. (Side note: why do people insist on saving such pictures as well??)
I really have no interest in reading about someone's miserable pathetic life -- I have my own miserable pathetic life to keep me entertained. I guess the noise to information ration on the internet just keeps getting worse and worse...
I know I have posted stuff like this here before -- maybe I should have just added this to the pet peeve thread....
People should focus on more important things, like what the real answer to 48÷2(9+3) = n is...
Getting off my soapbox.
-Zoltan.