Comments on: Facebook Status Updates: They say a lot about you and none of it is good.

By: Nate

Nate — Sat, 14 Aug 2010 02:46:03 +0000

Author is a miserable piece of shit. That is all.

By: ms

ms — Sun, 27 Jun 2010 01:38:54 +0000

i think a lot of us are annoyed with our own lack of discipline and project hostility toward anyone but ourselves. the only thing worse than the black hole of social networking is the gravitational pull of blogs “about” social networking. yikes! let’s all run outside and see if it’s still there!!!

if you have to leave your status update blank so it will “look” like you aren’t on FB -while you’re actually reading updates with a head shake and a tsk, tsk for hours- now THAT says a lot about you and none of it is good…

By: Melissa

Melissa — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 12:31:10 +0000

Hi Brad,

Loved your article. It sums up everything I get angry about when I go on Facebook. I would say I’m a medium facebook user. I tend to post links to music I like that I want to share, and links to articles etc rather than statusses (status’?!) The children thing is so true, many of my friends have children and tend to post many statusses a day letting everyone know exactly what’s going on! This goes for when people are ill as well, they’re bored so they post a status every half an hour about how very ill they are with their common cold and how they’re dying and can’t possibly go on… (well do it quietly!)

Thanks for voicing this!

By: India

India — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:06:02 +0000

So very true! Very well written, facebook is so boring with everyones pointless updates, I admit, I am guilty of doing this too, but geez someone is always bragging or talking about something completely boring. Rarely do I see a post or status that is interesting. I hate that I have my aunt and uncle or my parents friends on there or I would probably be a lot meaner!

By: Darren

Darren — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 19:56:17 +0000

What a bunch of self important plebs! I’d wager that there’s not a single one of you gutless wonders who have a) actually talked to a woman or b) left your parents basement within the last 24hrs. How clever you all are, i expect you’re incredibly proud eh?

By: Raw

Raw — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 11:00:52 +0000

Great post Brad. I wrote a similar one on my blog. It is a small world, but the amount of people hating the stupidity of facebook status updates is smaller.
Most unfortunately fall into the other category.

Keep up the good writing.

By: 3rdtimesacharm ( 3T )

3rdtimesacharm ( 3T ) — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 03:14:08 +0000

I’m with mango. You know what’s worse than Facebook? The eff-ing phone! With Facebook, I CHOOSE when I want to read what everyone is up to. I’m not a slave to a damn ring. I have caller ID for the same reason. Facebook is a convenient way to “touch base” in a matter of mere moments and be on your way. Leave one sentence to your friend, and no guilt for not calling in months. Hell if that’s not worth it!!

Applications?
Sometimes I want to empty my brain of all the boring-ass-shit that makes up my world. Nothing beats a mind-numbing application playing with fish or plants. They don’t expect shit out of me, and I LIKE that!

About Fridays?
I work a split-shift on Friday. That means that there is nothing about Friday that screams “me-time.” They do however mean I’ll drop into bed dead tired and irritable from running kids to and from school, to THEIR activities, and then the rest of Friday is spent kissing ass on customers who eat our delicious tacos. Woohoo. So if I try to be a little positive Friday morning at f*cking 6:00 AM before starting the same LONG routine, good on ME.

What you ARE right about is the vacation thing! Damn straight! Envy me, bitches! I’ve worked hard for those few precious weeks a year, and I’d scream it from the rooftop if I felt like it. BTW, I’m taking a Cruise in March to the MEXICAN RIVIERA. And it will be a cold day in Hell before I would trust a damn thing they serve over there, let alone their water filled with bacteria and fungus. That’s WHY I’m taking a Cruise.

But overall, loved the article Brad.

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By: mango

mango — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 05:33:12 +0000

I hate to be a contrarian, but I’d rather skip past ten pages of “The weather is cold” and “My kid did something that proves his IQ is at least 67″ updates than pick up the phone and hear them tell me the same thing.

By: Brad Chesterton

Brad Chesterton — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 10:21:06 +0000

Thanks Bill, I could have gone on but it would have ended up being a 10,000 word post. There seems to be no end to the stupidity on Facebook. I am convinced that the world of internet can be summed up with the a simple assumption: the dumber the application the broader the appeal.