Your Facebook Friends Hate You

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Being on Facebook can be an exercise in self-punishment, whether that means obsessively spying on your friends' baby pictures and envying their "perfect life" or constantly monitoring your ex's wall. We all know this, and yet no one really talks about it. Until now. There's a survey that has determined that if you're a woman, you probably kind of hate your Facebook friends. Perhaps because they write things like this.
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Your best bet, honey, is to keep that to yourself.

Not all are guilty, of course. Some Facebook friends are quite nice! But others commit a variety of sins, including talking too much about their wonderful children or amazing husband/boyfriend/apartment/shoes, complaining about their minor everyday annoyances that are really no big deal and it's not like we even care, or talking politics all the time, as Eversave found when they explored the Facebook relationships of 400 women. 83 percent of women were annoyed "at one time or another" by the posts of their Facebook friends. Status update: I'm making a sandwich!!!

The respondents also said at least one of their Facebook friends tended to:

* Share too many mundane updates too often (65 percent)
* "Like" too many posts (46 percent)
* Inappropriately or too frequently use Facebook to promote causes (40 percent)
* Project false information or images of a perfect life (40 percent)

But what this study doesn't get into is something we've seen ourselves, which is that tiny twinge of joy that comes from seeing a friend post something stupid or annoying or far more boring than anything we would ever write. I mean, if they're bragging on Facebook, they hardly have real lives. It's Facebook schadenfreude, if you will. Learn to love it, as it makes being on Facebook infinitely more tolerable.

Dear Facebook friends: I am not talking about any of you.

How Women Really Feel About Their Facebook Friends [Mashable]

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Large Marge
Large Marge

For what it's worth, Myspace is listed on Craigslist for $14, but you've gotta pick it up.

Kelly
Kelly

I am glad that someone wrote about this. I am not the type that does not like other peoples good news in fact I love it. However, someone should write an article about some of the viscous groups out there like Can you Handle the Truth or many other groups that promote hate and judge you on the basis of your looks or other things. My mistake was to offer myself up in a naive fashion but there is a major hate factory attached to these groups as well as a "troll" game were people are not who they say they are and attack many legitimate groups. These are grouops filled with hateful messages, Racial hate as well as attacking those that are vulnerable. There can also be an addiction factor to these groups as you run around trying to prove that you are a good perason and not as these group members paint you to be. It can be a game of ego wins and ego boosting that can hurt and go beyond what should be acceptable behaviour. I know of many groups that are filled with what would be seen in the real world as actual hate crimes, discrimination and abuse. The addiction factor to these groups should also be studied. Thank-you for writing this article.

Lyn Horton
Lyn Horton

Facebook serves a function that is being overlooked. If one does have a life, Facebook is tolerable and useful as a means to spread the word about what you do. Maybe that function is for us older folks. Twitter is worse than Facebook, according to your standards. However, I would like to say that in this day and age, which is about sociability and being a community (ahem: cf. Egypt ), it is better to have FB than not. It can pull people together who normally would never relate to each other AND in a good way. Let the OMG! girls figure it out on their own.

Angela Garcia as NeonMosfet
Angela Garcia as NeonMosfet

So I take it that, my, The yard puts the lotion on or it gets it with the hose, is up for the Pulitzer or not?

Angela Garcia as NeonMosfet

ashleyseger
ashleyseger

"Project false information or images of a perfect life (40 percent)." You have to wonder what that is about. Are we so vain that we must make it seem that out lives are perfect. It's pretty pathetic. I don't like facebook really because most of what people post is pointless. I'm hoping it's a fad that will fade. I'd rather hide behind sunglasses in the open than some lame online identity.

ArpadtheMagyar
ArpadtheMagyar

99.9% of your FB friends wouldn't piss on you if you were on fire.

crystalgibson
crystalgibson

The absolute worst is the girls that are always trying to make their lives seem so phenomenal with updates like 'OMG everything is amazing!' 'Best day ever.' - Just like you said, if they have to constantly express how amazing their life is on Facebook, it's evidently not that great.

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