What is it with couples' synchronized Facebook posts?!

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Friends professing their love to their S.O's isn't that bad.
Just ignore them and let them have their little tit-a-tat of declarative love statements.
 
Maybe the couples really like each other when they post in sync like that.

Or maybe they don't.

In other words, I don't think its too big of a deal. Its just people posting stuff in social media...
 
A girl I'm friends with recently started seeing this dude and right off the bat they are, as tradition dictates, ridiculously in love.

I'm a bit older so I think it's kind of weird to be so kooky deep so quickly. They post about each other all the fucking time.

It's sort of annoying because it makes me realize that I'm profoundly self - centered and over the years and through the shitty marriage I had I have no idea how to care about anyone but my kids and my self anymore.

So in summary :
1) Facebook is cool.
2) Young people give their hearts away easily.
3) I've been broken by the cruel tide of years and don't remember how to care for other people.
 
SquiddyBiscuit said:
Friends professing their love to their S.O's isn't that bad.
Just ignore them and let them have their little tit-a-tat of declarative love statements.
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It gets nothing more than nothing of a scratch of the head from me but I've seen many times and I'm curious behind the reasoning of it. There is a thought process behind both the male and females part in something like that and they're probably wildly different (the males reasoning is probably a whole lot simpler).
 
Devolution said:
So the site named Facebook encourages people to show their friends what they're up to and relay messages back and forth. What exactly do you want out of your social media?
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Okay here's the thing. Facebook is probably the greatest thing for most people. Easy contact, easy sharing, quick feedback and nice pickmeups. For some of us though, the introverted ones, Facebook brings out the most annoying parts of people. You get to see everyones idiosyncracies zoomed in and on incessant repeat, good or bad. Not only that but half the people I'm required to add, whether from a party or a get together, just lock into my life, or even if I'm not posting, just appear repeatedly after a simple login... hey there that person is again, ugh.. whereas in the past, it was a fleeting meeting, again for us introverted. Its extremely different when you just hang out with people and choose. And ignoring people is actual work for people like me. Facebook is fine, nothing wrong there, its just the "you're not on Facebook?" that's really, no, REALLY annoying. Its definitely not for everyone. I have for the most part escaped the questions well and moved the conversations along, but it makes me wish I was ten years older sometimes.
 
Featheredkitten said:
bugging your guy to post on facebook with you seems like a recipe for disaster.
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'Look people in my social network, I have reached a life goal that is culturally expected of me: I have attained a functional, loving relationship with someone. You may also know me as someone who has previously been single for a while or been through a bad break up. Look people, in case you forgot, let me find another way of reminding you again of my new achivement.'
 
maquiladora said:
'Look people in my social network, I have reached a life goal that is culturally expected of me: I have attained a functional, loving relationship with someone. You may also know me as someone who has previously been single for a while or been through a bad break up. Look people, in case you forgot, let me find another way of reminding you again of my new achivement.'
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Every post on FB should be like this.
 
Fantasmo said:
Okay here's the thing. Facebook is probably the greatest thing for most people. Easy contact, easy sharing, quick feedback and nice pickmeups. For some of us though, the introverted ones, Facebook brings out the most annoying parts of people. You get to see everyones idiosyncracies zoomed in and on incessant repeat, good or bad. Not only that but half the people I'm required to add, whether from a party or a get together, just lock into my life, or even if I'm not posting, just appear repeatedly after a simple login... hey there that person is again, ugh.. whereas in the past, it was a fleeting meeting, again for us introverted. Its extremely different when you just hang out with people and choose. And ignoring people is actual work for people like me. Facebook is fine, nothing wrong there, its just the "you're not on Facebook?" that's really, no, REALLY annoying. Its definitely not for everyone. Makes me wish I was ten years older sometimes.
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Um, first of all facebook is one of the easiest avenues to ignore people simply because there is no impetus to reply to wall posts. You can only use it to check your personal messages/group updates, you don't have to go on it that regularly and you can ignore feeds or remove people. There is nothing forcing you to read the wall posts (or tldr scribes) by others. It's not in person, it's not at your job, no one has to be humored.
 
Well, you see, my husband and I have many of the same friends on FB but not all. Granted, we don't really synch our updates, closest we got to that was announcing our baby was going to be a girl. For reasons not worth getting into, I couldn't post from my phone at the time so it wasn't synched but would have been. And in that case, because for us it was really big news we wanted to share with everyone ASAP.

My hubby hardly ever posts on FB.
 
Devolution said:
Um, first of all facebook is one of the easiest avenues to ignore people simply because there is no impetus to reply to wall posts. You can only use it to check your personal messages/group updates, you don't have to go on it that regularly and you can ignore feeds or remove people. There is nothing forcing you to read the wall posts (or tldr scribes) by others. It's not in person, it's not at your job, no one has to be humored.
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Some of us don't like it, don't have a need for it, and wish it would go away and the internet gives us a place to say that. I certainly don't go on a mission to take it down, or make it a big deal outside of that though. I understand what people get out of it. I certaintly enjoy it sometimes vicariously without wanting one myself. I just wish it wasn't the new phone number, and to be looked at like I kicked someone's dog if I don't have one is what I'm getting at.
 
Fantasmo said:
Okay here's the thing. Facebook is probably the greatest thing for most people. Easy contact, easy sharing, quick feedback and nice pickmeups. For some of us though, the introverted ones, Facebook brings out the most annoying parts of people. You get to see everyones idiosyncracies zoomed in and on incessant repeat, good or bad. Not only that but half the people I'm required to add, whether from a party or a get together, just lock into my life, or even if I'm not posting, just appear repeatedly after a simple login... hey there that person is again, ugh.. whereas in the past, it was a fleeting meeting, again for us introverted. Its extremely different when you just hang out with people and choose. And ignoring people is actual work for people like me. Facebook is fine, nothing wrong there, its just the "you're not on Facebook?" that's really, no, REALLY annoying. Its definitely not for everyone. I have for the most part escaped the questions well and moved the conversations along, but it makes me wish I was ten years older sometimes.
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That's the only reason I created an account a year ago. Seriously, I didn't want anything to do with that site, but figured that it'd be easier to get in than to keep hearing people telling me I should be there and similar shit.
 
I don't even really post about my life on facebook. I post pictures of the kids for my family far away, my dogs, and share a lot of Doctor Who stuff. >.<
 
What pisses me off more is the super negative life posts I see constantly from the same people. Your life is shit because you make it shit asshole.
 
Cat said:
Well, you see, my husband and I have many of the same friends on FB but not all. Granted, we don't really synch our updates, closest we got to that was announcing our baby was going to be a girl. For reasons not worth getting into, I couldn't post from my phone at the time so it wasn't synched but would have been. And in that case, because for us it was really big news we wanted to share with everyone ASAP.

My hubby hardly ever posts on FB.
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If I'm reading this right your husband had an amazing reason to post. And if he hardly posts on Facebook he gets it. Good dude.
 
daw840 said:
What pisses me off more is the super negative life posts I see constantly from the same people. Your life is shit because you make it shit asshole.
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You're talking about gaf..right?
 
I used to have a couple on my Facebook that would post news articles on their wall and proceed to comment on it. They did this while they were both in their condo. Can't you just talk about it?
 
Annoying shit on Facebook is pretty easy to avoid in general, but there are sometimes where people's lives I'd actually like to keep up with also post the most annoying nonsense ever that shows up on my feed.

But I mean, ultimately, the people who I really want to keep in touch with have my number so they can just call me.
 
lol so true!!!

EDIT: Saw that guy's post where nobody got the joke, so I want everyone to know this post was a parody of Facebook posts.
 
PopeReal said:
I am lucky to have NeoGAF in my life.

I now expect all of you to tweet and/or facebook it.
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You are, indeed.

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Fb kind of started sucking when everyone stopped posting statuses and instead started sharing images with shitty 'inspirational' and 'positive' quotes. I swear my news feed is full of that shit.

I like how twitter pretty much prevents that by not having pictures automatically appear in your wall/news feed whatever.
 
My girlfriend likes me making a kerfuffle about her on Facebook. If that's what it takes to make her happy, then so be it.

It's just Facebook, sheesh. If you don't like it, tell them. Or better yet, unfriend them.
 
That's kind of cute actually, I've never seen that kind of stuff in my facebook. I do however have a friend that merge her account with her husband, so now I don't talk to her. Come to think of it, I'll delete her.
 
I find that stuff incredibly annoying. Since my girlfriend moved in with me we essentially ignore each other on any form of social media... it's much better for everyone.
 
I like when Devolution and Timedog tagteam a thread from the same couch or wherever.
 
Facebook couples are the worst. I don't give two fucks what shitty quote about relationships that you both like today. It's still a stupid fucking quote.
 
just more knuckleheads that I am alerted to block their status updates.

I find it just as annoying as OP and maybe moreso... relationships are private IMO, I don't care how much schmoopy loves poopy and vice versa. in fact I usually laugh and immediately see it a s a red flag for divorce. I mean who are they trying to conviince?

FYI, yes I do have my own woman.

and we are so happy! today we ate dinner together at her work, chef salads, it was wonderful!
 
It's just people feeding their own ego in effort to appear important and special. Great thing is the 'ignore' button on their posts is just a click away. Bonus comic that sums up most Facebook/Twitter/etc posts about people's lives:

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People don't talk to each other anymore so it's not like they know the other is posting about the same pasta.
 
SquiddyBiscuit said:
I'm not even friends with my GF on facebook.
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My last girlfriend didn't get even have one. Well, she deleted it a while ago after like a week, and never looked back.

It was pretty awesome, until I allowed her to look at mine from time to time. Any sort of interaction between me and a female initiated an argument between me, and her..
 
its their first step to ostracizing everyone they know -- make them all know how lucky they have it and how great everything is because you won't ever have the kind of happiness they do.


second,

TURN OFF FUCKING UPDATES. SERIOUSLY. Everyone bitches and moans about their "friends" and say its "Facebook" they don't like -- if you say you don't like Facebook what you're actually saying is you don't like your FRIENDS. So turn off your updates and you won't be annoyed. End of story.
 
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