Nothing is more shamefully entertaining than a status war post-breakup. After the facebook relationship status disappears, the exes descend upon us, full of bravery and full of the independence of the newly heart-broken. One writes a quote about loyalty, the other writes a quote about men who are complacent. One puts up pics of a wild night with a new "friend," the other puts up pics of chugging beer on the beach - showing us (but really just shoving it down the exes' throat) that they are having "the most fun in the entire world!"
And that wraps up my top three list of new face bookers :)
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Silver Medalist Facebookers
In line with my list of the top 3 types of "new" Facebookers, I saw on Headline News that 4 out of 5 people consider their FB friends' statuses to be annoying. Haha! This made me laugh. Moving on.
My second "new" type of Facebooker that has emerged onto the scene in the last year is the following:
Type 2, The Silver Medalist of new Facebook types: The Baby Boomer FaceBooker
Most rampant offenders: Your parents' friends
Lord, help us all, the world must be coming to an end. A little background, if I may: In 2004, my sister and I, at SMU and Vanderbilt respectively, opened Facebook accounts as it was all the rage at our schools and we were especially excited that our schools were cool enough to have it before others -- mainly before it opened up to the masses at public schools. (I will add that I'm sure Vandy got it before SMU :) ) Anyways, my mom was horrified at the idea. You're just going to put your picture and your information out there for all the world to see?, she asked us. She was uncomfortable, to say the least, but we assured her of the many Facebook privacy settings and went on our merry updated ways. Flash forward to 2011, when she asked me how she could create a Facebook account for herself, since her friends were donig it. *Now, we still haven't created it yet, because I think she is still mad at my sister for saying she wouldn't befriend my mom (lol), but I'm sure it's coming along one day, and cue the gasp, I gladly welcome it. I'm hoping for it, actually, so that I don't have to open up my account every time my parents want to see a picture of someone's new grandchild.
My all-time favorite quirk of the Baby Boomers who have taken over Facebook, is this: no one has taught (most) of them the stealthy ways of the Facebook double-life. Maybe, they just don't care, and I love it. The double-life, known to most younger FBers, is, let's face it: stalking someone at the privacy of your home (work) computer and then politely talking to them at a party without mentioning any of the 1,200 photos you saw of them hanging from a lantern in Cancun last year. You can rest assured if your parents' friends see a picture of you from the night after your last final exam of your first law school semester, it's going to come up over a game of Bridge.. or two. And, on top of that, they'll mention it to you and probably comment on it 4.5 years after the photo was taken. This, I love. Let's all be more free like these folks! Who knew that the Baby Boomers would bring about a new wave of FB-ing: the freedom to stalk and be stalked and talk about it at your leisure. And bring it up in, cue the gasp, a real live conversation. I told you the world was coming to an end.
My second "new" type of Facebooker that has emerged onto the scene in the last year is the following:
Type 2, The Silver Medalist of new Facebook types: The Baby Boomer FaceBooker
Most rampant offenders: Your parents' friends
Lord, help us all, the world must be coming to an end. A little background, if I may: In 2004, my sister and I, at SMU and Vanderbilt respectively, opened Facebook accounts as it was all the rage at our schools and we were especially excited that our schools were cool enough to have it before others -- mainly before it opened up to the masses at public schools. (I will add that I'm sure Vandy got it before SMU :) ) Anyways, my mom was horrified at the idea. You're just going to put your picture and your information out there for all the world to see?, she asked us. She was uncomfortable, to say the least, but we assured her of the many Facebook privacy settings and went on our merry updated ways. Flash forward to 2011, when she asked me how she could create a Facebook account for herself, since her friends were donig it. *Now, we still haven't created it yet, because I think she is still mad at my sister for saying she wouldn't befriend my mom (lol), but I'm sure it's coming along one day, and cue the gasp, I gladly welcome it. I'm hoping for it, actually, so that I don't have to open up my account every time my parents want to see a picture of someone's new grandchild.
My all-time favorite quirk of the Baby Boomers who have taken over Facebook, is this: no one has taught (most) of them the stealthy ways of the Facebook double-life. Maybe, they just don't care, and I love it. The double-life, known to most younger FBers, is, let's face it: stalking someone at the privacy of your home (work) computer and then politely talking to them at a party without mentioning any of the 1,200 photos you saw of them hanging from a lantern in Cancun last year. You can rest assured if your parents' friends see a picture of you from the night after your last final exam of your first law school semester, it's going to come up over a game of Bridge.. or two. And, on top of that, they'll mention it to you and probably comment on it 4.5 years after the photo was taken. This, I love. Let's all be more free like these folks! Who knew that the Baby Boomers would bring about a new wave of FB-ing: the freedom to stalk and be stalked and talk about it at your leisure. And bring it up in, cue the gasp, a real live conversation. I told you the world was coming to an end.
Friday, April 1, 2011
My Updated Version of the (many) Types of Facebookers
About a year and a half ago, there was a hilarious article on CNN.com about the "12 Most Annoying Types of Facebookers." Go read it first, and then keep a mental note of the most often offenders and try to block them from your Home Page, so that you don't end up cutting them out of your real friend circle. It's a fine line sometimes.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/TECH/08/20/annoying.facebook.updaters/index.html
As I am now approaching my 7th year as a Facebooker, I feel that I can adequately update this article with the new types of Facebookers. That's right, I definitely don't remember life without the FB, and I was there for all the changes. All the changes. This list won't be just the annoying Facebookers (although if you recognize yourself as one of these types, you should probably tone it down a bit), but instead the list will just be my observations at the new, updated version of Facebookers.
As a small bit of history (and to prove my worthiness to write about FB types), back in 2004, we had to puddle along in our daily existence with no photo uploads. None. You only got one shot at it, the Profile Pic. (So, you didn't have a chance to win over a potential mate with your other 1,127 pictures) The first photos could be uploaded in or around October of 2005 ---- and happened to be mere hours after my Law School 1L year Halloween Party (greaaaat timing). I woke up on November 1st, totally confused by this new progression, and a little frightened because, if I remember correctly, only the person who tagged you could untag you. There was no self-detagging. Oh, the horrors!
Ok, so instead of trying to get all the new types of Facebookers in one post, I'll just go one by one. I think there are several reasons for the new Facebookers who have emerged. First, Twitter has greatly affected the way Facebook works because many people update the world with their every move on Twitter and that has leaked into the FB world. Second, it's not just a college-kid playground anymore, so here we go with the mom-bookers, the dad-bookers and the grandma-bookers. Lord, help us all.
Type 1:
The Advice Seekers (Or, as I like to call them, the I'm Too Lazy To Google This, So Please Tell Me Facebookers)
Most rampant offenders: New moms (Sorry, ladies, you're my first group)
Love it or hate it, the new mom advice seekers are a new category of people who have recently emerged onto the scene of Facebook. "I just can't get my baby's huge, 10-day-long, red, infested diaper rash to go away... who can tell me what the best, all-natural, dermatologist-tested butt paste is?" (OK, I made this one up, so as not to offend anyone, but you get my drift) These posts have GOT to be the absolute, most responded-to posts in all of Facebook history. Nothing like a little mom-radere to really get the blood flowing with these types. Every one of these that I have seen has at least 30-50 responses to it. Woah! Advice seekers unite! Now, I'll give everyone a couple of passes on this one. I mean, butt paste is an important part of parenting, and we all fall into this category at one time or another, but if you are checking Facebook instead of your baby books, maybe you are officially a rampant advice seeker. Oh, well. So be it. Just acknowledge that it's a type and that's that.
There are a few honorable mentions in this category as well - mainly people who travel but refuse to buy travel books, and (of course) FB newbies, who are so new to FB that they clearly barely know how to use Google either.
My advice is that we are all a type with one post or the next, so at least it's the cyber world where ignoring someone goes without their knowing :)
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