The status is obviously made to create a complete sentence, still, some people's statuses say something like:
Billy BOOMER SOONER!!
or
Jessica is I am hungry
or
Jessica is I am hungry
A nicely placed hyphen (-) would take care of a lot of this, for example:
Adam Jones - Go Cowboys!
2 - Telling people when you are not home so they can rob you.
I see way too many status updates that are just begging someone to come along and steal their stuff.
Cindy is not home and will not be home for hours.
Rob will be out of the country for the next three weeks and his house will be empty. And, sometimes he forgets to shut the door all the way lol.
Rob will be out of the country for the next three weeks and his house will be empty. And, sometimes he forgets to shut the door all the way lol.
These sound like exaggerations but people really do things like this and I wonder if I am the only person who thinks that the "It Takes a Thief" guys could do a special TV show about Facebook.
3 - Telling people when they can stalk you.
This one is horrifying and quite serious. Every now and then a single lady tells everyone that she is weak and alone.
Jennifer is alone with her cat all night.
Stephanie is about to take a shower.
Stephanie is about to take a shower.
Someday, I fear there will be a very regrettable infraction of privacy due to careless Facebook tweeting, it could be a serious problem.
4 - Updating your status every five minutes
We all know at least one person who does this. You befriend them and suddenly your Facebook page looks like this:
John is getting dressed.
John is putting on his socks.
Mary is ready the first day at her new job.
John is sipping his coffee.
John noticed a man walking a dog and thought the dog looked funny.
John is leaving his house.
John is going back inside because he forgot something.
John is putting on his socks.
Mary is ready the first day at her new job.
John is sipping his coffee.
John noticed a man walking a dog and thought the dog looked funny.
John is leaving his house.
John is going back inside because he forgot something.
The interesting updates that you use to keep up with your friends are suddenly drowning in someone's narcissistic fantasy. Those friends don't stay on my home page for long. Trust me, no one wants Facebook.com to be synonymous with your twitter page.
OK, that's all for now. Any unforgivable uses of Facebook/MySpace you want to report?
2 comments:
Ouch! Those were MY toes you stomped all over Adam!
(hopping away on one foot, but only on the heel of that one, towards the door on my way to the car as I leave the house over the weekend, door wide open the whole time so my 18 yr old daughter, home alone, can hear any suspicious sounds outside while I'm away.)
I forgot that I loved to read your rannts. I haven't gotten messages from you consistently in so long. This was fantastically funny. Andi is leaving this site now to go reshelve her library that she tore apart today to add bookshelves, and after that she's showering, and then sleeping, and tomorrow when she wakes up she'll leave the house for 8 hours to go to work...
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