Facebook

Just about every single one of us has a Facebook, twitter, etc. so we know what it’s all about. It legitimately makes me sick that people revolve their lives around social networks. Not saying that I don’t love it and probably would have slight withdrawals if I deleted my Facebook but if you take a step back and realize what the pros and cons are, you would find that social networks run people’s lives and can also ruin them.

As human beings, we thrive on drama and what is going on in other people’s lives. Especially as females, we love our gossip, E! News, and US Weekly. So when people actually let us in on their lives on Facebook, we cannot turn away.

One thing people shouldn’t do on Facebook or Twitter is accept people to be friends with or follow if you do not know them. We all know people sit on their computers for hours upon hours “creeping” so let’s not allow them. My all time fave that people do which confuses the hell out of me is “check in” WHEREVER they go. And I mean wherever they go. I have seen people do it on both Facebook and Twitter, where if they ran errands that day and hit up ten places… well you would know. Then we wonder why we’re filing police reports for stalkers.

Here’s another one of my faves: I’m not a large fan of the whole status updating thing in general but a few funny comments every once in a while I can appreciate. People pop up on my newsfeed that have status updates about every damn minute of their lives. Did they not get the memo that no one even cares? An example from a female would be “Lunch and shopping with my besties, shower, get ready, look hot and get shitfaced! Whoo text it xoxo”. An example from a male I once saw “Protein shake, work out and lift, pre-pregame at bar #1, jam to lil wayne and pregame at my crib, go to the party pregame, go to the bar, then afties!!” Let’s just say my jaw dropped down to my kneecaps and with my sarcasm and hate for statuses, I couldn’t help to write something under it which resulted in him deleting the status. My point is if you want to put up statuses every minute, make a Twitter account.

I heard one of my friends say the other day that she loves when it says “______ went from in a relationship to single” on Facebook. Pretty screwed up, right? It is in our human nature to be consumed with this stuff. Then say you get a boyfriend or girlfriend and are officially a couple, people always ask “Is it Facebook official?” Why does that even matter. Sane people usually don’t feel the need to publicize their lives.

A tip for people in relationships that have a psycho boyfriend or girlfriend: Don’t be friends with them on Facebook. All a girl will do is creep on every female that writes on her boyfriends wall and then blame it on him. Pretty sure it is not his fault when some random girl writes “hey you’re a cutie” on his wall. Recently my boyfriend’s ex-fling went on her friends account and wrote on his wall saying “Hey I heard you drunk text ____ all the time”. This was just so I would see it and get mad at him which I did not because I know from past experiences that this girl is a lunatic.

All in all, Facebook is great for finding long lost family members, reconnecting or keeping in touch with friends in a healthy way, but watch out for crazy people like stalkers, fake Facebooks, crazy ex-girlfriends and steer clear for people like me who do not care that you just napped for 37 minutes.