The Annoyed Facebook Users

Good old Facebook! It use to be the talk of the town when I was in like middle school. When I say old I mean it is not as popular as it was five years ago. Most people that I know are on Instagram and Twitter. Personally I think that Facebook is more or less for the older crowd such as late 20s and up. The only reason I am still on Facebook is to watch the funny videos or to connect with the old folks at my church. Some reasons why I do not like Facebook is because it requires too much effort to maintain and I always get friend request  or messages from creepy people. It is way to easy for people to find you and message you. I still think that Facebook is a really great social networking sight especially for when you get older and in a career and you use it to connect with your colleagues or you are promoting a business.

The main thing I want to discuss today is the issue of “annoying posts.” According to the “An Open Letter from Mark Zuckerberg” posted on Facebook in September 8, 2006, Zuckerberg shared with us his main goal for creating Facebook and that was to “help people understand  what was going on in their world a little better.” Also he wanted to “create an environment where people could share whatever information they wanted, but also have control over whom they shared that information with (Zuckerberg, 2006).” https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook/an-open-letter-from-mark-zuckerberg/2208562130 In class we discussed the different types of post that annoy people and what they are called. Some examples include “The Brag” which is when someone intentionally brags about themselves. “The Cryptic Cliffhanger” is when someone posts something in hopes that you respond to it, and “The Literal Status Update” is when you just simply tell people what you have done or are doing at the moment. I do agree that reading posts such as these over and over can get annoying but if that is the way people want to express what’s on their mind I say have at. Looking back at all the ways to be annoying surprises me because you literally have to be a mute or post nothing in order to not be annoying and it pisses me off when people comment on a post just to say how annoying it is. I found and article on The Huffington Post with the title “7 Ways to Be Insufferable on Facebook.” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wait-but-why/annoying-facebook-behavior_b_4081038.html I thought to myself ha ha this seems like a fitting article to use for my blog. It talks about how Tim Urban, the author, was emailed and example of a post that the average person would find offensively annoying. He goes on to explain how awful and unappealing the post was, and it made him think of what is considered terrible Facebook behavior and what isn't. He states that, “A Facebook status is annoying if it primarily serves the author and does nothing positive for anyone reading it (Urban, 2014).” He has his own adjectives for the annoying posters such as: narcissism, attention craving, jealousy inducing, and more. In my head I thought who the heck are you? Did you make the rules of Facebook? Who are you or anyone else of that matter to say what is and isn’t appropriate to post?  I’m not denying that the things people post aren't annoying. I’m just saying it’s their Facebook and they can say whatever they want. Yeah sure it does show up on your news feed if you are friends with one another but if you don’t like it then just delete them. But I bet if you did that for every constant annoying post you would have no friends. It would be a different thing if these people spoke aloud what they were feeling. If that were to happen I would totally complain about how annoying the things people say were. I just feel that we should complain about real issues that actually affect the real world and real people.