But the question here is more of, who does NOT have one.
Facebook has been around for quite some time, but it only peaked among the Malaysian circa in the much later years of the millennium. As of July 2010, Facebook has more than 500 million active users, and if it was to be a country, it would fall into the 3rd highest ranking in population, after China and India.
These days, everyone has a Facebook account. Your father, mother, brother, sister, uncle, aunty, grandfather, grandmother, neighbour, pet dog... Well...you get my point there. A local study shows that Malaysians spend an ample time on Facebook, and we are one of the highest in the region.
Well, I won't deny much. Even I spend a whole lot of my time 'facebooking'. And I'm sure there are plenty others who do so too. I'm not the lone soldier spending most of my time 'facebooking'. Well, most of the time I'll leave the social network site on, and I'll check around if there are any updates. The homepage, or rather the 'news feed' comes WAY in handy.
Ever since my usage in late 2008, I've seen more and more peers picking up on Facebook. Before that, the obsession used to be Friendster. HAHA, yeah you heard me right; Friendster. As many of us transitioned to Facebook, we brought some of our ol pet peeves along. Let me tell you what are these pet peeves that really annoy me to the ultimate, and at times, itch my very funny bone. Lol.
FACEBOOK BITCHING
Look here, I understand you're mad at something or someone. I'm sure all of us have done it. We bitch about others via Facebook statuses, whether directly or indirectly. I try my best to stay away from Facebook bitching, because whatever I post, will be up for all my Facebook friends to see. And when you have over a thousand of them, please, for god's sake, DON'T post things like:
I had enough with you, bitch. Just get on with your life and stop bugging mine! I hate you!
Or in broken english and bad grammar and simply terrible shortforms:
U psyco beeatchhh! Steal my bf, go flirt with my boyfie, go die la u! PLs dun disturb us niemore! I h8 u I h8 u!
Seriously, like seriously, please express them in your personal diary, or a private blog. Rant it in one place where it's only within yours and a some friends' knowledge. Not for your poor one thousand friends to view, every single hour, bitching through your Facebook account. Especially through statuses.
POSTING SUPER EMO/ PATHETIC/ SELF-PITY THINGS
A friend once tweeted, if you are so emo, just go kill yourself, not post it on Facebook. Alas, I couldn't agree more. But with all due respect, I'm not advocating suicide to any party. Suicide is a sin. But letting the whole world (your one thousand Facebook friends) know about your personal depression is a sin on its own. We do not wanna know about your pathetic breakup, a fling that lasts for several weeks only. Announcing a 'broken fling' on Facebook is rubbish, ONLY do it to your girlfriends/boyfriends/whatever friends you have over coffee, martini, etc. with a box of tissue and big puppy eyes. I don't really care. It's just a fling.
Not only applicable to flings, but to any breakup, or anything that seemingly ended your perpetual happiness and can never regain the heart to live again. ONCE AGAIN, do it with your bunch of personal friends, write it in a diary, and for god's sake, stay away from clicking SHARE. Personal issues are meant to be, well, PERSONAL. You do not share it with your one thousand friends. You do not.
Attention. Seriously? Do you really want that attention? Because of how connected Facebook is (well, it's a social networking tool after all), a single activity is shared with your one thousand friends on their news feed. And you are bound to gain some sort of attention, for instance,
Aww, cheer up.. You'll get another lucky guy/girl that truly deserves you...
*rolls eyes*
Don't worry. Life goes on. He/she is not worth it. Screw them!
*rolls eyes*
Don't think about it so much! He/she is a son of a bitch/ bitch/ asshole/ whatever!
*rolls eyes even more*
And what's worse, he/she laments, people comment, and people respond to those comments, for instance,
Now, no wonder he/she left you. Pathetic X and friends obviously have no life.
There we have, is an epitome of Facebook bitching and gaining self-pity. And I thought that as we grow older, we will mature and be perfectly-capable-of-hardship young adults. Perhaps at times, we mentally break down due to stress and actual hardship. Just don't do it on Facebook yo.
LIKING ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING
This I don't really have a problem with, but some beings spend all their time on Facebook, liking everything in a friend's profile, be it statuses, comments, profile pictures, or anything that can be liked. Some people practise this, and to be frank, when someone overdoes this, it becomes a pet peeve for me. It's not that big of a deal, it just bugs me a lil.
UPDATED: Liking everything to the extent of not understanding what he/she means. For instance,
Today I slammed myself a dung pie on my face.
Pathetic X likes this.
My dear Pathetic X, you need serious help.
In conclusion, some people really need to gather brains first before doing anything on Facebook.
POSTING SUPER EMO/ PATHETIC/ SELF-PITY THINGS
A friend once tweeted, if you are so emo, just go kill yourself, not post it on Facebook. Alas, I couldn't agree more. But with all due respect, I'm not advocating suicide to any party. Suicide is a sin. But letting the whole world (your one thousand Facebook friends) know about your personal depression is a sin on its own. We do not wanna know about your pathetic breakup, a fling that lasts for several weeks only. Announcing a 'broken fling' on Facebook is rubbish, ONLY do it to your girlfriends/boyfriends/whatever friends you have over coffee, martini, etc. with a box of tissue and big puppy eyes. I don't really care. It's just a fling.
Not only applicable to flings, but to any breakup, or anything that seemingly ended your perpetual happiness and can never regain the heart to live again. ONCE AGAIN, do it with your bunch of personal friends, write it in a diary, and for god's sake, stay away from clicking SHARE. Personal issues are meant to be, well, PERSONAL. You do not share it with your one thousand friends. You do not.
Attention. Seriously? Do you really want that attention? Because of how connected Facebook is (well, it's a social networking tool after all), a single activity is shared with your one thousand friends on their news feed. And you are bound to gain some sort of attention, for instance,
Aww, cheer up.. You'll get another lucky guy/girl that truly deserves you...
*rolls eyes*
Don't worry. Life goes on. He/she is not worth it. Screw them!
*rolls eyes*
Don't think about it so much! He/she is a son of a bitch/ bitch/ asshole/ whatever!
*rolls eyes even more*
And what's worse, he/she laments, people comment, and people respond to those comments, for instance,
PATHETIC X I still cannot forget him/her. Why did this happen to me? What did I do to deserve this? I'm so sorry guys for neglecting you as friends. I will move on, one day. *hurts*
Pathetic commentator #1 I'm so sorry.. Never mind, you have us as friends. He/she doesn't deserve you. You should've known he/she is like that... He/she sucks......
Pathetic commentator #2 Yea I totally agree with Pathetic commentator #1.. I never liked he/she since Day One.. He/she is using you....
Pathetic commentator #3 Yea! I totally agree with you guys! Just move on, Pathetic X. You deserve better! You should let out all your feelings, bitch about him/her. Let it go. We will be there for you. Erase him/her out of your life!
Now, no wonder he/she left you. Pathetic X and friends obviously have no life.
There we have, is an epitome of Facebook bitching and gaining self-pity. And I thought that as we grow older, we will mature and be perfectly-capable-of-hardship young adults. Perhaps at times, we mentally break down due to stress and actual hardship. Just don't do it on Facebook yo.
LIKING ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING
This I don't really have a problem with, but some beings spend all their time on Facebook, liking everything in a friend's profile, be it statuses, comments, profile pictures, or anything that can be liked. Some people practise this, and to be frank, when someone overdoes this, it becomes a pet peeve for me. It's not that big of a deal, it just bugs me a lil.
UPDATED: Liking everything to the extent of not understanding what he/she means. For instance,
Today I slammed myself a dung pie on my face.
Pathetic X likes this.
My dear Pathetic X, you need serious help.
In conclusion, some people really need to gather brains first before doing anything on Facebook.
I am blogging this through my personal experiences and others too. Do I have a purpose with this? Well obviously. I have feelings to express, and I do them through words. SELF-EXPRESSION. These are my own inputs, my Facebook pet peeves, so before you start bitching about me because of my own freedom of expression, remember that this blog post is about pet peeves. Google it up before you publicly share your thoughts to your one thousand friends.
p/s: I do not have one thousand friends. I have 500 friends and am slowly screening them. I am simply referring to those who have so many 'friends', adding and accepting people they don't know.
UPDATED: Well, 'adding and accepting people they don't know' for me here are naive people letting complete strangers into their lives, especially when they are constantly using Facebook to parade their lives with plenty of personal photographs and are constantly updating their statuses with extensive details such as their whereabouts and doings.
Hey, but that's me.
pp/s: I have more Facebook pet peeves to share. Hmm.. By composing this post, I am in outrage to express my utter displease for annoying habits that people do on Facebook. Grrrrrrr.
p/s: I do not have one thousand friends. I have 500 friends and am slowly screening them. I am simply referring to those who have so many 'friends', adding and accepting people they don't know.
UPDATED: Well, 'adding and accepting people they don't know' for me here are naive people letting complete strangers into their lives, especially when they are constantly using Facebook to parade their lives with plenty of personal photographs and are constantly updating their statuses with extensive details such as their whereabouts and doings.
Hey, but that's me.
pp/s: I have more Facebook pet peeves to share. Hmm.. By composing this post, I am in outrage to express my utter displease for annoying habits that people do on Facebook. Grrrrrrr.
Signing off with much delight.
5 comments:
I love this! :D feel like re-blogging or something. So fucking true dude. Share this link to your Facebook, let everyone read it. Especially the whole damn emoass part of a break up I get that a lot in my news feed. Jesus. & yes I don't understand why they keep on liking this & that 'til they have thousands of 'em!
But I disagree "adding and accepting people they don't know." Facebook is a social networking website, & the purpose of social networking sites are to keep track with your friends as well as to meet new ones, that's how most of us got to know & meet each other through Friendster back then.
Senghoo, you are the one who tweeted that right, posting super emo things on FB. Hahahahahhaa.
Well, 'adding and accepting people they don't know' for me here and naive people letting complete strangers into their lives. I think where you're coming from is making new friends that probably share similar interests etc. But from where I'm coming from is the act of naivety of most teenagers, and even young adults, accepting people they have no clue about, especially when they are constantly using Facebook to parade their lives with plenty of personal photographs and are constantly updating their statuses with extensive details such as their whereabouts and doings.
Hey, but that's me.
You've said it! You know what's another thing that perhaps you could add on to the 'liking anything and everything'.. it's the fact that people press the like button without understand what the word 'like' really means.
E.g.
"Today is the day slammed me a dung pie on my face."
And some idiot presses the like button.
Oh so they like the fact i've got shit on my face?? =.= They need some brains. Facebook should have a 'help' link on how to use the 'like' button appropriately. GAH.
I think I did, because of some breakup drama they have to post it around Facebook telling the whole damn world about it, why not have a cast & crew, cameraman, the news & have someone write to Obama about it or something, Jesus Christ I swear to God people are becoming dumber & dumber every day & get so melodramatic about it. Then again, most of them are sophomores but yes of course even young adults in our age, immature I like to call 'em.
Well to me it's still all right if you update extensive details such as whereabouts & doings, but not TOO specific like the exact destination especially because some people actually stalk you on that.
No, I prefer just "making & meeting new friends," but of course I don't just approve ANYONE like "some people" who has like 3k, 4k amount of friends & they don't even know quarter of those retards. Worse comes to worse is they make their own fan page for people to like because their account is FULL, or even make a second account like [insert name] II/Second while putting their first ones [insert name] FULL.
Yes yes yes, good one Mabel :D
hahah.. *like* the bitching part....
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