I have an iphone because I am a very 'hi tec' 50 something lady!!!
The problem with an iphone is; I feel the need to keep looking at it to see if anything interesting is happening. One of the things I keep looking at is Facebook.
I'm not sure how many 'friends' I have on FB? Just over 100 I think, but they are all people I know in real life and I have absolutely no desire to make any 'virtual' friends.
I never, ever, post anything on FB that I wouldn't want the whole world to see. I am very conscious of the fact that the minute anything goes on the internet it can be copied and pasted and sent around the world in a second.
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My life is pretty boring! Actually I like my life but if I were to put my day to day activities on FB it would probably be something like this:
Me in the shower.
Me walking the dog.
Me at work.
Me walking the dog.
Me shopping in Tesco's.
Me watching soaps on TV.
Why on earth would anyone be interested in that and need a running commentary of it on FB?
The point I'm getting to is; I have a friend on FB who drives me mad, because she records every single little detail of her life on FB.
I feel I need to add here, that this is someone who I have known for more than 10 years, but she isn't actually a friend in the true sense of the word. I have been out with her on a few occasions but I wouldn't exactly call her my best buddy in real life. We work in close contact and I probably speak to her a few times a week.
Every single time I look at FB, there's a new comment or photo. I don't want to see what she had for breakfast, I don't care what she's watching on TV, I don't want to know that she's in a bad mood/good mood/having a bad hair day, I don't want to see photos of trival things! It's driving me mad!!!! She posts cryptic stuff like, 'One of my so called friends has really pissed me off'. That just makes all her friends (obviously not me) comment, 'Hope I've not done anything to annoy you'.
People have said to me, 'Why don't you just defriend her?'
Well, the reason why I don't defriend her is because she actually checks how many friends she has and comments when she loses one.
If she is watching 'Strictly' or 'X Factor' or 'BGT' she tends to post a running commentary for the whole of that show. Some of her friends obviously get annoyed and 'defriend' her. .................And then she comments that her number of friends has gone down.
Personally I find that very sad. If someone is looking on FB every 2 secs to see how many friends they have; then they obviously haven't got that many in real life?!
So I won't 'defriend' her, as I actually think she's quite a sad, lonely, person who needs all the friends she can get.
.............But I never comment on her posts.
And I'll continue to be annoyed about her clogging up all my 'news feed' on FB with her trivia.
PS - 'Proper friends' have told me I can remain her FB friend but 'hide' her???!!! I may be a very techie 50+ lady with an iphone but I don't know how to do that!!!!!!
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