Facebook and other social networking sites get me down more often than they lift me up. Still though, I log onto Facebook 5-7x a day. The screen refreshes and suddenly updated "news" is in my feed. I'd say that 80% of the time, the "news" is related to "good news"-- pictures of family vacations, postings about job promotions and other celebratory events, positive comments about one's outlook on life... The other percentage of the time, the newsfeed contains complaints and generally negative utterances. Someone the other day posted about needed $100 battery for her car, blah, blah, blah.
Reading other people's complaints is annoying and I feel like hurling a virtual "Go fuck yourself" across the Internet. Reading people's self-promotion posts is also annoying, as it makes me feel like a lazy fuck who achieves nothing.
I tend to post observational comments. I never self-promote and I try not to complain.
Deep down though, I am certainly a curmudgeon.
I am going to use this post to rant and complain---to hurl that negativity out into the world.
1. I'm not impressed that you got your Master's at NYU or that you went to Oxford; your family is rich and accessible income can make many people's "dreams come true."
2. We used to be friends, but now you are too much of a hipster and I am too fat and the fact that our friendship has ended infinitely sucks.
3. I don't care about your new Subzero fridge or your clean shed; your husband is gigantic and I often wonder how you two had sex long enough for you to get pregnant.
4. Your grammar is so horrible and no one comments on it because of politeness, but you're a fucking idiot....but you probably make more money than me anyway.
5. I don't care that your child makes adorable comments at the dinner table.
6. Kudos on doing your extreme exercise regimen for 3 days, posting about it constantly, and then completely quitting.
Sometimes I think of the following quotation when I am poking around on Facebook:
"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel." - Steve Furtick
I feel like a loser because I don't consider myself to have the "highlight reel" that others have...but I guess that's my problem and I have to try to sort it out.
Reading other people's complaints is annoying and I feel like hurling a virtual "Go fuck yourself" across the Internet. Reading people's self-promotion posts is also annoying, as it makes me feel like a lazy fuck who achieves nothing.
I tend to post observational comments. I never self-promote and I try not to complain.
Deep down though, I am certainly a curmudgeon.
I am going to use this post to rant and complain---to hurl that negativity out into the world.
1. I'm not impressed that you got your Master's at NYU or that you went to Oxford; your family is rich and accessible income can make many people's "dreams come true."
2. We used to be friends, but now you are too much of a hipster and I am too fat and the fact that our friendship has ended infinitely sucks.
3. I don't care about your new Subzero fridge or your clean shed; your husband is gigantic and I often wonder how you two had sex long enough for you to get pregnant.
4. Your grammar is so horrible and no one comments on it because of politeness, but you're a fucking idiot....but you probably make more money than me anyway.
5. I don't care that your child makes adorable comments at the dinner table.
6. Kudos on doing your extreme exercise regimen for 3 days, posting about it constantly, and then completely quitting.
Sometimes I think of the following quotation when I am poking around on Facebook:
"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else's highlight reel." - Steve Furtick
I feel like a loser because I don't consider myself to have the "highlight reel" that others have...but I guess that's my problem and I have to try to sort it out.
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