Is something a lot of people slag off these days, people get sick of seeing the same people talking about the same girlfriend/boyfriend declaring their love for them etc.
I will admit I get annoyed by it too. I have a few friends that if I look on their facebook pages, it's all about their partners, and I see where people are coming from.
But to the people doing it, what do they think they're doing? They believe they're doing a really nice thing telling the world and being open about their feelings about their partner, and there's nothing wrong with that, but where's the line from being nice to just annoying?
This is something that everyone feels differently about. What annoys most people is when it's in their face all the time.. Take twitter for example. It's not discreet. So when a couple who you're following are spamming up your twitter feed with tweets to each other all affectionate and that. It starts to get on your nerves just a little bit, having to scroll down however far to read something a little more worth while and different.
Facebook is a lot more discreet, a wall post shows in your feed, but the comments (up until recently) were never in a live feed, showing individually as they were being posted.
However if the couple are posting everything on each others walls, the same problem arises. Your news feed is filled by the individual posts each person makes on the others wall
People tend to tire and to be frank, want to read something else!
I know it's something that a lot of people have been talking about, so here's your chance to let me know what you think. Is it just an annoying show off of their relationship? Or do you disagree?
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I had to completely hide a friends statuses.
ReplyDeleteLiterally EVERY day 'loves ____ millions xxxx' '____ just made me toast, such a cutie!! xxx' 'cuddling ____ on the sofa, best bf ever!! xxx'.
Makes me wonder how their friends in real life can stand to be around them when they don't seem to talk about anything else!
Sometimes distance gets in the way of things like affection and it is alot cheaper to communicate via social networking sites. If you don't want to read it you can now unsubscribe from people on Facebook or block those on twitter...problem solved! There's no need to bitch and moan about it anymore. Frankly its more annoying when others moan about it.
ReplyDeleteWe can, and we do unsubscribe/block/delete people from there, but should we have to block and delete friends?
ReplyDeleteGranted I have, especially on twitter as I always had to scroll down stupid amounts to get to something I personally felt was worth reading, from the many conversations from couples...
You've complained about it loads last year yourself soph, so surely you can see both sides of it?
I get the whole needing to be affectionate in your relationship, and noone bitches about the occasional status every now and again, you put something every now and again about jase on facebook right?
But there are people who take it to a whole different level, I know someone who can't an hour without declaring to the world what he's doing with his 'amazing girlfriend'
Just got me thinking, seen as I know many people dislike it, is it going too far?
After all there is private messaging, that's just as free. No matter the distance in your relationship.
We can, and we do unsubscribe/block/delete people from there, but should we have to block and delete friends?
ReplyDeleteGranted I have, especially on twitter as I always had to scroll down stupid amounts to get to something I personally felt was worth reading, from the many conversations from couples...
You've complained about it loads last year yourself soph, so surely you can see both sides of it?
I get the whole needing to be affectionate in your relationship, and noone bitches about the occasional status every now and again, you put something every now and again about jase on facebook right?
But there are people who take it to a whole different level, I know someone who can't an hour without declaring to the world what he's doing with his 'amazing girlfriend'
Just got me thinking, seen as I know many people dislike it, is it going too far?
After all there is private messaging, that's just as free. No matter the distance in your relationship.
***VIRTUAL PUBLIC DISPLAYS OF AFFECTION SHOULD BE BANNED, VIOLATORS SHOULD BE SHOT, SURVIVORS SHOULD BE SHOT AGAIN***
ReplyDeleteOk, maybe a tad over the top, but I think, here, there is such a thing as overkill.
It's nice to show your feelings for someone every now and then, Everyone knows I do, but there is only a certain amount I can tolerate before I start thinking, "Are they trolling?"
An old friend of mine was texting me about this earlier and they came up with an interesting view...
ReplyDeleteSaying how they thought people who update their status rather than just private messaging/text/skype etc, must feel a need to show off their relationship. Asking why else would it have to be status' rather than a message. 'The world doesn't need an update of your relationship'
I never thought of it like that.
I see athena's point too, I had a friend who for 2 years, couldn't talk about anything but her boy bless her. And we got fustrated. People have different tolerance levels.
As for sophii's point on distance, I get that for some people it makes things harder to show affection, seen as you're not actually with them, and phone bills can get costy, but we do have things like skype which is totally free, and a much more intimate way of showing affection, than say a tweet/facebook status, as you can actually see the person too, and is also more private :).
I know I've moaned before and I end up blocking those people but not getting rid of them completely from my friends list...just makes it that bit easier to scroll through my news feed. I do get it from both sides I just find it more annoying when people go on about it rather than the people actually putting things on facebook/twitter in the first place lol
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