[Dandaman9999]

(Original post by KingMessi)
This had me in stitches...

Totally agree, Facebook has become truly irritating - no more so than the trite sentimentality that the OP is talking about. Kony 2012 was one of the most irritating, but the memes are also really irritating.

Definitely! Kony 2012 literally had filled my newsfeed that day! Nobody had bothered to write another status or like any other picture... Everything was 'Kony this' and 'Kony that'. I can't wait for what the next 'important' trend will be

[Politricks]

(Original post by Electronica)
At least your friends on facebook have someone to thank for all the blessings they have in their lives. Many people I have recently unsubscribed to think that everything is given to them on a plate and spoil themselves rotten with booze and foreign trips involving lots and lots of sunburn (which they post pictures of, why?). They haven't worked or contributed a day in their lives, and live off the back of their well-off parents.

If they have anybody to thank, it should be the doctor who performed the surgery, the engineer who designed the safe car or the teacher who helped them when they struggled; any blessing in their life is the work of another human being, not the work of a non-existent scare story.

You're right, there certainly are a great number of ungrateful people in this world who feel that they're entitled to everything, this narcissistic culture makes me cringe to the very bone.

[StacFace]

I hate these, but just ignore them. The people who post them repeatedly tended to be the ones who hadn't spoken to me from school anyway so I removed them and now I only get the odd one but they are normally because the person actually cares so I don't mind.

Another annoying thing is people who post pictures of themselves with captions like "This is me, don't like it? I didn't ask you to. I am who I am, I don't care what you think. If you don't like me that's fine, I don't care..." literally all the time. Then their friends like and post comments saying to "ignore the haters" etc etc. Fair enough speak out about it once but posting that literally everyday is just attention seeking and proves you do actually care.

And people who literally do just ask for likes and comments annoy me too, and also when you join a page and the admin seems to thing you are liking them personally so start treating it like their personal profile and post stuff that has nothing to do with the subject of the page.

[Kiss]

(Original post by Dandaman9999)
Definitely! Kony 2012 literally had filled my newsfeed that day! Nobody had bothered to write another status or like any other picture... Everything was 'Kony this' and 'Kony that'. I can't wait for what the next 'important' trend will be

Something to do with wildlife methinks.

[Alistair122]

(Original post by Kiss)
Something I've noticed a lot recently is the amount of people who post some obscure photo or link on their walls of some cause purely for likes.

For example, a girl I have known for a while who has hardly ever had much interest in third-world issues suddenly got swept up in that whole Kony 2012 rubbish a few months back; I asked her a few days ago what she thought about Kony now and after taking 5 minutes to recall who we was she said she no longer cared.

Another example is the photos which will crop up on newsfeed now and then - perhaps its a person whos got a disease, or its an area affected by an earthquake, or a starving child in Africa (generally some stirring image) - which will usually caption something along the lines of 'like if you care, don't like if you're a heartless bastard' etc.

And another recent example was from the amount of people who have been posting on the wall of someone I knew who died recently sadly. I know you can say its only paying respects to someone who's died/a nice thing to do, but there are some posts I noticed which came from people who I knew had never spoken to the guy in their lives - suddenly the people who never talked to this guy/never knew him well at all were 'devestated' and 'missing him'.

You could simply say that it was human compassion, but I'm far more sceptical. And its sad but it happens - people simply post something on facebook, something like the examples above, something which is about a cause around the world, purely to get likes which to me degrades the real meaning of what they're posting. People do it a lot, even on TSR; more rep/more likes, people just want to feel accepted even if they don't fully understand what they post.

Now it would be unfair of me to say that everyone who posts something on facebook about curing cancer or posting an RIP message on a deceased person's wall is out to get likes, and that is not what I'm saying. But it is something I've noticed a lot and quite frankly it disgusts me.

Of course I can't ever be sure if someone who posts something is merely doing it for likes/jumped on the bandwagon or genuinely cares and isn't doing it just because everyone else is. I can't ever provide any evidece for that. But for the person who died, I knew him quite well enough to know that some of the people who posted 'RIP MISS YOU SO MUCH XXX' had never spoken to him.

Facebook is a good place for social communication and obviously spreading a message; if you do feel strongly about an issue or if something has touched you, it could be a status or a photo, by all means like it. I'm not trying to tell people they can't or shouldn't like something, especially if it means a lot to them. But I am getting very sick of the phonies on facebook who only post a 'moral' status or a stirring image for likes.

What do you think? Am I just raving?

Yeh this has obviously happened a lot more recently, however, there are posts starting to appear which take the complete opposite end of the spectrum, from people who I can only imagine it makes them feel alternative to do so. Pictures usually taken from sites such as sickipedia which take pictures of severely disabled people and write an offensive message over it such as "kill it before it lays eggs", or in some other way take humour at someones misfortune. Whilst I can appreciate that these are only jokes some people take serious offence at these, and worse still it affects possibly the less strongly minded people to actually believe that they are better than the people the pictures depict.

[LeaX]

I have a few people on my friends list who will send messages to me and ask me to like their profile pictures? Firstly, no-one cares about the number of people who like your picture, it's irrelevant and serves no purpose. Secondly, no I don't want to 'like' your over-exposed, cleavage-showing duck faced picture.

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(Original post by Kiss)
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What an original post.

[Kiss]

(Original post by LeaX)
I have a few people on my friends list who will send messages to me and ask me to like their profile pictures? Firstly, no-one cares about the number of people who like your picture, it's irrelevant and serves no purpose. Secondly, no I don't want to 'like' your over-exposed, cleavage-showing duck faced picture.

You actually have people on your facebook who send you pictures for you to like? :|

(Original post by . . .)
What an original post.

Why thank you!

[jonnythemoose]

The worst was Kony. As it sprung up overnight, I had no idea what the hell Kony 2012 even was, so I posted a status saying "What the hell is Kony 2012?!" (Yeah, Google is my friend, but we'd fallen out...) And I just got a barrage of comments like "Educate yourself! I can't believe you don't care enough about Ugandan child slaves to know about Kony". Literally the bandwagon's broken its axels with the amount of people jumping on it. And I'm 22 so it's not even like my friends can justify this sort of turbulent pubescent behaviour.

[madders94]

(Original post by jonnythemoose)
The worst was Kony. As it sprung up overnight, I had no idea what the hell Kony 2012 even was, so I posted a status saying "What the hell is Kony 2012?!" (Yeah, Google is my friend, but we'd fallen out...) And I just got a barrage of comments like "Educate yourself! I can't believe you don't care enough about Ugandan child slaves to know about Kony". Literally the bandwagon's broken its axels with the amount of people jumping on it. And I'm 22 so it's not even like my friends can justify this sort of turbulent pubescent behaviour.

I'm still not entirely sure what Kony was; everyone was jumping on the bandwagon so I figured there were enough people to do something about it if it was so important the second I dared to ask who he was, I was heavily criticized for not living my life checking up on the quality of life of Ugandan child slaves

[Kiss]

(Original post by jonnythemoose)
The worst was Kony. As it sprung up overnight, I had no idea what the hell Kony 2012 even was, so I posted a status saying "What the hell is Kony 2012?!" (Yeah, Google is my friend, but we'd fallen out...) And I just got a barrage of comments like "Educate yourself! I can't believe you don't care enough about Ugandan child slaves to know about Kony". Literally the bandwagon's broken its axels with the amount of people jumping on it. And I'm 22 so it's not even like my friends can justify this sort of turbulent pubescent behaviour.

One of my friends who got swept up in it but then changed his mind realised how little he actually cared about the campaign, but admitted that he cared more about looking like he cared about some humanitarian cause.

I got pretty pissed off with the amount of people who'd call you a heartless b****** for not giving a f*** but really it comes down to a bigger question, why should I have to? And I'm not going to begin liking or campaigning for something if I don't actually or can't actually care for the real cause.

[jonnythemoose]

Besides the campaign was so dubious and nobody even knew if the money donated went anywhere towards the cause and then the guy got caught having a **** in public. It really was a mess.

[KingMessi]

Example of the trite pseudo-philosophical nonsense that people couldn't give a damn about but post to get likes, on my news feed this morning.

'Life is like a sport. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, but the game always goes on.'

[TheWalkinDude]

I'm a heartless bastard so I ignore them. But it is incredibly annoying when posts like these (from people that I'm fairly sure can't even read the text on them) clogs up my newsfeed...

[TobeTheHero]

facebook is slowly but surely dying for the GOOD of humanity Thank God. Nowadays, people are wasting their time on facebook chatting and not even going out for a chat or tea

[prog2djent]

Usually stupid people.

[Kiss]

(Original post by TobeTheHero)
facebook is slowly but surely dying for the GOOD of humanity Thank God. Nowadays, people are wasting their time on facebook chatting and not even going out for a chat or tea

What do you mean?

[Chumbaniya]

I think after hearing that facebook played a role in the Egyptian uprising (but probably never actually reading reputable news stories on the subject - these people never do) a lot of people interpreted the idea that social media can be used to aid positive social change to mean that causes which are entirely contained within social media can have an effect on the world, without stopping to think about how change can only really happen if the social media fuss results in things actually being done. Liking a cause without doing anything about it is equivalent to saying "I don't care enough about this issue to do anything, but I'm just going to pass on the message in the hope that someone more conscientious than me sees it and does something so I can take credit".

[maxcartwright]

I don't like the ones that attempt to guilt trip people. Just annoying.

Also, typing an overused quote over a moody pic of the seashore doesn't make you arty, it just makes you appear ****-like.

[TEFLONCHEST]

It gives a nice ego boost, everyone likes their ego get boosted. It's even better when you get boosted for almost nothing, as funny as it sounds.