This is pretty funny: annoying Facebook people

How about paranoid guy who links every Internet hoax to his wall and announces the world is going to end every other month? I'm in a spat with a dude right now who insists this Nibiru thing is real.

There's also my Aunt Yvonne who falls for every story about Facebook. She always has screaming questions on her wall: "IS FACEBOOK SHUTTING DOWN??"

 

At least.

 

Criticizing someone for what he or she posts on Facebook is the online equivalent of criticizing how someone decorates his or her living room. Or worse: How someone raises his or her children.

Remember, folks: There's always the Unfriend link or the Report/Block option.

 

Also, revisiting this point: It's such a cool thing to say, right? "Serves those self-centered fucks right!"

Except ... the only people who can see the check-ins are people they are friends with, either on Foursquare or FB. So if you have friends who are willing to rob you, then you're already losing at life.

 

Hey, a laid-off journalist gotta eat, right?

 

Not all of those people are your "friends." No one has 500 friends. You have 20-25 fucks you talk to, and the rest are like a hood ornament: They look nice but serve no real purpose.

And tell me one benefit of "checking in," other than to scream "Look at me?" A guy I went to high school with "checked In" to his bedroom with his ex-cheerleader girlfriend. Really? We need to know this?

 

Everything on FB is about "look at me." "Look at the link I found." "Here's my inspirational statement for the day." Picking on 'checking in' when it just means "i'm here" vs. posting on a message board (I mean, you're already on the message board, so what's the point in posting except to gratify yourself, right?) just seems ridiculous.

And "friends" I just meant people you "know." And I stand by my statement. If you're "friends" with someone who would rob you, then you suck at life.

 

Better than my niece posting pics of some guy at a Renaissance festival signing her boobs.

 

I check in whenever I am doing something that I would consider somewhat exciting. Like recently when we were car shopping for my daughter's first new car as a grown up.

Or at a Texans game. Or when I'm scrapbooking. Watching the Texans and scrapbooking are really my only two hobbies and I always check in when I'm doing those things. Anything else outside of the ordinary, and yeah, I check in.

 

I'm a check-in person. Not at McDonald's or "my bedroom" or whatnot. But restaurants and pubs and other out-of-the-ordinary spots, for sure. I've received free appetizers, beers and desserts at places just for taking the time to check in. It may be "look at me," but like IJAG said, all Facebook is is "look at me." And if "look at me" gets me free stuff, then I'm OK with that.

 

I'll check in if I try a new restaurant and like it, so maybe friends will want to eat there as well.

Other than that, no one need to know where I am.