User blog:Mrdaimion/Rant: Social Networking

Yeah, you all know the drill. For the record, though, I do use these sites, save for the last one which is the one I can't effin' stand.

'''Warning: Cursing. It will happen. Read at your own risk.'''

Facebook
Facebook is probably the one I visit the most out of these, because I chat with some friends on it since I never see them anywhere else (I don't go to the same site as my online friends anymore and I moved away from my offline friends). However, there are still some things I really hate about this site, for example:

No Social Interaction
Now, don't get me wrong, I know that people do use Facebook to talk with their friends, that's one of the main features. But the thing is, people tend to treat that as a side thing only to do when they're bored, and instead they spend about 27% of the time uploading every image they've ever taken even though no-one cares, 55% of the time doing pointless status updates, 17% of the time editing their status updates, and 1% actually talking with people.

Compliment Fishing
There are two types of compliment fishing, and everyone has friended at least one girl who does this:

1) Posting a really- to put it bluntly- slutty image up on their profile so guys will compliment them (for example, one of my FB friends has their profile pic of one of their friends appearing to be topless [though her breasts are covered and she may be wearing a top, there's no way to tell]).

2) Posting a picture and being all "God, I look so ugly" and having everyone be all "awwwwww no you aren't"- I'll admit, I'm partly guilty of a form of this where I'm all "I suck at taking pictures", but that's not me fishing for compliments, that's just the truth, I'm not very good with a camera- as for my appearance, I'd say I'm moderatly attractive, but that's besides the point. :b

Ambigious Posts
Again, I'm sure you all are friended to at least one girl who does this. These are the posts that are all "wow, I know who I'm never inviting to a party again" or "Guess it wasn't the right time to fall for you... </3" (second one being from one of my FB friends). Why do I hate these so much?

Because no-one fucking cares. And if it was just one post, I could live with it, but usually, when a girl makes one post like this, they make five at the same time.

Honestly, I think the girls (and I'm saying "girls" because it's usually girls who do this, partially cause girls use Facebook more, partially cause when guys [or, at the least, I] have a problem with someone/something we'll just tell someone else in private) who do this just need to grow a vagina, woman up, and just confront the person they're talking about about it- the person will know that they're talking about them in the post anyways, might as well confront them face to face, it'll be better for everyone.

App Requests
Okay, I really doubt these need an introduction. Basically, if you get annoyed about these to, to stop other people from reading the requests, when you start an app choose "Only Me" for who will read the posts and press "Skip" when it asks which notifications it wants to send. That's it, no-one will ever have to know about the Golden Chicken you found in Farmville ever again.

Twitter
Although I do like the comedians on Twitter a lot and I do enjoy making the humor-ful(?) post occasionally myself (usually making fun of Chris Brown), there are some things that really bug me about it- for example...

Second-by-Second Updates
Sorry about the confusing title, I wasn't sure what to call this- basically, though, I mean the old Twitter cliche (that's true) of people who update ever single detail of their boring life to you, as if you'll give a shit. For example:

"Having breakfest." / "Finished breakfast." / "Washing dishes." / "Tweeting you guys."

I mean, honestly, who in their right mind would want to read ANY of that? So, yeah, if you do this, don't.

Hash-tags
Although I am guilty of the occasional hash-tag joke (for example, I did #NameYourDickAfteraMovie [answer was Stuart Little]), I don't go overboard with it unlike some people. The reason I hate hash-tags is they tend to be either really annoying or they're short-cuts to make a joke for people too lazy to come up with one themselves.

But the worst of the bunch? YO-fucking-LO. Not only is it incredibly over-used, but it doesn't even make sense- people either use it like: "Eating dinner. #YOLO" (what does YOLO have to do with anything there?) or, the more common usage, " #YOLO". How should living once help your reason as to why you did that in the first place? So, yeah, my signature helps say why I hate this so much: "YOLO, so I'm gonna fuck up the only life I have."

... oh, yeah, it also helps that Chris Brown helped start YOLO. That's another good reason to hate it.

Tumblr
The worst of the bunch, in my opinion. Why? Allow me to explain:

Re-posting, re-posting, re-posting
Now, I understand that FB is guilty of this too, but re-posting is far more common on Tumblr, where everyone re-posts the same exact thing a million times- and you wanna know the worst part? If you want to comment on how stupid something is, you have to re-post it to leave one. So, yeah, Tumblr is the home of people who can't come up with their own jokes.

Psuedo-feminists
Tumblr is filled with these- why do I say "psuedo-feminists"? Well, I don't mind most real feminists, who believe that women have less rights but aren't man-hating bitches- though I disagree with them, I can live with it.

Psuedo-feminists, though, only have two ideals:

1) Men are the scum of the Earth.

2) Rape is genocide x 10.

Here's two good examples of it:

1) Some women walked by- wasn't talking to or anything, she was just walking by- a guy who told a rape joke and she punched him right then and there so hard that she hurt her fist. And the worst part? She was APPLAUDED for it. I mean, ladies, if you were just walking by when you heard a rape joke, would you lunge at him, trying to claw out his eyes? Didn't think so (unless you said "yes", of course, in which case, you need help).

2) The whole Daniel Tosh incident (which, for those of you who don't know, was some girl paid to see Daniel Tosh's show- and keep in mind that she should have known that his humor was really edgy, kinda the point- and heard Tosh making rape jokes. She did the unspeakable thing of heckling Daniel Tosh by saying "rape jokes are never funny!" instead of, you know, just fucking leaving, so Daniel Tosh did the normal thing by making fun of her by saying "you were raped by, like, five guys, weren't you?" And the girl was so disgusted and felt so threatened that she'd be raped right then and there that she ran out, woozy, scared for her life [not exagerating with that sentence, that's what the girl said]. So, now they have a petition to stop Daniel Tosh's show/make an episode dedicated to rape awareness [have one for both], over one girl being a dumb close-minded bitch.)

(For the record, this section on feminists was pretty much taken from one of The Amazing Athiest's videos, because although I was aware of them before his video, he put how stupid they were into words better then I ever could.)

"Tumblrtards"
teh rly stpd 1s who tlk lyk ths and r compltly srios abot it

I mean, really, do I even need to explain how stupid those people are?

Conclusion
Facebook and Twitter have tons of annoying things and Tumblr is the devil's latest reincarnation.