To Facebook or NOT to Facebook

I will admit it, I'm a Facebook junkie. I love to know what's going on in other people's lives but I also really love the fact that I can keep in contact with family, old friends and others through Facebook. I don't know how many friends I have but I do know that I've never "accepted" a friend that I don't know. I either know them, am related to them, or they are acquaintances. I think it's weird that people have "friends" that they DON'T know. Lately FB is driving me insane. I think that people post things to get under other people's skin. I HATE when people post their whole entire day on Facebook...where they are at every second of the day. It drives me INSANE when people are on "dates" or out with their loved ones and they are posting about it on Facebook. Why are you not enjoying each other's company?

Updating my "whereabouts" is fun for me because I can't do it on my phone. When I'm with my friends I'm always quick to say, "did you tag me here?" I'm half joking usually but I think it's funny you can even do that. Sometimes I get the vibe that people want their lives to sound cooler than they really are so they post things just for that reason. Sometimes I think people get to involved in other people's business on Facebook but I guess it is a social network and if you have a Facebook then you should be prepared to let the world see into your life.  

Don't get me wrong, I post on Facebook about my day or my weekend or something exciting but it's never to boast or brag...it's just because I can. I don't care if anyone comments, I don't care if anyone reads it. I do it just to do it. Lately Facebook is driving me insane though. I see the people who hate their lives EVERYDAY and I want to smack them and tell them to be grateful for what life has given them because it's probably not so bad. I see the people who post where they have been the entire weekend and make their lives sound super exciting and then you ask if they had a fun weekend and it's all negative. Did you forget you were posting you were on vacation at a 5 start resort? I don't feel sorry for you.

I feel like Facebook as of lately is the debbie downer of the day. Hurt feelings, rude comments to make someone angry, but oh it wasn't intentional. People letting the world know that they hate their life. GO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT THEN. Quit posting it on Facebook for the world to see. I think that is honestly the way people feel communicating is easiest now days. What happened to a good chit chat with your best friend. Voice to voice...you can hear the person laughing and you can hear the emotion in their voice. Now days it's a comment here or there on Facebook or a text message. I hate not having real conversations with people. I'm not so much a phone person but I hate calling someone for days on end and then getting a text message asking me what I'm doing. Are you kidding me? I've been calling you for days and all I get is a text message?

I love when people ask to be your friend on Facebook, you accept and then they start going through your pictures and get hurt about you hanging out with someone they don't like or whatever and then they make a rude comment? This is me, this is my life, this is who is in my life. If you don't like it then by all means why are you friends with me? At the end of the day it's like a reality t.v. show that people are addicted to, can't get enough and it's about 90% drama. So needless to say, I'm really considering deleting my Facebook all together. It seems its the way of life now days and I hate that. I miss having REAL conversations with people.