Your Facebook shout outs reveals a lot about you!
By Muzicmaster7
@Muzicmaster7 (45)
Philippines
August 29, 2011 8:26pm CST
Oftentimes, we are not even conscious about it, but I do believe our shout outs in Facebook, given on a consistent basis, tells a lot of our character, of who we really are and what we are made of.
I gave it a benefit of the doubt when I first heard or encountered the idea, but when I tried to make my longtime friends as subjects, true enough, it makes a hell lot of sense. The ones who are drama queens before are still the drama queens in their profiles. The ones that are very bitter, tend to shout most of the time about things they see around them that displeases them. Same as to the ones who rarely had a serious moment in conversations, they usually react on facebook threads with the same senselessness! Moreover, the ones who are always prominent, maintains a "high-profiled" image on their Facebook pages.
As it was said, "Our character oftentimes shines through in our writing.."
How about you? what do you think about this?
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@HornedDemoN (117)
• Bulgaria
30 Aug 11
I agree.
And here's another thing I've noticed.
People often take advantage of the Internet (not only Facebook, but pretty much every site that allows you to express yourself through various forms of creativity like drawing, writing, singing etc) to show who they truly are, because it's much harder to do so in real life, where you're constantly being misjudged by the people around you. But when you're on the Internet, you show only the side that YOU want to show to others. Nobody's going to know you tripped and fell in the mud last week or that you vomited in class/at work today. You can simply exist as nothing more than a mere nickname. And with this, every trace of shyness or any other imperfection simply disappears, because hey, after all, people don't know you, you can be whoever you want to be on the Internet and your opinion will matter.
Anyway, that's not necessarily a bad thing, but it certainly moves us away from reality and makes life harder, because in a way, we're trying to escape from our problems. Problems we'll have to face sooner or later, only this time in real life.
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@Muzicmaster7 (45)
• Philippines
30 Aug 11
I am giving a firm "that is so true!" on that statement you made where we tend to show only the side that we want to show others.
Point aptly said.
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@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
30 Aug 11
Pardon my ignorance, but what, exactly, is a Facebook Shoutout. In my years on Facebook, I don't think I've encountered this yet. I do an occasional status update or share a link. I've received notes. But what is this shoutout thing?
@bagarad (14283)
• Paso Robles, California
30 Aug 11
Thanks for the clarificaton. I do think that status updates reveal something about the person. Some people just post links. Soem people only post their political views. Some people almost always make their update a puzzle where you have to ask to know what they are talking about. And some people just share what they are thinking about or doing so you can keep up with their lives. I don't post as often as I should because there are so many other sites to catch up with. I mostly read what my friends post and respond, since my own life is pretty routine.
@Muzicmaster7 (45)
• Philippines
30 Aug 11
I'm sorry I wasn't too clear at that. Varier is right, it's the status update. The term shout out is used as well to define the thoughts that we post on our Facebook wall.
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@chiyosan (30184)
• Philippines
30 Aug 11
i would agree to this also. people who always spend a lot of times in facebook posting a lot of nonsense will only reveal much too much about ourselves.
well i think it can be really pathetic also when they do that, working much too much on their accounts rather than something more important..
@Muzicmaster7 (45)
• Philippines
30 Aug 11
And what's really surprising is that most of the time, these people are unconscious about what they reveal of themselves. I hope they'd realize it before it's too late for them.
@secretbear (19448)
• Philippines
30 Aug 11
Hi!
Of course! Our Facebook posts will certainly tell something about us because it came from us. Even if we just re-post something or share something we've heard, it will still tell something about us. If we share something he hear on the radio, it will say that we listen to the radio and we listen to that kind of stuff and we enjoy that kind of stuff. If we share something we've heard from our neighborhood, maybe something funny, it will say that we find things like that funny or maybe we go around our neighborhood a lot.
And yes, I agree. Those who are dramatic in real life are still dramatic in Facebook because that's what who they are, wherever they go, wherever they are, it will show one way or another. Our character will show in what we post so I agree there "our character oftentimes shines through our writing".
Even if we do not post a lot, even if we do not share things about us, it will still tell something about us. It will only say that you're a secretive person.
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@secretbear (19448)
• Philippines
30 Aug 11
Exactly. People will treat you based on the way you show them what you are.
@Muzicmaster7 (45)
• Philippines
30 Aug 11
Very well said secretbear! I believe that Facebook has not only become a mere social site where we can keep in touch with our friends but has also become a medium into having a peek on the lives, personalities and character of people you are interested to know about.
That is why we have to be conscious about what we post too. Coz it's just like telling people what you are made of, therefore, you get treated the way you teach people to treat you.
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@Metatronik (6199)
• Pasay, Philippines
30 Aug 11
I like your point because that is actually true. Can I re post your sentence "Our character oftentimes shines through in our writing.." on my facebook?
To be honest I am guilty of that as well because there are times that there are people who noticed that I am always mad by writing status messages in facebook.
There are times I have caught other people in the act on how they write in facebook like they want to fight with someone else but in reality they can't make it.
Just like my former coward boss he tends to trash talk about me in facebook then when I gave him a rebuttal he just deleted me on his friend's list. Well it is not my lost.
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@Muzicmaster7 (45)
• Philippines
30 Aug 11
No problem metatronik. Anyway, I have some friends who post a lot of angry, mad thoughts too. Sometimes I try to tell them to watch what they post coz when I try to imagine that I never knew them? I could think of them as people who are bitter at a lot of things and that I'd be kind of scared to approach them and befriend them. I hope you're getting my point.
@Metatronik (6199)
• Pasay, Philippines
30 Aug 11
Of course I totally got your point muzicmaster. Sometimes my eye-brows raised whenever I am reading their status message that they tend to hit the person that is also connected with them in facebook.
@Muzicmaster7 (45)
• Philippines
30 Aug 11
There's nothing wrong about posting your problems on facebook jowel. But we are trying to impart a point that we need to control it too sometimes. When you post things like that, at least you get to find people and friends who can sympathize and comfort you. But when you post personal problems over and over again, people will get too used to it that at times, instead of getting sympathy, you'll most likely to just be ignored.
I have proven that so many times. Coz i knew people who are fond of posting such stuff to the point that they already seem to me like people who extremely lacks attention, and for me that is, pardon my thought, quite pathetic.
@kewlme (163)
• Philippines
30 Aug 11
I agree that facebook status will reflect the character of a person or sometimes the emotions that the person is feeling at that moment. Even if it is a quotation from a famous person then somehow this will give you a hint on how is the person is feeling. There are pros and cons in using facebook status however one should take the consequences either positive or negative responsibly. The sad thing is most of them still blame other persons and not their own self.
@jaiho2009 (39141)
• Philippines
30 Aug 11
This is very true.
I saw/read many shout out in facebook and most of it reflects what they feel, or how are they feeling that moment.
Sometimes it is fun when friends posting their comments and more comments from other friends too.
But sometimes it becomes too personal when people started having fight in their profiles.
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@Muzicmaster7 (45)
• Philippines
30 Aug 11
True, coz there's a lot being revealed on a person's personality through his or her posts. I must say though that there is a difference between someone who is consistent and someone who is kind of unpredictable. So we cannot really judge by a single post. It always depend at the consistency of a person's posts that his or her character is seen.
Yeah, that's right. Some have to learn to just, you know, not tell the world everything they want to say whenever they just want to say it.
@tong_jd (29)
• Philippines
30 Aug 11
What one writes on his/her FB shout-out pretty much reflects the kind of person he/she is. Personally I don't get annoyed with what people post in their walls, after all it's theirs. What I just don't like reading is when people show off. You know, they're in this posh restaurant, eating the most expensive dish there or they bought some new gadgets, etc, etc. I also don't like those who post things that reeks of negativity. I mean, can't they just keep it to themselves? Good thing there is a hide button which always comes handy.
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