Facebook is not your diary!

hi arystine! yeah, facebook is not your diary! because mylot is your diary! [b][/b] maybe you can try to ask her to sign up in mylot and post her status and photos here. on one hand, she can earn money doing what she likes. on the other hand, it won't appear in your facebook timeline anymore. on the other other hand (maybe you have three hands ), all those who don't like what she posted can just leave a comment to let her know. maybe she will start to like mylot more than facebook because mylot has more people (from all around the world) to respond to her posts? and also you can earn more in mylot since she will be one of your active referrals? good idea right? because this benefits all of us! start to invite her here now!

Hello Thank you for sharing this arystine. I know a lot of friends who use facebook as their diary. Yeah! true sometimes it's really annoying that they keep on broadcasting the things they do. Since I don't have the courage to tell them, I just hide them on my timeline.:) People should be careful that Facebook is not a safe place to put our private life. Thank you for sharing ^_^ Have a great day :)

Facebook is filled with people posting the mundane. Honestly, I unsubscribe from friends who does that. I don't need to know every single thing they do, and yes like you I miss out on other friends posts that may be more important because the updates gets flooded by a few friends who post all the time.

Hello arystine! :) I know some people who does that. Well, luckily, you can hide those from your timeline. But then again, just like you said, facebook is not a diary. Maybe mylot can be your diary instead! ANyways, there are people who does posts a lot of their feelings and emotions and pictures from everyday life. As if like telling the whole world where you are every single moment feeling like a celebrity or too much wanting to have attention like that. It is really irritating, you know. Those people treat facebook like their diary. Well, if you are close to those people, you can message them by telling to minimize their posts and pictures cause really it's annoying! Might want to keep something hidden from facebook instead.

Thanks a ton for sharing this discussion. Yes u are absolutely correct, many people these days are so much active on face book that they have started using it for their personal gain like posting their deepest feelings, what is happening in their day to day life, posting their personal and private pics and this is very much annoying. I have advised many of my friends and they hardly pay any heed to me. i hope they will learn a lesson of their own one day. What say?

You are right Facebook is not a journal, yet different people make different things of it. I agree that it is awkward to have your page flooded with everything they do, but I would politely ask them if they have too much free time on their hands, because most people do not have that amount of time. I have discussed the issue about posting frequency with many people and it is generally agreed that five to six posts a day is seen as acceptable without being intrusive, go over a dozen - each and every day - and most people will find you annoying and are more likely to un-friend you than stay connected.

Exactly, well said, and this is how I lost my best friend, through facebook! We went on holiday together and the whole time we were away she was forever updating her facebook page, telling everyone what we were doing, where we going and even the weather! It's crazy, I cannot compete with Facebook, Facebook won as she would rather spend her time on Facebook than with me. Her sister is the same, like you, she posts all the time and she boasts and brags about what a wonderful life she has, she has everything, loving boyfriend, own home, car, wonderful job, frequent holidays, I put a discussion about it and found out you can stop the posts, rather than defriending her, and neither actions are forwarded to the person concerned, so even if you do defriend her, she gets no notification from Facebook that you have done this!

I have a lot of friends on Facebook who treat it exactly like this, and I will admit that it is something that I find annoying. One of the things that I like to do is to block posts from people who treat it in this way, which means that I am able to have them added as a friend but there is no reason that I have to see everything that they post. I won't use Facebook a lot of the time anymore because of the number of annoying people who use it, but it is still something that I like to use from time to time just to keep in touch with people.

You are correct that facebook isnt a diary and seriously why would you post everything you do and to let your facebook community know everytime you do something. I sure hope she doesnt say Oh wow its time to go the bathroom now LOL. Its really silly and she should learn to grow up its because she hasnt reached her maturity level yet and she wants to think of herself as a kid. It gets annoying everytime you go on facebook its the same person over and over again and it gets old. There are people i would really like to block on facebook too only because of the stuff they talk about but i leave it and just pass them when im reading stuff on my timeline.

Thats what happen when we get addicted to something, did you ever feel that way on the past?

Sometimes i feel bored with facebook,see useless comment from members and upload their photo.They're still do not understand the advantage of facebook.I know there is no rules for that,they're free to do anything there.As you said facebook is not diary.We shouldn't write any feeling there,for what ? got response from the others ? I think that's just waste my time.

I think if she is you friend, it would be fine if you just make a joke about it. We know that jokes are half meant, maybe that could help her realized that you indeed think that she's making facebook as her diary. Like when she posted something personal about her life, post a comment asking "Diary ito?" with a smiley. I once active with facebook and I have a friend that practically the same. Whenever I open my account, it was flooded by her own posts so for like twice or thrice, I post a comment to her post saying, "Artista? Nasa headline ka na lang lagi." Then once, "Mukha mo na lang lagi nakikita ko dito, pambihira?" LOL because she would always post a photo of her and her boyfriend almost everyday. I know that it was some kind of offensive but we're long time friends and we've been through tough times before so this kind of comments won't really hurt for sure. Just tell how you feel about her post. Because in my opinion, they do post those to get others attention so give her what she wants in a way that she would realized that someone is tired of it.

Yes, they even take pic of their dinner and post it on Facebook. I also have a friend who will take picture of all their dirty clothes ready for laundry.. Yes, the unsubscribe button is very handy on this situation if you don't want their updates to appear in your timeline. Cheer!

I suggest you to write her or even say to her this one.. oh friend...people have major events and minor events in their life..If you post your all day events which are not so important or interesting to others...then not only I and other friends might skip your posts on facebook...because you post all stuff of things. This may cause other fail to get notification of your any important event or interesting matter in your life because they may ignore your posts because your posts are coming like a flood.Beside,they cannot look and find important things inside your flood of post....So I suggest you to post fewer but important. It will be good for yourself and ourselves too. I hope in this way telling her may not offend her... Actually she may not be acting like a celebrity but she has habit...it may be your wrong attitude towards her...so clean your mind first...love her and you will not offend her...take care

We can't do anything about those people who have made use of Facebook as their online diary. I feel silly sometimes posting non-sense and I take it down after a few minutes. But I could see others who would be posting something that should be kept within themselves and yet they are all flaunting it.

I see that same thing everyday in my internet cafe. So many kids come in for pc time. Post messages and photos for hours at facebook. I cant see why they like that site so much.

Well almost everyone using facebook are making it a diary already. They posts where they are, what they eat, who they're with, what's in their minds, who they quarreled with, what they bought etc. etc. and those posts goes with photos too.

I think there is this setting on facebook that let you manage your friends post and status. It will let you first know if she can be able to post something on your timeline, where in you can accept or deny it. CHeck your setting to minimize such not too important post and status of your friends.

I agree with you, however I think if it does annoy you than you should hide her statuses. I currently have two lifelong friends on only important status updates because they broadcast the smallest things. I wish you all the best and thanks for sharing this topics.

I have had friends who use it as a mass-broadcasting system. I have done rapid updating before for specific instances (Most recently, I drove across country and would post cities as I went through them to keep friends and family updated), but day after day without end is quite ridiculous. My best advice would be to "hide" her or unfriend her, your choice. As far as I know, if you hide her posts she will not notice, but unfriending her she may or may not notice. I know how hard it can be to keep up with friends who use it appropriately when one friend is "spamming" or flooding your facebook with her posts, and I hope you can find a way to stop this. Honestly, though, she likely will not stop until she herself gets bored of doing it. :/