Shit My Facebook Says: You Can't Sit With Us Anymore

[author_by_night]

Ahh, I love these memes.



Oh, how peachy keen!

... I have no idea what "peachy keen" means, or even where that came from, but it felt appropos.

I'm really not sure where to start. The tone of this makes me think it was created by one of two types:

1. An eleven year old mean girl.

2. A sad woman in her mid-thirties who misses the glory days of ruling the hallway with pocket-sized hairspray, and decided to do the Facebook version of it.

But then why would you share it? Because the game looks fun, and you barely read what it actually said? This didn't show up on my friends list (I only saw because someone commented), but I have to say, I'm not sure how eager I'd be to keep someone who posted it.  Not to mention it doesn't make sense - you have to lie, but if you can't "pass this" you get unfriended? How can you pass a test you're supposed to lie on?

I will say I understand where this sort of thing comes from - the fact that a lot of the time, we do fail to correspond with FB friends. The thing is, these memes do the opposite of that. You're only responding because it's a game. Why not actually communicate with your friends? Comment on their statuses. Send random PMs just to send them. Like things.

Or you can post passive aggressive Facebook memes like you're back in middle school and rocking out to Destiny's Child with your BFFs. :)

Comments

[ragnarok-08.livejournal.com]

Good lord, why anyone would share that, I do not know DX

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

Either they're passive aggressive, or they're the type who share things without thinking, and I do think there's people who just share anything. That's seriously the only explanation I have for some of the things I've seen otherwise reasonable people post.

[rogueslayer452.livejournal.com]

Wow, the passive aggressive tone is strong with this one. Sheesh.

I will never understand why someone would post a passive aggressive post like that and thinking that people will stick around. Who wants to be pressured into staying online friends with someone who feels the need to basically be all "follow these instructions or we're not friends anymore." I've seen this on LJ with the whole defriending thing, on Tumblr where people go "oh that's cool I make a gifset everyone likes/reblogs but a personal post nobody likes or comments on." It's just amazing how passive aggressive people can become.

[author-by-night.livejournal.com]

I "love" it when people on LJ will tell you to comment if you don't want to be defriended. I don't comment on those because... why would I? It just seems really catty to me.

[mollywheezy.livejournal.com]

I think the point is if you don't follow the instructions you're defriended? Since it looks similar to the "leave one word on how we met and I can leave you a word thing?" Either way, I wouldn't comment on it and I think it's mean.

I did have a friend once ask for Made-up how-we-met-stories just to be amusing and he gave a gift card to the best story. It was hilarious to read through the comments. Now that was a fun game. Even though I didn't win. ;)

[pondhopper.livejournal.com]

The Book of Faces makes me shake my head in disbelief several times a day...at least.

[aggiebell90]

I hate those kinds of things. I got this one in a FB message today:

Nominate you for the Most loving and prettiest Mom Award. You must send to 15 moms and make their day. I'm also waiting!🕛 Sometimes u just need to hear it ... You're a beautiful mom, doing a great job and you're so loved! Hit 15 moms who put their kids first. Dear God, the sweet woman reading this is kind, beautiful and amazing. Please help her live life to the fullest and bless her in all she does! Now, you're on the clock. In 9 minutes something will make you happy. Please share this with 15 girls you love. Remember, only for ladies. If I don't get this back I'm obviously not a close friend. Once you read this, you have to send it to 15. . It's not that hard. Whoever sent this to you must care about you. Don't know how to send it? LOL. Just hold your finger on it and it should say forward.

It's the lines that say things like If I don't get this back I'm obviously not a close friend. (or, like the one you posted that implied that I'd be defriended if I didn't do it right) that drive me crazy. Because you know what? If I was a close friend, you never would've sent me that stupid thing in the first place, because you'd know how much I hate that chain letter "you have to do X in Y amount of time or you'll suffer Z consequences" crap and you'd never have sent it to me in the first place.

Ahem.

I might have a few feelings about this topic...

[bemkah.livejournal.com]

My opinion is that if the people who post these stupid memes delete you, they're doing you a favour :D haha. So I never comment on them really.

[spaciireth.livejournal.com]

I hate absolutely anything with "share this if..." in its text. I'm not going to share things that make other people feel guilty. And my other favourite is "raise awareness".

[rhoda-rants.livejournal.com]

Sad, ironic violins of ironic woe to anyone who loses an actual 'friend' due to memes like this.

I might ban them due to atrocious spelling and grammar before even parsing the content, personally. "Cant" - "your" - failure to close quotations marks. That last one's a huge peeve of mine. Same with parentheses. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD CLOSE YOUR PARENTHESES. I *hate* that.

On the actual content--yeah, it's passive aggressive middle school dumbassery on the level with, "Do you like me? Circle 'yes,' 'no,' or 'maybe.'" You're basically trying to trick someone into saying, "No, wait, you're my friend, I like you, really!"

Rhoda has no time for that shit.

[cloudsinvenice]

The stupidest thing about these is that half the time FB is throttling the content you see, so if people aren't commenting to someone it might not even be that they don't care. Though I must say, if the person is in the habit of posting stuff like this, it's probably not helping...

[dimity-blue.livejournal.com]

Even if I agreed with the sentiment (and I don't), I'd be too put off by the amount of mistakes in it to share it.

There's a message board I read, and someone on there has the signature: "Grammar: The difference between knowing your shit and knowing you're shit."

Rather appropriate, no?