Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Annoying Things on Facebook

Things on Facebook that annoy me (in order of least annoying to most):

1.) When ugly people all seem to use anime characters as profile pictures.
Okay, I know I shouldn't be one to judge, since, you know, I'm not exactly Yuri Tag myself, but dudeseriously. what's the point? each time i see someone with a profile picture of some anime, all it says to me is: "Hi, I'm not attractive so I'm hiding behind this little Japanese girl with big eyes, purple hair, and an inappropriately large chest." So it's really a lose-lose situation for ugly people. Either you put an actual picture of yourself and people will see that you're ugly, or you can put a picture of an anime girl and people will universally assume that you're ugly. At least with the former, people will respect you a little bit more. (as an aside, i don't actually know anyone with an anime profile picture, so i'm not singling out anyone that you might know. it's just a general thing). Also, why does it seem like all unattractive people do this? You know, like automatically flock to anime characters for profile pics? Is it like some unspoken cult rule or is it knowledge that comes naturally to unattractive kids? Like, why anime, you know? Why not a picture of an animal/art/graphic? Must it always be anime??

2.) People who write "it's complicated" under relationship status.
In short, these people are straight-up douchebags. I just want to tell them all to a.) get real; or b.) grow a pair. They're just too much of a wimp to admit they're single, and it's almost sadly amusing how they think the rest of the world can't tell. It's not rocket science: YOU'RE SINGLE. Face it. Nothing "complicated" about that, Avril. These people may think they give other people the impression of coming off as mysterious, aloof, or filled with dramatic experiences with girls... but really? They just come off as obviously pathetic. Plus, to add to the un-legitness of this status, "complicated" can come with a huge range of interpretations. Some loser can think of that one time he waved to the girl he liked and she totally ignored him and go, "Well, I consider that complicated. Yeahhh, I'll put it's complicated. Heh. That sounds vague enough to imply that I may or may not be involved with girls and just specific enough to allow me to justify it if I'm confronted. Win!" ... In that case, I may agree with the 'it's complicated." As in something be complicated up in yo' head, dude.

3.) When people have statuses that make no fucking sense.
Okay, this may just be the anal editor in me, but statuses are not a place to write the first thing that comes to mind. well, not exactly true. to clarify, there's nothing wrong with wanting to write the first thing that comes to mind, but can people at least word it into coherent english sentences? pet peeve #1287: people that write shit like: "jane doe is my shoes hurt." (also annoying - people who "are": places, song lyrics, or shoutouts to friends.)Like everything else today, FB statuses have been designed to make the epic IntellectualFail morons that we call 'our generation''s lives easier. so facebook was kind (read: foolish) enough to dumb down status writing and try to help the nubcakes out by dropping the "is". the "is" used to force people to have to take a few seconds out of their day to find a way to word their status so that it doesn't make other peoples' eyes bleed. i liked it better back then. like, seriously, jane doe - would it kill you to just use like TWO extra brain cells and change that to "jane doe 's shoes hurt"? or (and this may be too much of an intellectual stretch for some) "jane doe has on very painful shoes"? trust me, it was even harder back in the olden days when the "is" was mandatory. jane would have to use an extra three instead of two brain cells (shock!) to come up with, "jane doe is suffering from painful shoes." but at least it would force braindead computer-fried idiots to actually think for a while instead of just vomit-typing.

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