[url= http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wait-but-why/annoying-facebook-behavior_b_4081038.html ]actually it's facebook[/url] but works for life in general 😉
It's funny cos it's true. 😀
I wish the guy hadn't written 'unannoying' several times, though. What an insufferable faux anti intellectual conceit! 😉
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Hmm - I see plenty of posts like that on FB and don't find them all that annoying. Maybe it's because I don't have 800 FB friends (the ones I do have might not be all that close, but do actually like seeing that they're having fun or doing well).
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Jamie you forgot to put it in quotes and pick up on my Grammar.
Grammar.
No need for a capital letter there.
Oh. Erm.
😳
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In this spirit of this thread i chose to not read the link and resisted copy and pasting. From what I understand you dont like everyone on the internet. Furthermore its ok to mock them though as that makes you the awesomes and them the losers
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I got as far as [b]A Facebook status is annoying if it primarily serves the author and does nothing positive for anyone reading it.[/b]
Isn't that the case with EVERY Facebook status?
They forgot to mention the 'look how amazing and advanced my kids are' category. To be fair I get constantly annoyed by some of the inane bullsh1t that people post up on FB, plus the constant far-too-personal life updates, cliff-hanger statuses etc. but it wouldn't be a very interesting website if those people didn't bother posting 🙂
People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.Isaac Asimov
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Hmm - I see plenty of posts like that on FB and don't find them all that annoying. Maybe it's because I don't have 800 FB friends (the ones I do have might not be all that close, but do actually like seeing that they're having fun or doing well).
^^^THIS is how to be insufferable on here: Pure, unadulterated smug self-righteousness... I hope it was deliberate aracer!
If not, soz 😉
I got as far as A Facebook status is annoying if it primarily serves the author and does nothing positive for anyone reading it.Isn't that the case with EVERY Facebook status?
I think it's also the point of facebook. I don't go to facebook to be educated or inspired, I use it to catch up with what people I don't see regularly are up to. Twitter is for words of wisdom. I'm happy to see people doing well, they don't need to make excuses or parcel it up differently
There are a number of people on my FB feed who I've now removed as I cant be bothered their smug crap. Oooh had a great week in Dubai with my hubbie. Thanks mum and dad for looking after the kids for a week.
That just rubs peoples noses in it and says their happiness is more important than their kids.
Im naturally hateful so people like that just piss me off further. Why are they still my friend on FB? I really dont know, probably just cant be arsed.
We havent set foot on the moon for 40 years, still have to start fights in the middle east to make our cars go(which also do not fly as promised) and our food is shite.
But we are great at social media analysis..briliant, hope thats broke a few rules which I CBA reading.
All of this confirms to me that I was right NEVER to have signed up to FB. One day Historians will look back at FB and ****ter and confirm that it was a sorry period in human history!
[i]One day Historians will look back at FB and ****ter and confirm that it was a sorry period in human history![/i]
but how will they communicate this information to the masses?
*updates fb*
'Just reading a cyling forum, what a load of self righteous argumentative twunts there are on there.'
"says their happiness is more important than their kids."
Eh? People with kids have to spend their entire lives devoted to serving them?
Their kids are 8-12
*edit* See jekkyl's post as well.
I have to take issue with
picking on any minute mistake or ambiguous comment
Seeing as how this is not a face-to-face way of interacting with others, I do think you have to ensure you are precise in what you type (unless, of course, you are being deliberately ambiguous). Otherwise your words are liable to be misunderstood.
Unfortunately for people who don't like being corrected, grammar can also be part of this as it changes the meaning of what is written. Often, it is obvious that it is a mistake, but sometimes it is not.
An example. People who actually write 'should of' instead of 'should have', ought to be corrected. If they wrote this in a personal statement, say, for a job interview, then they may well have their application binned.
The teacher of my manager's eight year old son wrote 'should of' on one of his pieces of work when meaning 'should have'. The eight year old spotted this (as an eight year old should). The net effect is a slightly diminished authority on the part of the teacher.
Anyway, if that is insufferable, then I think the issue lies with the person who finds it so (flounce).
Often, it is obvious that it is a mistake, but sometimes it is not.
I think you'll find there is no need for a comma after 'Often'.
You're welcome.
And that's why insufferable Facebook behavior will never go away -- there's no dislike button or eye-roll button or middle finger button on Facebook, and it's bad form to be too much of a dick in the comments below a status. So annoying statuses are just positively reinforced, and people remain un-self-aware that they regularly bring down the quality of everyone else's life.
Happily, that's not such an issue on here!
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picking on any minute mistake or ambiguous comment you can find
Could you be more specific?
Otherwise your words are liable to be misunderstood.
That is almost always BS. It is not because you get confused about the meaning when someone writes should of
Unfortunately for people who don't like being corrected,
I think they dont care about grammar as much as you and find the way its done "oooh I am so big and clever and you are stupid " that they object to.
Unless i am very much mistaken FB is not a job application and you should of [hehe] learnt to chill about informal methods of communication.
wonder show many insu
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Just like cycling you cannot stop can you 😉
I think you'll find there is no need for a comma after 'Often'.You're welcome.
The author of the sentence obviously wanted to emphasis a pause after 'Often'.
Easy beginner's mistake. I'm not expert at any foreign languages myself, so far be for me to criticise.
you can take people off your feed on Facebook by hiding their posts, rather than un-friending them.
I did this with one particularly omnipresent friend whose posts made up 63% of my news feed.
I think they dont care about grammar as much as you and find the way its done "oooh I am so big and clever and you are stupid " that they object to.
That should be 'don[u]'[/u]t' and 'way it[u]'[/u]s done' by the way.........
I do see your point about informal communication, but I have actually seen 'should of' on more 'formal' things like CVs. Maybe if someone had corrected them informally (when the only consequence is embarassment if it is felt at all), then perhaps they would be perceived in a better light. Or are we to take potential loss of face as a reason not to teach things in the first place (and I realise you shouldn't start a sentence with 'Or' before you mention it - I am just being informal)?
The ignorance of others is no excuse for dumbing down, I'm afraid.
And there we go.
I'd hide your posts if you were my friend on Facebook #yawn
One day, just before publishing his seminal work on relativity, Einstein thought to himself "oh, wait a minute, this is full of difficult to understand concepts and it challenges generally accepted wisdom".
So he didn't bother because he didn't want to hurt other people's feelings.
FFS.
(I am not comparing myself to Einstein before you fry me, I am just making the point that dumbing down to avoid loss of face for others is daft).
I defriended Einstein.
Some people on STW take being insufferable to whole new levels.
At least on facebook, you can block people who spout total shite. On here you get people who talk complete horseshit for YEARS before getting banned or leaving.
Good job the classifieds are decent 😉
We’re lucky to speak a language which has grown without the shackles of an educated elite trying to preserve its integrity - English was always the lay language, not the language of court, or science or the church. The consequence is a democratised language, largely free from unnecessary complications like gender, relatively simple tenses and verb structure (splelling’s another topic).
Because it's been corrupted and simplified, had the edges knocked off it, it's easily learnt and adapted, and arguably the most successful language in the world. Roll with it.
And turning the world on its head with a new vision of how the universe operates is one thing, pulling people up on grammar on informal social media is another.
I recently permanently deleted my Facebook account after six years. I can't recommend it highly enough. The sense of peace after it's gone is exhilarating. It was the same when I got rid of my TV in 2005. All that inane horseshit entering your skull all the time can't be good.
Before I permanently deleted it I opted to download all my info. It was quite an eye opener to see this graphics-free list of your entire history for the last six years. Friends, Family members, ex girlfriends, groups associated with etc. Call me a tinfoil-hat wearing paranoid but it was all a bit '1984'.
Because it's been corrupted and simplified, had the edges knocked off it, it's easily learnt and adapted, and arguably the most successful language in the world. Roll with it.
for these reasons it is ambiguous and therefore open to interpretation... which has its merits and pitfalls
There are a number of people on my FB feed who I've now removed as I cant be bothered their smug crap. Oooh had a great week in Dubai with my hubbie. Thanks mum and dad for looking after the kids for a week.
Are we friends on FB Bigyinn? But seriously, Dubai was totes,totes,totes shamazeballls! Luv, luv, luv it!!!! Lolz
I do see your point about informal communication, but I have actually seen 'should of' on more 'formal' things like CVs. Maybe if someone had corrected them informally (when the only consequence is embarassment if it is felt at all), then perhaps they would be perceived in a better light. Or are we to take potential loss of face as a reason not to teach things in the first place (and I realise you shouldn't start a sentence with 'Or' before you mention it - I am just being informal)?
Who are you? My mum?
Actually, no; she's been dead for nearly two years, so I don't have to pay attention then. 'Loss of face'? Crikey, that's such an Eastern concept, something we're really not too bothered with.
All that inane horseshit entering your skull all the time can't be good.
Good thing I don't let it, then!
The ignorance of others is no excuse for dumbing down, I'm afraid.
Wow I wish I could be just like you. Actually on second thoughts i will opt not to be condescending. Still at least your grammars impeccable if not your character 😉
It really depends on the scenario tbh but I have rarely seen it be done helpfully or sympathetically on the internet as a way to help someone express their views with clarity.
Its either to be funny or to be a smartarse
Some very strange non-sequitur comments there.
I'm still trying to figure out why some people think it is an aggressive act to correct others when they make mistakes that might lead to them being thought of as uneducated in a more formal setting.
Chips on shoulders, perhaps?
For the record, I don't mind at all being picked up on lapses by others. You learn something new every day, or so they say. You don't learn much if you just insult people who may end up helping you.
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I didn't read any of this thread, I just looked for Jamie's posts and was upset he didn't carry on.
But wait as I get right to the bottom there he is again and that made me smile.
In the words of Alan Partridge "ahhhhhhhh".
I'm still trying to figure out why some people think it is an aggressive act to correct others when they make mistakes that might lead to them being thought of as uneducated in a more formal setting.
I think it the bit where you think of them as uneducated that they object to even though you should of [ hehe] know what they did meant innit.
Chips on shoulders, perhaps?
lolz at the irony
I don't mind at all being picked up on lapses
Indeed you do seem to be taking the criticism here rather well 😛
Its about setting in the main and as I said i rarely see it done on the internet as a charitable act to educate. This was no exception in the main though it may be better meant if not executed.
@dannyh. It isn't the done thing to correct people in public unless it is of significant importance to all those concerned.
Hopefully you're teaching your 8 year old some good social skills to go with that superb grammar of yours 😉
You need to read posts more closely – I was referring to my manager’s eight year old. My daughter is five and I have, I hope, been teaching her some good character traits such as humility and honesty.
Interestingly one of the ways I think I have taught her is as follows. When she picks me up on things I have got wrong or forgotten, which she does quite often because she seems to have a very good memory, I don’t immediately say ‘shut up you smart-arse’. Instead I tend to compliment her on remembering, and I apologise for being wrong. If, however, she then says something triumphant about proving others wrong, I do say ‘it is not nice to do that, even if you are right’.
On the other hand, when she is being mardy and unreasonable, such as a recent incident when she threw a tantrum about not winning a prize, I tell her off. I also try to get across why I am telling her off.
My son is two. We are at the ‘it is not nice to throw wooden toys at your sister’ stage of character forming, so it is too early to tell!
@dannyh. It isn't the done thing to correct people in public unless it is of significant importance to all those concerned.
Hopefully you're teaching your youngsters some good social skills to go with that superb grammar of yours 😉
Now corrected. Sorry for the mistake.
Are you planning on teaching your children that it is not polite to publicly correct strangers when it has very little significance?
Yes - I think a sense of proportion when it comes to these things is evolving in my kids. I doubt that they would do this to an adult anyway as respect for elders is also something that I hope I am instilling. That's 'respect for', though, not 'blind obedience to and fear of correcting if it is important'.
In the realms of STW and my 'involvement' in it, I admit that I have occasionally used pedantry about grammar and spelling as a barb. This is usually when someone is spouting off all sorts of crap whilst trying (and failing) to use big words or complex language. To my mind, this is covered under the notion of not taking yourself too seriously (as an awful lot of people on here seem to do - even when espousing bat-sh1t crazy tripe).
Back on topic. I don't think it is acceptable to cow people into not pointing out errors purely on the grounds of 'manners'. Obviously discretion should be used, but I have found that 'manners' are quite often hidden behind by people who don't like being questioned.
Anyway, enough now. I had a cracking nightride last night, but for some reason the knuckle of the ring finger of my right hand has nearly doubled in size and is hurting. I don't remember knocking it.
Swings and roundabouts - this is primarily a bike forum after all. 😐
It's spelt "shit".
(Doffs hat).
Although I did think the pre-emptive swear filter bleeped that one out.
Anyway no one noticed my (not at all) deliberate mistake when I misspelled 'embarrassment' in an earlier post.
(Tuts loudly and goes off to carry on cooking the dinner).
So you were attempting to avoid the swear filter?! Ummmmmm!
Best to type out your swears in full, else you might end up baned.
I suppose, technically, moderating your language is swear-filter avoidance?
****s.
I've just learnt a very STW-specific autocorrect! Every day's a school day.
You mean you aren't foaming at the mouth and immediately emailing singletrack towers about being censored?!
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Nope, it's just a specific spelling of a specific word, lest the spirit of he-who-shall-not-be-named be conjured.
I know then baned baned
I think I may be out of my depth now. I honestly haven't the first clue what you are on about!
That is not a trailing leg by the way, I really don't know!
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I'm waiting for the mods to set up a new auto-correct just for Jamie.
A certain poster used to spell th eword banned a novel way and it auto corrects it is you try just as it does with I N * R ATS
see below
I struggle with long sentences
The other one I know of is: I?TL
I have no useful contribution to make
Oh, and of course something northerners say