Facebook is keen for apportion the most special of life ’s moment . Like pictures of a bar , comic links , or your need for an able body to help you move a sofa .
But those status updates are an open proclamation to everyone you bed . Some information is unwelcome . Some of it is unbearable . So , for the sake of all your Friend , the following public statement are no longer allowed .
The birthday thank you
The only affair less sincere than the Facebook birthday wish ( copy , paste the words “ felicitous natal day ! ” ) is the day - after status update , expressing your gratitude for the piles of perfunctory praise from people you scarcely cognize any longer .
All this serves to do is remind everyone that it was , quite late , your birthday , in the wispy hope that someone will realize they forgot and shoot you a belated substance . You do n’t want to squall give thanks you into the wind . If someone in real life wishes you a happy birthday , give thanks them . That ’s it .
Deaths
Bummer city ! This clobber has no blank space on Timeline , because Timeline is beautiful . And a death observation , whether casual or luxuriant , will only make everyone uncomfortable and cheapen the qualifying of the departed . The final stage of a human spirit should n’t be ready bedfellows with a shared meme picture of a squirrel . Be respectful . Or you will be haunted .
How to Deal with Death Online the ripe Way
Personal messages to your significant other
You ’re in love . Love is wonderful . But beloved is intimate , and Facebook is not . Cutesy content ( “ I pretermit u so much infant ! had a neat clip this weekend : -D”)—these must stop . get off a message , an email , or literally any other physical body of communication that is n’t relayed across C of news feeds . We would n’t walk into your kitchen and shout about how athirst we are — don’t pollute Facebook with your love howl . In fact , we ’d prefer that you stop by each of our electronic computer and just retch us by hand .
Hangovers
Whoa , man ! Did you really drink all of those beers ? No , you did not ! What , you did ? You drank all of those beers , and now you ’re hang over ? So hung over !
Now we know . Now we can nod solemnly and think : Man , you are the cool , and you have the big hangover of all prison term , and you vow to never drink again . possibly you wo n’t refer it again , either .
College admissions
Nobody cares except your close family unit and friends — who can be reached online directly — so give up bragging . Unless you got into a direful shoal , in which case you ’re just making everyone sense bad a la Facebook demise proclamation .
Exercise
Another bragger ’s favorite , the effort of physical strength is now a usual subject of Facebook statuses . Nobody cares about how much you just bench or how many miles you just ran . Nobody wants to see pic of you standing at the coating line of a 4k playfulness test . Unless you sustained a grotesque trauma during the subspecies — we’ll take a facial expression at a shot of that .
Asking for money
It ’s keen that you started a clientele / website / app / lemonade stand / Kickstarter / massage parlor , but involve your Friend for money — especially the giant swath of your Facebook impostor - ally — is always a faux pas . So please , no blanket invitations to shop at your online jewelry fund .
Romantic anniversaries
There are two citizenry who unfeignedly manage about this , and you are one of them . you’re able to probably suspect who the other one is without using Facebook . See “ Personal message to your significant other ” above .
New phone number
Helpful : have everyone know you ca n’t be reach by phone because you dropped it in a toilet or it fell off a cliff or whatever . Cool , we ’ll know to hit you via e-mail rather . Not helpful : asking that everyone send out you their phone numbers because you lost your phone and ca n’t be bothered to actually need us personally . Losing your earpiece is in reality a neat excuse to reconstruct your phone Bible with people you really care about ! If you ca n’t remember who to call for , odds are you do n’t need to be calling or texting those mass any longer .
Bemoaning Facebook
Not even because it ’s ironical , but because it makes you look like a sidewalk Rapture street - shouter . Nothing makes you look less So over Facebook like taking to Facebook to state your disapproval of Facebook . Or its secrecy policy .
Engagements
observe a pattern here ? This might be the only sentence in your life 150 mass will like a status update ( unless you ’re choose to bring together a manned mission to Mars ) . Either way , it ’s a LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME LOOK AT ME move . convert your human relationship status if you really want some indicator on your Timeline . Any sort of status message beyond that is self - indulgent and irritating . You ’re also beam your approaching marriage to hundreds of citizenry who wo n’t be invited to the wedding . That is n’t very squeamish either .
When it doubt , use the favorable formula . bide off from things nobody but you cares to bang about or celebrate . Then , Facebook will continue to be a firehose of semi - interesting living gristle , or else of a dump truck full of wish-wash .
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