Obnoxious Facebookers

Are you a daily Facebooker? Do you scroll through the news feed regularly? Do you find yourself making disparaging judgments of the posts of others? Do you quietly delete connections because of their posts? Are you sick and tired of the obnoxiousness of others?

You are not alone.

There are classifications for these types of pariah. In fact, it may not have been known initially at the conception of Facebook that it would become such an interesting social experiment. The website by design is a breeding ground for narcissism, a place where people can exploit themselves in self-aggrandizing advertisements; a brag rag of sorts.

The other side of Facebook provides lonesome losers a way to surreptitiously interact with the general outside world. It is a way for those enigmatic electronic socialites to engage in virtual conversation with those with whom they otherwise would not.

Then there are the pity partiers. The only posts they provide are commiserating comments begging for sympathy. These aren’t the ones who occasionally have a bad day; EVERY single post has to do with how horrible their life is and begs for consolation.

The Over-Sharers

This is not necessarily what you initially might think. Although the people that seem to share a little too much personal information are obnoxious, this classification is for those who incessantly ‘share’ others posts or pictures. They are the equivalent of the people you would flag as junk mail because they’d send so many forwarded jokes, quotes, or other garbage no one, other than themselves, has enough time in their lives to ever read all of it.

If you are one of those, please stop! Come up with something original of your own. Even better, go get a life of your own, get off your computer, so that when you come back to it, you actually have your own story to post and not someone else’s.

The Whiners

As mentioned previously, these people use Facebook as their very own pity party. The only posts are about how bad life is or it’s a share of some quote that is meant to incite a response from the rest of Facebook of sympathy. Usually, the same over-reaching theme is prevalent.

To the whiners, we don’t care that your cat died over a year-ago and you’re still ‘dealing’ with it. We hope you realize that your over-indulging posts take away from others who genuinely have a rough moment, post about it, and then move on with their lives. Also, please stop sharing the motivational quotes that none of the rest of us need for motivation. I could go on, but then I might be placing myself in this category.

The Braggers

The classification reserved for those who seem like everything in their life is easy. It seems like daily they have some grandiose event or experience the rest of us wait a lifetime for. They provide a moment each day that gives the rest of us another reason to resent them not because we’re not happy for them, but that we selfishly did not have the same experience.

This group can be summed up from this recent satire from ‘The Onion.’ (Pardon the language) Look, Facebook is all about bragging. It’s what it was made for. All we ask is to tone it down a little bit so the rest of us have a couple of days a week where we get to make the most exciting post of the day.

Now go ahead and get back to your daily Facebook update and continue to roll your eyes and think misfortunate thoughts about those obnoxious Facebook friends.