10 Facebook posts that will make you instantly want to unfollow your friends (standard.co.uk).
“For the most part, Facebook is a wonderful place where you can connect with old friends, share interesting articles, and stalk your crush.”
Or somebody else’s as in the case of many 5o Shades of grey cardigan who found that the social media boom has given them opportunity to put down the local gazette open at the personals and incentive for more immediate poison pen letters.
“Sure, some of us spend a little too much time on Facebook, but for the most part, Mark Zuckerberg’s brainchild has changed our lives for the better.”
And certainly profitably ad revenue and mined data his, with occasional jollies from overheard coitus un-interruptus listening in microphone to boot (Latest Picks 1st Jun. 2016).
“Logging into our accounts can bring us laughter, joy, and even (if we’re lucky) love. It’s a way to stay connected in modern society, and share our perspectives and experiences with the world at large. But then, there are those who threaten to ruin Facebook for everyone.”
“Stay connected in modern society, and share our perspectives and experiences with the world at large” while undertaking that—if you’re lucky—cybersex flirting and the “love” equivalent of looking for the deal of the day at Amazon that you can let everyone know you have just found in the hope that an even better offer from the captive audience attention it gives will follow.
“We all have a few individuals in our feeds who drive us to the point of insanity with their relentless (and relentlessly awful) posting. They are the people for whom the ‘Unfollow’ button was created: from your weirdo uncle who posts right-wing conspiracy theories every 30 minutes, to your frenemy who has made it her mission to publicly document every single brunch dish she consumes.”
Both of whom I’m sure love you just as much too, while seemingly losing sight of concept of “friend”—or even family as in case poor uncle Barry there—while on your guard with what you say, do, or are describing you do, that you are not “un-friended” yourself falling foul of social media’s inclusion-exclusion principle carefully doing breaststroke—but not showing any nipple—in a stream of genteel mediocrity, anxious that perhaps one more puppy or kitten in a cup is beyond the pale fur.
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