Facebook -What The Hell Is It For?

What do you use Facebook for?  To keep in contact with out of state friends and family?  To keep up to date with your college buddies?  To spy on an ex-boyfriend?  To get all the latest gossip on everyone you know and don't know?  To see how many "friends" you can tally on your list?  As your main form of communication to those closest to you?  Tell me - let me know in the comments section below.  I'm curious how people I know use this online social network.

I'm sure you'll be able to relate with a lot of what I'm about to write.  I've seen so many insane things go on on Facebook that I've deactivated my account twice.  Some of it is downright scary. 

I had one "friend" who posted between four and six status updates per day.  Every day.  Without fail.  I wondered what kind of job he had that he was constantly posting on Facebook.  He didn't.  Okay then.  But did I really need to know that he had a hankering for a Coke Zero?

Another didn't post too much but when she did, she was quoting something from the Bible.  Always.  She never said anything that didn't involve God or the Holy Spirit or her blessings along with some verse from the Good Book.  That's nice, but for those of us who don't know what we believe in or don't believe in the Bible or God or the Holy Spirit, this, after a period of time, becomes, well..... ENOUGH.

I know a friend who has someone who posts, every night, what they had for dinner.  Or what they are about to have.  I know him and he doesn't usually say much, but one of these days, he's just going to snap and post back "NO ONE GIVES A FLYING FART IN THE WIND WHAT YOU'RE EATING FOR DINNER SO SHUT THE F%*#  UP ALREADY!!!!!!!!"  I can't wait.  hehehehe

My cousin has an outstanding view on the whole Facebook posting thing.  She said something like "people can post whatever they like - if I don't like it, I don't have to read it."  Now I don't know hardly anyone who doesn't get at least slightly annoyed by some of the stuff that people post but that's just me.  I envy her for this outlook.  I wish I could adopt it.  But I can't.  It just ain't happenin'.  People annoy the shit out of me, especially with some of the moronic crap they post on Facebook.  So sue me.  I'm sure my Facebook posts piss some people off.  So we're even.

I shut down my Facebook profile a while ago because of family drama.  Not like there's not enough of it in real life, but let's add our disfunctional family to our FB friends list and see if that can't turn out badly somehow.  I didn't realize it was the "non-joking day" of the week and I made a joke and once again, for the umpteenth time, someone's not talking to me (like that's a bad thing).  Then, I get an email from someone else in the family about how immature I am and when I ask what they're talking about, I get read the riot act about how I deleted them from my friends list.  Uh....hello?????  After I let them know I didn't delete them, I closed the whole account.  Didn't need it.  As my dad is always asking - what happened to picking up the goddamn phone?????  God forbid. 

Well that was months ago.....I'm back up on Facebook now.  I don't have any of my family on my friends list anymore.  I won't do it.  I learned my lesson there at least.  I limit my list to only those I actually communicate with.  That means I have less than 60 people on my list.  It works for me.  Tell me what works for you.