{"id":22546,"date":"2013-10-16T06:54:26","date_gmt":"2013-10-16T11:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=22546"},"modified":"2013-10-16T06:54:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-16T11:54:26","slug":"if-everyone-followed-these-rules-facebook-would-be-18th-the-size-it-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2013\/10\/16\/if-everyone-followed-these-rules-facebook-would-be-18th-the-size-it-is\/","title":{"rendered":"If everyone followed these rules, Facebook<\/em> would be 1\/8th the size it is"},"content":{"rendered":"

Brendan McKenna linked to this Huffington Post<\/em> piece<\/a>, providing a gentle reminder to too many Facebook<\/em> users about their insufferable posting habits:<\/p>\n

To be unannoying<\/em>, a Facebook status typically has to be one of two things:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1) Interesting\/Informative<\/strong><\/p>\n

2) Funny\/Amusing\/Entertaining<\/strong><\/p>\n

You know why these are unannoying? Because things in those two categories do something for me, the reader<\/em>. They make my day a little better<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Ideally, interesting statuses would be fascinating and original (or a link to something that is), and funny ones would be hilarious. But I’ll happily take mildly amusing<\/em> — at least we’re still dealing with the good guys.<\/p>\n

On the other hand, annoying statuses typically reek of one or more of these five motivations<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

1) Image Crafting<\/strong>. The author wants to affect the way people think of her.<\/p>\n

2) Narcissism<\/strong>. The author’s thoughts, opinions, and life philosophies matter. The author and the author’s life are interesting in and of themselves.<\/p>\n

3) Attention Craving<\/strong>. The author wants attention.<\/p>\n

4) Jealousy Inducing<\/strong>. The author wants to make people jealous of him or his life.<\/p>\n

5) Loneliness<\/strong>. The author is feeling lonely and wants Facebook to make it better. This is the least heinous of the five — but seeing a lonely person acting lonely on Facebook makes me and everyone else sad. So the person is essentially spreading<\/em> their sadness, and that’s a shitty thing to do, so it’s on the list.<\/p>\n

Facebook is infested with these five motivations — other than a few really saintly people, most people I know, myself certainly included, are guilty of at least some of this nonsense here and there. It’s an epidemic.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brendan McKenna linked to this Huffington Post piece, providing a gentle reminder to too many Facebook users about their insufferable posting habits: To be unannoying, a Facebook status typically has to be one of two things: 1) Interesting\/Informative 2) Funny\/Amusing\/Entertaining You know why these are unannoying? Because things in those two categories do something for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[391,139,593],"class_list":["post-22546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","tag-facebook","tag-psychology","tag-socialmedia"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-5RE","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22547,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22546\/revisions\/22547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}