I only have 25 friends on facebook. It fluctuates between about 20 and 29, depending on how I'm feeling, and how many people I feel I can justify calling a friend.
Even with this small number of people, I still seem to get a lot of status updates in my news feed, and I have to wonder why the most boring people seem to update the most. There are 3 people on my facebook who I have on there because it would have been socially unacceptable not to accept them as friends. Those 3, and 4 of my other actual friends, constantly put up status updates that serve no purpose, such as 'just cooking dinner' or 'am off out now' or 'got loads of cleaning to do'... blah blah blah. I really cannot see that it's worth the effort. Anyway, as a result, my news feed is usually incredibly dull. It gets intermittent posts from my veg people offering unusual things to do with boring vegetables; from a sweet shop in Bristol, about licorice usually; really random stuff from the OU, and from a couple of bands that I unwittingly said I 'liked' not knowing it would infringe on my news feed in this way. I don't want to 'unlike' any of them, so I have to accept that for what it is. This is such a long winded way of trying to get to my point it verges on afflicted absurdity, if there is such a thing.
This is the point:
When my other 17 friends plus one fully virtual friend put up a status update, it is interesting around 90% of the time. They are either witty, bizarre, or informative. Just now someone put up a status saying he was nearly clipped by a gigantic golden hawk. So I googled 'golden hawk bird' ('golden hawk' sadly brings up technology and car websites for the most part - oh and he was definitely referring to a bird, as talon scars were mentioned). The first thing that comes up is ferruginous hawk. I'm assuming this is the same thing. Ferruginous supposedly Latin for iron-rust colour ish. I can't speak Latin so I have to take the internet's word for it. I can't find anywhere that says the ferruginous hawk is more commonly known as the golden hawk. Does anyone here know anything about birds? It's really bugging me.
Actually no, this was the point!
Even the interesting status updates often lead me into the mental forests of frustration. So why bother complaining about the boring ones? So I guess the point of this post is that it's pointless. So I've just wasted a precious hour of study, what with all the googling. When will I learn: Open the books not the laptop!!!!!
Status updates
I only have 25 friends on facebook. It fluctuates between about 20 and 29, depending on how I'm feeling, and how many people I feel I can justify calling a friend.
Even with this small number of people, I still seem to get a lot of status updates in my news feed, and I have to wonder why the most boring people seem to update the most. There are 3 people on my facebook who I have on there because it would have been socially unacceptable not to accept them as friends. Those 3, and 4 of my other actual friends, constantly put up status updates that serve no purpose, such as 'just cooking dinner' or 'am off out now' or 'got loads of cleaning to do'... blah blah blah. I really cannot see that it's worth the effort. Anyway, as a result, my news feed is usually incredibly dull. It gets intermittent posts from my veg people offering unusual things to do with boring vegetables; from a sweet shop in Bristol, about licorice usually; really random stuff from the OU, and from a couple of bands that I unwittingly said I 'liked' not knowing it would infringe on my news feed in this way. I don't want to 'unlike' any of them, so I have to accept that for what it is. This is such a long winded way of trying to get to my point it verges on afflicted absurdity, if there is such a thing.
This is the point:
When my other 17 friends plus one fully virtual friend put up a status update, it is interesting around 90% of the time. They are either witty, bizarre, or informative. Just now someone put up a status saying he was nearly clipped by a gigantic golden hawk. So I googled 'golden hawk bird' ('golden hawk' sadly brings up technology and car websites for the most part - oh and he was definitely referring to a bird, as talon scars were mentioned). The first thing that comes up is ferruginous hawk. I'm assuming this is the same thing. Ferruginous supposedly Latin for iron-rust colour ish. I can't speak Latin so I have to take the internet's word for it. I can't find anywhere that says the ferruginous hawk is more commonly known as the golden hawk. Does anyone here know anything about birds? It's really bugging me.
Actually no, this was the point!
Even the interesting status updates often lead me into the mental forests of frustration. So why bother complaining about the boring ones? So I guess the point of this post is that it's pointless. So I've just wasted a precious hour of study, what with all the googling. When will I learn: Open the books not the laptop!!!!!