It’s the age old story that everyone knows: Facebook drama. Nothing like grabbing a bucket of popcorn, sitting down and scrolling through your news feed, and basically you can sum these dramas up into three main categories; the "feel sorry for me’ cry for attention, the direct sting, and then the most hilarious of them all, the relationship spill-it-all. Let’s explain…
1. The "feel sorry for me’ cry for attention.
This is not an uncommon occurrence on our beloved Facebook news feed. For those of you who still can’t get the gist of what I am saying, I’m referring to this lovely little bit of drama: let’s take a look at the above picture number 1… See what I am talking about now? Ok, so let’s dive into this little bit attention seeking drama and understand it. So, you post a status saying how bad your life is right now, not giving reasons why and to top it all off, when people ask you what for, the answer you give is “Nothing. Don’t worry.”You know what that screams to me? It screams "GIVE ME LIKES I NEED ATTENTION’ even louder than a blow horn. If your problem is so personal that when people ask you what’s wrong you don’t wish to answer them, then why in the seven seas did you post it on your Facebook timeline to start off with?
2. The direct sting
We all are human. We all have different views, and we all will undoubtedly quarrel with other people ("coz if you quarrel with yourself, I suggest visiting a physiatrist. You got a few nuts and bolts loose up there then, mate). But instead of solving an argument maturely and sensibly, what do some people do? They get a bright idea to take the whole load to Facebook. Let’s put picture number 2 into consideration……This little bit of squabble makes me just want to heat up a packet of microwavable popcorn and just sit there refreshing the page just waiting for the upcoming comments. Little bit of entertainment, don’t you think? The truth is, when you pull a little stunt like that off, you aren’t appearing tough. You are actually looking somewhat of a troublemaker. And not only that, you are making your personal business everyone else’s. Let’s admit, we all have friends on Facebook we don’t really talk to, but are just acquaintances. And for those friends who may not know the whole situation, you will appear as the bad guy, not who the status was written for.
3. The relationship spill-it-all
I have one question for people who spill every little detail of their relationship on Facebook; who is in the relationship? Just you two, or everyone else on your friends list?The normal answer to that would be, just the two of you. It gets a little bit hypocritical if your answer is that, but after every little fight you post a wall post on your other half’s wall, like in picture 3.Little heads up, you are actually showing that nothing in your relationship is private between the two of you. By exposing stuff like this on Facebook every time you have a little fight, what will happen when things get serious? CNN, BBC and Sky News get informed and told to broadcast it?
Points to avoid Facebook Drama:
1. You were given the commodity of chat. USE IT.
2. Your wall is not your personal diary.
3. If you have a problem, don’t Facebook it: meet up, talk it through, anything really. Posting it on Facebook never solved anything.
4. If a problem cannot be solved, cry a river, build a bridge and get over it.
5. Watch out for what you post. Half of the people couldn’t care less what you’re going through. The other half are grateful for the problems you are facing.
And on that note, I’m off to the supermarket. It seems I have run out of microwavable popcorn…
