I guess it's not Facebook, per se.
It's more the people that I have been in contact with recently via the social networking site.
Don't get me wrong. I (like everyone else) think Facebook is awesome. I have been able to connect with a number of old friends that I have not seen since the good old days in Deutschland (also where I met BFF since Papa was affiliated with the overseas military). I have interacted with long lost friends and classmates that I likely would have never seen or heard from were it not for my boy Mark Zuckerberg and his nerdy little homies.
That being said. Now that I am fully immersed in the Facebook culture, spending good chunks of time alternating between stalking old boyfriends (OK, not actual boy friends, more like dudes I liked who would not give me the time of day), and perusing pictures posted by the
The thing about the virtual diss is that there is little you can do about it. When you friend someone on Facebook (even if it was only to ensure that she wound up the trampy fat chick you always knew she'd be) and they ignore, or worse, deny your friendship, you have no recourse.
You can contemplate jumping in your SUV and driving to Iowa to find her sitting on her rickety lawn chair in front of her rusty trailer with her half naked, ethnically diverse babies running around in the dust so that you may slap her sunken, tired face, all you want. But, chances of that actually going down are slim.
You could also ask a friend of a friend who knows her friend to give you her number so that you may call her and demand to know her motivation for rejecting your virtual friendship so that if nothing else at least she'll be forced to say it to your face(or your ear). But, that's an unlikely scenario as well.
Instead, what you are most likely to do is obsess over it, talk to your hubby (who could not care less) about it, and log into BFF's Facebook account who she friended (WTF?!) so that you may view all of the trampily posed snapshots of her and her stupid, but strangely normal looking friends, and then log into your blog and tell the world that skinny-ditzy-boyfriend-stealing-hussy-from-high-school needs to GROW UP!
It was like 15 years ago and seriously, he chose you, even if it was only because you were givin' it up. Just friend me already so that I can look at your stupid, skanky pictures and you can look at mine and see how A-W-E-S-O-M-E I am right now.
158 comments:
Chuckling as I read.
GREAT and so true!
I don't like to friend people just for fear they would reject me. :)
I told you then and I'll tell you again now, HE JUST LIKED ME BETTER THAN YOU. No need to get all pissy about it now.
And I did see your photographs - you forgot to set your preferences to private.
(Kidding...kidding...I'm not Facebook stalking you. I reserve that for the people I really went to high school with.)
I got my first rejection the other day, and it was oddly painful. Sorta like being in high school all over again. Stupid FB.
So funny!!! FB is awesome, but it has also caused me some similar grief to this one. It's weird...how you can be right back to your 16 year old head just b/c of FB. Harumph as my daughter says!
yeah, you are mad about someone not accepting your friend request? I am about to write a post about someone actually having the nerves to accept, then knock me off their list. Can you imagine?
I'm guilty of ignoring requests, for one good reason and one lame one: (1) I'm uncomfortable "friending" people that I have never met in the real world, and (2) there's a FB game called Word Challenge, which has bonus rounds that throw up mixed-up letters of names of people from the user's Friend list, and the more people on the list, the harder it is to figure out the scramble! I'll let you decide which reason is my good one and which is my lame one, because I can't decide.
P.S. Do you ever have blog followers try to Friend you? I've received my first one, and it's been sitting collecting dust for weeks. I just don't feel comfortable...
Have you ever gotten offended when someone doesn't tag you in a note? Then obsessed over how many comments they're getting? And think about what a clever and witty comment you would have left if YOU would have been taagged? But refuse to comment because you're offended?? yyyeah, me neither.
I think I'll send her a friend request daily until she accepts. I'm already being ridiculous about this whole thing, might as well move on to pathetic. Go big or go home, right?!
"Go big or go home, right?!"
I've taught you well my friend, I've taught you well.
Hilarious! Bawhaaaa you have issues!
I'll have to say that I don't understand friending someone that didn't like me back in the da day. Shoot if I didn't like you then, I probably ain't gonna like you now.
I do think you should send her daily request just for the heck of it. lol
My own cousin won't friend me! I feel so...so...well...I'm actually ROTFLMAO cause (sing this part) 'I'm prettier than she is! NaNaNaNa Na NaNa!'
Hahahaha that is so funny. I did the same thing, I can't stand Pauline F, I just wanted to see what she WASN'T doing with her life and I GOT DISSED - oh the shame!!!!!!
Amen
I'm with ya.
LOL Really I need to put myself out there and befriend more people so I can start getting rejected.
Darn tootin' I'm awesome! It is nice to see where everyone is now. And it's kind of nice to brag where I am now too. But I honestly have no idea how I ended up with 249 "friends". Apparently, I know a lot of people... or at least I'm very memorable.
Oh my goodness, this is so funny! and sooooo real!!!
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By the way, I would approve you as a friend on facebook. :)
Wow, I don't think I've had a friend request rejected yet (knock on wood). But I'm careful who I send a request to. There are a couple people I knew of in High School, and I haven't gotten the nerve to actually friend them. :) Yep, I feel 16 again just thinking about it.
Happy SITS day!
I'm one of those people who rejects friends *L* I figure I'm far enough away from most people that they won't hunt me down! Plus, we didn't really associate in High School, so what makes me want to associate with them now!
facebook really is the devil!
ROFLMAO! I've never been denied, in fact, my beef is with HS friends who friend me then bombard me with those I need "X" for my game, "gifts" and "hugs"....call me mean but I hate those things.
So glad you were featured on SITS today, I can't wait to read more!
this is the like most perfect [ and truest] blog ever.
OMgosh! I love this post! You said everything that I have felt!! Hilarious!
Most of my Facebook friends are people I see/talk to on a daily basis. I've found three friends from HS (which was 30 years ago) and two of them posted their pictures - pictures that make me go "My gawd, you look OLD." Me? I don't look old. Nope.
The third has posted nothing but pictures of the tattoo on her foot. The very LARGE tattoo on her foot.
I think she's in that trailer in Iowa.
I love me some FB and haven't had a negative experience yet, but you've left me askeered.
You know that if you are friends with someone she is friends with and you post a really witty comment and some gorgeous pics, she'll get to see them, right? ;O) xx
Happy SITS Day! xx
Too funny, and you're totally right. FB is kind of like high school all over again.
My issue with facebook is all my old friends say the same thing to me: "why don't you have kids yet??" and I never know what to respond cuz what I'm thinking is "I've had 7 years of infertility and pregnancy loss...thankyouverymuch for bringing it up"
Oh, how I love and hate Facebook.
Happy SITS day.
Hysterical! I haven't rejected anyone that I actually knew in high school but now I'm wondering what they're thinking about my pictures since I'm the pregnant girl!
Hahaha - so true!! Happy SITS day!
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA great post!!!! Congrats on being FB! Have a great day and enjoy your plethra of comments! :)
I'm terrified of facebook rejection, online rejection from total strangers I can handle just not on facebook.
Very funny! And all this is why I refuse to do facebook.
Awesome post! I think the only thing worse than this sort of virtual diss is being "friends" with someone one day only to find out weeks later that you've been deleted from their friends list and are no longer, in fact, "friends." It feels like an online breakup with someone you don't even really care about.
Happy SITS day!
hahaha. FB has enabled all sorts of highschoolesque feelings to come back and haunt me.... Crazy times :)
OMG! You are hilarious! Thanks for a great start to my day with a good laugh. Happy SITS day!
Happy SITS day!
Have you ever been jealous on FB because your arch nemisis from HS has four times as many friends as you do?
Um. Me neither.
LOL!!! VERY entertaining!!
I remember when "MySpace" was the thing. Then Twitter. Then Facebook. Soon it will be something else.
And I have refused all of them. I blog and that's enough of a time-suck for me!!
This is so freaking funny and so freaking true!
PS I friend a lot of people at once (what I like to call "the mass friending") and then put it out of my mind so I can't remember who has and who hasn't friended me. I like to think of this as rejection-proofing myself.
So funny, because it's so true. I always say I'm just glad it's not called "stomach book." Happy SITS day. Glad I found you! Love the name of your blog!
I joined facebook just to keep up with my teenagers! They couldn't open an account unless I was a "friend" so that I could stalk them! (jk). Now it's how I keep up with all the moms.
I just can't get into FB! I have tons of friend requests which are just sitting there since I don't know what to do with them - I mean, I didn't like or know them in high school, why would I want to be "friends" with them now?
Your post had me laughing!
this is one of those things where i cant stop laughing, but at the same time, makes me hang my head in shame. i do the eeeexact same thing, same thought process. and i have definitely considered hopping in my car and driving right over. lol
thank you for a great morning laugh, so funny because it is sooo true...just remember living well is the best revenge.
hahah! so funny!
I don't get the whole FaceBook thing. Really, I don't
Yeah for you being the feature today!!!!!!
Oh, so sadly true...it rings close to home. ;)
CONGRATS on being SITS FB of the day! Great post about facebook.
I LOVE this! So funny and true! Happy SITS day!
Facebook? Don't have it, don't want it. I have too many other sites to take care of! And I don't need Facebook to get the infamous "diss" because I think the blogsphere is bit like high school all over again :)
Hi, congrats on being FB. I love this story, because it is so true. There are people from school who have friended me that I swear, if there name was not there I would not have known who they were. I still feel like I'm 18 but looking at these guys has made me really feel my age. The guys especially are all fat and bald or grey-haired. Most of the girls don't look very good either, especially the popular girls as you say.
I also think it is insincere to friend people who you didn't care about when you were in high school, so I only friend people whom I liked.
It is like high school all over again! The pain, the angst~ the sending out of the relationship scout to inquire why do you like/not like me.
I hate it. So I totally always accept the friendship inquiry. It takes 2 seconds. Even if I am thinking "WHO is this person?" :)
Ha! Even though we are now "grown ups" some things still poke at our 13 year old "sore points"!!!
Great post.
B x
Love the virtual diss!!! So true
I hope the people I deny feel that way...LOL
Happy SITS day!
So funny...I don't know if I like facebook or hate it. I did refuse one friend request...similar to what you stated the guy chose her cause she was passin' out the goodies! Then the slutiness just escalated from there...can of worms?...no thank you!
Hah! This post is SOOOOOO true! It's hard not to become a facebook stalker. But whatever, it makes the day go by faster!
oh tooo funny! i don't friend people either. It just brings back all that high school meany stuff. But i was dieing on this post! cracked me up!!
I guess there will always be mean kids - even in adulthood.
Having more facebook friends than her is the best revenge :)
Great post!! SO funny!
Very well said Sista....I couldn't agree more, LMAO!
The benefit of Facebook for me is that I can see everyone, say hi, and then NOT go to the reunion and deal with awkward small talk or witness the class alcoholic get lit.
Did I mention my 10 year reunion is next month? I'm not going, but I'm not curious about anybody either.
Ooooh, hehehehehe. I love snark.
Congratulations on your SITS feature!
This is exactly why I didn't go looking for much of anybody from HS! I don't need that back. I teach high school and live with drama EVERY FREAKIN DAY. Enough already.
Congrats on your SITS feature.
This is too funny! I've never actually had this happen to me - probably because I don't remember any of their names.
I haven't entered the Facebook world yet. After reading this, I'm no sure I want to. haha!
LOL. I guess I didnt have enough friends/acquaintances to ever be denied.
But I will tell you secret. YOU HAVE TO PROMISE NOT To tell anyone else. Okay? Okay.
My DH blocked an old girlfriend on facebook and now she cyberstalks me and leaves hateful comments on my blog. SHHHH! Don't tell her I know it's her.
I so have a FB arch nemisis so I'm totally getting you on this one. Nothing will take you back to the drama of high school faster than FB.
Haha - this is too true!
Happy SITS Day. Just friend one of their friends and look at their photos that way. Probably why they didn't friend you - want to hide their fatt butt. lol!
So funn- and sadly true! No facebook for me - I have enough drama in real life!
This is so true! It's almost like being in High School all over again! lol!!! Happy SITS day!
haha! FB culture cracks me up. I do spend a bit of time on it myself. ;)
Oh FB can be very interesting..
I TOTALLY get this post. My favorite day was when facebook changed those little pics you see so now I don't have to friend someone to see if they went bald after dumping me for a skanky whore...for example....
Oh soooo true! It's a bad addiction if you ask me the way we widdle away our time on FB! Happy featured blogger @ SITS today
And that's why I don't "friend" people. I let them "friend" me and then I become the disser. LOL!
G-I-R-L, you ain't even right! What a coincidence that all the so called popular cheerleading pink Mustang driving going out with the quarterback gorgeous long lusterous hair (whew, stop me) girls from my school turned out just like the ones from yours!!
BTW, I'm having a hell of a time with the "word verification" in order to get this comment posted!!
&&*%$#&%, here goes attempt #3
I'm so with you!!! and after stalking the old boyfriends I'm so happy that I married the husband and not the boy who ended up fat. {Not that I'm all superficial... just a litte}
Now if I can just find the family blog so I can see if his kids are ugly or not....
This is hilarious! Instead of stalking people from H.S. I stalk my husband's ex girlfriends.
I'm proud to say they are all mostly trampy skanky strung out looking hoochies.
Ha ha facebook, such a wonderful invention.
Awesome! lol
Wow, I think you have found the most common use for FB! How funny!
Hahahah, love this post...facebook is a funny thing!
Jamie :)
Stopping by from SITS! That is too funny and so true! Have a great SITS day!
I actually befriended a lot of people I disliked in school. They were so mean to me, I was the outcast at school. Well one day my husband decides to tell a certain person off for me and she actually took it to heart and apologize to me.
lol!
i wish the exboyfriend would get the fact that i've rejected his request FOUR TIMES means i don't want to be his friend. on facebook or otherwise.
happy sits day!
Wow- you could not have summed it up more perfectly! It's a window into the time suck that is facebook! *Also, I'm a little glad it's not just me...
Hahaha. Facebook does weird things to me too. I hate agonizing over virtual friendships with people I haven't talked to or even seen in a decade plus, but God forbid they don't approve my "friendship" cause I'll proceed to obsess and stalk and possibly question my entire existence...okay, maybe not that bad. ;) Happy SITS day.
So glad it's your SITS day girl, you are da freakin' bomb. But you already knew that didn't you?
I vote you use your Facebook status updates to discuss your new job as Paris Hilton's BFF and see how fast she comes running for a piece of your Celebrity action.
What?? Your BFF isn't Paris Hilton?? My mistake. They do look so so similar. ;)
BlogBaby
yOU ARE A FRIGGIN RIOT! It's BOUT TIME I found some good bloggahs'!
I busted out loud laughing about logging in using BFF...
I'VE DONE IT.
Someone posted an I heart facebook stalking to my page.. and I was APALLED...
Sits friend stopping in...
again.. it just doesn't sound RIGHT.
:)
d
I don't really care for facebook. I don't ever accept requests from people just because we went to school together either.
Another good reason I am not on Facebook. I don't want any virtual disses. I get enough disses in real life :D
Ah, yes... FB. It is both friend and foe. I feel ya TOTALLY on this one.
I stalk the popular girls who still look amazing. But, shh, don't tell anyone. I feel 15 all over again.
Oh dear! You have pegged Faceboook! I am scared to friend even people I would would accept me for fear they won't and then I'd too would be in a frenzy wondering why they don't like me.
So funny and SO true! Happy SITS day!
I always sit when I get friend requests that I want to deny with my finger posed over the left click to hit "deny" in the midst of "why, WHY does this person who hated me from high school want to add me??" and always end up clicking "approve".
I am still a pushover.
My sentiments exactly... I'm friend requested by people who I don't know/used to loathe me in high school...
Very odd, this post school "we-have-lives-that-matter-now" stage of internet obsession.
Two of my conversations within the last week have been "OMG, I can't believe she's pregnant!" to which my husband replies "You haven't seen her in 8 years, hush!"
Loves the internets!
There are a couple friend requests that I've ignored because I don't recognize the name. But I promise you, I don't post any of my trampy pictures! :)
The thing that annoys me most is when you see that the stoner that cut class all the time is a dentist now, or the cheerleader that slept with half the football team is now a vice principal. Annoying!
Happy SITS Day!
So funny! Happy SITS day!!
Lol- my husband denies anyone and everyone for different odd reasons and I welcome everyone just so they can see how awesome I am too! LOl- happy sits day.
Too funny! Have a great SITS Day!
Hmm, considering that the same thing recently happened to me, I wonder if it's the same "friend." Where'd you go to school again?! LOL
Happy SITS Day!
As always, hilarious post! You are one of my favorite blogs!
I have a love/hate relationship with FB too! Stupid technology.
DITTO!! Happy SITS day!
haha so true!!! i love it!
xo-
I was on Facebook for about 5 minutes & realized that I did not want all of these people I didn't like 25 years ago contacting me now!
I don't usually friend people, but wait for them to friend me. One time I did friend someone and it took her about 3 months to finally friend me back. I felt hurt and rejected and so now I just wait for people to find me. That "girl" from my childhood who ruined my life is on facebook, but I would never want to friend her. I searched online and found her family blog just sitting there open to the public. I occasionally go there to see what she is up to and am secretly satisfied to find out that she can't have her own kids and has to adopt. That means that her DNA stops with her (Insert satisfied evil laugh here).
Yeah, got a love/hate relationship with Facebook. Love it for the instant connection with my friends whom I don't see much during the week but hate it for the ability to share pictures and plans that don't include everyone leaving those not invited feeling left out. it's a bag of nuts!
What's worse is when you get dropped as a friend! had a girl I couldn't stand to be in the same room with drop me and my fiance after a very uncomfortable in person run in. Even though I can't stand the girl, no one wants to be dropped!
Loved the post! And happy SITS day!
See, this is why I avoid anyone I went to school with like the plague on Facebook. Of course it's also why I don't go to my high school reunions, but still. LOL
Too funny! I had a FB account for like a week and was just over it. I thought it was kind of weird that SO many people even knew me. I would have to ask my husband to come see if he knew these people. He is also a teacher so a ton of his students wanted to be my friend, kinda funny. I just found it time consuming overall. Wow, I am rambling . Happy SITS day to you!
Not into facebook... and I hate twitter! Weird like that!
But what a funny read!
I belong to a FB group for my HS graduating class. It's like a short foray into PTSD scrolling through the list of members.
Did I mention I was the antithesis of popular in HS?
Makes me thankful I haven't jumped into the Facebook craze! Phew! LOL
I try not to contact "friends" instead letting them come to me... the rejection would be too hard otherwise!
LMAO! That was funny. I had an old boyfriend friend me and then he called my house!! THAT was horrifying!!
Congrats on your SITS day!!
Gotta love the virtual diss.
Reliving high school is rough sometimes.
Awesomeness - hello from SITS, by the way.
Love, someone who is so hugely enjoying those girls having their now-unattractive day in the Facebook sun,
Legallyblondemel
This is uncannily me. I think I'm hooked.
LOL I have had a "friend" post fat pics of me so I am not a fan of FB right now!
Hello from SITS
Oh.....I don't like reliving high school either; college, now that was a great time....:)
My thoughts exactly! I sent a friend request to someone and she grilled me in a back-and-forth exchange that was very cringeworthy. Quite embarrassing.
Hi from SITS - lovin' your blog:-)
Found you through SITS! Rejection on myspace is pretty awful too. Almost more awful because myspace is like facebook's trashy trainwreck cousin.
I'm going to follow you by the way.
Here it is: why Facebook gives me that uncomfortable "reliving high school" feeling too:
Stalk or be Stalked
lmao! That is so funny!
Awesome! Found you on SITS..and I know exactly what you mean! Oh Facebook, what have you done to us. Thanks for telling it like it is!
You are A-W-E-S-O-M-E and that was stinkin' hilarious.
Oh my gosh. This is so true. I have several friend requests like that and dangit, I just want to SPY on your life!
Yup, I think we've all got a love-hate relationship with Facebook.
So funny! I totally know what you mean, too... Facebook has good and bad qualities...
You nailed it! And you're totally cracking me up!
People I'm friends with on facebook probably think I'm mean! I always ignore requests for stuff and do not play along with any of the games. Not to mention..... I hardly ever log on!!!
I only use my FB account for my blogs and business - none of my friends are on it; some family, but they haven't found me out yet!
Happy SITS day!
happy SITSday--sorry, can't stay long, have to get back on FB and look again at the itty-bitty profile pic of the fellow cheerleader chick who I couldn't stand in HS,and by her comments on other friends' pages, I'm sure I couldn't stand now, but I have to keep checking to confirm that "yes, yes, it looks like YOU need the larger uniform now." whew.
Do you know how many relationships FB has ended? I know for sure of at least one-mine!
I just can't get into FB though I've tried. Twitter, though, I love!
youre seriously killing me. can we be friends? I love you :)
I am seriously LMAO right now!!! Too funny! Happy SITS day!
Thanks for the laugh!
Artful Blessings,
Kathryn
This is HILARIOUS! I'm totally addicted to Facebook, but I am so over the "Virtual Diss". It happened a couple of years ago when one of my friends (ex-friend now) got MAD at me because I didn't comment on her myspace page for a few days. "Um, EXCUSE ME! But I have more to my life than commenting on your MYSPACE!"
I never even notice when people don't accept my friend request. Or take me off their friend list. My real friends are on there so it doesn't matter. LOL!
you are so funny..
great post! I think my ex-bff had her friend "friend" me so she could log in and check out my stuff on facebook. whatever!!!
Too funny!! Stopping by from SITS :)
Oh My God - YES! Love this!
This. is. awesome.
Here from SITS. In the same way that I was from SITS the last time I commented. Which was, like, four minutes ago. So, anyway....Love your blog - you rock!
Congrats on your feature! Girl just post your beautiful pictures with your comments...like a signature ;). Then they'll have to see. Hope you had a great feature day!
LOL..tooo funny.
Congrats on being FB ..
Great post! I've never been denied but I've had a couple that obviously ignored my request. One of them was a guy who was pretty popular in high school. We were friends but not close. Now he is the alcoholic, former high school football star who can't grow up. And HE ignored me?! Me who is now all kinds of fabulous. But friended my best friend. He's probably just jealous of how great I am. A$$hole.
And this is why I love you!
Awesome as always!
Happy SITS day!
Yep, I'm a Facebook addict too. Maybe we need a 12 step program. I had this same experience except with a niece of mine. It's a little more strange when it's a family member. She accepted everyone else in the family but me.
I think she's mad because I wouldn't lend her and her husband money about 10 years ago. I think she's trying to send me a message, but I don't really care. If someone has to carry a grudge for that long, it's their problem, not mine.
haha, best facebook post ever!
happy sits day!
Wow.. first FB on SITS that I already check out regularly.
Happy SITS day to you!
Great post btw! very true.
Hilarious. I just keep my privacy setting on a very high count. I can friend them, but they can't friend me. Do I have control issues? Nooooo.
Wow...so far, I am one of the last Facebook holdouts in America and I have to say, this post might have delayed my joining even further!
Stopping by via SITS, a little late...
OMG! This is too funny! I'm really late on responding tot his post. I came from SITS and spent a lot of time reading your so funny blog, then my internet service crashed before I could comment. I love your writing. I have never had anyone reject me on FB. Do they actually refuse your friendship or do they just never get back to you? I've had a couple of people not get back to me within a few days and then I take back my friend offer. I'm not being sour grapesy, my OCD self just can't handle this friendship pending thing on my friend list. Those people were just people I wanted to see how they turned out anyway, no one I cared about. My arch enemy from school is actually a guy and he is friends with several of my FB friends, but the last thing I want to do is have anything to do with him. One of the joys of getting old has been putting years between him and me.
This post was awesome! I haven't been rejected on Facebook...yet.
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