Just recently, a new acquaintance of mine got attached on Facebook. Now, that's absolutely normal, and I have totally no bones about it. The problem is when they take that whole lovey-dovey thing to another level, and publish their mushy sweet-nothings on the platform of Facebook for their hundreds of other friends to partake into their union of sweet sweet love. After awhile it becomes obvious that their status updates are not meant for anyone else to comment/like on, which defeats the whole purpose of Facebook.
Now, perhaps this topic has been written about to death, but I'm sure it doesn't get any less disgusting with time. I'm okay with the occasional sweet-nothing, like "missing you today", and let me get technical about it, since I do have a technical limit where it gets more than a bit nauseating, let's say no more than 3 times in a single day. I mean, I already have to deal with knowing about what A ate for breakfast, B trying to be witty about titties, and how C realised that he is a boy that actually likes little boys. That is seriously enough brainspoil for any one day.
I don't need D to tell me about how she's missing E, lovesick and drowning her sorrows by brushing her teeth with a bottle of Jack. Or going "Baby", "darling", "sweetie" and other unprintable terms that newly cojoined at the hip lovebirds use to express their intense need to engage in some physical coupling. Like "muack muack". Yes, aren't you glad I didn't print the rest already.
I've seen some of these couples do other things too, like set up a facebook page called "Just you and me, A + B" and posting on their walls all their sweet-nothings till all their friends get nauseated and unfan the page, or stay on out of courtesy because they are mutual friends but are secretly recoiling in disgust, feeling their stomachs churning. And when the inevitable comes, as it often does with these couples, they will be secretly happy that they will be spared a further deluge of ridiculous cheesy updates that they already secretly blocked but did not dare to tell the "couple that wasn't".
The thing about facebook is, everything goes on it, and even things that aren't supposed to be public become too public. It makes for some epic showdowns, for example when people don't like each other and start sliming each other on facebook for the amusement of us all, being the secretly voyeuristic and gleeful spectators of epic showdowns. On facebook, everyone has a ringside seat, even if you arrive late to the party. And anything published stays on for eternity, even if it doesn't I already printed my screen and saved it for posterity. I was here @ epic showdown X.
However, that very same advantage becomes a disadvantage when people forget that there are still things that others would rather not know, and decide to dismantle the walls and lower the floodgates, letting the filth stream forth.
Stuff like this
"Baby, there's a cockroach in my room, wish you were here."
"Darling, I would kill them all for you, if I could be there for you now."
I think I'm gonna be sick.