People are creatures of habit and predictable nature, this predictability has followed many onto the virtual world and is threatening to bore the users of social networking websites. Every day my Facebook account is bombarded with the standard four types of Facebook status update.

1. “Great night last night!”

Yeah no one cares if your night was good or not, chances are, those people on your friends list were either there themselves or couldn’t care less.

2. “I’m hanging hard!”

Often Facebook status 1 and 2 are joined to form, yeah you guessed it, “Great night last night but I regret drinking so much – I’m hanging hard”.  Tuff shit. Don’t act so surprised – it’s widely noted that when people drink alcohol they suffer from headaches, grogginess and possibly vomiting. If you are going to suffer, please suffer in silence; don’t burden me with the knowledge that you are hungover.

3. “Another day – another day of work “

None of us like work but take your crying elsewhere and man-up! Consider yourself lucky that, in these times of economic hardship, you even have a job.

4. “Wish I didn’t have to do this coursework/revision”

Hmm.. yeah… wasn’t it mentioned in the course open days that you’d actually have to do some work? We may be students, the laziest of humanity, but for goodness sake you only have 8 hours of lecture a week and you’re still whining about doing work.

OK rant over.

Maybe I just don’t ‘get’ Facebook updates like all these other people do, but my philosophy on this is if you aren’t saying anything productive, why say anything at all. So I urge all you Facebook users to consider whether or not you are adding productively to the billion or so Facebook updates that the world receives.

If you think I’ve missed any types of Facebook update please submit any ones as a comment below.

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