Who are the most irritating people on social media? Girls aged 18-23?

whirlpool · 19-12-2013 02:49AM #1

***major generalisation / sweeping statement alert - Don't get your knickers in a twist! :cool: ***

I have to say, having taken part in social media sites (facebook, twitter, etc...) for the past 4 or 5 years, without a doubt the most irritating group of people are girls aged 18-23. Immature, desperate for attention and headwrecking; selfies, "personal" / "romantic" pics with their fella, duck lips and shallow and pathetic unending declarations of "love" for everyone and anyone "luv ye hun xxx"

Dopes.

Just my opinion anyway. I know it's a generalisation and I genuinely don't believe that the type of person I'm talking about is the type of person that posts on boards as they generally have the attention span of a broken barbie doll and are only interested in the sound of their own voice and how many Likes they get.

If you have years of experience of social media sites, what group of people irritate you the most on them?

Sir Arthur Daley · 19-12-2013 02:52AM

Old shielas

Annasopra · 19-12-2013 02:59AM

I find individuals irritating not groups

mdwexford · 19-12-2013 02:59AM

People posting non stop pictures and videos of their babies/kids!!!!

And then they get 50 likes and 30 comments off other stupid young mothers going "ah so cute hun" gtfo.

Holsten · 19-12-2013 03:02AM

"Going out tonight...." Jane Doe tagged at "Bar"..... "Best night ever...." "Pictures are going up...." "Ughhh I'm dying in bed, gonna get a dominos..."

Those types. I see these nearly every weekend.

Paulie Gualtieri · 19-12-2013 03:03AM

whirlpool wrote: »

***major generalisation / sweeping statement alert - Don't get your knickers in a twist! :cool: ***

I have to say, having taken part in social media sites (facebook, twitter, etc...) for the past 4 or 5 years, without a doubt the most irritating group of people are girls aged 18-23. Immature, desperate for attention and headwrecking; selfies, "personal" / "romantic" pics with their fella, duck lips and shallow and pathetic unending declarations of "love" for everyone and anyone "luv ye hun xxx"

Dopes.

Just my opinion anyway. I know it's a generalisation and I genuinely don't believe that the type of person I'm talking about is the type of person that posts on boards as they generally have the attention span of a broken barbie doll and are only interested in the sound of their own voice and how many Likes they get.

If you have years of experience of social media sites, what group of people irritate you the most on them?

I fully agree , I see examples of everything you've said all the time , that unfollow button comes in handy , I have most of these head wreckers blocked from my news feed.

Sir Arthur Daley · 19-12-2013 03:04AM

The people who change there name to Irish and continue posting crap about there Saturday night and putting up selfies, should one not be posting in Irish if you changed your name to Irish and liked about 29 Irish Facebook muck previously.

dpofloinn · 19-12-2013 03:05AM

Not forgetting a certain female grouping usually aged between 30 and 45 who post supposedly thought inspireing spiritual nonsense or those people who enter every facebook competition and 'Share' it filling up my inbox like a toilet with promotional sh!te

Sir Arthur Daley · 19-12-2013 03:07AM

dpofloinn wrote: »

Not forgetting a certain female grouping usually aged between 30 and 45 who post supposedly thought inspireing spiritual nonsense or those people who enter every facebook competition and 'Share' it filling up my inbox like a toilet with promotional sh!te

We call them the middle age shielas.

TheSetMiner · 19-12-2013 03:23AM

Facebook is very much like an economy. Initially we were all very naive and foolish. We threw cheap "likes" away as if we hadn't a care in the world. The Celtic Tiger days are over however and now we must scrap for these precious likes.
Calls of "fishing" and witty "first-comment wonders" have scared away the normal population from our news feeds. Have you noticed the intelligent people don't update their status anymore?
This has left an unhealthy concentration of stupidity on Facebook. This is likely the group you are referring to. The young single mother, the attention-seeking fat teenage girl, the idiot that dropped out of school and continuously bangs on about his love troubles.. All the usual stereotypes.
I think part of the success of snapchat is due to the fact that the more intelligent people tend to engage in it. There is no element of "fishing", no real pressure, and in general, each snap has some meaning, which is rarely the case with the garbage that seems to get recycled around Facebook.
And yet we still use it because it is rather fascinating!

hatrickpatrick · 19-12-2013 03:59AM

whirlpool wrote: »

***major generalisation / sweeping statement alert - Don't get your knickers in a twist! :cool: ***

I have to say, having taken part in social media sites (facebook, twitter, etc...) for the past 4 or 5 years, without a doubt the most irritating group of people are girls aged 18-23. Immature, desperate for attention and headwrecking; selfies, "personal" / "romantic" pics with their fella, duck lips and shallow and pathetic unending declarations of "love" for everyone and anyone "luv ye hun xxx"

Dopes.

Just my opinion anyway. I know it's a generalisation and I genuinely don't believe that the type of person I'm talking about is the type of person that posts on boards as they generally have the attention span of a broken barbie doll and are only interested in the sound of their own voice and how many Likes they get.

If you have years of experience of social media sites, what group of people irritate you the most on them?

People having fun on the internet? THE HORROR!!!!!! :rolleyes:

If these kinds of people upset you so much, why are you friends with them on Facebook?

Daqster · 19-12-2013 04:00AM

The 18-23 year olds on PornHub are grand.

Facebook is just a curse. Free yourself, cut it loose or let it drag you down.

Irish Guitarist · 19-12-2013 05:14AM

People that complain about the way others use the internet. If any of my 'friends' don't like the way I use Facebook I would prefer they just removed me from their friends list rather than whinge.

sabat · 19-12-2013 07:12AM

TheSetMiner wrote: »

This has left an unhealthy concentration of stupidity on Facebook.

This very thought occurred to me recently when I was browsing the 'dumb facebook status' thread here and I was thinking of the people I know who've deleted their accounts over the last year or two (I deleted mine about 18 months ago.) Is Facebook experiencing intellectual flight in a similiar fashion to Myspace's white flight which precipitated that network's ultimate demise? Will it reach a tipping point whereby the morons make the place too unpleasant for everyone else and they just don't bother logging on anymore? Seeing as Facebook's business model is based entirely around selling advertising and that cleverer people tend to be the ones with more disposable income it could become a serious problem for them.

whirlpool · 19-12-2013 08:51AM

hatrickpatrick wrote: »

People having fun on the internet? THE HORROR!!!!!! :rolleyes:

If these kinds of people upset you so much, why are you friends with them on Facebook?

Oh, I'm not. I left facebook a long time ago.

What actually reignited this thought for me was seeing a public Twitter page which was filled with these comments.

And seriously, desperate pleas for attention is not "having fun." If you think those girls are "having fun" then you've completely misunderstood. They are begging, screaming out for people to pay attention to them. That is not fun. That is insecurity.

razorblunt · 19-12-2013 08:52AM

WikiHow wrote: »

Old sheilas

This!
Middle aged women (mums) with nothing better to do sitting around home all day. The amount of "share this picture to win a brand new iPhone5 from Tesco.ireland" or "share if you have an angel in heaven watching".

preston johnny · 19-12-2013 09:12AM

Before you go knocking social media just remember; without it, you would have absolutely no way of knowing that I am just off to the toilet to drop an enormous Richard the III.....:rolleyes:

Eight Ball · 19-12-2013 09:17AM

I joined facebook back in 2010 and lasted about four days. Everyone on it is a fool but the baby picture crowd are the worst by a distance. NOBODY CARES.

spodoinkle · 19-12-2013 09:25AM

Constant pictures of young ones with one hand on hip and head tilted to one side made me leave faceybook, sickening.

daysleeper · 19-12-2013 09:32AM

Was just talking about this with my brother last night. I'm a 21 y/o female, he's 19. My sister is 16 and we reckon her generation are definitely the most annoying so far in that she and everyone in her year in school are glued to Twitter 24 hours a day and post little minute by minute updates all day long, whereas I'd only know about 5 or 6 people my age that use Twitter let alone abuse it in that way.

When she tries to explain to me the point of apps like Snapchat and Instagram I feel absolutely ancient also

MonkeyTennis · 19-12-2013 09:43AM

razorblunt wrote: »

This!
Middle aged women (mums) with nothing better to do sitting around home all day. The amount of "share this picture to win a brand new iPhone5 from Tesco.ireland" or "share if you have an angel in heaven watching".

But I Do have an angel in heaven watching.

nuckeythompson · 19-12-2013 09:46AM

People who post "RIP, I miss you" when people died. I found out somebody I was close to had died ( less than an hour after his death) by a facebook posting. This girl I think was just hoping to get as many "likes" as possible.
Even worse is a year after their death they post how much they miss them. Chances are the dead wont be able to read them

Professey Chin · 19-12-2013 09:49AM

Wannabe activists posting conspiracy links that dont stand up to any bit of scrutiny.
And god help you if you question it. The full crusty brigade will be right down upon you O_O

P_1 · 19-12-2013 09:54AM

sabat wrote: »

This very thought occurred to me recently when I was browsing the 'dumb facebook status' thread here and I was thinking of the people I know who've deleted their accounts over the last year or two (I deleted mine about 18 months ago.) Is Facebook experiencing intellectual flight in a similiar fashion to Myspace's white flight which precipitated that network's ultimate demise? Will it reach a tipping point whereby the morons make the place too unpleasant for everyone else and they just don't bother logging on anymore? Seeing as Facebook's business model is based entirely around selling advertising and that cleverer people tend to be the ones with more disposable income it could become a serious problem for them.

Interesting hypothesis. There does seem to be an element of that alright. It'll be interesting to see what happens once they roll out the video ads too.

Of course one could be intellectually smug and suggest that cleverer people also tend to not be as taken in by advertising as the general baying mob and thus an intellectual flight mightn't have such a drastic effect yet rather prove that the advertising model works somehow.

sok2005 · 19-12-2013 10:16AM

This may sound crazy but when I closed my Facebook account last year there were a few days when I felt like I was going through withdrawal, I would pick up my phone to check the app and feel like I was missing out on something, it's a bit like a drug! I knew I had to get off it, I knew stuff about people that I didn't need to know, I felt obliged to talk to people that I had no interest in and I was far too contactable.
When I see my friends now scanning through account after account, nattering gossip about what they saw on it I feel a bit superior! I'm like that recovered alcoholic who looks down her nose at social drinkers

lukesmom · 19-12-2013 10:41AM

Definitely the duck lips crowd. What the hell is with that pose ? It looks unbelievably stupid . Or young teenage boys pretending they are rappers with their ho, mo fo and bro!

My worst though is those who tell you their plans for the evening.
Fire lit, xfactor on, me baby bside me life cudn get any better dan dis!

biko · 19-12-2013 10:44AM

The most annoying people on social media are the ones that didn't click "like" on my witty post/joke/photo.

Angeles · 19-12-2013 10:46AM

Wanna know the best experience i've had with facebook?
...
Not using it.

cantdecide · 19-12-2013 10:47AM

mango salsa wrote: »

I find individuals irritating not groups

I hate the whole individualist movement in its entirety.

cantdecide · 19-12-2013 10:57AM

My approach to my FB is ignore the post just look at the friend/ page I know who's going to have something interesting to say and who just wants to leave a turd in my news feed. I have casual 'FB friends' that turned out to be very cool and clever people outside of the context I knew them originally.

camel jockey · 19-12-2013 11:19AM

preston johnny wrote: »

Before you go knocking social media just remember; without it, you would have absolutely no way of knowing that I am just off to the toilet to drop an enormous Richard the III.....:rolleyes:

You obviously don't work in my office, we keep each other informed of our bowel movements the old fashioned way.

Who are the most irritating people on social media? Girls aged 18-23?

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