Wait but why: 7 Ways To Be Insufferable On Facebook

The memory is vivid. New Year’s Day, 2013. I’m going about my afternoon pleasantly, when I open my email and a friend has forwarded me what she calls a particularly heinous Facebook status from her news feed, written by someone we’ll call Daniel. It read: 2012 was a biggg year for me. I left my amazing job at NBC to move back to Chicago. By the time I finished reading, I realized that my non-phone hand was clutching tightly to my forehead, forcefully scrunching my forehead skin together. It was everything bad about everything, all at once. But instead of distancing myself from the horror, I soaked in it. It made me think about what makes terrible Facebook behavior terrible, and why other Facebook behavior isn’t annoying at all. A Facebook status is annoying if it primarily serves the author and does nothing positive for anyone reading it. To examine this a bit, let’s start by discussing the defining characteristics of statuses that are not annoying. 1) Interesting/Informative 2) Narcissism.

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