Do you find that people complain about absolutely nothing on facebook and do you even respond?

Relabel them “former friends”?

I guess I’ve weeded out most of the whiners in my life at this point, because none of my friends are really complainers but… if it were a close friend I would cut her some slack and try to be supportive. If it was someone who wasn’t a close friend I would probably just ignore it.

Sounds like typical post-vacation blues with a side of some kind of churchgoer sloganeering.

People use facebook for different things and lots of people are willfully ignorant about the relative severity of human suffering.

Which bothers you more, her “behavior” in this situation or your inability to ignore it or accept it as the limit of someone’s imagination?

I’m not saying I have an answer, but I do know that I’ve struggled for years with this question of being aware of my many blessings in life relative to others and yet still feeling immense personal suffering. My increase in awareness did not decrease my feelings of suffering, and while it was not possible for me to choose ignorance, I don’t know that being blissfully ignorant is a better route. It takes something else entirely to accept the vast suffering of others and the immediate suffering of oneself. Maybe something transcendent.

By the way, do you see the irony of you basically wanting to complain about her complaining? ;-) On facebook? People are dying, you know.

Sometimes, I look at those kinds of folks and realize how limited their imaginations are. That’s mostly how I deal with it. One of my relatives always has to talk about the pennies she saved. Another about how tragic some newsworthy death is. Whether I wish they were different or tell them they should think differently, chances are they won’t until they see it for themselves.

Meh. FIrst world problems are still problems. I’m going to curse the next time I stub my toe regardless of whether or not genocide has been eliminated by then. Can’t we end starvation and the common cold, or does it really have to be one or the other?

I see faceyuk as little more than technology’s answer to the garden fence, utilised for little else than gossip & tittle-tattle amongst the aptly named chattering classes.

I have a standard response,when I can be bothered: ‘First World Problem’ When I am in the mood, I can be quite snarky (Imagine that!). I am downright embarrassed for some people with what the write on their Facebook and I am probably no exception some times. We all have our ups and downs and now that we can reach hundreds of people instantly, we feel compelled to share them…. without REALLY thinking about it.

Sometimes I will snark at them and sometimes I will send them a post of a sweet animal video to cheer them up. The fickleness of human nature, instantly shared to hundreds of people. It’s how we roll.

Sure, and I’m guilty of it myself! It doesn’t feel trivial to me at the time, but when I look at the bigger picture… I am reminded that I am an ass for complaining about stupid shit. I might comment in a joking way about ‘first world problems’, and then go on to say I hope they feel better soon.

Unless it was a chronic problem, I would overlook it and cut her some slack. Perhaps my friend is feeling like crap and maybe the holiday was awful or she has debt or there are things going on with her I am not aware of. If it is out of character, I might send her a message to see if she is okay.

If it is a chronic problem (and I am sure this person is just very negative rather than has some underlying problem), I would ignore her post and spend some time evaluating whether I wanted to keep that friendship.

Slightly amended answer, some folks on there will complain about anything let alone “nothing.”

I get these all the time. It’s amazing what people complain about. Even the smallest issue. “Mad at the husband. Kids are yelling and being loud. I have a headache and just want some peace and quiet.” I mean, seriously? This is your biggest problem? I usually don’t respond but I’ve ended up deleting several people because of this. They weren’t close friends so I didn’t feel bad about doing it.
There will always be the perpetual complainers.
If she isn’t that close of a friend to you, just delete her. She probably won’t notice anyway and if she does and asks you why you deleted her, just tell her you were doing a little “housecleaning” and must’ve deleted her by accident.

She wants everyone to pray for her? I’d just block her posts.
I had an acquaintance who would pray for a close parking space at the mall. Ridiculous.

No longer an issue. I just unfriended the last of my Facebook friends. Just gotta remove some photos and then delete account.

I’m all done with FB.

There are probably a few FB friends that habitually complain about minor issues in their life. They aren’t seeking a solution. They don’t want someone to point out that this type of whining is trivial compared to the problems of many others. I suspect that they are seeking sympathy, although there could be other reasons. I just shake it off and move on to the next post on the News Feed.

I know of one girl in particular who has piles of good things going on all the time and chooses to gripe about stupid shit. The last one which prompted me to respond was a wreck on the interstate which “caused” her to have “road rage”. I shot back without thinking about it, pointing out that had she been a bit earlier she could well have been part of the wreck, dead on the road. My advice was a big, steamy cup of Shut-the-fuck-up. I went back and deleted it almost immediately, but haven’t really said anything to her since.
The ridiculous, self absorbed selfishness of her sentiment still irritates me, and I can’t think of anything to say to her.

No. Because I am not a Facebook sucker.

Like @augustlan wrote, I’ve been guilty of it as have most of my friends. Thing is though, some people’s fb accounts are for friends and/or family rather than acquaintances and a lot of people feel it’s only those people you can let your hair down with and get some sympathy for a stubbed toe or kid puking up all over you. I look at it like that, I assume my friends aren’t asking if their problems are world serious, just internally serious and for me anyway, it’s not a big deal to acknowledge them.

This I find very different than acquaintances who post hourly updates about, “bored”, “sucks”, “head hurts”, “car’s a piece of shite”. Those I usually don’t bother with because I don’t really think the poster is looking for interaction but rather sharing a mindset and moving on for the day.

Fucking Facebook, turning people into spineless worms. We were better off back in the dark ages, where electricity didn’t exist, and dying of the plague was no excuse; you kept your gob shut and went to war.

I’m gonna go complain about that on Facebook. Or ponder about how the hell can a worm even have a spine.