Why do people play out their dramas on Facebook?

I don’t do it on facebook. I use the porn sites for that.

If you really want to know, you should ask them.

Unless you get it from the source, you and everybody else are playing at being psychologists or mind readers.

Come to think of it, might be an interesting post on Facebook…“Why are you doing this?”

Serious response. Divorce always boggled my mind, how hateful and spiteful people can get. Hey, you cared enough for this person to ask for their hand, and to promise to love and cherish them forever, and now you want to destroy their life and even hurt or kill them? I guess it could be worse, there was that woman that pushed her husband off the cliff on their honeymoon.

@Adirondackwannabe and a husband who pushed his wife off the cliff to get her life insurance!

Thus the reason for the divorce. I pray they don’t have children!

@judi No children involved, thank goodness.

Not only why do they play out their personal drama on FB, but why do people feel a need to post such foolishness as “I had a nap and now I’m doing laundry” or posting photos of their drinks, their dinners (not particularly glamorous dinners, either), or other stuff. I don’t usually comment, I usually just keep it moving, as they say.

I had a friend who put her drama on FB. I suspect she drinks, because there will be some crazy stuff, and then the next day it disappears. It’s fascinating but I don’t have time to ponder over it much.

Because some fb users are misguided show ponies craving for any attention they can grasp at.

I honestly do not know. I, personally, would be embarrassed to post stuff like that. Maybe they do it for attention? Because they want 500 people to post, “Prayers here!”? To me, it’s demeaning to them.
I have one “friend” who posts constant updates about her daughter who has some serious health issues. Her daughter is about 29, and she herself doesn’t post about it at all. It’s some serious stuff, too. I just get the impression her Mom wants attention and is using her daughter’s illness to get it. Ick.

Facebook is the new locale of the 21st century. It takes the place of the barber shop or the hair salon or the PTA meeting.

Ha ha! I was at the convenience store getting a coke, when the guy next to me said, “How are you?”
I said, “I’m fine, thanks!”.....Then I said, “You really want to know?? OK, my daughter is getting married on Saturday, my other daughter and her four kids have moved in with us temporarily, my dad’s wife is coming into town on Friday, and we don’t have the house ready yet, my husband and I both lost our jobs recently, we’re out of butter, bread and dish washing soap AND WE HAVE ANTS!”
He just started laughing! Then we both agreed that marriage in general should be illegal.

Ants are the least serious of all,.

FB sucks, I quit it about 4 years ago now, I also ended up unfriending several real life friends around the same time. It was just time to clean house of drama. I hate drama and I hate boring day to day details of peoples lives just as much. I think FB really is nothing more than a glorified gossip site with bragging rights.

I don’t know. I can’t figure that out. A friend just recently got into it over a couple of Facebook posts with one of her family members. Other family members took sides, and then the friend posted that she was being shunned by her family when she had just been diagnosed with breast cancer. It was painful reading.

In my own family, my niece’s significant other hijacked her Facebook account and started commenting on all kinds of posts in my and my sister’s newsfeed. We PM’d her and told her we didn’t like it. He then got upset and started swearing at my sister, but it all played out privately. Thank goodness!

I think people do it because they feel so very strongly about something in the moment, and have no one to share it with. Putting it on Facebook is a kind of invitation for people to comfort or commiserate, and the person needs that. Yes, it would be better to contact someone directly for this, but let’s face it – they’re not thinking straight; they’re not focused on the long-term consequences of sharing their angst.

I find posts like this as uncomfortable as others do, but I try to be a bit compassionate towards people who do it. If you really find it too awful, you can always unfollow the person, so it doesn’t end up in your newsfeed.

Oh, and our water bed has a hole in it, so we’ve been sleeping on the couch and the recliner in the living room, and also the riding mower dropped some steering part and we can’t fine a replacement! The lady I spoke to said the model number I have her belonged to a walk behind. AND WE HAVE ANTS!

@Dutchess_III Would you like some cheese with that whine? lol

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