Study: Our Facebook Friends Are Very, Very Annoying

If you find the majority of your Facebook friends annoying, here’s some potentially good news: You’re not alone.

A study of 400 women for daily deals company Eversave unexpectedly uncovered more information about participants’ distaste for their friends’ online behavior than about the impact social networking has on saving money (although for the curious, 45% of those taking part in the survey said they found out about online deals from their friends, compared with 79% who admitted also discovering bargains through deal companies’ social network ads).

In fact, 85% of those polled admitted being annoyed by their online friends, with three behaviors topping the list of offenses:

- Complaining all the time (ironically, 63% complained about this).
- Sharing unsolicited political views (this annoyed 42% of survey participants).
- Bragging about their seemingly perfect lives (32% accidentally revealed the imperfections of their own lives by pointing out this problem).

65% of participants also classified friends as fitting the “documentarian” stereotype, “[updating] their status with their every move,” which seems especially ironic considering 79% said that they enjoyed using Facebook to keep their friends informed about what they were up to. Perhaps more people simply need to “Like” self-awareness instead.

More on Techland:

68% of Facebook Users Don’t Think Suspicious Links Are Suspicious

Survey: Kids Aren’t Afraid To Friend Their Parents

Study: More Friends On Facebook Equals A Bigger Amygdala In Your Brain

http://muffledcriesfromthebasement.wordpress.com muffledcriesfromthebasement

Wow I like my facebook friends.
http://cassiecares.wordpress.com cassiecares

People make facebook for themselves, not for other people. That’s why we’re getting annoyed, because we don’t realize that we’re all doing the same thing. We’re just entertaining ourselves with our little quips and updates, so we can marvel at how clever we are.
http://anugonda.wordpress.com prasad28

If there was no Facebook I would have found it difficult to communicate with friends and see their activities through photos. Many of the inspirational views could not be expressed to all friends and former colleagues at one stroke. Those uninterested can always skip or hide the view.
http://mixblick.wordpress.com DJ Maez

true story, cassiecares
http://mrdickturpin.wordpress.com mrdickturpin

Interesting post emphasizes the fact that “updates” on Facebook basically amount to two things – complaining and bragging – same as most “in person” conversations with people you just met or barely know.

At some point the novelty (and entertainment value) wears off, and we’re left with a feeling that the Facebook service mainly provides superficial details we probably could’ve lived without anyway. Same applies to Twitter, by the way, and to much of so-called “micro-blogging.”

The more things change, the more one thing stays the same – there are only 24 hrs in a day. How of much that time is worth learning about the details of the daily lives of 100+ people you barely know? I’m asking a serious a question here – because once people value their own personal time too much to spend it learning about other people’s lives, they no longer have much use for micro-blogging, and the companies that offer that service quickly lose their marketplace value.

Far be it for me to cast aspersions on entrepreneurs who found companies like Twitter and Facebook – but couldn’t the intelligence that drives those companies be used to design companies with more “profound” services than something that distracts me with information about what someone ate for breakfast this morning?
http://otterone.wordpress.com Nina Zvaleko

Much like fire, or tv. These are tools that can used as such, toys to entertain or distract, or destructive. As the future unfolds, uncertain with the prospects of global warming, peak oil, and rocky economies, these tools become useful for folks to organize themselves by community, or across continents and seas. But as with fire, or tv, it is up to folks to use them well.
Now, if you will excuse me, I must go wallow in my own insitefulness……