Religious Mockery on Facebook

[thesummerqueen]

I don't want you to get the impression that I don't mock other things that happen on FB. Most of my friends' quirks, unfortunately, must not be made by the vast majority of people because I don't think there are categories to post them in.

I hate:

1) Those status memes where you state how much you love your mom/brother/sister/daughter/son/father/uncle/local fire crew/dog/pet alien/etc. They pass around because at the end of what's supposed to be a clever little statement about whoever you're talking about, they say "REPOST IF YOU LOVE YOUR MOM" or whoever it's about. The implication for idiots is that if you don't post it you must appear to other people as if you don't love that person. They're rather stupidly written, and I'm sick of seeing walls of text about something I already assume anyway. As in, unless I hear you cut off her head and buried it under the porch, I assume you love your mum.

2) The stupid breast cancer messages women pass along privately trying to encourage each other to post ambiguous status messages relating to bra color or shoe size or where you put your purse at home, what have you, that out of context sound like something sexual...as if that's supposed to do dick-all for cancer awareness.

3) The ones that all end in "this percentage of people won't repost this message." Again, implying that if you're not one of the select few who passes it along, you're an asshole. They always have to do with disabilities or illnesses. Sorry, but reposting something for my 190 friends, most of whom don't comment on my statuses or care, is not going to help search for a cure for diabetes. My money will.

And this is just a highly personal peeve - I have a friend who posts the same status every day of the week - as in when she wakes up she lets us know what day it is, says something cliche about it (like on Wednesdays she says "Happy Hump Day!"), then tells us to make it a GREAT day! Constant, consistent, eye-raping repetition of Barbie-like cheerfulness that makes me want to scream.

Be original. Be funny. Be real.

Of course, I don't mind posting how I really feel anymore... there's this forum I mod at that pretty much eliminated my fear of arguing with people about their gris-gris...