Facebook: always there to remind you of all the fun you’re not having.

related: Socializing (you’re doing it wrong)

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As always, Facebook users are keepin’ it classy.

related: tant pis, mon amie
extra credit: stfu, marrieds

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…because there’s no measure of self-worth more important than the public acknowledgment that you were, in fact, born.

related: but…but…i didn’t forget!

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This note appeared on the whiteboard in Whitney’s dorm room the day after she got in a fight with her roommate, Ashley, and accused her of using her friends. The note was written by Ashley’s cousin, Angela, and while addressed to “Ash,” seems more directed at the room’s other resident.

related: facebook, a place for frenemies

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Our anonymous submitter was mildly amused when he noticed this little hypothetical how-to pop up in his Facebook feed. But the real kicker, he realized, is that the one person tagged in the note happens to be (ouch) the notewriter’s current roommate.

Adds our submitter: “To my surprise, the girl never commented on it, but I’m [...]

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I’ll admit, my first thought upon reading this note — found in the hallways of an American high school — was something along the lines of “Argh, kids today, with their chatspeak!” Can we all agree that adolescent girls are probably the most passive-aggressive creatures on earth?

related: 2 good 2 be 4gotten

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Facebook’s new “I like this” feature doesn’t allow you to give “thumbs down” to your friends’ status updates or posted links — a boon to both the supportive, snap-cup-loving, kindergarten-teacher-types on your friends list and the die-hard passive-aggressives on your frenemies list!

The even bigger “ouch”?

related: reason #784 why you should never list your relationship status [...]

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See, kids: this is what happens when you live in the awkward part of the Venn diagram where “Facebook friends” and “real friends” don’t overlap.

related: making time for the important things in life…like facebook apps
extra credit: bank intern busted by facebook [valleywag]

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cate and her brother play trivia at a bar in seattle once or twice a month, and cate’s brother usually invites shelby, a friend from college. last week, he “forgot” to invite her, but — AWKWARD! — she was at the bar that night anyway.
“shelby wrote this little gem on a napkin and had someone [...]

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our anonymous submitter in brooklyn received this e-mail from his 28-year-old male roommate after purchasing a similar (not identical) blue toggle pea coat. “we are rarely out of the apartment together,” our submitter notes. hmm, wonder why?

related: gossip boy

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Writes Liz in Dublin: “I’m submitting a message I received via Facebook to show that while Facebook is a great place to reconnect with old friends, it is an even better place to reopen decade-old wounds of teenage angst.”
Explains Liz: “The e-mailer and I never spoke in high school, and I thought it was odd [...]

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nate’s sister heather found this note (written on a bus schedule) outside their house in los angeles. “i’d like to think dan took a bus to surprise roberto, only to be given the cold shoulder,” nate says , but we can only speculate about the nature of dan’s attitude towards the future of this relationship [...]

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Writes our anonymous submitter: “Amie and I were friends since junior high. We had plans to go out for my 22nd birthday, but she canceled the day of. I said it was cool and that we should reschedule, and then I never heard from her again…until four years later, when she requested me as a [...]

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Ah, young love.

related: Facebook: a place for frenemies
extra credit: thumbspeak [thenewyorker.com]

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In this edition of Facebook Friday…an assortment of cat fights in the making, plucked from the newsfeeds of the innocent Facebookers caught in the crossfire!
exhibit a)

exhibit b)

exhibit c)

The smiley face there is a nice touch, but my favorite this time around has to be this doozy of an about-face (read from the bottom up):

related: No [...]

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Reason #962 why I’m happy Facebook wasn’t around when I was in high school…

related: 2 good 2b 4gotten
extra credit: Judy “just kidding” Grimes [SNL]

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margaret and her high school classmate, gertrude had a “well-established mutual loathing.” (“she would repeatedly make passes at my boyfriend,” margaret says.) but of course, that’s no reason not to sign each other’s senior yearbooks. god, i love teenage girls. frenemies 4-eva!

related: gossip boy

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our anonymous submitter in san diego got this text message from a friend, explaining: “it’s in reference to him hooking up with one of my friends on my couch. he’s hooked up with three of my friends to date. it’s bound to get around, ya know?”

adds our submitter: “there’s no safe way to respond to [...]

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Cindy and her friend had a falling out. The ex-friend then sent Cindy this message on Facebook. Something tells me this post isn’t going to be the olive branch that brings them back together.

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