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AIBU?

To cringe whenever I read my neices Facebook comments?

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LoveMySorrow · 21/04/2009 20:00

My neice is 14 and has added me to her Facebook friends. I sometimes read the comments between her and her friends and just cringe! I cannot remember being so ... annoying at that age!

Here are a few examples:

"OMG i am sooooo depresed rite now cos everyfing is goin rong and i jst wnt 2 kill myself :-(("

(followed up by dozens of replies from friends: "dnt do nefing silly cos i lve u babe, soz ur feeling crap :-(((" and "omg me too, i feel so shit, why is lyfe so hard? :-(( )

And then we have the daily:

"i am so fed up of being fat and ugly. i swear im like the fattest and ugliest girl in my skool and im sick of it all, im such a freak and i really hate myself rite now"

(followed by "omg hun u are soooo not ugly! u r like the prettiest girl in the entire skool!" and "u r not coz I am the fattest and ugliest girl in skool, i wish i looked like u" )

(the girls then post photos of themselves, all size 0, bag of bones types in skinny jeans and tiny crop tops)

and then there was this:

"omg i luv rick so much, he means everyfing 2 me and hes like the most important person in my life and hes the only one that understands me, i luv him so much. we will b 2gefer 4 eva xxxxxxxxxxxxx"

(followed by "i understand u 2 babez but i no wot u mean, u 2 r prfct 4 each other, such a cute couple")

She then posts a pic of said couple ... my neice standing with a gelled haired 14 year old boy who probably cares more about what's on TV than he does about her!

Her and her friends have also got into the habit of saying that their boyfriends "own them".

So on various pics you will see "this is me outside mcdonalds, owned by rick 4eva" and "josh owns this" on a pic of a girl.

god it just makes me cringe! is it just my neice and her friends because I know other 14 year olds who would NEVER talk like this!

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AnyFucker · 21/04/2009 20:04

get over it, thats how it is

stop reading it, for your own sanity

picmaestress · 21/04/2009 20:04

Ah, they're alright! The 'owned' thing is a bit stupid, but I think you've forgotten how dramatic everything feels when you're a teenager...
You're cringing half as much as they will be when they're reminded of it when they're sophisticated 25 year olds...

LoveMySorrow · 21/04/2009 20:06

Oh I can't stop reading it now! we're half way through a drama between 2 girls and 1 boy. All published word for word over facebook of course. I need to know what happens next!

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Ewe · 21/04/2009 20:06

Unfortunately that is fairly normal teen speak I think, well from what I see of my sister and her friends.

It is bloody annoying and pathetic though!

daisydora · 21/04/2009 20:09

I'm bloody amazed you can decipher half of what she's banging on aboout!!!! I am seriously getting past it.

God I love the youth of today

Overmydeadbody · 21/04/2009 20:09

lol

Don't read it, or take it all with a pinch of salt. It's just their way.

AnyFucker · 21/04/2009 20:09

LMS, do you not get out much, love?

random · 21/04/2009 20:09

sounds normal to me along with the ric iz me sexi boi luv ma gurlz chez shan etc after their msn names

MelanieLiv · 21/04/2009 20:09

Take screen shots & read them out later at a graduation party wedding congrats-on-becoming-a-partner-at-a-really-swanky-law-firm-party (delete as appropriate). I used to write letters to my best friend when I was a teenager. Happily neither of us kept their end of the correspondence. I'm sure I would be cringing now!

CherryChoc · 21/04/2009 20:09

Lol reminds me of my SIL (she is 13). Very annoying and not even any juicy gossip, lol!

I did actually find an old email account from school the other day though I wasn't quite that bad but it was a bit embarrassing! I always knew how to write in full English sentences though, just never bothered in emails etc. I am quite glad facebook wasn't invented then, I think!

katiestar · 21/04/2009 20:10

I'd be cringing at her spelling ability , that's for sure !

jenwa · 21/04/2009 20:11

OMG! how mad is that, I dont remember speaking like that when I was that age, I do remember the whole thing about body image, god I wish I had that body now though!

Text speak is funny when its not on a text! Its going to be in the dictionary one day!

jenwa · 21/04/2009 20:11

OMG! how mad is that, I dont remember speaking like that when I was that age, I do remember the whole thing about body image, god I wish I had that body now though!

Text speak is funny when its not on a text! Its going to be in the dictionary one day!

Alambil · 21/04/2009 20:11

I think it's sad that they all think they're fat and ugly

jenwa · 21/04/2009 20:12

whoops, that went tiwce!

jenwa · 21/04/2009 20:13

whoops, that went twice!

LoveMySorrow · 21/04/2009 20:13

pmsl Anyfucker - No, I don't! and I don't watch TV so I need some kind of entertainment!

And Random, yes you're right there! her msn name is ((((neice))))

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Meglet · 21/04/2009 20:13

I'm so pleased facebook wasn't around when I was a teenager. I can brush my gruesome/geeky teenage years under the carpet .

LoveMySorrow · 21/04/2009 20:14

I wish I could Meglet, unfortunately an old friend has put up some teen pics of me on facebook, I cringe whenever I look at them too ... as will neice probably! pmsl

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LoveMySorrow · 21/04/2009 20:16

Lewis, she doesn't really think she's fat and ugly, it's all for attention. She knows she's pretty, a few days after that one she wrote one saying "mite b starting moddling vry soon if mum can pay 4 my portfolio xxxxxxxxxx"

so she knows she looks good! as do the others, or they wouldn't be posing in skimpy outfits and spreading it all over facebook lol

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AnybodyHomeMcFly · 21/04/2009 20:20

I read my diary from age 12-13 when I was home at the weekend and it was hilarious, and I was just as annoying and I bet you were too!

ahfeckit · 21/04/2009 20:36

another example (yet again!) of how crap facebook is. why read it in the first place? there's some things about your relatives you just don't want to know!
YABU.

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MIAonline · 21/04/2009 20:36

You have to wonder what they would think reading us lot on MN

morningpaper · 21/04/2009 20:38

I did lol at "lyfe" for "life"

Are they big fans of Shakespeare?

compo · 21/04/2009 20:42

the trouble is when we were teens all that stuff was played out in lockable diaries, lol
but now everything is played out publicly on the 'Net that shockable Aunts can read it
sooooooooooooo glad I'm not a noughties teen

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