That sounds like a problem with you, not with Facebook. It's important to learn to accept that you and everyone you know will grow older, age more or less gracefully, and eventually die.
Also, FWIW, while having children should, and almost always does, imply more reponsibilities; there's no required connection between the rest of the life events and behaviors you mentioned.
Agreed, its mostly a problem with me. But accepting the mortality of myself and my friends, or indeed feeling a pang for lost youth, has little to do with liking over-sharing of wedding and baby photos on public timelines. If I dig into it it's the almost aggressive reinforcement of conventional group-think and life choices that rubs me up the wrong way.
So, you liked the conventional group-think and life choices of 20-somethings posting photos of getting wasted at bars & parties better?
Also, if you can't take pleasure in the happiness of your "friends", then maybe they aren't your friends and, therefore, shouldn't necessarily be your "friends" either. If you get what I'm saying.
To quote myself I said "smiling faces, parties or high jinks[sic]". That doesn't necessarily equate to getting wasted in bars, or indeed betray any particularly sort of conventional group-think. I'd argue getting married (and to a much lesser extent having kids) constitutes a more real subscription to conventional life choices. Broadcasting it (semi) publicly over Facebook arguably makes it an even more overt stance. There's nothing wrong with that of couse.
Taking pleasure in a close friend's happy life moment in a real and genuine fashion, i.e. by interacting in real life, is quite different to being confronted by the over zealous activity of a Facebook "friend". It was the latter I was complaining about. And I agree, a particularly ruthless "friend" cull would largely solve the issue.
Where did I say that I was against having kids, or indeed procreation? For the record I'm ambivalent at best about the tradition of marriage (that's where the group think thing comes in I think), and (as stated) kinda sick of other people's babies on my social feed. But I wouldn't read too much more into it than that.
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That sounds like a problem with you, not with Facebook. It's important to learn to accept that you and everyone you know will grow older, age more or less gracefully, and eventually die.
Also, FWIW, while having children should, and almost always does, imply more reponsibilities; there's no required connection between the rest of the life events and behaviors you mentioned.
Agreed, its mostly a problem with me. But accepting the mortality of myself and my friends, or indeed feeling a pang for lost youth, has little to do with liking over-sharing of wedding and baby photos on public timelines. If I dig into it it's the almost aggressive reinforcement of conventional group-think and life choices that rubs me up the wrong way.
So, you liked the conventional group-think and life choices of 20-somethings posting photos of getting wasted at bars & parties better?
Also, if you can't take pleasure in the happiness of your "friends", then maybe they aren't your friends and, therefore, shouldn't necessarily be your "friends" either. If you get what I'm saying.
To quote myself I said "smiling faces, parties or high jinks[sic]". That doesn't necessarily equate to getting wasted in bars, or indeed betray any particularly sort of conventional group-think. I'd argue getting married (and to a much lesser extent having kids) constitutes a more real subscription to conventional life choices. Broadcasting it (semi) publicly over Facebook arguably makes it an even more overt stance. There's nothing wrong with that of couse.
Taking pleasure in a close friend's happy life moment in a real and genuine fashion, i.e. by interacting in real life, is quite different to being confronted by the over zealous activity of a Facebook "friend". It was the latter I was complaining about. And I agree, a particularly ruthless "friend" cull would largely solve the issue.
There's a little bit more to having kids than convention and group-think. You're the product of 4 billion years of organisms that decided to have 'em.
Where did I say that I was against having kids, or indeed procreation? For the record I'm ambivalent at best about the tradition of marriage (that's where the group think thing comes in I think), and (as stated) kinda sick of other people's babies on my social feed. But I wouldn't read too much more into it than that.