Out of boredom, I found myself staring at my Facebook News Feed the other day.
While reading the various status updates, I stumbled upon one that made me think, “Someone please buy her a diary.”
This girl, who is in junior high, went on and on about how her boyfriend broke her heart. As I’m reading the comments – all 35 of them – I could not believe how much drama there was at the middle school. It’s all he-said, she-said nonsense.I thought, surely she would be finished venting after an hour, right? Not a chance. While scrolling down to remove her from my friends list, I noticed a recurring theme throughout her posts. They are all about this terrible boy and how she did nothing wrong.
Someone likes attention. Over the course of four hours, she updated her status 12 different times. All of them were focused on this boy.
Apparently she was on Day 11 of the 100 Day Challenge, and she was to post a picture of something she hated. The picture she selected was of a poster saying, “Heart Breakers,” where she tagged the poor boy.
Can’t we all act mature here? Of course not, it’s middle school. How silly of me to ask. This heart-broken girl writes 33 more comments about how great she was to this guy and how over it she is.
Are you kidding me? You just spent the past four hours complaining about how this guy is such a jerk, and you’re over it?
Come on, now – get off your high horse and wake up. Meanwhile, the infamous boy only writes three comments talking about how they weren’t right for each other and that he couldn’t handle the drama) anymore.
Finally, there’s the voice of reason.
Kudos to you, kid. Her diary entries were beginning to take over my News Feed. Who knows anything about relationships at that age, anyway? How serious can they be? I just wish someone would tell her that Facebook is not a diary so the Facebook community would be spared.
Honestly, her status updates were more dramatic than a song by Taylor Swift. And that’s saying something. That’s the last time I accept random friend requests.