Personal Narrative: Love-Hate Relationship With Social Media

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Facebook users experience various types of people; However, I do not go on Facebook that often, but when I do it is to check out all the so-called dramatic lives of some of my most treasured Facebook friends. If it were not for them, I would probably never log on, but I just cannot miss the seemingly insignificant things they get themselves into a rage about. The dramatic relationship troubles, the cries for attention, or the scrolling through the many years on my timeline. It is all nonsense that gets put up for public consumption. I can find my face buried in the social media world when I am bored during my lunch break at work, or just absolutely cannot seem to find anything else to do. I have a love-hate relationship with social media. Ultimately, most of the time I end being more insufferably annoyed with people each visit I make. I can divide these types of people I have encountered in the Facebook world into to three groups: Dramatic, attention seeking, and overly nosey.
First, we will start with the dramatic people. The dramatic people always seem to have relationship troubles, arguments about another person’s post, or their annoying begging for someone to talk to them. It seems as if
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While my family and my close friends are welcome commenters, there is often that one person to whom I barely know that always seems to comment on my posts. Nine times out of ten this person is a guy, and he knows my favorite caffeinated beverage and he obviously has his cell phone programmed to remind him when my birthday is. Even though I have no idea who he is, he had liked a picture I posted more than three years ago. It is probably the most annoying thing on Facebook, and as you can imagine my response to this situation was to eliminate him from my friends list as soon as possible. It makes me eager to know how many other people have experienced the same thing with these creepers whether their gender is male or

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