COMPLIMENTS –
A Facebook Observation
Facebook is
great for keeping up with friends. It is
great for funny cat videos. It is not so
great when it comes to solving problems in the country, it is a bit divisive
but that is not my latest Facebook observation.
This observation
is about the different way men and women will make comments.
Periodically
people will change their profile picture on Facebook. I have noticed that women will never say
anything mean about one of these pictures.
Well not outwardly mean anyway, I suspect there is a secret lady code to
these “Compliments.”
Woman to woman:
“You look as beautiful as ever.” “You haven’t aged a bit.” “Lovely picture.”
All of these
mean “Girl, you ugly!”
“Beautiful!” “Sexy.” “Very Pretty.”
All of these
mean “You look almost as good as I do.”
A Guys
comments are a little different.
Man to woman:
“Damn girl!” “Woot,
woo!” “Wow, very hot!”
All of these
mean just what they say when they come
from a dude. Guys will compliment a lady or will not comment at all; and by
compliment, I mean borderline sexual harassment.
Women are
more less evasive on a man’s new profile
Woman to man:
“Handsome.” “Very distinguished looking.”
These mean “You are handsome, or You are looking very
distinguished.”
“Long time no see.” Or “How have you
been.”
These mean “Damn, what happened to you? you ugly!”
Men will almost
NEVER say anything nice about a guy’s profile picture:
Man to man:
“Dude, you need to hit
the gym.” “Damn, get in shape.”
This
generally means “Dude you look jacked up!”
“Dang are you an ugly
dude!”
This means “You’re
looking good…for a guy.”
“Man are you fat!”
This means “You are
fat.”
“You are very handsome
and in very good shape.”
This means “I am
very gay.”
I know some
of you will tell me that that is why you are not on Facebook. Good point, but you are missing some really
funny cat videos.
I definitely won't return to Facebook... I might not like the comments. I had a conversation just today about FB and the dangers of not knowing who is reading your comments to friends or looking at your pictures.
ReplyDeleteGood translations, haha that is why my profile is of my dog. I can't take the heat.
ReplyDeleteI feel as though people who are constantly changing their profile pic are just looking for compliments, so I ignore!
ReplyDeleteI'm at the point where I have unfollowed half of my 'friends.' I don't want to give up the Jimmy Fallon videos.
Sadly I think you are right. I only have a fake Facebook account set up by my niece so I can check out the family progress. I'll have to pay attention to the comments now on other's accounts since my niece rejects all my friend requests. I am the silent lurker.
ReplyDeleteI am on FB and I have miss-translated all of this stuff if you are right...!
ReplyDeleteI can happily live without the cat videos!!
ReplyDeleteI'm on Facebook - because of family across the country. Lately I have not been making any comments. I just lay low, or lurk...
ReplyDeleteI have a facebook account which I check a couple times a year. I'll have messages on there from people I know like, "Are you available to meet about that thing that needs to be done by next week?" and the message will be 5 months old, as though no one realizes I'm on there twice a year.
ReplyDeleteI try to stay away from posting pictures of myself. I wonder what people would say.
You are a very good translator, i think you know of what you speak!
ReplyDeleteI am not on Facebook, but your translation sounds pretty accurate for how guys and gals relate.
ReplyDeleteI don't do Facebook anymore, and I still manage to see more cat videos than I need to. Happy New Year.
ReplyDeleteI had to get off FaceBook. At least every other week someone would tell me, "I got a friend request from you and we are already friends. You've been hacked. Change your password right away." Well finally I just plain ran out of passwords.
ReplyDeleteOh dang. I'm on Facebook every night. I need to learn the language!!!
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