rantings of a single girl

I'm having this same thing happening on FB, too. Just another "friend" got engaged this past weekend. Another had a baby. Great.

I think my annoyance comes in because I don't need to know everything about these people. If I ever talk to you again, then tell me you got married. I don't need every excruciating detail about the proposal via status updates. I don't need the video of your husband cutting the umbilical cord of your baby. Information overload!

Yes, I've been married and divorced. It's all overrated. I see all these girls gushing about how they need to get married and have babies - bio clocks are ticking, I suppose. Enjoy being yourself. Enjoy getting to know yourself. I see so many women so unhappy with this way of life. They try to convince themselves that they truly love being a mother and wife but you see their true feelings coming out in their actions. T

Star - my (more than likely incoherent) rant isn't directed to you, just generalities I've been seeing across the board.

Facebook can be very good thing but @ the same time, lots of people's lives can be overwhelming if you don't learn how to turn it off when you find it stressful 2 you. Thus far, I find I have 2 learn to turn some of my Facebook friend's life off a little, or as for myself, update a bit less frequently. I find I don't need 2 reveal every minute of my life to all on Facebook. Hope it does help:)

sweetpeabrina - It's perfectly okay to rant here. I've generally found that at leas one other person along the way will be feeling the same way but they just don't want to say anything.

I agree with sweetpeabrina and midori0e.... Facebook can get overwhelming at times. Fortunately, I'm not addicted to it... I just post occasionally. I'm not one to overshare on FB and I'm certainly not going to start. It's just the people who do overshare sometimes make me start overthinking. If that makes any sense at all.

ugh I totally feel the same.. but so many of my friends seem to have just gotten married and/or had a child to fill some kind of hole in their life -- they generally don't have much else to show for themselves (good education, successful career, a nice home that they own not rent!).
And I get that. I do. Sometimes I too guiltily subscribe to motherhood fantasies and I think how nice it would be to feel overwhelmed with a sense of purpose and immeasurable love. But at the end of the day I want more out of life than a baby. It's not enough for me.
And I have a feeling that in a few years, all my friends that got married because they were bored or had babies because they were lonely are going to realize it wasn't enough for them either.

I am in the same boat as everyone else as far as dozens of friends getting engaged, married, pregnant, or giving birth and having to see it everywhere on facebook. It does bother me to an extent in the sense that it kind of makes me jealous, but at the same time I have to think - wouldn't I do the exact same thing and post it for the whole world to see my wedding album or engagement ring or baby bump? I'd be so happy I'd want the world to know. And a few years from now (or many years, who knows), I will probably be guilty of doing it too. Just my two cents

I feel the same way - except that I'm only 20, so from my standpoint it's far more ridiculous. Most of my friends are between 20 and 25, and I would say at least 3/4 of them are engaged or married already. It's overwhelming when all I can say of my own life is " I'm in college... and unemployed".