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Top complaints about Facebook friends

Ladies, turns out Facebook is probably not the happiest place on Earth for many of you.

Sure, there's happy family activity/picture sharing and snarky comments that can make your day. But, a recent survey shows that many of you are probably annoyed by your online friends and the reasons are usually because you're sick of hearing those friends whine and complain, overshare their politics and bragging about their perfect lives.

Eversave — a 10-year-old couponing website that jumped on the Groupon bandwagon last year to offer in-email daily deals called "Saves"— conducted a survey of 400 women that reveals a love/hate relationship with the social network. 

Most of the women surveyed (79 percent) use Facebook to keep friends informed about their goings-on and 64 percent use it to share links and videos. And on the receiving end, 91 percent of those surveyed appreciate Facebook for allowing them to see friends’ photos and videos, and 76 percent see it as a means for searching (though not necessarily friending) long-lost friends.

But the other shoe drops when it comes to what they don't like about Facebook friends. A whopping 85 percent of those surveyed claim they have been annoyed by their online friends, and mostly because of these reasons:

• Incessant complaining (63 percent)
• Sharing unsolicited political views (42 percent)
• Bragging about Pleasantville-perfect lives (32 percent)

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Personalities on Facebook

The survey respondents opened up about their online friends, and placed them into categories provided on the survey. Here are the top types:

• The documentarian who constantly updates their status (65 percent)
• The drama queen, for whom everything’s a crisis (61 percent)
• The proud mama who posts every little thing her child/children do (57 percent)
• The incessant liker (enough said) (46 percent)
• The cause-happy slactivist (40 percent)
• The poser who wants everyone to think they have a perfect life (40 percent)

It's a Facebook frenemy-eat-friend world, folks! But then again, there's probably a good likelihood we've all been in those categories, at some time. I admit to sometimes being an incessant liker and a documentarian, for instance. But I have far from a perfect life and would never project that, but I also won't share every crisis in my life either. I have plenty of friends who are proud mamas, but their sharing is nothing I find annoying. Actually, their takes on daily childcare give me hope for the future! Everyone's got a different way of sharing on Facebook. Take our survey and tell us what you think.

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