I put it off until I couldn't stand it any longer.
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You know you know where I'm coming from, you must.
My Most Used Words on Facebook are, quite frankly, disappointing. Boring. And predictable.
Well, not those exact three words but, for all intents and purposes, they weren't the precise words I had in mind when I made the virtual leap over to the enticing app What Are Your Most Used Words on Facebook?
VonVon set me up for a fall with this simple pledge: "What words did you use frequently this year on Facebook? VonVon analysed your posts and created customized results just for you, so that you can see what your main interests were in 2015."
I had puffy expectations of pastry and poetry; cravings of creative arts and crafty crafts; and a focus on fabulous films and foreign family. (Oops, got that around the wrong way!)
When I called up the page I was stunned with the collection of words in front of me: Smile, Happy, Family, Child, Father, Mother, Love, Sun, Healthy, Live, Happy, Happy, Happy.
OMG, I thought to myself. No wonder, I never get many likes on Facebook!
I really need to stop bathing in the virtual sunny-sun and offer my friends up some honest, cloudy-with-a-chance-of-negative-realism status updates.
In fact, I have spoken to my real-life friends about this exact scenario.
"Why do I get only five likes for a birthday album and 109 likes if I post a photo of my child having painted on her own eyebrows with a permanent marker,” I whine.
You'd think I would have learnt by now.
Just as I was about to exit the VonVon page, I discovered that my Fabulous-Family-in-the-Sunny-Sun graphic was, actually, just the homepage template. Not my words.
High-five. I had another chance for a better crack at it. Submit.
Then as I was awaiting my creative list of words to fill the ether, my daughter yelled out she was done with throwing the ball to our dog because she had to publish five books on Google Doc for her busy, little sister NOW.
I told her my deadline was more pressing: "Tomorrow's paper."
Then the youngest piped up: “My book's the most pressingest.”
Now there's a word I will use much more on my Facebook feed in future.
My biggest Facebook hurdle is that I don’t post much and when I do, I usually publish a bunch of pictures and tag a bunch of far-flung family and friends.
The pragmatic Virgo in me looks at it as a way to keep distant relatives in the loop and organise family photos without leaving the house. I figure our girls will inherit my account and the password, should they wish, to access all the family albums eventually.
With this in mind, there was every chance my Most Used Words on Facebook could have reflected my penchant for tagging the world on my photo albums.
Skip tagging friends. Never. Not in my lifetime.
Anyhow, this goes some way to explaining my lacklustre list of words for the year 2015.
Naturally I declined when VonVon asked me if I wanted to share my frequent-flyer words with my Facebook friends.
So you’ll never really know if my most used listings were Scuba diving, Gourmand, Vietnam, Manu Feildel, Nude Skiing, Twerk, Selfie and Cronut.
You’re just going to have to take my word for it! #theend