Teenagers often feel the need to post their inner feelings on Facebook. The status might include name calling, hinting at a specific person, or wanting to start a fight. Then everyone finds it necessary to comment-500 comments later the police get pulled into it.
“When I’m reading other peoples statuses I find it humorous. When it’s on my own status I still find it somewhat humorous, but it also annoys me,” sophomore Justin Boeker said.
Many people commonly turn to Facebook when they’re upset. They update their status about what’s upsetting them, why their day is bad, or the recent drama in their life. On the other hand, not everyone aims for Facebook to be their main choice for arguments.
“I don’t really choose for it to be over Facebook, it’s just that they don’t go to school so there’s no other place it could happen – they being the people I usually have conflict with,” Boeker said.
“I’d prefer to have no drama, but if I could choose, it would be face to face. Sometimes I get messages through Facebook about relationship drama,” sophomore Myrinda Spencer said.
“I’ve been in high school long enough to know that you don’t mess with that stuff. There are many other things, to worry about.” senior Sam Jokisch said.
Facebook drama usually starts with negative feedback to ones post or status, mainly because it’s controversial.
“Sometimes I don’t mean for it to happen- some people take my status wrong and then drama starts. But on the other hand, when I’m mad at a close friend, I do it so they’ll ask me about it and I can talk to them about my problem with them,” Boeker said.
But the drama grows when friends start defending friends-people feel like they should stand up for the ones they care about. Facebook situations can quickly get out of hand. People start threatening physical and verbal violence, which causes talking of fighting.
“I think people get all caught up in the fights, so much that they’ll un-tag their pictures of them, and when they’re not friends anymore they’ll delete them or block them. And then there’s the whole relationship thing whether it’s complicated or they’re in an open relationship: no one really cares,” Jokisch said.
Spencer agreed that her Facebook fights have turned into “real life” fights when it comes to at least one specific person, while Boeker stated that his never get that intense.
“It all comes down to pointless drama; people talking bad about others,” Many RHS students said.
