[PaddyCorry]

Nice piece. Something my female friends always do on FB, and that I half-expected the article to mention, is the 'perfect day' status update.. ie one along the lines of 'walk in the park, dinner at Mario's, curled up on the couch with <insert partner name here> and a glass of wine, perfect!' ... the scenarios described might be different, but the common factors are the veneer of amazingness, and the fact that they always end with a declaration: 'lovely', or 'great', or 'perfect'.

(This is one of David O'Doherty's 'beefs', towards the end here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCgYIP-v-e0 )

[electromagnetic]

I've seen a few of these, and knowing the women all I can think are things like: "So how many oxycontin did you buy that morning to make it that perfect?" or "Who'd you cheat on your boyfriend with this time?"

Those perfect-veneer updates are quite possibly the venereal infection of Facebook. You just see cluster-infection on groups of 'friends' who all have that annoying mentality to have to one-up the people they claim are their BFF's.

[epochwolf]

It's the same games high school girls are socialized to play with each other. Some people (men and women) just never grow out of the social games they play in high school.