Like so much that has to do with FB, I cringe just a little. Frankly, they ALL seem rather "showy" to me.
Reminds me of the little meme that says something about "I wish you had the life you pretend to have on FB." or however it goes...
I could go on a rant... here, let me start:
(picture) "I have the BEST Daddy in the whole world!"
(small print) If you have a wonderful father, repost. If you don't, ignore.
Umm... Well.. last I took English, "best" is a superlative, and we can't all have the best, because by definition, there is only one of those. So when you post that your's is the best, you just said mine sucks. Thanks for that!
You could use the same thing and just insert different people. The best Husband. The best Son. The best daughter. The best mother. The best sister. The best brother. The best ______. And every time you say that, you are tearing down everyone else's just a hair. Don't you enjoy doing that?
And what, my ___ (spouse, son, daughter, etc) is chopped liver because I don't copy/paste a little picture about it on FB?
Well, in my view, the 30 days of thankfulness are in that same line. Nobody says, "I'm thankful that I have too much time on my hands that I can sit here on FB and post random thoughts." It's not a diary. It's not a journal. It's public! But they will sit and spend time trying to come up with some extra sappy thing/person/feeling to be thankful for so that they can look good.
Sorry... but it isn't my cup of tea. I mean.. we're pretty much all thankful for the same stuff, aren't we? Our family, our homes, our jobs, our health... So do we really need to post it as a status every day. It's just more one-up-manship.
I like the ones who post a random fact instead. For example, did you know that every certain number of miles in the interstate highway system there is required to be ONE mile that is completely straight? This was designed so that they could be used as airstrips in an emergency or time of war.
Now doesn't that actually do something for you? At least as much as reading someone else's "I'm so thankful for my husband. He's the BEST husband in the world!"