The more they brag, the more miserable and bored with their lives they are.
Maybe not miserable as much but the need to validate their lives. I mean the stupid thing is we didn't keep in touch after highschool and now I'm supposed to care about what you're doing with your life. Really.
True, most people are just bored and need validation that everyone else is too. But some truly are miserable. And the FB statuses... :yuck I need a cry-for-help font and a suicide font, otherwise I'll check that shit in the morning and see how it panned out.
FB is like the awkward run-in with someone at the store, but it lasts 6 months until you finally delete them from your friends list. You say hi, pretend to care, say bye and keep running into each other while shopping. Fucking annoying.
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Personally, because I'm a bitch, when I run into some of the people I knew growing up, I let them ramble on. Then they try to run recon on my life to see how crappy they think it is, and I slowly leak details and just keep asking them questions. Finally they realize I'm really happy with how things turned out and I'm really lucky/worked really hard to get where I am. Pisses off some people, and I know they were just trying to get dirt on me to run back and tell so-and-so. Mostly my ex delivering those pizzas. And it's been this way since 2003 or so. There wasn't much to do in that town except drugs and gossip, so I moved fucking out. I don't miss it.
I don't mind any of them on Facebook unless they post awkward shit on my photos or status (like some dude making a racist joke on a picture during a back and forth discussion), but they are usually cool.
There are a few that when I see their status I'm thinking wtf. Like them posting about how they're moving back in with their parents and they have such shitty luck when the rest of the time I see them posting about getting shitfaced and how they work some shitty retail job. Maybe I'm missing something from the story, it's possible, but that looks fucking bad and I have to roll my eyes. I can't hate on all the chicks I see posting about getting pregnant and not married, etc. I got someone pregnant BEFORE I got out of high school, but I was stupid enough to marry that person. I think in general most people are way too judgemental about other's lives. If you posted about your mistakes over the past few years without explaining your complete situation and not knowing these people they'd probably be thinking smiliar things about your life. Everyone makes mistakes.
That's excluding people that brag, they open themselves up for that shit. Oh and keep your "omg we're broken up" and "yay we're back together" shit off facebook too. ughhh. And the funniest people are the ones who I see still complain about what their parents will and will not pay for or allow them to do.
Edit: I also see a ton of people doing what they love and they're genuinely very happy in their lives. A girl I know is now a dancer in New York at ballets and shit. A guy I knew writes books and while he's not rich, he's very fulfilled and is at least being published on a regular basis. I know a guy who still plays music with the same guys from high school and they're in a band now that has a record deal and constantly wins awards for local music. People tend to forget about the ones who do make it. or maybe Houston is just the only town not full of LOSERS :D
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I hate this fucking city though