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Witty One-Liners Quote by Facebook

"If you wanna cry ..use tissue paper not your fb status"

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A little slap on the wrist disguised as advice, this line distills Facebook-era emotional policing into a single petty command: take your feelings offline. The “tissue paper” image is doing more than offering a practical alternative to posting. It frames public sadness as a bodily mess, something to wipe up quickly and privately, not something a feed should have to look at. The ellipses and lower-case shorthand (“wanna,” “fb”) add to the vibe: casual, almost friendly. That informality is the trap. It’s not a policy, it’s a social norm delivered as a joke, making it harder to argue with without seeming humorless.

The intent is gatekeeping attention. Status updates are treated as a scarce communal resource, and crying is cast as an abuse of it - a bid for sympathy that violates an unspoken contract of performative chill. Underneath is a familiar internet hierarchy of emotions: anger can be “hot take,” happiness can be “life update,” but sadness is “cringe.” The line doesn’t reject emotion so much as it demands emotion be aesthetic, digestible, preferably inspirational by the third sentence.

Context matters: Facebook grew up alongside a culture that rewards constant visibility while punishing neediness. The platform invites oversharing by design, then users invent small cruelties to manage the overload. This quote is that cruelty in meme form: a laugh that doubles as a boundary and, quietly, a warning about what kinds of vulnerability get you scrolled past.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Facebook. (2026, January 14). If you wanna cry ..use tissue paper not your fb status. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-wanna-cry-use-tissue-paper-not-your-fb-171425/

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Facebook. "If you wanna cry ..use tissue paper not your fb status." FixQuotes. January 14, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-wanna-cry-use-tissue-paper-not-your-fb-171425/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"If you wanna cry ..use tissue paper not your fb status." FixQuotes, 14 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/if-you-wanna-cry-use-tissue-paper-not-your-fb-171425/. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.

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