Spoiler Alert! How to avoid finding out what happens when someone else knows the ending?

It's that time again, summer blockbuster movies! It's been almost a month now and the summer movies have started appearing in theaters. It's also that time for season finales of your favorite television shows. Some end in cliffhangers and some reveal a changing point in the show.

So what do you do when you haven't had a chance to see the movie or television show, but someone else has is talking about it within earshot? What if you're browsing the internet and stumble upon a story where the writer wasn't kind enough to warn you of the ending?

Should you lock yourself at home? Not click on anything on the internet? The truth is, there's no way to avoid it. Luckily, most sites these days warn their readers about major story lines, plot points, and the big pay off, what happens at the end of the movie.

However, what do you with random people walking the streets or friends posting what happens on Facebook?

That happened to me this past week. A friend posted a major reveal on one of my favorite shows: The Big Bang Theory. I must say, I was a bit pissed off. I would have loved to find out on my own and have enjoyed the moment of finding out. Instead? I was waiting for it during the entire episode. The show itself was great, but I was just waiting and waiting for it. When it happened, I already knew about it and it just wasn't that great of a moment.

Some things are only good the first time you see it. For example, if you know the secret of the movie, 'The Crying Game', then watching it again just doesn't have the same feeling the first time you saw it. I won't ruin it for you, but I heard more than a few times that people leaving the movie would blurt out the secret and ruined it for people waiting in line. I mean seriously, someone should take those people out back and shoot them.

So what did I do with a friend who posted the big reveal? Well, I let him know my displeasure and was seriously going to block him for a few days. In the end, I didn't, because while I'm sure he didn't mean it, he also got a few posts from other friends who thought it wasn't cool.

While I don't suggest you block your friends for such a minor offense, let him know what he did and hope he doesn't do it again in the future.

I also want to warn you about reading the comments section of articles. A lot of times, people's comments will giveaway the ending of a movie or show. That happened to me a few years ago, when I was reading the magazine's comment section and the comment itself gave away the ending of The Lord of the Rings Trilogy.

I know what you're thinking, 'What? You never read the 'Lord of the Rings' trilogy?' My answer? Yes, and I was really pissed off that the magazine's editors didn't put in a spoiler alert for the comments.

So has anyone ever ruined a movie for you? Or told you what's going to happen on your favorite tv show before you had a chance to watch it?

Do you have any ideas on how to avoid people spoiling a movie ending? Add your thoughts in the comment section.