AIBU to be annoyed by these people on my local Facebook page?

Ours can be (between all of the above posts) quite witty.

One time someone posted rather irate that someone had nicked "their" traffic cone and if anyone saw their cone to return it IMMEDIATELY.
Queue around 503 posts of various traffic cones around the borough and beyond asking if this was the one.
Followed by said lady and friends saying it wasn't funny, a serious matter and accusing others of bullying.

The advent of anonymous posts has definitely brought the tone down though. They're either posts along the lines of "what time does the post office open?" which has no reason to be anonymous. Or people using the opportunity to post something racist or offensive in another way (we had a phase of "Isn't Trump really a lovely teddy bear cuddly generous person who only has other people in his heart when he's making policies?" about the same time MN seemed to have an influx of similar. And in line with MN's fangirls there seemed to be a rather off likelihood of using a Russian spelling..?)
Or the other ones are the Liberal Democrats posting something nasty about the Tories/Labour/any other political party. Occasionally their first edit has to remove the logo from the bottom...

For queries, I sometimes (if in a bad mood) put LMGTFY!

Some of these have made me howl and can relate to a lot of them on our FB page.
We have people asking about bus times, opening times of the local shop, fireworks and speeding drivers .
And there is always one person who thinks they are a medical/legal/planning/education expert using worlds that don’t mean what they think they do

Yep ours is full of pictures of perfectly healthy cats that are supposedly lost and people posting pictures of peoples cars if they've parked wrong or people who have looked at them funny in the local park!

Oh and posts from someone saying their parcel has been delivered to someone else's house by mistake and all the replies saying go hunt them down they're a thief! Rather than it could be an accident from the delivery driver!

I have lived in my village for a year. Moved here as only 15 mins from city, lovely pubs and food and a looked after village. I am in a new build estate, so not the most popular housing. but after a year I have realised the true villagers don’t like change and are not welcoming.

local FB has complained about:

1. a restaurant opened by a semi famous chef. It’s amazing and has attracted people from all over, big waiting list and people who then use the 3 local pubs. Locals complain the pubs are too busy now. But the pubs said they were struggling and love the new trade. Restaurant is now moving to a bigger premises out of the village. They got fed up of the complaints of too many cars in the village. Pubs worried about trade
2. eyesore patch of land with rubbish and badly kept fences. Small storage unit with 3 shops and lots of parking being built. think it’s a mechanics. Rumours and objections being encouraged as it may operate 24 hours and increase cars to the area. Despite replacing an eyesore and saying in planning application it would be office hours.
3. massive sports fun day for kids. Parking on fields was an eyesore. Parking in streets caused inconvenience to people. It happened once a year and was advertised in advance. Lots of people had fun.

This drives me mad too. The choir group I am on has pages and pages of stuff not remotely connected to singing. It is then difficult finding the stuff that is important.

lol 😂 this is in ours….every few months ‘suspicious van at 4 am’ …… turns out it’s the milkman !

#1 rule of village facebook groups is that they’re full of ass-hats and bloody annoying, but indispensable for the reasons you list as well!

You forgot posts about fireworks - every year it’s the same. It’s like it comes as a complete surprise to them. Thankfully they’ve been banned on our local page.

Bring back the Yellow Pages, lol.

On my local group this week we had a death threat. A man so pissed off about a decision made by the local council that he said he was going to go down to the council offices and shoot whoever was responsible for making the decision.
Cue a massive pile on, 50% of people horrified and the other 50% agreeing ‘yes, go shoot them all’ sort of thing.
Someone wrote that it’s come to something if you can’t even threaten to shoot people anymore without the woke snowflakes getting all upset.

The one that really gets me is Nextdoor. It's an absolute cesspool: most of the people who go on there are spoiling for a fight and illiterate. The racism and xenophobia is eye-watering and the posts immediately trigger long screeds about "sending them back" etc.

Someone posted a couple of weeks ago: "there's a black teenager on a bike outside my house. Should I call the police?" I live in South London so black teenagers aren't a rare sight. I find it astonishing that people manage their day to day lives with this level of paranoia.

By contrast my local Facebook page seems positively civilized.

Block or mute the people who post things you don’t like. I just scroll by.

Very funny! 🤣

@cryptidethose “person who” posts also make me laugh!
“To the person who angrily glared at me in the Lidl bakery aisle. Karma gonna get ya!”
We seriously had one like that once. 🙄

Erm - I think perhaps you are overthinking everything and overacting. Are you stressed in other aspects of your life? You seriously just got annoyed over nothing. I think a break from social media would do you good.

The posts that make me laugh are the helicopter and ones.

”Hey every1. Ne1 no wot the helicopter is hovering for?” As if anyone on their sofa scrolling FB would know. 😂

“Thats against GPDR…” which by the way you see quite regularly on MN, is 100% posted by somebody who has absolutely no idea what they are talking about. Or to put another way, how to show you know nothing about GPDR, without saying you know nothing about GPDR. But unintelligent people like to pretend they know something complicated.

think this might be my favourite post ever!

Just seen a group of teenagers causing some kind of criminal evidence. Got it on my ring doorbell. Want the parents to come forward before I go to the police, followed by lots of posters claiming they're only young, they're bored, leave them alone etc.

A car has just hit my wing mirror and drove off. I know who you are and if you don't come forward, I'll name and shame you. (Never seen anyone naming and shaming, so all an empty threat.)

My favourite was A couple of teens are loitering on the main road at a bus stop. They've been there at least 20 minutes now. Just want to let you know in case they're up to no good!
They're probably waiting for the bus 🤣🤣

One of our local Ring Doorbell users posted a photo of a car that had driven down the street at the same time for the past few nights. Clearly suspicious & everyone be on your guard.

It was a guy who lived further down the street who was a police officer coming home at the end of his shift which ended at midnight 🤦🏻‍♀️

1. The people who see blatant vandalism or theft and go "oh, get a life" or "we were all young once", "I bet you ain't perfect". Like, you know, I'm a fully grown up adult and I've never once set an abandoned building on fire, egged anyone or left upturned trolleys all over a road. On top of that, as a grown fucking adult, I have the brain capacity to realise that setting things on fire and blocking emergency vehicles could do serious harm (even if that's not in the minds of those teens when they did it). On top of that, I know full well that when people my age (back when I was a teen) did anything like this, every decent adult would've obliterated them for being little shits... so, if teens are always going to do stupid things, when did adults stop doing their part of the routine?! Lo and behold, when the vandalising abandoned buildings turned into abandoning their business or when doing stupid thing turns into threatening them, they completely fail to recognise that they allowed that to progress by excusing the poor behaviour when it started.

We have a serial commenter who does this. Teens using catapults to kill swans, door knocking on elderly residents’ doors after dark, throwing bottles over the fence onto a public pavement frequently used by mothers and young children is all just kids being kids and the complainer is clearly a kill joy Karen. He works for Fujitsu btw…

Lol. I there, like here, have a fake I'd name and just read, laugh, inform myself < found my two current jobs there >, or put emoji

We have one lady on ours who has to comment on EVERY POST and acts as though she’s an expert on EVERY TOPIC.

Once someone was asking about the best place to get travel vaccinations locally and her first response was “I can’t think of anywhere you would travel to these days where you would need to be vaccinated against anything”. Somebody else then listed a load of countries for where it’s strongly advised to get vaccinations for diseases such as rabies and cholera and also take anti materials and the lady’s response was “oh, I guess if you can afford it, it’s worth getting vaccinated rather than risking having to take a week off work when you come back because you’re ill.” Seriously that’s what she thought. Rabies, no problem really, just rest for a week and drink plenty of fluids!

mine is all ‘my cat is missing’ (buy him a fucking tracker) or whinging about parking (just fucking walk, it’s not a big town!) or ‘dodgy bloke/van loitering’