Round fucking robins on FB status

[TheVortex]

Is this new? It's apparently the done thing to do a round robin as a final status for the year...... I don't care that your daughter has amazed you with her school tests or your son has started reception but is now fast tracked to fucking a levels/ walking on water......

Thanks. I could fill several threads with the going on over the last two weeks but I am not ready yet

It's childish and as previous posters say " a perfect fake life" flaunted online - seems to be the norm on FB. The best thing I did for the new year was to divorce it many years ago.👏

Oh come on! It's New Year's Eve. Of course social media is full of people saying happy new year and having a mini round up of photographs of the year. What on earth do you really expect?! Maybe it's time to step away and turn it off!! Just seems a silly thing to complain about today of all days!

And fwiw - yes, FB is still big and is still used by people of lots of ages. I know people aged 13-80 using FB andI'm not unusual in knowing so.

Those Facebook curated year posts are annoying too. Hate it when people post those

Dear FB Friends,

This year has been shit, really. XH has carried on being a thundercunt. The DC still think he walks on water. Said DC are individually pleasant, and collectively foul. DC3 looks set to fail all her GCSEs, despite the hundreds of thousands spent on her education (said hundreds of thousands meaning I can't buy a house). DP is almost as difficult as XH, and reduces me to silent tears on a more or less daily basis.

I have no money, and no prospects of a decent job. My mum has recently been diagnosed with cancer. Poor Dad can't begin to deal with it, and will be left with a collection of livestock he can't look after.

I hope I can make similarly brilliant memories in 2019.

Love,

Totopoly xxx

BTW, I would have mentioned a holiday, but last went on one in 2012 (wet camping trip to Cornwall), so a bit out of date.

But didn’t you have a really nice coffee out about April 2018 Toto?!

God I've just seen a devastating 'Ive lost everything' one of these

Toto

I have a friend who does this, but she tries to be all mysterious and profound. Things like-

That morning in Somerset where the light was just so and your mood matched, the evening dancing shoeless pretending tomorrow wouldn’t come, the tomorrow that came and took our breaths away.

Pile of shite.

Mutant, thank you. I wasn't expecting flowers (have developed a pretty thick skin, in the circs), but they are very welcome!

Wolfie, yes, I probably did. I may have another one in April 2019.

I will share my with you, Claire.

Here’s wishing you an amazing coffee in 2019. (or is that tea?!)

That's exactly why I have tonight deleted my Facebook account. It's all so fake and boring, I can't be bothered with it anymore.

Toto, your DP doesn't sound much like one? Why are you with him? Never think you aren't enough on your own.

wonton I've just blocked my cousin for doing one of those profound and cryptic statuses she also boasts about her son's incredible unique snowflakeness on a daily basis. She has no self-awareness...

I have had drunk on gin ive had a shiit year statuses pop up all bloody night it is ridiculous and I will be having words with them tomorrow.

Years and years ago, when people still had to write these things on paper, I got in so much trouble with my mum because I sent one out in my cards along the lines of how I'd dropped out of college to run off with Azok, my guru boyfriend, and though it was true love because he took the blame for all the hash the police found in the car, his incarceration was proving a real barrier to his doing his job to support me during my pregnancy and addiction withdrawal support and I was worried about being a mum with your partner in prison. Apparently people actually believed it!

Love that Baronet. Probably more truth in that than some on Facebook at the moment

Thank Christ, I thought it was just me!!! My feed is full of them. It's left me basically speechless as I literally don't want to write a load of shit - round robin, that's exactly what it is!!

I wish for the old days when you actually used to get a nice text message of your friends wishing your Happy New Year. Now it's all brag brag brag on FB or instagram. Yawn.

But Azok was special to me!....

Azok was fab. I included a lot of special details about our meeting and love and how he helped me discover how I'd been brainwashed by bourgeois society and even sprinkled a little patchouli oil on the pages- like back in the 80s when we'd spray Charlie perfume on love letters to guys? Those were the days!

My mum was furious.

With the people who've been wishing people Happy Christmas and Happy Holidays and discussing the past year for quite a few weeks now, and regularly detail everything anyways, I can see it being annoying. I've unfollowed a couple people this month as it got a bit much.

With quieter people, it can be nice. I know a few people who keep Facebook mainly for groups or messenger so only post now and then so it can be a good way to keep in touch that doesn't usually happen.

My DH posted one of these annual summaries tonight with a caption of "it's been a fairly good 2018". It really wasn't. Should I LTB? (semi-joking)

I've spotted a couple of cryptic ones where the person is pregnant but not ready to tell yet - one I know for sure (family member), the other is just a guess! This is the kind of game I play to amuse myself.