Biting your tongue on social media

[Nextphonewontbesamsung]

I mostly lurk on Mumsnet and other social media and probably only post on 1 in 10 threads I read. I think I'm fairly restrained in not firing off a scathing reply to stupid questions that irritate me . But tonight I had to sit on my hands after reading this post on my local FB forum "Hi, looking for recommendations for a cleaner please. I've had twins so am looking for someone really thorough". Honestly it took everything I had not to post "So anyone who hasn't had twins can make do with a slapdash cleaner eh?". Luckily I was the bigger person and walked away.

Have you seen a social media post today that you've had to talk yourself out of posting on?

LIGHT HEARTED ffs.

Wanted: tattooist (see also other professional like plumber/electrician)

Must be very high quality, cheap and want it done today....

The old school friend who uses Facebook like Google. "Can anyone tell me what time Aldi opens?"

My aunt who checks in at hospitals (even when she is visiting someone else), and everytime she has a coffee with someone. She is also a grief hogger. Her poor DIL lost her mum recently, and rather than offering to have her grandkids, quietly support DIL and her grandkids who had lost their other gran, aunt was posting all over FB how devastated she was about losing her dead friend (met her about twice).

People who are STILL posting that thing about FB not having permission to post their photos and then post "Better Safe than sorry"at the end.

I'm a member of several FB book groups, I enjoy them for the book chat and recommendations. The Kindle v real book debate is tiresome, esp when some asks the question as if it has never been asked before.

People who share ancient hoaxes (eg the one about a murderer hiding in the back seat of your car).

I want to put USE YOUR CRITICAL THINKING SKILLS (or Snopes).

People who wish their mum/grandad who are not on social media and won't see the message - a happy birthday/happy Mother's Day!!

@53rdWay do you like in my local town by any chance?! haha

I had to unfollow my local 'pets lost and found' page for this exact reason, there were about 50 lost cats a day. I tell you what, that page it probably the only thing keeping our local Cats Protection in business.

Horrendous spelling and punctuation for me, particularly the grim proliferation of 'your' instead of 'you're'.

I have a proper crazy one, who posts any conspiracy theory known to man. 5G is killing you, we are living on flat earth ruled by lizard people and illuminati, we are all just corporations so you must write your name in small letters only, vaccines are pharma conspiracy to poison us - you name it.

Everything that symbollocks said. Every single thing.

I don’t want to know your daughter cooked a meal for the family, or that you met friends in a restaurant and I certainly don’t need to see your overweight offspring tucking into yet another gigantic ice cream sundae.

I hate people posting their extreme political opinions and shouting at anyone who disagrees.

I’ve had 3 FB friends share this:

“Today evening at 8:20pm and 20 seconds it will be 20:20:20 2020 ! It will never happen again in our lifetime”

Except for every night in 2020... 8:20pm and 20 seconds happens every day. Almost like clockwork.

Now there is palindrome for 2nd Feb this year - 02/02/2020 and it’s extra cool because it also works in the US date format too, so I don’t know if the original poster got confused by that and wanted something with 02/02/2020 20:20:20.

Missing cats that aren't actually missing. I actually now despise our local cats protection for jumping on this every single time a cat shows up at someones house and encouraging it.

People who organise their toast and ham on a plate, along with the coffee mug to face a particular direction and pose the hand in the right place. Then take an artsy photo with theur breakfast surrounded by dried flowers and upload it to Instagram. WTF. Who's breakfast set up ACTUALLY looks like that?!

People who also try to pose candidly for photos, looking away from the camera, messing with their hair, fake laughing. Kinda to make it look like someone shot it without them looking. Like they are some sort of model (which they are not). Perfectly posed photos annoy the shit out of me.

People who also try and portray a perfect life on social media. Listen Sally, we all know you are boring as fuck and the only purpose for your husband in your life is to be your personal paparazzi and make you look fabulous. Simmer down and maybe try and enjoy your actual life rather than faking it.

People who post photos of their kids in an A&E bed and then tag themselves there along with a lengthy description of what's wrong. If they were that bad, you would not have time to post online.

People who post daily updates of how awful their pregnancy is. Even the ones who struggled to conceive in the first place. Really insensitive.

Dog poo rants on facebook. Enough said.

Furbabies. Jesus.

Loads of the above...
especially my dad who constantly shares DM stereotypical political/racist rubbish..that he doesn't really understand - such as refugees taking local council housing ( I worked on the programme - they didn't) or the money that Local Authorities waste ( I work for one and have repeatedly shared information about central cuts by the conservative gov and how I am going through a redundancy/re-structure/might lose my job due to lack of funds) or how ridiculous it is that in the UK we are scared to celebrate Christmas because it will offend the muslim population ( he has seen my photo's of my nativity celebrations in a school with a high muslim population, think British Pakistani Mary, Joseph and cast)

And one 'friend' - (old school friend, intelligent lad ( 10 O levels, turned cannabis smoker) who posts daily about how down he is, how he struggles to get up on a morning, how he has been back to bed in the afternoon, how bored he is, how little his 'nash' bonus was/how many cans of beer it will buy and every detail of his food shopping, discount buys, his DP's staff bonus all including photos.

I always want to snarl back ( is it possible to 'snarl in type??) - 'you might not be so bored if you got a job' - or 'I haven't time to be bored as I work 12 hour days' ( to keep you!)

Really have to stop myself responding, when he posts about his winnings at the latest mid week race meeting he has attended ( didn't struggle to get up that day did he?), or his latest day out to Edinburgh (2 hours away/didn't struggle to get up that day or need to go back to bed either?

Sorry OP all that wasn't light hearted....but it feels sooooo good to get it off my chest!!

Agh I think Facebook is bad for your health, in my 20's I has about 500 'friends' but got so tired of seeing posts involving Britain first bilge, mlm, shitty crafts for sale that you'd even raise an eyebrow if a 7 year old made it! Missing person's from a year ago and an ocean away and the original post usually says now found... 7 months ago! Checking in to the hospital, pics of IV's. The meal preppers who like to photograph every days food with a huge preachy comment usually involving fail to prepare.... yawn! Oh and the 'my dc is only 7 months but has decided to participate in the London marathon etc. A decade has passed, my patience and tolerance have dwindled and I now have about 20 friends (and let's be honest, at least 25% are only still there because I don't like to upset the family 😂)

I like Twitter, No one knows I have it so don't have followers and I just pick and choose who I want to hear from 😂

I tend to delete people on social media including relatives who frequently post shit. I don't care if they notice and if they asked I would probably tell them. Recent one was an auntie of mine who posts filtered pics, passive aggressive memes and what tipped me over was a meme that was homophobic and directed at women.

I rarely post myself and I like seeing what people post as they say a lot about them as a person and what their interests are.

Asking if the local tesco is open is also a bit

Foxyloxy

What is social media for if not to post about social things you've done (such as eating out?) The pp you referred to said she hated dieters.

I hate the the mental health ones that are posted up ' I'm here if you need to talk ' type of things.
( mostly by the most self absorbed people on the planet who wouldn't listen to you in a month of Sunday's and just twist it round to be about them if you did)
The people who post that ' nobody cares' when they don't really give a monkeys about anyone anyway and are just doing it to wind people up or to make a point ! Grr
Lots about social media is annoying though.
I scroll on past.

Has anyone mentioned those who post a picture of their dinner! Why? Or couples who live in the same house messaging
each other on facebook, just talk for feck sake.

A common one with my feed is people who are training for a run/long walk and post daily from the app that tracks their runs/walks.

Killing it
Smashing it
We've got this
Feeling smug great

And then the endless pleas to sponsor them for a great cause.

Sorry, I can't help with your problem but didn't want to read and run. Total waste of time and effort.

Local facebook had a plea for free furniture for newly aquired house.
Offers were rejected as too scruffy or they need fire safety labels as he will be letting out he house.

Or the post " who do I contact to rescue this cat from abandoned house"
Cue picture of my pals plump cat sunning itself on window ledge, curtains drawn as pal works nhs nightshift.

Or the numerous vans abducting kids posts, lots of details apart from reg number,make and model , aye put it on facebook but dont report it to the police?

I haven’t had FB for a few years but I always hated people who tagged themselves at the hospital with no further information, perhaps an accompanying pic of a cannula if you were lucky. It was purely so everyone would be like ‘OMG u ok hun?’ then they’d usually respond with ‘ill PM u hun’ .

I’d unfollowed most people before I deactivated it all together.

Oh i tell you what’s really pissing me off now is vigilante groups who declare people guilty of some crime, usually paedophilia, then post their photo, name, and location with “share for awareness”.

Trial by facebook opinion is not a thing. If they are found guilty in a court of law go ahead, but a facebook page can’t declare some guilty of a crime.

Worse is the sycophantic supporters who comment “thanks for protecting are kids” and take the page’s word as absolute proof of guilt. Dare to challenge or say you’ll wait for a legal conviction before publicly announcing someone is a peedo and you’re a “nonce supporter”.

We have lawyers, and courts and everyone has the right to a fair trial. If you have chat logs or whatever hand them over to police or a lawyer and publish details when there is a conviction...

I did finally lose the plot the other day and respond to a post on the local town Anonymous FB page. Someone had asked them to post"is there a local man with a van to remove rubbish from their front garden but got no money to pay until end of the month". I asked if it was a joke and why would someone do half a days work for someone they didn't know on a promise of getting paid at the end of the month and they were entitled. Oooh the abuse I got from the person who'd sent in the post. He couldn't grasp why someone wouldn't do this for them. I think he blocked me or removed the post cos it disappeared.

I have a FB friend who I love to hate, so that makes me a terrible person. Her posts are priceless. She is one of those people who gives vegans a bad name. Constant posting about it, but when Gary Rhodes died she posted to say firstly he was dead, and secondly to link it back to the fact he owned a steak restaurant so she was guessing heart attack.

Anyone who dies that she has a tenuous link with she posts about., "So sad, my sisters dentists receptionist died. Heartbroken, we did not know each other well, but I am gutted" My DH calls her a 'Grief Thief'

When someone posted about the anniversary of a close relatives death, she responded to say she understood. Her rabbit had died on the same day 5 years prior and the grief never heals. She cries every year for that rabbit. Her fur family is just as important as human family.

I just read all this like

Absolute train wreck always posting drama. Relationship ended lots of dramatic posts. They've been cheated on, left with kids ext they did everything and person didn't love them back blah blah basically a doormat/loyal 4weeks down the line new relationship. Take some time out sis you've got 4kids already.

Someone running a local beauty business asked if any local chartered accountants had a bit of free time to help them complete their tax return, as they didn't really know what they were doing. Of course chartered accountants have loads of free time in January, 3 weeks before the tax filing deadline! Why can't you pay an accountant like the great of the population, we're not charities!