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.

@Stressbucket exactly!!

True crime groups where a person was murdered 30 years ago and so many of them want to keep talking and speculating about something that’s done and dusted, and they also think that they know more than the fucking police, they’re ‘emotional’ detectives

I like the actual police appeals- missing persons, serious crime, traffic accidents etc.

The comments with the experts saying “you should get the cctv”, “you can track his phone”, “that taxi firm is in x, send a copper round to ask them”, “check the damage on the car, it was definitely hit from the right”

Do you not think the Police have thought of any of that? That the appeal is to get investigative and forensic ideas from the public? No dave, it’s because they’ve exhausted every enquiry and the last resort is to try and jog someones memory...

This is why I came off Facebook. Much less stressful not being on it

we had someone recently post on our local community page (with more than 1000 members) details about her 17 year old's mental health problems- in unbelievable detail - asking for advice.

I was about to pst suggesting she might like to delete it due to privacy concerns but someone beat me to it and got a mouthful of abuse for their trouble.

I think mums that post pictures of their kids in hospital wired up to machines etc are exhibiting munchausen ish behaviours.

I think I spelt munchausens wrong.

Jeez OP - I'm very glad you don't regularly post...

People sharing missing person appeals without clicking through to see if the person has been found.

Ellie/Max/whatever must be 16 now and doesn't need that time they ran away, aged 12, to follow them around virally for the rest of their lives.

Local Facebook selling page:

Anyone selling a buggy for a girl?
I’ve got one hun I’ll post a pic

No sorry hun need one for a girl

And the 'expert'.

Usually linked to planning applications - ' building 1000 houses, when no-one has thought about where all of the children are going to go to school'...

Of course they have - every step of the way...we have a whole department in our local authority who are professionals dealing with school place planning!

And for me a parent who became FB's town education expert - self appointed, shared more information about the school and the education system than I knew (as the headteacher!) yet said parent never came to school or attend any meetings; we were lucky if she ever even bothered to hear her own children read.

I was so tempted to set up a fake account to challenge her inaccuracies, as i wasn't allowed to comment as the Head.

Usually linked to planning applications - ' building 1000 houses, when no-one has thought about where all of the children are going to go to school'

That one does confuse me. Schools here are all horrendously oversubscribed- i have been on a wait list for 3 years and have to drive 7 miles to dc’s allocated school- directly past several closer schools. On appeal the reasons they give are the schools are physically too small to expand classes.

Yet they are building a new housing estate half a mile from me- 2500 houses. With no new gp or new schools.

So I don’t think it’s an unreasonable question. It may have been considered by all the “planning experts”, but they never answer the question....

The ones of someone with a disability saying "no one will share this". I don't want to share it, but I would very much like to drown the original poster in skunk urine.

Lost cats. It's a cat. It does what the fuck it likes.

"Barry (not his real name) is playing bullfighters on the railway line. Can someone ring the police?" How about you do it, you vacuous spoon?

Happy Heavenly Birthday to
a dead relative, they won’t be reading it!!!
Urgent appeal for a foster home for a rescue dog with needs i.e pet free, kids over 10 listed, then replies along the line of ‘I would if I didn’t have 7 cats and 12 kids’ ‘would he be ok with my 5 poodles?’
(I work in rescue so find it very annoying)
Fuck me, why comment? 🙄🙄

I would very much like to drown the original poster in skunk urine

I am very much with @BlueMoonRising - it is soo tempting to post similar responses. However, there are people that do it with absolutely no sense of irony. Saw a post over Christmas on a local forum asking if anyone knew whether the elderly lady who was always on her own in xxx venue had anywhere to go for Christmas. First reply was "no, sorry I don't know her"

narrows eyes at "didn't want to read and run" posters too

Bluebluezoo
Carefully managed to ensure all children have a school place, not necessarily their choice of school. Legally LA's have to provide a place - but not necessarily a choice

I don't know about where you are but locally here, lots of over subscribed schools - the ones most people 'choose' - but the bigger picture is less popular schools that are not full. This balances the need to build more schools as the total number of places offered still exceeds the number of children.
As you can imagine a detailed process to plan ahead, involving forecasting the number of children over the next number of years, ratios of children to houses, numbers in roll in schools/forecasts of rising/falling roles.

arefully managed to ensure all children have a school place, not necessarily their choice of school. Legally LA's have to provide a place - but not necessarily a choice

Yep, that I understand. But if they build 2500 houses, and all schools within a 3 mile radius have been oversubscribed every year, so much so that it isn’t unusual to get a place miles away, with wait lists for in year places, where exactly are the kids from the new houses going to go? Are they going to taxi 100’s of kids to schools 7 or 8 miles away as they are the only ones that have places?

Anyway. O/t but I’ve asked that question in planning meetings and school appeals and never been answered...

An old school friend who does have some genuine health problem but posts about them every single day along with pics of all her meds, hospital letters and pics of her in hospital.

She always manages to perk up for the weekend though and goes on the piss despite being at deaths door all week and Calling her self a warrior or a survivor (it's not terminal or life limiting)

I have one of the same conditions as her even share the same consultant and dread ever bumping into her at an appointment as I know she will try and tag me.

I keep FB to keep in touch with relatives I’m not geographically close to, and a few friends that I see IRL so would feel a bit mean to de friend.

Basically all of them are unfollowed. I cannot be arsed with basically all of the above posts.

First reply was "no, sorry I don't know her"

Was probably my MIL. She thinks all that kind of posts she sees on her wall are personal questions to her and surely it's rude not to say anything.

I got some stick from dhs cousins once for not sharing memories of their mum (his aunt now deceased) on the anniversary of her death.

The woman was an old witch. Who had nothing but horrible things to say to me. So yeah nah. I’m not going to share that.