Social media posts that make you cringe

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Saw one the other day-

‘Guys, where can I donate food to? I really want to help’ To me it just smacks of virtue signalling and wanting praise. My view is that if they’ve got FB then presumably they could Google this and have they never seen the food bank bins at the door of every supermarket?

Phew rant over!

The really vague attention seeking ones that are something “just when you think all’s well, life just beats you down”

Followed by loads of “you ok, hun?”

The Facebook profile frames with ‘I’ve had my jab’.

They get unfriended immediately.

Basically all of them

(Not a SM fan)

I got rid of Facebook a good few years ago now because of stuff like this! I'd recommend it!

Status update: "got my washing all nicely hung out on the line" nobody cares ffs!

The ones where you know in RL they've just caused a lot of problems and upset for others and then post on FB about "be kind or how people don't know/care how much they're suffering. They may be, but when they've caused suffering to others through their actions (and they are aware) it grates somewhat.

"To the person wearing a blue coat at checkout number 3 at Sainsbury's on Tuesday... you pushed in front of me...."

But my real hate is people washing their clean linen in public. "Look at this picture of me being patronising..." you get it on here too "was IBU to " when what they're wanting is praise.
Anyone who is doing it out of selflessness does not post about it on SM.

Checking in at the hospital
Hun
My 🌎
Be kind

I never give likes to posts I don’t approve of 😂 These include ‘mystery posts’ where the author then says ‘PM me hun’ 🙄 Also loathe things where people are gushy to their DH/partner…just tell them!!

Anything where someone has clearly shared a phishing scam and the like
Amazed at the otherwise intelligent people who fall for these things

"Today I was feeling down, and my eighteen month old came up to me, hugged me and said, "Mummy, remember than even when your soul is shrouded in the mists of unhappiness, a fresh breeze will come and you will once again see the sun." So blessed to have my wise little man."

Can someone tell me what time the tip is open / where's the nearest mechanic / recommend where I can buy this from..FFS, the world is not your personal shopper & you have Google!!!

Anyone know what time the post office shuts?

I moved out of my little seaside home town at 18 my parents are still there and I keep the group on my FB as entertainment. Loads over lockdown like snapping pictures of people just going about their business, shopping in the co-op, or walking along the seafront with a takeaway coffee with captions like

‘No wonder we’re in this mess’

‘Dont they know we are in a pandemic?!’

The latest one is pictures of their house with external Christmas lights on the local community group - why advertise to burglars who can follow your profile?!?

Or the photo of a sad looking puppy with 'I bet a won't even get 1 like'

And anything that starts ' I know most people won't share this but ...'

@Levithian I love those 😂

There’s a ‘that happened’ forum on Reddit that’s a goldmine for stuff like this. Such as

‘Hard day at work today and my little angel made me put my feet up and insisted on cooking dinner. He’s only 3’ 😂

Checking in at the hospital i have checked in at the hospital, but often to relate some amusing anecdote about what was going on there etc. E.g. I once went to the hospital for an appointment, and while we were in the reception area someone walked in in full wedding dress etc. and it was the reception area not a&e so was a bit baffling.

Also, I checked in at Papworth because I was just so in awe of the place - it’s how you would imagine living on mars under a dome would be.

I always reiterate that I’m there for routine appointments though as I do have a serious heart condition and wouldn’t want it to be thought there might be a problem.

The ones I hate though are:

“#beKind”, “Feeling blessed,” and “have just had such an awful day,” followed by the myriad of “are you ok?” Posts only to then be answered “I don’t really want to talk about it, I’ll inbox you.”

Any posts that include "I bet most of my friends won't have the courage to repost this ....."

This is why I deleted Fakebook. So...much... SELF OBSESSION. Literally nobody gives a shit about your carefully curated lives.

Mine are the MH ones. Don't get me wrong people do have problems but it's the very long winded begging post that has to mention anxiety, MH, lonely etc. Or the post that is begging and when someone queries it they add a reply saying but my mum is in hospital 🙄 so that's my excuse making other posters feel really bad.

As another PP said, those who regularly post every anti bullying meme, and be kind slogans ....

Well your two kids are both massive bullies, how do you not see it?!

"To the person who let your dog crap on my lawn, you were caught on CCTV and I know who you are. If you come and clear it up, no questions asked, however if it is still there tomorrow I'm handing this footage over to the Police"

Like the Police give a shit (pun intended)

We just had the classic Ring doorbell footage with a "Be aware folks, we just had these two strange people wandering around. Maybe scoping out cars. Weird that they're in full PPE like they dont want to be recognised" ...........it was CLEARLY paramedics looking for the house they needed to attend in the pitch black

Oh yes. Any of the “if you have friends who have experienced mental illness/cancer/ please copy this so that your friends know you’re thinking of them.”

I’ve even seen one recently which is written in such a way as to make it look as if the poster has cancer. Something along the lines of “it’s just been a hard day out of weeks and weeks of hard days, and I really don’t know whether I can do this any more.” And then goes on to say “I posted this to see who would read to the end.”

Someone on my fb posted this one recently and I responded saying that she was being bloody offensive to people with cancer posting a post suggesting that she had it. My reply got more likes than her OP.

Usually though I unfriend them.

'Another deposit into the most important bank account in the world...the memory bank'
Used to have someone who would post that at least twice a week...I muted her in the end!

The "let's see how far this post can go", inspirational quotes, crappy poems and "lucky" butterfly/ doves/ flowers..... can all feck off.

I don't have SM anymore but when I did -

Photo of food with "homemade steak pie with homemade mash and peas nomnomnomnomnom" - instant delete.

Videos of people giving money to homeless people. Total virtue signalling and awful to film - instant delete.

I deleted it at the start of the pandemic because I had a few arseholes on there comparing lockdown to concentration camps- with pictures. One bell end messaged me and told me I didn't love my kids if I didn't sign his anti-lockdown petition - just got rid if FB altogether.

I also have 2 children who have died and on their birthdays (which I never put it on SM) I had people, some of who never met my children, tagging me in posts with pictures of angels and clouds telling me how sorry for my loss they are etc - if I haven't put anything on there then send a message rather than tag me in a post so people can offer their condolences to you.

As a pp said earlier, anyone who writes a script of what their kid says that's absolute bullshit. Some of the kids who allegedly said the most profound things have been at my house and I've spent the whole time just telling them not to lick things 🤣

@Levithian that had me roaring 😂