Social media posts that make you cringe

[BigYellowHat]

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!

@Levithian

"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."

Hahahaha! Thank you for this!

@Levithian thank you for making me lol! Amazing!

@lastqueenofscotland

The be kind posts. Always posted by people who are absolutely peices of work.

You can add twitter Be Kinds to this one. I've seen people moralising on there that wouldn't p*ss on you if you were on fire. It's why I left!

LinkedIn nowadays seems to be full of people posting about how kind they’ve been to someone ‘and you should be kind to people like this too!’, including a selfie of them grinning with their arm round said person. I always wonder if that person knows they’re going to end up being visibly patronised on social media.

@crackofdoom

Oh, and how could I have forgotten

“Don’t let anyone tell you when to stop cosleeping you brave wild mumma, your precious lil ones are only tiny for such a short time, and only their mumma can meet their needs…”

I suppose it’s my fault for sending my kids to a Steiner kindergarten, but my news feed is FULL of this passive aggressive misogynistic hippy surrendered wife bollocks, and my friendship groups used to be full of hollow eyed mothers whose 5 and 6 year olds were still sharing their beds and waking them up at the crack of dawn, and “fully expressing” themselves with all kinds of appalling behaviour, while their beardy partners all appeared to be living their best lives and ducking out of the grind of parenting 🙄

Agree I hate those posts

Videos of people giving money to homeless people. Total virtue signalling and awful to film - instant delete. God this fucks me off so much. ‘Look at this homeless person. Everyone was ignoring him until I came along so I bought him a Greggs sausage roll and spent 2 minutes talking to him until I could take a selfie of us both together and post it to show what a humanitarian I am’. And people like these posts and tell them how amazing they are. Yeah Gareth (for that is your name) you’ll cross the street to avoid making eye contact with him ever again, but just so long as you got your selfie and all that unwarranted praise from dickheads, and all for the bargain price of a sausage roll.

What I do get annoyed about are those couples who are forever posting about how in love they are, how their love is too strong to die and how blessed they are to have found each other. Then a week later, it’s all over, they’re not talking and there’s no explanation. I’ve sat through all those vomit inducing posts. I need an explanation. What happened? Which one of you cheated?

Photographs of their homemade evening meals, with the recipe thrown in for effect.

I'm no longer on Facebook, but I cringe at how much I used to live through it. I was emotionally unstable, with undiagnosed mental health issues and it became a nasty, vicious outlet for it all.

At one point, when it was at its first flush of popularity, I would update my status if I so much as farted.

I had it all: the vague but scathing updates concerning a failed friendship; a doomed-from-the-start whirlwind engagement; political rantings galore. I did the lot. In my defence, I was quite calm in comparison to other "Friends" I had on there.

Then one day I became very aware of how ridiculous it all was and how it added nothing to my life but it did take a lot of time, brain space and emotions and really affected my mental wellbeing . So it went. I don't miss it at all.

I now truly believe it's a very dangerous social media platform if you aren't of sound mind (or even if you are tbh!)

‘Found this wallet, look at this sentimental photo inside, let’s share and get it back to its owner!’

Or, I dunno, quietly hand it in at the Tesco where you found it?!

This fucking shite. A few cheap chocolate bars held together with a pipe cleaner for £3.50 or £4.50 (she doesn’t seem to have decided yet)

@RaininSummer

'do any women go out without make up. I'll wait.' WTF

No words in English end in 'a' apart from 'banana'. I'll wait.

Silly arseholes!

My Mum's feed is full of this shit. "How many women still say thank you when someone holds a door open for them? I'll wait" And my Mum with the 15,785th response "Me". I mean, what's the point of it?

Although she did rather amusingly respond to a "I bet you can't find a word beginning and ending in T" with "TWAT" because she thought it wasn't a rigorously intellectual enough challenge (She's 83)

She also has some American friends who are rather Godly, and has taken to responding to the memes they post "Can I get a Amen for our Veterans" with "Amen" or "Praise Jesus". No idea what that's about - she's not remotely religious.

The more years I’ve been on FB the more it becomes apparent to me that nearly all posts are completely weird. Like, my FB friends aren’t too bad, but I know tonight a lot of them will post pictures of themselves with a glass of boasting about how busy they’ve been and how they’re looking forward to the weekend.

I mean, why do you need to post this at all? Just drink the wine.

The no make up ones saying crap such as ‘Take me how you find me!’

Except that they’ve used a filter to remove their spots and are wearing false eye lashes and clear lipgloss.

They post a selfie every day, usually with a pile of dishevelled clothes in the background.

Those ones where you can see friends have commented on. What was the your grandparents names? What's your hisbands Middle name? Duh....why would you give that info?

@DomingoinLittleOakley
I think these things are just to get likes, shares and comments and then they will edit the post to be something complete different

Another one - on the local noticeboards. Does anyone know what takeaways are open 2nite? There was one the other day asking what drinks does a certain pub sell. Followed by loads of people tagging the pub. Google is an amazing thing!!

The ones that really irritated me in NOVEMBER is people complaining that youths were stealing pumpkins from their doorsteps and smashing them around the village. Yes, vandalism is awful and these teens are arses but WHY? WHY, WHY, WHY do you have a rotting pumpkin still on your steps in mid November? Halloween is 31st, you lazy gits.

[quote fedup078]@DomingoinLittleOakley
I think these things are just to get likes, shares and comments and then they will edit the post to be something complete different [/quote]
Thank you - I didn't know that. I've been pondering the futility of it all for some time.

Lists of women’s names who supposedly deserve a spa break / holiday in Barbados etc and then all your friends with names on the list tagging their friends with names on the list and an exclamation mark!

Also, the amount of people who lose their pets in my village baffles me. Why can people not look after their own dogs/cats? Not fit to have a pet imo!

Ooh I cringe at our neighbourhood fb group, yesterday someone put on about kids being cold in the local school due to windows and doors being open re covid, then out come the trolls, they haven't read the post properly and next thing they're all involved in a slanging match, I'm cringing but quietly enjoying it and being all judgy 😂
It a bit like MN, you start to recognise the names of the ones who are looking for an argument 😂

All of it

I hit 40 and my don't give a shit radar went mental

Happy birthday to someone not on FB

My child's amazing school report/PE

Checking in at hosp with no back up

Smug language like calling your husband/partner "baby" etc

Cryptic I hate my partner he's a bastard posts, then next week back to baby talk

@minipie

Basically all of them

(Not a SM fan)

Haha ditto!

the 'name' ones are the worst! Always say something like Susan is loyal and amazing in every way but cross her and you'll release her inner tiger....or some such bull shithmm

And you are always 'much stronger than you know.'

I swear it doesn't matter what month you were born/what your name is/favourite colour is, the answer is basically the same for all of them.

My cat used to end up in those ‘lost’ posts all the time.

‘Skinny cat, very friendly, always sunbathing at the end of my garden in the afternoons. Don’t want to feed but maybe lost’

Then someone else ‘I see that cat round my way sometimes, always wants a fuss from my kids, poor thing might be abandoned’

Poor old bugger trying to have a nice walk and a sunbathe! He had a lovely home that he returned to every night. He was skinny because he was a slip of a black thing, always was. Also he was 19.