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Most annoying/ outrageous FB posts/people

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Narwhalelife · 04/05/2022 23:08

Just some fun - I always want to delete FB but some of the above keeps me hooked!

My pet peeves….

  • tagging in at hospitals and it’s is 100% nothing
  • Any post that contains the phrase ‘making memories’
  • ‘My Monday view’ and it’s usually a pool or beach - you are on holiday, you are not Jeff Bezos
  • Any photos of a poorly child coughing, crying, having been sick - usually with a lengthy text about how ill their child is ‘temp spiking 45degrees’ and all the comments suggest A&E to which OP will play down and ‘hope it’s nothing’ 😑
  • my MiL sharing posts of lost dogs (from Romania or the USA) he ain’t going to be up the park near us.
  • Anything that starts ‘share if you agree’
  • seasonal post Christmas trees with presents or just trees, trust me they all look alike I have the same bastard thing in my alcove to look at
let’s have them!!
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paddingtonstares · 06/05/2022 21:37

I have relatives who live in Australia who share 'keep Australia for Australians ' type memes...they emigrated there in the 1970s..I agreed and asked when are they coming home to England, it was deleted 🤣 twats

Winter2019 · 06/05/2022 22:23

Mangogogogo · 06/05/2022 14:05

Big long winded messages written addressed TO small children.
Big long winded messages written addressed TO dead people.

”Happy birthday Tobias, you are my entire soul and moon and stars and sun and grass and bricks and twigs. I love you so much I hope you have a great day” pointless. Speak to your child.

”grandad I will always miss you, remember when we used to sit on your swing in the garden?”
no, he doesn’t remember and I doubt the afterlife has access to Facebook

Hahaha I'm trying not to laugh out loud right now with my 2 year old sleeping next to me 🤣 love this

Rainbowdashpinkiepieapplejack · 06/05/2022 22:50

Princetopple · 06/05/2022 15:36

The worst thing I ever saw was not long after the death of a local woman. She'd lived in the area all of her life and was quite an outgoing and well known woman locally. She had a few children and the youngest was still in primary school. Her death was sudden an unexpected. Absolutely heart breaking.

Local facebook was filled with people wanting to know how she'd died, what had happened, wanting to discuss gossip they'd heard about her in the past... forgetting that her husband and children could see it all. Some of it didn't go down too well and the people posting were so thick that they got into an online argument with grieving family members instead of realising that, whether they thought they'd been insensitive or not, the family didn't like it so they should drop it.

The worst bit was that a few weeks later, her teenage daughter posted some stuff about her mum and photos of herself crying. In her post she talked about how people had been slagging her off because she 'didn't seem that upset on facebook'. This poor child felt forced into documenting and posting her grief for nosy fucking vultures to prove that she cared enough that her mum had died. It absolutely sickened me. I'd always known that some of the people here weren't the brightest or particularly mature, but I was still surprised by how many people openly behaved that way.

Same thing happened to a friend of a friend

shed been with her fella since they where teenagers and finally,after many years together,got married

a few years later he was killed in a freak accident and you wouldn’t believe the outpouring of people openly picking over the details online

what they didn’t know,they openly made up

silly things like they didn’t own dogs (they have two) and he wasn’t walking them when he was killed-he was chasing his autistic child

they don’t have an autistic child

he was apparently dealing drugs in the spot he was killed-he wasn’t

he’d gone to meet a prostitute for a shag-he was 100% faithful to her

They’d faked his death to claim from the council

his widow had to read all this shite online and when she tried to put the record straight,she was shushed and called a liar

anyway she got a healthy payout from the council-she used it to improve her home

the outpouring of jealousy was unbelievable-people where saying that they’d lose a dearly loved husband for half what she got and that she was money grabbing and selfish-she should have donated it to a charity

it was bad enough that she lost a dearly loved husband that she’d been with most of her teens and all her adult life-she had to defend herself to online twats (most of whom she’d thought where her friends) egging each other on

she was called greedy for taking money she was entitled to and told she wasn’t tearful enough in the street-she was hauled over the coals when she went back to work-you know,to earn money as bills don’t pay themselves and she wanted some kind of normality back

i know for a fact,she’d rather have him back and to never claim a penny

WTF99 · 07/05/2022 00:32

Princetopple · 06/05/2022 15:36

The worst thing I ever saw was not long after the death of a local woman. She'd lived in the area all of her life and was quite an outgoing and well known woman locally. She had a few children and the youngest was still in primary school. Her death was sudden an unexpected. Absolutely heart breaking.

Local facebook was filled with people wanting to know how she'd died, what had happened, wanting to discuss gossip they'd heard about her in the past... forgetting that her husband and children could see it all. Some of it didn't go down too well and the people posting were so thick that they got into an online argument with grieving family members instead of realising that, whether they thought they'd been insensitive or not, the family didn't like it so they should drop it.

The worst bit was that a few weeks later, her teenage daughter posted some stuff about her mum and photos of herself crying. In her post she talked about how people had been slagging her off because she 'didn't seem that upset on facebook'. This poor child felt forced into documenting and posting her grief for nosy fucking vultures to prove that she cared enough that her mum had died. It absolutely sickened me. I'd always known that some of the people here weren't the brightest or particularly mature, but I was still surprised by how many people openly behaved that way.

Shockingly awful though sadly not surprising 😐

Antarcticant · 07/05/2022 00:54

PumpkinsandKittens · 05/05/2022 01:21

Cat posts are so annoying on my
local Facebook group there is honestly 3/4a day, pictures of fat well looked after clean cat who has been “crying for food” so must be “lost” asking if it belongs to anyone, yes of course it’s crying for food it’s going around to other houses doing the same, cats are free to roam!

Is this multiple pictures of the same fat, well looked after, clean cat? Thinking of 'Six Dinner Sid' Grin

RequiemTonight · 07/05/2022 03:31

Oh so many of these!
“Happy heavenly birthday dad. You would have been 104 today 😞”
“Lost” cat post. (by someone who saw a random cat in their garden)
”happy Father’s Day to the best daddy ever” - don’t know why these ones piss me off so much but they do.

Recently I’ve been getting lots of pictures of (supposedly?) dead people in coffins telling me I need to post RIP.

and the hugely competitive, over achieving family who publish every single family win. I admit I love to hate them.

Obviously I could delete FB, so my irritation with it is generally my fault.

Inkanta · 07/05/2022 06:05

Oh so many of these!
“Happy heavenly birthday dad. You would have been 104 today 😞”
“Lost” cat post. (by someone who saw a random cat in their garden)
”happy Father’s Day to the best daddy ever” - don’t know why these ones piss me off so much but they do

Yes, have noticed a few 'heavenly' worded birthdays recently, and have a couple of 'friends' always posting cat and dog strays.

Cannot bring myself to unfriend people. I know I should come off fb and just use whatsap to message. Been saying it for a while. It's like Hotel California😞

howdyhey · 07/05/2022 08:30

People who write out conversations they've had in the form of a script. Especially when it was something said between them and their kids

flinginflangin · 07/05/2022 10:23

I have a friend who has to take about a thousand photos of every time we go anywhere and has to post them all on Facebook. I'm not in anyway photogenic and she always seems to take awful ones of me from awkward angles. She merrily advises me to just untag myself in any of me I don't like, not caring that we have mostly mutual friends so everyone can still see them all on her profile anyway. It's so irritating.

TheDoveFromAboveCooCoo · 07/05/2022 10:27

Making memories - well no you aren't of you are too busy taking photos of your "perfect day" to actually enjoy those memories.

Break up posts - omg you have overly invested everyone in your short lived relationship and constant posts of #soinlove so the least you can do is give us the details of the break up!

PM me hun - as above

Hospital tags - as above

Christmas "He's been!!" Posts with unnecessary amounts of presents. See also birthdays and Easter.

#sospoilt on your birthday. Maybe more my issue lol but I do not want to see £500 of presents from your #hubby when I get a bunch of flowers and a bottle of gin!

Mydogisagentleman · 07/05/2022 10:43

the list of 20 or so foods that you just won’t eat.
the person whose child has just moved into a completely empty flat and needs everything (but only he latest, biggest, shiniest)
and we’re off - selfie on a Ryanair flight

JayniSummers · 07/05/2022 14:38

Merry Christmas/ happy birthday mum/dad/ dog/ third cousin twice removed in heaven , I know you're looking down and proud of me / us

Bolis my piss .....Happy birthday grandad , you'd have been 132 today...........

heightsgate · 07/05/2022 14:46

My ex MIL despised her mother in real life. It was quite shocking, in fact, the callousness.
You'd never guess from the numerous 'with the angels' posts she makes about her today. Unless it's some sort of ironic cruel joke.

SpringLobelia · 07/05/2022 14:58

I had both a mother and her adult daughter as facebook friends (they were both in my choir). The mother seemed slightly conservative and retiring and the daughter quite quiet. But they had mega and really nasty arguments on FB messaging each other quite openly and calling each other nasty names and really going for it hammer and tongs. They were actually my first fb friends as I only joined up because everything for the choir was organised by messenger and I was absolutely gobsmacked.

Little did I know (then!) that quite alot of people play out their issues publicly like that.

crispsandnuts · 08/05/2022 22:18

'Spoilt rotten, boy did good'

'You got this'

These comments get me in a mid rage..

pinkfluffydoor · 09/05/2022 21:20

Grown ass people sharing memes about binge drinking and how hilarious it is or 10 thousand photos from a night out embarrassing themselves. Get a grip, you're not a teenager/student anymore ffs.

Themilkyway97 · 16/05/2022 00:05

@Narwhalelife haha at the fetal position on sofa 😂thats what I imagine too when I read it!

Anyone trying to peddle Scentsy/Forever Living or that type of thing. They are relentless and actually hound you! One school mum does Scentsy and won't leave people alone 🙄

When they say NOM after announcing they are out for a meal, or yum. Ugh

Lil instead of little "lil man or lil lady" 😖

dropthevipers · 16/05/2022 00:42

Carlycat · 05/05/2022 12:24

' I'll know who my true friends are if they copy and share this post ' 🙄

Any cunt does that is instantly binned.

hellomeownow · 16/05/2022 01:52

I / we did a thing

mackthepony · 16/05/2022 02:17

I cannot stand the 'teaser' type posts.

'Oh, something big' s just around the corner, will tell more in a few days'
🙄🙄🙄😬

Or even worse, in response to all the sycophantic 'what's going on, hun??' posts, the ubiquitous ' Charlie, I'll PM you'

Argh

Pickabearanybear · 16/05/2022 03:42

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Redglitter · 16/05/2022 03:49

I hate when it snows & folk post photos of the view from their living room or the temperature on the car dash board

Oh & those stupid replace a word in a film title with idiot.

Sunsetandsandybeach · 16/05/2022 07:36

I hate to see photos of people’s gravestones … ‘I’ve been to tidy your grave uncle Dave and put fresh flowers on it’ …… cue the likes and the responses, all for attention. I often wonder if the poster actually bothers tending the grave on a regular basis or only when they want a fb response.
Also how the f**k can ‘Uncle Dave’ possibly be looking on fb and seeing his grave? It’s ridiculous and totally disrespectful to the dead to have their resting places shown on social media for all and sundry to see.

‘I’m taking the boy/girl child’ to the park’ ….. erm, why not just write their bloody names or my son/daughter. …

Anything with hashtags and/or using ‘super’ in front of excited, happy etc etc.

People who post sensitive comments or memes gushing over the death of a loved one, when in reality they couldn’t give a shit when their ‘loved ones’ were alive.

BetterDaysareComming · 16/05/2022 07:43

A few phrases I've seen on Facebook that annoy me are:
Famalam
Cheeky (as in cheeky drink)
The boy

BetterDaysareComming · 16/05/2022 07:45

Also when they start a long story with so.

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