Funniest or most outrageous disparities between real life and social media posts?

[LookieLouLou]

Remember an old thread about this that was fun and interesting, so maybe we could please have another one? What's the biggest, most outrageous differences you've seen between someones social media posts and their actual life?

A few years ago I watched a car full of acquaintances - two couples (they didn't know I could see them) spend a good 20 mins posing and reposing for selfies before getting out to start their evening out.

All that effort to get one good picture to post on Facebook to let the rest of the world know they were apparently happy and care free and out having a great time.

I know a woman who is recently engaged and goes on relentlessly about her One True Love. So many posts about weddings and comments like "hey hun, hope you're well. Cant wait to see you at the wedding!" Im all for people being happy but it really is over the top & squeezed into every possible scenario.
We have it on good authority from a family member of hers that she and the fiance talk to each other like absolute shit and the day after he proposed they had a massive fighting match and he told her it was the biggest mistake of his life.

Sadly, I have no doubts they will go on to get married and live a life of hell with each other for many years before either of them cottons on.

She is very much all about the "insta life" - even if she has to sacrifice genuine happiness to get it.

For me it's the couples I know that just bicker and fight in real life and barely talk to each other, never doing anything together and spending as little time together as possible and then post lovey dovey pictures like "my soul mate" (but you never see that sort of posed PDA in real life). My husband and I are genuinely best friends and we never post anything! It's true what they say about the harder you try on SM, the more fake it is.

I was with DH sitting outside a cafe on the marina near me. There was another woman sitting alone on a table looking really miserable. Her food came out and she turned to have her back to the view, took a happy, laughing picture with her glass of wine etc and then went back to looking miserable.

I work with an ‘Influencer’ 🙄 l find it sad how far removed from reality her posts are. Everything is so upbeat and she appears to live such amazing amazing life, and travels with her partner.

Reality is she cries practically every day in the work toilets and takes so much mental effort from us all to make her happy, she very spoilt and self involved. Her partner hates all the insta life stuff and is a very reserved person, so lots of arguments over him not wanting to appear in her channel.

Sad thing is, she’d probably have more followers if she was honest about her struggles…

Dhs mum disowned him 3 times when he was dying and told him he shouldn’t have chemo. Now he’s dead she’s posting quotes about how much she misses him and how “the rotten fruits” (that’s me) will fall.

Its probably illegal for me to put her worst text messages on a range of mugs and send them to the people liking her posts.

One woman I know posted a picture of her husband in a suit, dressed up for an event, with a caption like, 'He chose such a perfect suit, looks so great for this xyz we are going to!'

But I know from behind the scenes that he already had a different suit that he was going to wear. She went ballistic and deemed it too light/dark. She told him to get another one and provided the spec.

I know lots of women, me included, who are a bit 'honey, you can't wear that' because their husbands just don't give a shit about clothes. It isn't that big a deal, or doesn't have to be that big a deal. So why lie like that on social media?

I mean, why bother putting anything on social media at all? Was it a coded message to certain friends - 'I got him to fall into line'? Was it a weird form of praise for him - 'If you do as I say I'll post a nice picture of you'? It is absolutely baffling.

Anyway, they are divorced now.

Yes I have an acquaintance who spends a LOT of time posing and curating a very heavily filtered stylised 'cool' grid as if she's some young rock star or artist. Selfies so filtered you wouldn't recognise her if you saw her irl.

In reality she's almost 50, works in admin like most of us and her life is a mess due to her narc behaviour.

Christ @FormerlyPathologicallyHappy I'm so sorry
Mine- my lovely friend was bullied out of her job by a witch at work, witch continues to post memes about herself like how witch is kind/taken advantage of/too sensitive/gives her time too willingly
It's like it's the complete opposite of what she is
It's a vom fest

Multiple pictures of the gorgeous house, days out, holidays etc.
Both just changed their profiles to 'single' and not said a word on sm about the impending divorce!

The only person I know who posts "I'm such a kind person everyone knows I'm only here for my friends and will do anything for them." Is a nasty bully who has no intention of changing. She "sucks up" to anyone she thinks will do something for her until they've done it, then goes back to being nasty. Which shows that it is entirely conscious decision. If anyone challenges her she claims bad mental health.

Inspirational quotes about letting go of ego from someone who constantly posts selfies and talks about how great she is.