I’m with you op.
Facebook posts I don’t mind so much as they are dwindling in number overall and I like hearing about the achievements of family and friends especially if it comes from
a place of genuine love and pride. There is a balance to be struck though I agree!
What has started to get to me recently - so I have desisted from watching them - are certain Instagram posts by country or horsey women, or both, who live in idyllic period cottages and embody the phrase “very pleased with themselves”.
It’s so very cringe, They post their children and animals for clicks and presumably revenue, and “accidentally” allow ponies in to their picturesque country cottage to eat tea and cakes off the dining room table! Oh how quaint and charming and not at all contrived! 😄🤨. Or they film themselves foraging or flower arranging.
Some of them have recently started doing Q&As and I am absolutely flabbergasted frankly at the amount of self assurance one has to possess in order to assume that anyone is remotely interested in you to that extent, whether you receive questions on-line from gullible overseas viewers or not.
Ditto women flouncing around in gingham frocks baking soda bread in designer country kitchens!
Come on women of Instagram! We can do better!
I don’t dislike this self-referential stuff because I am jealous btw , as I live on a farm myself, but I detest the exploitation of children combined with an almost moralising tone about giving your children an upbringing without screens! The smugness and hypocrisy is astounding!
I am not remotely holy but I was brought up Catholic and although there is a lot wrong with the religion, at least you are taught that at one and the same time you are special but in the grand scheme of things you are nothing too, certainly you are the same as everyone else in God’s eyes, and when you die, the world carries on just fine without you. 😄 And of course your character is far more important than your looks or possessions. And I think tfat’s a salutary lesson tbh.