To be sick to death of Facebook boasting

[nomedoit]

First off, if I could get off FB I would! But I'm an expat and all the social arrangements are now made on FB.

I have two friends, both back in Britain, both women and all they bloody do is boast on FB.

'Playing with my iPad...'
'Back from my flying lesson...'
'Day 12 of my Seychelles holiday...'

The Seychelles holiday was the worst! Five posts daily about the personal butler, massages, private beach.

If I was a nice person I would be pleased for their good fortune. And yes, some of this is my stuff - DH and are are both self-employed and the recession and and continues to be really tough. So yes, I am envious in part.

But I also feel when so many people are struggling that it's a bit bloody insensitive

But why are you irritated?

Why's it nobby to be on fb on holiday though? Maybe you're spending the day on the beach. You check your fb because you know your good friend has had an interview for a job she desperately wants and she said she'd post and plus it's your brother's birthday and you haven't managed to get through on the phone, so you nip onto fb. What's the problem?

As long as nobody's making YOU post while on holiday or writing 'ha ha I'm on a cruise and you're not you feckless plebs' then I can't see the problem.

Irritated? I find them hilarious...long may they continue!

They can post all they like on their hols..really. More entertainment. It's only FB after all. Not life or death.

"It's only insensitive if you were sipping a glass of champagne in a first class lounge once and your head rolled clean off and you've since had to weld it on with parcel tape and sometimes on a cold day, it chafes. Otherwise it's just a fact."

Mango, that is right. I think my irritation is a sign of old age.
FB is just so "Look at me, me, me." That is the whole point of it after all as other posters have said. Honestly, as a child I can remember being told not to talk about myself. It's the boasting that gets me, I think, not sharing info. Just because something is true doesn't mean you have to post it, does it?
I do find myself muttering a lot and grumbling and complaining that people don't have any manners.

I like Facebook as its good for keeping in contact but DH is sooo against it! He thinks its just a medium for people to show off their lives, that its all v sad and pathetic and is replacing RL interaction...

Puss, we may be married to the same man. My DH closed his FB account when people started getting in touch with him

I suppose it is different thoughts. If my DD did well and I was proud of her, whatever the grades, I'd post. Taht is me beong proud of my DD, not me boasting, Depends which way you look at it perhaps.

And don't get my started on Farmville, Petville, Sadville...

Nome

DH is pretty private...doesn't like people knowing what he's up to and he's always eye rolling at me when I'm on facebook

I have also FB'd on holiday. FB is on my ohone. It is quick and easy. It is als way cheaper than phoning my parents/siblings/inlaws like we have inthe past. And a great way to share our photos too.

When holidaying we normally stay in villas, etc. so we are sat about round the villa, by the pool, etc. If I chose o post photos from the netbook or iPhone - that really isn;t much different to me sat reading a book TBH. Unles you are poncyy enough to believe one is truely superior to the other when stripping the activities to their bare basics.

ShowofHands speaks absolute sense. How you interpret comments is down to you and highlights your issues, not your friend's.

"It's the boasting that gets me, I think, not sharing info."

What is the difference? When does sharing suddenly becoem boasting? Often, you know, the boasting is only in the mind of the reader; often it is not the intentions of the writer.

Hula, you get 1 point for posting, 2 points for reading a book and 5 points if it's on the Booker list.

Hulababy, stop bragging about having a netbook and an iphone.

And mangoandlime, I wish for you to change your username as I have only bananas and oranges in my fruitbowl and you're just bragging.

Absolutely, nomedoit..My sister has the most fantastic holidays..really wonderful. She deleted her account because she said it's just for people to show off (she never posts about them)...Like the person who doesn't listen to anyone else..JUST LISTEN TO MEEEEE!

I have the most gorgeous, handsome, clever children and I am proud to the ends of the Earth of them but I NEVER post about their successes. Because to me, that's showing off and I don't need to. But as I say, and will keep saying...I love the 'Boast posts' simply because they are so very entertaining to read, I would never hide them.

Ah shicks - you got me there Can hopefully add an iPad at christmas ;) Shoukd won up that netbook isn'tmine - it si DDs. But we take it away generally so I can dowload photos each night (sorry - have a camera too ) incase camera gets stolen - which happened to me once and lost all our pics.

Love 'Boast Posts'!!!

To me, showing off is anything about flying first class, staying in 5* hotels, having a butler/maid and anything at all about yachts.

Faux boast, ShowOfHands. Slightly brown bananas and squigy apples in my fruitbowl.

You've got a camera? I have to capture my children through the medium of paint on canvas. Well discarded remanants of cloth and my own blood. Presumably your books are all gold leaf and you fart perfume.

Show off.

Just read on one of my fb friends....'Can't believe I have just been handed the keys to a Bentley'....I feel like replying, can't believe the reason you have so much dosh is that your alcoholic ex pat parents have avoided tax but used the system to educate you all for over ten years!', and yet you still got only four GCSEs at the mkost expensive school.

Oh honestly, this has to be one of the whiniest threads of the week.

If you don't like Facebook or your friends then ditch, them/it.

Don't take your whinging to another social networking site! It's the equivalent of botching behind someones back.

I have just posted that I don't want to eat dc4 bogeys, despite the most insistent offerings!

I obviously meant bitching, not botching but my gold plated, diamond encrusted iPad is in polite mode.