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To think that some people use the internet as a bragging tool....

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Frazzledmumwithsmudgedmascara · 03/04/2011 19:07

I have a couple of friends on FB that are a married couple. I like them both but their statuses are constantly bragging; about what they've bought, where they're going on holiday, what they're doing etc. For example the woman's statuses read things like "Shopping for new clothes for holiday" "Ooops, got back from clothes shopping and have spent over £400" "Just browsing through my large stack of holiday brochures and trying to decide on where to go for our 3 holidays this year" etc etc etc. Another FB friend posts constant brags about her 20 month old son "X is drinking from a drinking glass rather than a beaker now. Nasty old beaker!" and that kind of thing, usually 2 or 3 different statuses per day of a similar vein that I notice on my newsfeed page, there could well be more.

Then there is another parenting forum I go on on which some people keep diaries of their pregnancies. I love reading these and most are fantastic but you just come across the odd one that in every entry it's about what they've bought for the baby or what they're buying, never anything else.

I know some people do just boast constantly but am I alone in finding it a teensy bit boring and annoying?

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AtYourCervix · 03/04/2011 19:09

cull them. only keep interesting ones.

parakeet · 03/04/2011 19:10

Well don't use FB then.

And the beaker thing - that's not bragging.

BitOfFun · 03/04/2011 19:10

Nasty old beaker? Really? Grin

Flowerpotmummy · 03/04/2011 19:11

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MotherNight · 03/04/2011 19:13

Christ they sound dull.

goodbyemrschips · 03/04/2011 19:13

But is that not their life...are you jealous.

I cannot help if I go on 4 holidays a year can I?

charmum3 · 03/04/2011 19:13

edit your friends i only fb with the people i would happily have round for a drinkxx Wine

Frazzledmumwithsmudgedmascara · 03/04/2011 19:18

No, I'm not jealous, MrsChips. Put it this way, we know them very well and their life isn't as great as they make out. I guess I just think it's a bit silly to put constant details of anything and everything on FB.

Parakeet; the FB friend puts statuses like that all day, day in, day out, not just the beaker one, and it does look as though she is bragging as it's all about what her son can do.

Flowerpotmummy, I agree, truly happy people don't feel the need to boast

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spanky2 · 03/04/2011 19:21

I don't use facebook but my friend showed me some pictures of one of the other mums at school. They are pornographic. You can see virtually everything except cracks and nips. She has an amazing figure (although my dh has just said she's too thin -loyal isn't he?!) And they are black and white 'arty' photos but I think they shouldn't be alongside photos of her kids. She is using them for thin envy!

goodbyemrschips · 03/04/2011 19:21

Ah now if you know they are stretching the truth that is different.

I put a lot of fb friends on ''hide status'' they have no idea and then i only read their statuses when i want a bit of a nosy, which after a while is never....

millie30 · 03/04/2011 19:32

I think some people are more annoying on FB. I have a very good friend who in real life is a lovely, intelligent, funny woman, yet all she does on FB is post messages on her wall about how much she loves her DP. It will go "Just want to say how much I love my darling fiance. You're gorgeous and I love you soooo much baby, you're my world, miss you, love you sooooo much xxxxxxxx." At least five times a day. Yuck.

hardhatdonned · 03/04/2011 19:37

Oh i hate the "i wuv my wikkle husband he is the best" type updates makes me want to puke!

dontcallmepeanut · 03/04/2011 20:01

Urgh, you get all sorts...

Today, my news feed has been filled with "got x bunches of flowers, y boxes of chocolates and z cards from the kids (or in some cases, DOGS ffs...) other times, the lovesick ones about people's DP's... ( after being single for 2 years, it gets depressing), the one's about "OMG, I'm so busy with all these hobbies"... The worst are the pics, with the obligatory "I look horrible in this" comment underneath...

I think it's time I took another FB break.

Parmallama · 03/04/2011 20:40

Oh dear! I know someone who constantly bragged about what her new BF had bought her, where she was going on holiday, how much she spent on her shopping trips, how much booze she'd drunk....

Tacky!

Oakmaiden · 03/04/2011 20:44

Know what you mean. I have one fb acquaintance who spends most of her time either posting about how "very" clever her child is - which reading book he is on and how he is the "best" reader in his class (yawn) and another who posts sickening posts about how very much she adores her husband, blah-de-blah...

It just bugs me - I am all for a bit of occasional bragging, but not every day....

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