to think there is nothing like Facebook for making you feel your life is dull and boring?

[HexagonalQueenOfTheSummer]

Or perhaps it's just that I have a large number of people on my friends list that seem to live very glamorous lives?

So many lovely photos of weekends away, weekends abroad, posh weddings attended, fancy dress parties, new year's eve parties.

Anyone else have FB friends with fantastic social lives that are documented on there all the time?

I don't think some of them have got homes to go to

They are all lying and sad...

if you life was that exciting- would you feel the need to post about it on facebook?

PS- I often leave such passive agressive statements like these as my facebook status just to let the saddos know that I am on to them (but I feel that then that makes me even worse than them).

Oops!

It's not my life that seems dull and boring when I read FB .

Some people have what you class as glamorous and interesting lives. Do you want what they have? Get it then. Don't complain about it.

But on the flip side many of them wish they were married with children and get very envious of your lovely updates about your family. Trust me on this, I'm there!

My status is usually thrilling and funny and interesting as hell.

I believe now it is - 'left leg is hurting, can't sleep. Sadface' or something equally as amazing

Can't stand shameless boasting on FB. Don't forget some of those with glamorous, partying, jet setting lifestyles are not necessarily happy. There is a lot to be said for a bit of 'ordinariness' IMO .

Haha Owlelf "ordinariness" is a great word!

I go out a lot, and do update my FB and put pictures on. However, the pictures thing is partly because I lost a lot of weight last yr (prior to which I hated photos of myself) - the photos help to spur me on to continue with my diet. Plus I'm a LP, my DC are at their dads every other weekend so the alternative to going out is sitting in on my own. I'd rather sit at home with my DP/DH - if I had one of course.

Yes to dc being away everyother weekend = need to feel like doing something.

But life is what you make it. Last year my statuses went from dull to more exciting because i made changes to my life so that it brought it into line with what i wanted.

At the end of the day, facebook it what it says on the tin. To be taken at face value. sometimes the truth behind it is not what it seems.

Most of my newsfeed is filled up with "my hubby cooked a lovely dinner tonight. Love you" and "thanks to my lovely friends the ......s who cooked a scrummy dinner for us"

With photos.

All my friends do is eat!!!

What is it with people who feel the need to post a picture of every meal they consume?

I have several friends like this.

One persists in posting pics of fry ups (clearly indicative of youth, gettting hammered the night before)

Another has endless updates about yelling upstairs to get her husband to make cups of tea.

And another just keep writing 'bacon sandwich, yummy' in amongst those irrritating statements like 'time for a change or 'profound thoughts in my head'......argh!

I know what you mean and sometimes I get jealous, even of the silly ones like 'xxx is at the cinema then going out for meal' because I haven't done that in so long!

But then I have to remind myself of real life - one of my good friends is always out with his wife. Glam do's, cinema, exotic holidays. They've been trying for a baby for two years and have endured all kinds of painful and heartbreaking treatments. They'd swap places with super fertile me in a heartbeat

I am just grateful to know there is still an exciting life to be had out there when you aren't pregnant with two small children :o

I also love to see photos of friends' children.

If they had such fantastic lives they wouldn't be wasting time on FB!

It is possible to have a fantastic life AND spend time on FB.

I can never understand why the Christmas Roundrobin is so hated and yet you get far worse on FB. Defriend them if they are tiresomely boastful.
You will probably find that they have their problems-they just put on show the best bits.

FB serial updaters tend to be the more insecure of the 'friends' list.

My friends with the most exciting and glam RL lives never update their fb, or aren't on it.

I have the full range:

The recently engaged couple ( no DC) with their amazing photos of holidays, days out, parties, each others cooking...

The soon to have first baby couple with daily updates about pg + details about how they are 'coping' as a couple with her changing body (?!) and lack of booze.

The lonely friend - single word posts such as 'ouch' or 'my head hurts', a string of depressing statements.

The trendy city bloke with his carefully photoshopped composed photos of his stunning family in a variety of stunning locations.

The yah, organic mummy with seasonal updates including allotment produce, food made with said produce, wine made with produce, NCT participation, links to many a wholesome parenting website.

The one with a million other friends, trendy beyond her years, links to music, gigs, parTAYs!

The football fan, every post about beloved team

I'm jealous of all of them!

I really think some face bookers only think about how they can best present what they are doing to their 'friends'. Just ENJOY whatever you're doing !

i hate it and have resorted to hiding the most boastful posters (that'd be quite a few of them, tbh!).
think it's beyond my generation. younger kids use it to arrange to meet up etc en masse which makes sense but not for me.
I don't want to live so publicly or wait to see if what i'm doing is judged sufficiently interesting for a friend to comment upon. Bah humbug!

Ha ha I love Kitty's comments, I recognise a few of those friends too

I think OP it's just a case of other peoples lives always seem more interesting.

I have a new baby so stayed in for NYE whilst others partied, however I know at least 3 of my friends who have been trying for a baby for around a year.

Another friend is emigrating in 2 weeks, I keep thinking it sounds soooo exciting for him. Except that we did it 4 years ago and it wasn't that exciting.

Don't worry, everyone thinks everyone else is doing something for interesting.

I can kinda relate to this. I left a town and some superficial friends behind when I met my now DH.

They're all childless and some single so their life is different to mine but I love my new circle of mummy friends, my little DS, new town and DH.

I'm just glad I've left it all behind to be honest. I also don't drink ( now) and alcohol was a big part of socializing.

I see them on FB all at parties / dressed up / drunk / no post baby blubber(!) and tbh, sitting in my pjs singing to my DS while he giggles away is better than any drunken night out. Even if it's only 7am...........I don't have a hangover so can enjoy my day.

YANBU.

Surely it's just about lifestyle choices? I have some friends who spend lots of money on their homes and belongings - and post FB pics of same. We spend very little on "stuff", but we do lots of weekends away, holidays, theatre trips, concerts, etc. it's not "glamorous" - almost always UK; but it prob makes my life look quite busy ... Because it is!