to say nothing in response to FB statuses detailing, hinting at or generally whingeing about health woes?

[ohbugrit]

Or would it be for the good of humankind if I were to crack one day and let rip with the string of uncharitable thoughts which are generated by such posts?

OMG YANBU I have about 5 serial offenders currently

Depends really _ Im sure if your BF announced to world she had terminal cancer, you might be able to keep you fingers in check

I don't know, but you can come and live with my dh if you like! He has been unwell since 20th January. He's still whingeing and moaning even though he is better than he was (just doing it in RL not on FB though! )

I hide those people. The merest mention of more than one health problem in a week and they can fuck off

lol..the ones that annoy me most are the ones that prompt everyone to make an enquiry into the posters well being

eg

" so pissed off right now"
i just ignore those ones...some ppl post them everyday
sorry to be heartless

I don't think the OP is talking about that sort of situation trois - more the sort of general whingeing about non-lifethreatening illnesses.........

Would people announce that on FB?

I know what you mean OP but I suppose it depends on the "woe" in question! DP has a colleague who tells everyone about her IBS symptoms in her Fbook statuses! That is too much surely!

"Looks like I need to make another GP appointment about my sore arse/neck/finger/hair"

"So fed up of this vomiting bug"

"Doctor is running more tests this week, then I might get an ultrasound scan, but my poo sample was all clear :)"

or my personal least favourite

"back to for me then>" from someone who has never actually detailed what is wrong with them.

The "juat had a bacon sandwich" FB-ers - along with a photo irritate me far more - the serial food photographers do my head in.

Hang over = photo of a revolting fryup
dinner = photo of mums cooking
Allowed out = photo of a restaurant table
Christmas = phtoto of tawdry tree and laid table .... generally followed by paper hates
Oh and its back to hang over again and more fry ups

trois I can't really imagine any friends announcing such news via FB but of course if they chose to then fine. Does the world really need to know about Neil from Accounts having an ingrown toenail though?

2lbs off at slimming world this week ........
1lb off today
2lbs this week
6 lb back on this week :(

or>>>i am NEVER drinking again (featuring every sunday)

I do know what you mean though trois, one of my poor friends does have terminal cancer and her DP uses Fbook to keep us all updated and to communicate with lots of friends when they are having a particularly bad day.

Doctor is running more tests this week, then I might get an ultrasound scan, but my poo sample was all clear !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Did someone really write that???????

Well I would sympathise with you OP but I am anxiously waiting for the results of my blood tests...

I had to hide one such posted troisgarcons. I honestly think that FB has a photographic record of every meal she has eaten for the past two years. Insane isn't it? I have never felt the need to share my fishcake with the rest of the world.

poster not posted. Grr.

Agree with lesley

I envy people who can post about such trivial health woes on FB.

I'm currently immobilised by the major and potential life-preserving surgery I had a week ago and have been spending every waking moment quite a lot of time logged onto FB. So when I read that so-and-so is experiencing devastating amounts of rectal pain because she didn't poo for a whole three days and then it was sore (&etc) I am just sincerely glad for her that she has the fortune not to know what the worry which comes with genuine and serious illness actually feels like...

I also have a male FB friend (I use the term loosely) who does the "ask me, ask me" statuses regularly. His most recent being "well, that was another day without hearing". I assume he hasn't gone deaf but wants his friends to enquire as to what he is waiting to hear about. V annoying - he is close to having his posts hidden.

The culprits don't have serious illnesses though do they? It's always something minor, but again and again and again. I always ignore those hinting ones too (and have hidden some repeat offenders).

I'm impressed that you can remain so charitable when your own troubles are so much more significant, Breastmilk, I really am - I hope you're back on your feet soon, and that your results are reassuring lesley.

Arf at 'paper hates' , trois g
'A tawdry Christmas filled with paper hates', sounds like a few posters on here over the festive season.

Well, I know that I'm almost certainly possibly guilty of producing status updtaes which sound like you provide... I've always whined on about how ill I feel but in a half-jokey, never-giving-anything-quite-away and probably attention-seeking manner. So most of my friends probably have the same level of sympathy of me as you would if I were the one posting about poo samples. And thereby, I would wonder whether the poster with the poo samples might actually be seriously or terminally ill too.

Or to put it more succinctly - how do we know that they dont have serious illnesses? I tend to assume that they might.

If someone was updating about a serious illness it wouldn't bother me so much but people never to it's always minor ailments and things that I have no interest in or are quite frankly TMI.

My SIL (who I love) goes to the GP every time she has a cold VIRUS (prob infecting everyone else on her travels) then puts FB updates slagging off the GP for not doing anything for her VIRUS!!!!

The worst ones for me are the thinly veiled personal attacks on those "who won't be named" an serial "cut and paste" charity updates

I Can see both sides ,

they are annoying and whiny

but lets say someone suffering from depression etc and alone it may be the only contact they have to 'the outside world' can you imagine being that person sat behind a glass screen hoping for someone to interact in what small way they can?

someone saying 'are you okay?' could be the only compassionate thing that person hears in a week.
So i usually at least like.