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AIBU?

Share your dilemmas and get honest opinions from other Mumsnetters.

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Original poster

to think that huge declarations of love on facebook, are extremely nauseating?

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aboynamedsue · 05/04/2012 15:58

Isn't it just another form of pda? Which are also bloody excruciating for everyone else.

I swear to god, I don't even know my friend anymore. She is a different person than I thought she was.

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aboynamedsue · 05/04/2012 16:58

.I'm more than happy for your arrow to stay:))...oh and i love the twanger too....how about my maraccas?!:o.......big fuzzy love :)xxx

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MistyMountainHop · 05/04/2012 16:59

i am friends on fb with a woman on fb who constantly updates about how great her "fab man" is etc and how much she loooooooooves him and how he is SUCH a fab dad and partner etc. i don't like her. (because she is a snotty, superior, annoying woman in RL, not because of her fb updates)

but i just laugh to myself when i see her updates because her "fab man" as my ex (ds's dad) is mates with him, and knows exactly what he gets up to when hes off the leash behind her back and tells me all about it :o

Kayano · 05/04/2012 16:59

It's always me and usual defending fb lol

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aboynamedsue · 05/04/2012 16:59

no i am not jealous, what would I be jealous of?

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usualsuspect · 05/04/2012 17:01

I hate people who whinge and take the piss out of their mates status updates on fb.

Why would you have someone you clearly don't like on there? baffles me

Kayano · 05/04/2012 17:01

Nice of you to laugh at a woman being played and humiliated there misty

You should be ashamed.
Fucking hilarious that

MrsTerryPratchett · 05/04/2012 17:02

In my case it is definitely not jealousy as her "wonderful man who is so special" is about 95 years older than her, short and ugly. They are both really nice people and this is the one annoying thing about them. I just find it really bizarre. Would people stick their Valentine's cards to each other on their front door?

MissFaversham · 05/04/2012 17:04

Yes OP, you're not coming across as a very gracious person are you. Your "friend" think she should no longer call you that has had a bloody rotten time of it and you're scoffing at her being a bit loved up?

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aboynamedsue · 05/04/2012 17:10

Tbh I had no idea she was like this and I have known her a fair while. Hence my comment about her not being the person I thought she was. She is very different. Absolutely nto a problem if this is the real her, but it isn't the person I know and love.

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MistyMountainHop · 05/04/2012 17:10

kayano. i don't like her. so i don't give a tiny shit :)

(and before anyone asks i do have a lot of people on fb who i don't like just for entertainment value. so ner. )

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aboynamedsue · 05/04/2012 17:11

ACtually my dh always said i was a miserable old cynic, it's a wonder I ended up with someone at all.

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sensuallettuce · 05/04/2012 17:19

I have a "friend" like this. Her second marriage ended less than a yr ago (they have 2 teenage children who are both on her FB) and she is getting married again next month to a guy who has 6 kids with 4 different women .

They do all of the above and also have very smutty (and inappropriate IMO) conversations on each others status and post pictures of them snogging constantly. It's gross.

She's 43 btw.

Megatron · 05/04/2012 17:25

YANBU at all, it makes me boak. The worst one I have ever read was yesterday actually and went like this. (you may wish to brace yourself)

would just like to say thank you to her wonderful hubs for a very special night, you still know how to make me shiver with excitment my darling. There's a special 'job' waiting for you when you get home babe.

I also have a friend on facebook who regularly chats with her DH while they are sitting in the same room on their own laptops.

OutragedAtThePriceOfFreddos · 05/04/2012 17:27

I quite like seeing lovey dovey fb statuses. I think it's nice that people are so in love that they want to shout it from the rooftops. Although that would probably be against H&S, so much safer to say it on fb instead.

If you don't like it, you are free to ignore it.

TheCraicDealer · 05/04/2012 17:49

The only time DP and I have been lovey-dovey on fb is when he was in Afghanistan (alright, it was only for two weeks but I was very worried, ok?!). Even then my DT and besties were posting "eugh, get a room/this is what private messenging's for/I don't want to see this shit/etc". Clearly they have less patience for facebook PDA's than you!

Have one friend on Facebook that starts her countdown to the weekend with her boyfriend on Monday....it's a loooong week, I tells ya. And there's never a Wednesday that passes by without a "Hump Day" status update. Grinds my gears.

Pandemoniaa · 05/04/2012 17:59

DP refuses to go anywhere near Facebook. I admire his good sense and wish I'd never stirred the cauldron myself.

YANBU. But I admit that I'd not take kindly to being told what I could post on FB either. However, I do happen to know that some of the most nauseating messages I've read in FB have come from some of the most dysfunctional couples that I know!

MrsTerryPratchett · 05/04/2012 18:18

I literally just logged onto FB and the couple I was talking about are the first two posts and they are at it again. "My princess"

NiniLegsInTheAir · 05/04/2012 19:22

YANBU. I know someone who posts sickening crap like that who actually complained to me once that she hates it when she posts something nauseating to her fella and someone else replies - I had to ask her why she made it public if she didn't want others to see it .

Oh and someone else I know refers to her husband solely as 'gorgeous' when she talks about him on her statuses. She doesn't ever use his name. (retch)

everlong · 05/04/2012 20:16

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Wormshuffler · 05/04/2012 20:22

I always comment and ask where the vomit button is.

slowestwildebeast · 05/04/2012 20:41

What's Facebook meant to be used for? All I see is people moaning about what it's not to be used for, don't post miserable updates, don't post declarations of love, don't post on someones wall unless they're at least 1mile away from you, don't have rants, don't be vague, don't post controversial topics, don't post dull day-to-day stuff. Why have it if you're constantly outraged by people? I can't keep up about what's acceptable and not.

MrsTerryPratchett · 05/04/2012 22:25

It is meant for two things...

For me to stalk look up ex-boyfriends and check they are fatter and losing their hair.

To waste time like MN.

skybluepearl · 05/04/2012 22:40

It smacks of insecurity to me.

plantsitter · 05/04/2012 22:45

I came on this thread to tell everyone to stop being old cynics and let people declare love on FB if they want.

But then I read Megatron's post. U-turn. Vom.

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