to be sick to death of whining friends on Facebook

[Meerkatmissy]

Well, one friend in particular. She, and her children (although strangely never her husband) are ALWAYS ill. It's like a revolving door of fevers, sore throats and headaches. With the odd bad back thrown in to mix things up a bit.

Every status update seems to be to announce her latest ailment, asking people to pray for her children's temperature and generally feeling sorry for herself.

This makes me sounds really mean (which I am being) but it's been going on for as long as I've known her (about 18 months).

It does sound mean but YANBU. I have a similar friend and it drives me mad.

Maybe shes finding it tough? Why not hide her posts?

is that not what Facebook is all about. Posting every single detail of your life and what is going on with the kids etc.....To much information overload for me. Personally do not go on it (unless a family photo has been posted).

YANBU. Drives me insane.

Well I like to think I'm quite witty on Facebook.

Just wish my friends were slightly more entertaining

YANBU!

My sister is just like that. Only thers no frickin deleting her....

yanbu i have an fb friend like this, always whining about how ill she feels then she posts a picture of a dough-nut and hot chocolate, she is having for breakfast= never connects how she feels with her crap diet drives me nuts!

Just hide her posts so you'll be oblivious to any future whining. Sorted.

I think we have the same friend OP!

Some people every single detail of their lives on FB. I remember a post from no longer a friend asking us to send baby dust her way as she just had ovulation sex.

I am sick of seeing my (soon to be former) friend spewing her love gush up in my news feed every friday till sunday about her amaz boyfriend and it including 890 photos they took of themselves at close range. They aren't even that hot

I think you know my SIL!

YANBU
can't stand it either!!

I get really (unreasonably?) irritated by people who are ill all the time.

I don't even have anything else to say on it - my post was the most boring one line ever! But I meant to imply...I sympathise and I would be hiding their news feed.

I hid my SIL's news feed because she really irritated me. But now i find myself actually going to her page to see her posts (masochist) so it would just be easier if I unhid her feed - except now, with the new style, I can't figure out how and I am convinced she has some kind of code on her page that shows people looking at it, so she knows I am spying. Heaven's above! I work in web - it shouldn't be this difficult!

This is what the hide function is for, no?

I have to be honest - I don't really get threads like this, aside from having a bit of a rant, which is fair enough. :)

Everybody knows about the hide function on Facebook. It's not a secret. Surely if you haven't used it in relation to someone it's because you secretly enjoy winding yourself up a bit, reading their inanities.

Do those of you who get irritated by friends being ill, feel just as irritated by friends who have a justified chronic illness ?

Constant snuffles is just not comparable. Constant snuffles are more than likely linked to poor diet, generally unhealthy approach to life, not sleeping enough etc etc - in the first instance. As someone else said, when you see the Constant Snuffler causing their constant snuffles through their own doing, and then moaning about being ill, it grates.

But SoddoffBaldrick if you are a self-confessed masochist, how to you unhide them??

Oh, I meant to italicise, not strike through. Too early in the morning :(

I have Facebook friends like this.

They drive me insane but could not hide them as I now need to know what's wrong with them, I think it's good for my health as it gives my blood pressure a good work out

My personal fave is a mum with two teenage ds,s (still a challenge but no night feeds etc) who posts things like-

so knackered this morning, wish I could get a long lie! Not had one since January (usually posted about 8.am) suppose I better

Get up
Get washed
Get dressed
Do my hair
Empty dishwasher
Do the washing
Go to shop
Come home from shop
Put shopping away..........

Followed by another 50 things that we all do everyday as soon as anyone comments that it also sounds like their day she will add another few random things to the list to make her look busier!

I love her updates

Actual illness is different obviously. But I don't know of anyone who has a chronic sore throat.

It is also followed by lots of people offering herbal remedies and her thanking each and every post.

Maybe they all just have a low immune system.

Oh god yes, I have a friend who when she posts something and people comment she individually likes and replies 'thank you' to each and every comment. It can be an illness status or a picture of her DD that people are fawning over, but it drives me mad when she thanks every post! I suppose really it is just good manners and I am being a cow, but who has time for that sort of thing?!

Am loving the facebook moaning thats been going on over the last few days on MN - its cathartic!

YANBU - I have a FB friend who is forever 'praying the precious blood of Jesus' over some poor afflicted soul. I'm in no way anti-religious but this really makes me squirm!

Actually the same friend (realllt hope she's not Mumsnet) asked people to 'pray for a friend's child who'd been horribly and physically bullied at school but couldn't give details to respect his privacy'

It must be Facebook week again.

You can hide posts from people you aren't interested in you know.