to find these FB status updates totally nauseating

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just seen one celebrating an anniversary along the lines of "8 Happy Years today, go team us yay..! 12 years of love, 8 of marriage, we have done pretty well. Love you X"

Is is just me or are these totally nauseating....along the lines of hey everyone look how happy we are and how wonderful our life is.

I am probably going to get strung up as some miserable cow but just not sure why people feel the need to announce this stuff...wouldn't you celebrate this with your partner privately rather than pass on your love and congratulations via FB?

The ones that annoy me are 'Sarah Smith.. loves her babies more than anything in the world' etc etc.

Usually in text speak, I should add.

Really? It wasn't enough for you that the world should assume your kids are important to you, you needed to reaffirm that via a social network?

Yes I think you are a wee bit miserable.

I'd click 'like' and congratulate them

you can hide the updates of people who annoy you really easily. That's the amazing thing about facebook - the power is in your hands.

It's FB - all of FB is unreasonable!

YABU. The nauseating ones are:

• the daily updates on workouts
• public messages to husband/wife "I love you soooo much, you are my gawjus soulmate blah blah blah" Get. A. Room.

It's just you

I agree, it's terrible when relationships last and work well

As always pointed out, FB is optional, so is accepting friends.

YANBU.

I've a friend who apologised on FB for being away from FB for a few days. So her army of chums couldn't keep up with her doings, presumably. Er, we do have our own lives...
But then, I don't understand people who follow strangers' Twitter twitterings.

I love the "My wonderful lovely Husband is busy in the kitchen cooking the Sunday dinner"

Well fuck me, he can't cook it very often if she thought to log in to Facebook and tell everyone

But no it doesn't bother me...I just scroll past these things.

I have an aniversary coming up and will probably mention it on FB.

If you can't be happy for people who post a status like this then why on earth are you friends with them?

I think you are a miserable cow, sorry :). People join Facebook to share their lives with other people. Of course they are celebrating in private too, but they'd like to share with the people they're friend with how happy they are. What is wrong with that?

If you don't like it, defriend them or get off Facebook, don't whine about them here!

I hate the ones that have a kiss every few words or so, eg:

Lovely swim this morning x so looking forward to lunch xx great day so far x love not being at work lol x

Aaaaargh!

Sadly I've found that constant status updates about how happy people are together usually means that things are going horribly wrong in their relationships and herald a break-up!

I always post something which alludes to our anniversary but will only be noticed by the people who went to our wedding, and immediate family. I also hate the 'Happy Anniversary to my darling husband who is sat across from me now, but I need to tell Facebook too'

Gosh..imagine people daring celebrate and acknowledge their successes and happy occasions...

You're a misery of you can't be happy for someone on their wedding anniversary
I'm sure they stay married just to rub your nose in it

People go to weddings they're not private affairs, why not celebrate anniversaries with the same people

How do you know if they're sat opposite them?
My dh was in Bangladesh (or was it Moscow) for our last anniversary (10th)

YANBU, '12 years of love, 8 years of marriage' ... bang there goes my breakfast.

I mention my anniversary on FB because my friends actually like me and are happy for me. I like to hear the positive things that are going on in my friends' lives - that's partly why I'm on FB. Don't you like the people you're friends with? Would you rather they were miserable?

Yanbu, I feel a bit bleurgh over the OTT lovey dovey stuff too, but that's just how I am, more private about that stuff. I understand others are happy to spread their love and joy on FB, that's their choice.

Do agree with otherspeopleslives (fitting name for this thread!) that often the more OTT, the more likely a few months down the line it all goes pear, tho!

I don't mind it when it's an anniversary. If it's constant soppy messages about how perfect their husband/wife/marriage is, all the time, then that does get nauseating.

YABU they always ring false - if you were that happy they would be too busy just living that moment to FB it. It sounds more like they are trying to accrue some kind of status by virtue of their successful relationship/parenting etc.

The 'go team us.. yay' part from the one you posted is really cringey!! but my friends do post anniversary things on their fb, I just like and congratulate
I dont post my own though

Me too my sil seems to conduct her conversations with my bro via fb, rather than texting him she fb's him

I can see her point of view totally. Why would anyone want to say ' I love you darling husband' to their husband on Facebook,when they sleep in the same bed every night? Just why? Posts like 'I love you my wonderful husband' are no different really to posting a photo of your brand new massive house complete with new Mercedes on the drive and saying: 'look at this, didn't we do well?'
And I speak as someone happily married who could very easily post statuses like that but choose to tell him in person which is a far more normal thing to do