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?

Nah doesnt bother me at all.
Its quite nice.
The ones that enrage me are the

Today is national cancer day (it isnt, it doesnt exist or it was 5 weeks ago)
Please pass this on to help cure cancer.
I am pretty sure I know who will
(sad face, sad face).

Well you are NOT pretty sure you know who would, cos I wouldnt. Bet that suprised you.
About as suprising as the fact that sharing a status cant cure cancer hey?

Im getting pretty fed up with all then status updates about having a date with Mr. grey later wink wink nudge nudge. its a book FFS

I apologised for being away from Facebook for a few days the other day, uh oh! I was sick and I wanted to know what I may have missed.

I know a couple who post crap like this all the time.. the reality is that they can't stand each other, fight like cat and dog and have both cheated on one another.

No idea why they do it, or why they're still together for that matter but it's not my business :o

Life can be shit, so why not celebrate the good? Miserable lot.

I like to see friends celebrating anniversaries. I'm happy for them. Why not? DH and I will have been married 15 years next week and I'll be posting it on FB, because I have friends who will be pleased for us. I don't get all the misery.

And those bitching about people posting about illness etc - maybe FB is the only place they can get out how they're feeling and get some comfort and sympathy? I sometimes post illness stuff, not every day, that would get admittedly tedious, but living with chronic illness I think it's OK to be real about it and seek support.

I'm with Mrs DV.

they keep coming up on my feed 'click like if you love your kids' em.. ok then..

I "had" a friend whose grandma was obviously ill in hospital and we got 2 hourly updates...XX is going to the hospital....XX is back from the hospital...XX is feeling headfucked...XX is going back to the hospital....XX...blah blah blah.

I felt sorry for her but when my grandma was really ill I didn't feel the need to tell everyone everytime I went to see her or how long it took me to get there, park up and walk through the hospital grounds.

Also hate the "I love you my darling will see you in 2 mins 40 seconds can't wait" shite that a few friends write (anniversary stuff I don't mind) it makes me write snarky comments then I have to tape my hands together to stop myself, which makes it really difficult to clean the vomit out of the gaps in my keyboard.

If the point of FB isn't to share information (photos, updates and so on) about our lives, what is the point of FB?

What about people who post pictures of their bloody dinner every bloody day? Or those who like their own posts?
Sad, that's what it is, sad.

Different people have different ideas of the level of detail they want to see on FB. My level is things like:

• Terrible first date. Had mustard in my eyebrows all evening and X didn't say a WORD!
• Engaged! Yay for me and X!
• I hate wedding planning.
• We've eloped! Congratulations to Mr and Mrs X!
• I'm pg!
• Check out my cute scan photos.
• I gave birth! Child called Y, weighing 15lb. All safe and well.
• Why did I think it was a good idea to have children? I. Need. Sleep.
• Y smiled! I love babies!

etc.

Tedious level of detail is:

• Oh, oh, first date tonight. What shall I wear?
• Taxi arrived. Just applying mascara.
• Taxi still waiting. Oops.
• In taxi. Phew!
• Arrived at venue. My reflection looks good.
• He's HERE! Eek!
• First course and he has ordered mussels? Eww. Not a good start.
• Second course is spaghetti bolognese. He hates me.
• Shall I order pudding or will that make me look greedy? Advise me ladies.
• What a tightwad! He made me split the bill 50/50!

etc.

It's what is written rather than the content.
"Wow! It's our 8th wedding anniversary. Can't believe we've been together for that long!"
Is so different from the Op's one.

Don't really have interesting friends in that way though. A couple of people have all the "hit share statuses" but I just don't do those. Ever.

One likes to parade whenever their childcare falls through and he has to actually look after his dc. "We've got a daddy day. What would lil dc like to do? Anyone suggest anything?". Followed by lots of "oh you're so wonderful"-which he then likes... if he doesn't get that reaction the first time he posts it again...

And another posts sometimes in French. Which amuses me using the automatic translation on fb because it's absolutely terrible.

haha. This thread made me laugh. OP, I totally agree with you. I don't like the braggy fb posts either.

Also get irritated by the people who feel the need to comment/like every bloomin post.

YANBU. Nauseating declarations of love and smugness FB updates are just a bad idea. And some updates are so mundane, it's nauseating too. In fact, I should just flounce FB, I'm starting to find I have more 'hidden' friends than friends not hidden.

Must admit the baby pictures are driving me nuts at the moment, I have several friends with newborns and they are posting literally 10 or more pictures a day of their gurning babies. Every so often there is a wonderful grin or a cut pic but its like every picture they have ever taken is being uploaded. Maternity leave is boring though.....

When I was young my mum would badger the entire family the day after we arrived on holiday to write postcards to friends and family saying what a wonderful time we were having, even if we weren't! I can now imagine a modern family with the nagging changed to - "now lets all sit down and do our fb statuses now, remember WE ARE HAVING A GOOD TIME, do not mention the rain"

Jeez. I am scared to post on FB now, about anything happy!!! :o

Actually the ones that I really really hate is the " Can you do me a favour, can you post this on FB for an hour if you have lost someone to cancer/have a chid with autism etc etc, and then it finishes with the ultimate clincher..99% of people won't repost this, but I know the ones that will" Yep, other stupid mugs.

I actually find them using cancer/autism as a badge is actually quite insulting, and I have deleted people who put these on.

some folk are just not meant for facebook imo

I have one on my page right now. Awww look at the ickle man, 12 weeks old next friday. The child has a face covered in chocolate in the picture. Numpties replying ....awww lickle man so cute ....look at his choccy face .

FFS

All the giggling and blushes over the 50 shades of 1950's women is really grating too.

Conversely - the statuses I hate the most and whiny, moany, fishing for attention ones.

"Feelin so sad"
"What's up hun?"
"Can't talk about it on here"

I'd take 50 gooey statuses over that sort of pathetic shit anyday.

Can I just ask, what is acceptable to post on FB.....:o

yanbu

So many people I have hidden. People who are pregnant / have just had kids are the worst, they get hidden. I KNOW you are pregnant you don't have to mention it every update! Grr

I really do wonder about the people who clearly dislike facebook, can't work out the controls to limit what they see and just spend all their time moaning about it.

Wouldn't life be easier if you either deactivated your account, deleted the annoying people or used your settings properly?

Oh and just so the general populace know and understand this...pictures of your baby or child smothered in food are not cute - they are stomach turning.
I don't even like looking at my own kids covered in lunch, and I sure as hell don't want to be presented with your little gargoyle resplendent in a coating of baked beans and drool.
Cut it out!

h and just so the general populace know and understand this...pictures of your baby or child smothered in food are not cute - they are stomach turning.

god yes that is vile Little X just had his lunch photie of little X head to foot in bean sauce it really makes me queasy i was like you i hated it with mine i dont need to see anybody elses.

I have had to hide friends who put injuries on facebook somebody had a septic foot and posted daily pictures and updates about how they were going for maggot treatment

I have many, many people on my hide list.

The ones that make me laugh are when the husband and wife are clearly in the same room.

Wife: watching a film on the sofa with my gorgeous hubby
Husband: move up, you're taking over the whole sofa lol love you xx
Wife: haha, so funny lol lol love you too xxx

YOU'RE SAT RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER FUCK OFF!