to think this Facebook boasting every Paren's Evening is pointless?

[eachpeach11]

So every parents evening we get the "... is a very proud mummy". Ok so perhaps with older children this is valid. However, I have never know a Primary school child to have a really negative report. (Although I am sure some do).
So surely this boasting really doesn't mean very much.

YANBU, it is annoying and pointless. I often think the people that self promote themselves and their perfect families are probably the most fake and miserable.

*Why are you friends with people on Facebook if you aren't interested in what is happening with their lives?
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If you think everyone is in a little love bubble with each other on FB, then you don't 'get' FB.

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You can like 'em on a ' School Gate' basis..I'm not on intimate terms with all my FB buds, then they show a different side, a saccharine side that leaves you thinking they're a bit of a wally....

what about mothers you know through school but cannot risk offending for sake of my children and playground harmony - I have naively added them after a fun night out or whatever then realised I had little interest in their updates and I doubt they really want to see mine... however I don't block them as I feel uncomfortable about doing that. Hiding their updates and limiting their access to my account is my solution so far but I really need to do a spring clean.

I don't have 500 friends...less than 100, as I've said, someone you chew the cud with at school, parents of children etc, these are the people I mean, pefectly nice folk, until they start with the boasting. I think I'm an average FB user, certainly plenty like me to the dozen...

I can 'like' someone without liking everything they post on facebook! If I was only friends with people who posted interesting and intelligent posts 100% I would only have about five facebook friends!

Knock yourself out, usualsuspect3

Cripes, even friends I have known for 25 years can put the odd post - I have a very low twee/ smug threshold. Doesn't mean I am weirdo who doesn't like any of my FB friends - just that I am a human being that finds some things irritating just like evry other human - [shrugs]

Do not even start me on my teenage neices and nephews and their constant rudery, posts about bumsex and 'like this picture of a kitten, if you like kittens and scroll past if you are a souless bastard' postings! says the souless bastard

I get Fb, I think people that have people they don't like on their FB are the ones that don't get it. Exactly

I know someone who removed someone for posting " SO proud of my little princess (age 2, btw) out of nappies and dry day AND night"

And I don't bloody blame her. I'd have burned her alive yes, she is my long time ago childhood sweetheart's partner AND I have been potty training for 6 months with zero success

Yes, Fb boasting has it's bloody limits.

Talk about black and white do you have to love everthing about your friends to be proper or sommat? I have loads of grey areas and friends that are from different parts of my life and we are not going to be in harmony over everything how boring would that be.

Reserves right to be irritated grumpy auld caah

*If you think everyone is in a little love bubble with each other on FB, then you don't 'get' FB sorry are you Mark Zuckerberg?

Oh don't get me started on the "put this on your status if you agree and KNOW SOMEONE WITH CANCER/LOVE YOUR MUM/DAUGHTER/BROTHER/MAN IN THE OFFY/SOMEONE IN HEAVEN/KITTEN ETC" statuses and the "repost if you are my BEST FRIEND/ANOTHER MUMMY/DON'T WANT TO BE DELETED SHIT" and these are from some treasured family and friends as well!

Proud posts don't bother me in the slightest, I often post about my children as I have a large family in Cyprus. Facebook is a good way of us all keeping in touch and seeing how all our kids are getting along - once a year visits if we're lucky are nowhere near enough.

Anyhoos, I'd much rather see boastful posts, than these stupid fecking ones that say 'like and repost if you hate cancer/childhood cancer/animal cruelty...' Of course I fucking hate all of them, but really will me liking a stupid post and reposting it myself make a bloody jot of difference? No!

Steps off soapbox and pours self a glass of

I have just 'boasted' on my Facebook, if people do not wish to read it they can delete me or hide me, it doesn't matter to me. I am very proud of ds1 as he has struggled with putting pen to paper for 2 years and twice in less than a week he has been rewarded for doing just that and doing it well, therefore that is what is on my mind so I have said it!