To hate the stealth boasting of posting holiday pics on FB?

[juneau]

I'm not jealous - we're going on holiday ourselves later in the summer - but I just find it bad taste and I'd hate my friends who aren't going on holiday to be reminded of that fact and feel even worse about it than they probably already do.

Agree about the food photos, I was in a perfectly ordinary outdoor restaurant last week, having breakfast, a gaggle hen party of women ordered their breakfasts and then proceeded to take photos of it all - the only result as far as I could tell was cold scrambled eggs - yuk.

OP YABU, but yes pictish, one friend went away and seemed to post pictures of every single meal out, reminds me of my parents who when asked about their holiday will relate where they ate, what they ate and how big the portion sizes were.

I'm confused about FB and the threads on MN sometimes. I use FB to post photos, that's the reason I signed up. I know all 22 of my friends, I have relatives and friends all over the place so I post photos of what we are up to.

Often, people who cry "Stealth Boast!" simply don't like other people enjoying themselves/being proud/happy.

If you take it to the logical conclusion, people will only be able to post dull or miserable things. Although they may get accused of "competitive misery"

My friend has just been on a cruise - I loved looking at her photos when she put them on FB.

People aren't obliged to look through them - unlike when people use to bring their printed photos for you to look at!

The odd one , fine but some do seem to spend their holiday on and taking pics for FB. Perhaps in an effort to convince themselves to enjoy it more !

If your friends are upset by the sight of you on holiday then may I suggest that you get new friends? I could be your friend! I love seeing people's holiday snaps .

So by that logic I shouldn't post about my children for fear of offending childless friends, my cooking in case I offend my friends on diets, my wedding because of unmarried friends etc. etc. etc.

Stealth boasting is complaining about things that are clearly privileges! You sound oversensitive to be honest.

I love seeing my FB friends' holiday photos. Maybe that's because I actually like the people I'm friends with and am happy to see them enjoying themselves. I appreciate however - judging by many of the FB threads on here - that's something of a novel concept.

I don't even mind food pics tbh. If they want to share what's important to them at that precise moment, I'm not going to be a killjoy about it. If I'm not in the mood to look at lots of other people's photos, I either scroll on by or I don't bother logging into Facebook until I am in the mood.

I'll let you into a secret, OP: ^Facebook is optional .

Bad taste? How?

Good thing we're not FB friends. I'm on holiday and am happily sharing the fact with the world.

It's what FB is for.

And I think the term 'stealth boasting' is now so over-used on here that people forget that sometimes it's just plain old boasting; nothing stealth about it.

I enjoy seeing friends' holiday photos. But only if there are a handful of them - I don't understand why people upload 50 or more photos, mostly half blurred, onto FB.

I don't mind food photos either, if they are from a different country.

I think not being able to celebrate someone else's happiness is incredibly mean-spirited.

I think you're missing the point of fb.

I love seeing people's holiday pics but then I'm a nosey cow who is interested in people's pictures of their tea!

Stealth boasting?

I post a lot of pics of what we've been up to. We live 200 miles away from our family. Our families like seeing the pictures, they get to see how our children are doing on a regular basis, my mum prints the pics off and gives them to my Nan.

Isn't sharing parts of our lives with our friends and family the whole point of facebook?

But then I only have very close friends and family on my friends list, who are actually interested in what we've been up to and don't see ulterior motives in what I post

That's just it MsGee, I am a nosey person. I am interested in other people's lives.

Not so interested in the photos of a friend's bunions she posted on FB though.

Oh I like seeing holiday pics, I like seeing folk happy.

But...

What is it about plates of food??? Gets right on my tits.

And hash tagging?

#sunnyday #happy

#fuckofftotwitter

#meanspiritedonthatscoremsybe

It's not stealth boasting, Facebook would be pretty boring if people didn't post pics of the places they go and things they see. Ok, some people may have more exotic holidays than me but no reasons why they shouldn't post. I don't post the shit stuff on FB, only the good stuff, I'm aware it makes my life look much better than it is in reality but I don't want the negative stuff out there, want to keep it light deliberately. YABU.

I like looking at holiday pics. Lets me see places I'm never going to see myself, it's also nice to see people enjoy themselves.

Really?? What a strange attitude to have.

So, no mention of DC in case some people are having trouble conceiving
No mention of jobs in case some people can't get a job
No mention of partners/husbands in case some people are miserably single.

See how this could go?

I like looking at my friends holiday pics and if I don't want to look at them....well, I just don't.

Some people really over think FB.

It depends what they have put in the post though. For example yesterday a friend posted a picture of the view and put "just for all those stuck in work today oops haha". That's just shitty but if it is just a picture with no comment then YABU.

Okay, so this is clearly more about me hating FB than anything else!