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to not want to look at these pictures?

27 replies

hotwater · 28/10/2013 12:24

I hate when people post pictures of their children with food all over their faces on social networking sites- it actually makes me dry heave. Usually i just hide the culprit's posts from then on but one very close friend has started tagging me in the ones of her DS. WIBU to ask her to stop?

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DevilsRoulette · 28/10/2013 12:26

Can you do anything with fb settings that prevents someone from tagging you?

sleepyhead · 28/10/2013 12:29

Your reaction is fairly extreme (although who really wants to look at multiple pictures of anyone's children with food all over their faces, if you've seen one you've seen them all etc) so it's not unreasonable for her not to be able to predict that a glimpse of such photos will make you sick.

However, can't you say to her that you've got a phobia about food on people's faces so it would be good if she could stop tagging you, otherwise you'll have to hide her posts?

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hotwater · 28/10/2013 12:29

Yes you can ask to review it but i'd still have to view the boke pic before I rejected the request. Plus she'd know i'd done it which i think might be worse than just telling her!

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DoYouEverFeelLikeAPlasticBag · 28/10/2013 12:29

Sounds like you need to go here: www.stfuparentsblog.com

It's genius. Although it might make you dry heave a whole lot more.

misspontypine · 28/10/2013 12:31

I think yabu, do you avoid children and places children might be eating?

Just do the same as you would if you saw a mucky child in tge flesh, look away, look at something else.

Lilacroses · 28/10/2013 12:31

I feel the same! No disrespect to friends who post them..it just makes me feel ill!

Lilacroses · 28/10/2013 12:32

Agree that you just have to look away!

quesadilla · 28/10/2013 12:33

What's the issue? Are you phobic about people with food on their face or do you just find kiddie pix on FB smug and irritating?

SoupDragon · 28/10/2013 12:34

Just tell her if it is affecting you this badly! :)
How else is she meant to know?

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hotwater · 28/10/2013 12:34

Hmm - she actually knows this about me. Fairly sure that she simply believes that PFB must be exempt. Thanks for the link PlasticBag, I shall enjoy browsing!
For the record - I totally know i'm a weirdo when it comes to this. It's only food... but... heave.

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DropYourSword · 28/10/2013 12:34

I hate snotty face pictures, but some food faces are just cute. Ice cream everywhere to me is adorable!

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hotwater · 28/10/2013 12:37

I boke in person too. I try to hide it by turning away. Happy to help out and feed if asked but i wipe at every mouthful.
Thank god have never seen a snotty face picture. That might induce actual throwing up

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sleepyhead · 28/10/2013 12:37

Hmm, if she knows then I suspect she's one of those people who think people with phobias need to get a grip and she's doing it on purpose.

She probably thinks it's terribly funny.

I think you need to be v direct and if she still insists on tagging you just hide her.

Troubledtimes · 28/10/2013 12:37

Why does she tag you specifically? It's a weird. Thing to do unless she knows about your phobia and thinks it's funny?

eurochick · 28/10/2013 12:38

I don't like seeing this either. I just flick past quickly.

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hotwater · 28/10/2013 12:39

She might be right about the getting a grip. Perhaps i should

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quesadilla · 28/10/2013 12:40

Seems a bit of an extreme reaction tbh, do you have kids yourself? How can you deal with life if something like this upsets you? It sounds like a phobia. I think you just have to look away when you see a picture like this. I can't see how FB would be able to screen them....

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hotwater · 28/10/2013 12:43

She doesn't only tag me. She tags a few of our close friends.
At least i'm not the only person in the world who doesn't like the face food pictures

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SoupDragon · 28/10/2013 12:43

Just ask her to stop and, if she doesn't, block her. If she is that close a friend she shouldn't do something that makes you feel ill.

FurryDogMother · 28/10/2013 12:44

I'm not sure it's a phobia as such - I feel exactly the same way about food on faces, snot, and people eating with their mouths open. Makes me heave (really, not figuratively). Maybe it's because I don't have kids, and have therefore never had to get used to it, but I don't see it as an 'extreme' reaction at all - to me, it's normal.

MrsRajeshKoothrappali · 28/10/2013 12:52

Oh, I so agree with you.

This makes me heave.

Is it supposed to be cute? I don't get it. Why don't they clean it up?

Lovecat · 28/10/2013 12:54

A friend of mine on FB posted a picture of an elephant with it's face cut off as part of a WW protest against ivory poaching. He didn't tag me, it just popped up on my newsfeed and I was nearly sick.

I do think there should be some sort of filter available on FB to avoid having distressing pictures thrust at you, no matter what they are of.

bludgerwitch · 28/10/2013 12:56

Nope, not at all - children with food smeared all over them give me a bad case of the gags. I'm pregnant right now and am not looking forward to that part of motherhood.

I've had to leave the room when friends/cousins were feeding their kids fingerfood and it went everywhere - I just can't turn it off. I was looking at a magazine article which had a big picture of a cute tot in a highchair absolutely filthy with carrot bits and I had to go find a bin to dry heave over.

Lilacroses · 28/10/2013 12:58

I don't think it's a phobia..I'm as untidy and disorganised as they come but for some reason these make me feel queasy. I know others feel differently, it's just one of those things.

ChilledGhost · 28/10/2013 12:58

YANBU!. I thought it was just me!. My DSis does this most days! Grin