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To feel annoyed at people who brag about their lives on fb

53 replies

skyblue11 · 01/11/2013 17:08

Why do some people feel the need to show what a wonderful hotel they are staying in or sharing how their partners are spoiling them? It makes me sick

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BOOsterseat · 01/11/2013 17:30

SIL tells me other SIL is always posting about her "perfect marriage" including the epic post of "Im pretty sure there are some very happy couples on here but you don't love each other like Me and BIL do"

They've been having problems for years because she is a complete knobhead

I guess it must make her feel better to lie over Fakebook, If she wasn't such a twat i might feel sorry for her.

WorraLiberty · 01/11/2013 17:34

Would you feel just as sick if they were posting photos of a dirty, nasty hotel and them all looking miserable?

How about if your friends were posting that their new partners were being total twats to them?

KirjavaTheCat · 01/11/2013 17:38

They do it purely to annoy you, you know. It's their sole purpose in life.

pinkballetflats · 01/11/2013 17:38

I'm having a hard time why you're bothering with being on FB. What do you post?

Viviennemary · 01/11/2013 17:45

I'm always a bit wary of these people who love to tell everyone how wonderful their lives are. They've been around long before Facebook was ever thought of. And were just as annoying.

SinisterBuggyMonth · 01/11/2013 17:45

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gobbynorthernbird · 01/11/2013 17:45

I love seeing nice things/times on FB. I want my friends to be having a great time and hope they'd want it for me too.

sooperdooper · 01/11/2013 17:46

I think the fact you see posting pics of nice things as 'showing off' says more about you than about them tbh, I'm glad you're not my friend in Facebook, Im always posting if I'm at a gig, nice day out, visiting somewhere interesting etc

What do you post OP?

0utnumbered · 01/11/2013 17:47

YES YABU!! there is always some whiny person moaning when someone puts depressing things then someone else moaning when people post boring things now someone else moaning when people post happy things!! for goodness sake, it's a social networking account and people post things about themselves on their own accounts! No one is making you use it, there are plenty of other sites on the internet & I also have a TV and lots of books to entertain me when the kids are in bed...seriously, sorry to be blunt but just get over it.

SeaSickSal · 01/11/2013 17:48

YABU. I feel happy something nice is happening for my friends.

They're your mates, what sort of lives do you want them to have?

Lozislovely · 01/11/2013 17:49

I have a friend who has had 5 holidays so far this year to reasonably expensive places and ensures that she posts about her adventures in the airport club lounge, business class seats, top of the range hotels, fancy meals out. I do find it a bit much as her posts are always 'me me me'.

I tend to ignore them for the most part.

I've nothing wrong with people who post about their lives in general but when it feels like someone is shamelessly bragging it does get my goat!

Pinupgirl · 01/11/2013 17:49

Yanbu op-I am considering taking a break from fb for this very reason. Friends who are too "busy" to make time for me then posting about meet ups.nights out that I wasn't invited too. Or posting about their "gifted" dcsHmm

Gets right on my wick.

gobbynorthernbird · 01/11/2013 18:18

Pinup, you need to find new friends.

magicscares · 01/11/2013 18:21

YABU, it's fine if people want to share their positive news now and then, bragging everyday would be annoying, but just hide them.
What I find annoying is people who moan and moan about their relatively comfortable lives.

Raddy · 01/11/2013 18:24

See I don't mind this sort of thing, I like to see pics of swanky hotels etc.

It's the 'just done 3 hours of ironing, now enjoying a cuppa' updates that do my head in.

RatherBeOnThePiste · 01/11/2013 18:28

Oh I love seeing happy friends on their hols, and I love knowing when nice things happen.

Want folk to be having good times.

mrstigs · 01/11/2013 20:07

I have a friend who posts an awful lot of 'braggy' posts, and it does make me a bit Hmm but that is just because i know her relationship is a disaster. That said i think in part her posts are to fool herself as much as her friends, so if it helps her get through until she is ready to change things then i can just raise an eyebrow and scroll past the tripe she puts on.
Other than that i quite like the bragging about nice stuff, but i have a friends list of nice people and i don't feel like its posted just to make me feel inferior. You just need nicer friends op! Grin

ninnymcphee · 01/11/2013 20:17

The joy of fb is being able to unfriend or hide the people who get on your tits. I have no issue with people posting about happy things, new things, nice holidays in among the normal stuff of life.
I do take issue with those that never comment on anything and ONLY post statuses about the club class lounge at Heathrow, their new designer whatever, how absolutely darling their luxury ski chalet is and how much their new BMW cost..... but that's just because I'm a jealous bitch Wink

MissBetseyTrotwood · 01/11/2013 20:36

I think it's just different people's fb 'style'. Sometimes the least boastful in RL use their fb posts to show off.

One of my friend's DH is the absolute worst fb self promoter. He works online under his own name and there is a definite odd crossover between his family life and professional life on fb. It's as though he uses everything about his life to promote himself professionally. So recently, he even used an illness that stopped him working to make himself look good. Think picture of himself looking ill, with the post 'Oh, I'm so ill with X; no dinner party, award ceremony for DD for ballet, meeting with X bigwig from X company, 1st class flight to X for X meeting - wah!' No. Not 'wah'. Just boak. Grin

That's exactly what fb is designed for though, so if I'm feeling a bit ragey against boasty humans I just don't go on.

Tee2072 · 01/11/2013 20:40

So don't use FB.

Mintyy · 01/11/2013 20:47

So don't use Facebook?

That's a bit trite. Or is it in response to a particular poster?

Kayakinggirl86 · 01/11/2013 20:47

Are they posting things to cover up how bad their lives are. If you read over my Facebook feed it is generally stupid/ funny things me or the kids have done that day/ week. However the 6months were life went to pot (got made
homeless, got a new boss at work who got rid of my department, got assaulted and I few other things, partner walked out) my Facebook is filled with status up dates about weekends away, how the kids have enjoyed there week in the lakes (pil live there), or week in the Channel Islands (god parents live there). Or how amazing the new house is, reality it not to sure it is child safe but was the area we needed and we could afford.
It was my way of pretending life was good not everything I touched fell apart and I was on my knees.

Tee2072 · 01/11/2013 20:57

Well, if things on FB are annoying you, stop using it. Why use something that annoys you?

Life is too short.

And what's wrong with trite?

Mintyy · 01/11/2013 21:00

Should you stop using facebook if 1 out of your 100 friends is annoying you?

The obvious answer is to hide the posts of "friends" who annoy you. Or delete them if you are brave enough.

Tee2072 · 01/11/2013 21:03

No. I won't stop using FB at all. I like FB.

But I'm not sure the OP does.