Timehop for Facebook

[CiderLover]

AIBU to find this app really fucking annoying and pointless?

For those not familiar, Timehop is an app which reposts your status updates from say, 3, 4 or 5 years ago as a "new" fb status.

There's a girl on my fb that does it constantly.

There's something about someone reposting old statuses and commenting on them constantly that seems a little....self obsessed.

I have blocked her feed from mine because it has annoyed me so much!

Grr think I need a cider!

Ooohhh is that what that is ? One iof my friends has this. And yes its very annoying

We all read the damn status updates the first time so god only knows why people think we want to read them again, posts that are irrelevant to what is happening in their lives at the present time.

I have it to look at my own but I don't share them and only read them via email! Raaaaarrr

Thinking about posting a status about it...

Maybe I should get a life instead?

It's really bloody annoying isn't it? I can see how reading your own might be nice as little reminders, but people posting past ones EVERY SINGLE DAY is tedious. It's normally 'crying for help' statuses that are reposted too. To get a second round of sympathy I assume...

I bloody hate it, I wasn't interested the first time they posted half of this stuff and now I'm getting to read it again... and no doubt it'll pop up in another 2 years! Grr

I want to think of a not to subtle status to put so my friend will know its aimed at her but not nasty, its driving me nuts that she thinks people are interested!

Oh yes it's tiresome isn't it? Seems to be the latest thing. I want to shout "I know this is interesting to you but the rest of us don't care."

Although one friend lost their little boy last year and she's been posting reminders of significant dates, that feels different, because obviously she's contrasting then with now and it's a big part of her grief/healing so I don't mind seeing those updates.

But the "Wow my kid was so cute when they were 2 years younger than they are now" is annoying.

*so

I am getting statuses about the World Cup and comparing it to this years results

My DD's have used this, I do think it's for the under 25's.

Them and their friends laugh about the crap they indulged in, which is fine when you are only 17-19.

Ah now I know what it is. Thanks OP and yes it is annoying

YANBU. Very annoying and mostly daft.

Very annoying. Unfortunately, the biggest culprit on my timeline is my sister!

Glad everyone is in agreement!

You mean they're doing this *on purpose?!

To be fair at least you can hide an entire app. Just press the little down arrow at the top right of the post and "hide all posts by timehop".

I have 2 friends who do this constantly. I do not want to see 5 year old photos of them on the piss.

Thanks for the tip BertieBotts, I am going to try that.

I have now hidden them, but I feel they should be told how ridiculous and self obsessed they are being...

Thank you, BertieBotts!

I use it, I like it! It's lovely to see photos of my boys from 5/6 years ago. It's not so much fun when I see how much weight I've put on over the last few years though!

But isn't that the point, that it's interesting to you to see pictures of your children when they were younger (although if I wanted to do that I could just look through my photos myself ) - maybe interesting to friends/family once or twice but every day, it just gets annoying. It's like "PFB syndrome" - your newborn and your holiday is just not as interesting to everyone else as it is to you!

I love the app I love seeing how far I've come (or not as the case may be) in terms of my mental health etc. I rarely post it to fb though

It's lovely for you to see pictures of your boys from 5/6 years ago HonoraryOctonaut

For everyone else, it's a bit "Meh" I'm afraid.

I think that's the point of Facebook though isn't it, in not really interested in photos of other peoples nights out, kids it what they had for dinner but for some reason I continue to flick through it. It's all a bit 'meh'.

I like it for me to look at but rarely share anything that comes up.

Whew! I had to go into the desktop version of Facebook, but have blocked Timehop, Candy Crush Saga, Farmville, Thrones Rush and whatever-all-else I keep being "informed" about, or being "invited" to play, as if a virtual garden would be better than real gardening which I can't stand I might consider Minecraft at some point, but really can't countenance that until after the summer...

Thank you again, BertieBotts!