Conveying the 'perfect life'

[Pud2]

AIBU to get irritated by people who convey their 'perfect lives' on Facebook?! Photos of their perfect children doing lovely things, their wonderful holiday and their fabulous OTs. I know I don't have to look, but I do and I sometimes wonder whether life isn't quite as perfect as it seems......

[Notso]

Some people are like that in real life, I have an acquaintance who manages to shoehorn into every conversation that her DH is a company director, her DC go to grammar school or that she has a cleaner. She is nice but it does get a bit tedious. Thankfully I don't live very close so we only see each other once in a while.

FB is what it is, I only go on it as most of DC friends parents seem to communicate that way.

[gertiegusset]

Being a company director isn't that big a deal depending on the company.
Someone I know has a DH who has had at least four companies go down the pan.
I dunno, I don't put personal stuff on FH or on here, might put that the kids are doing ok if someone asks or would pm results and stuff but wouldn't brag openly.

[OnIlkleyMoorBahTwat]

Almost anyone can be a company director, unless they have been banned from doing so for fucking up previously.

My DP is a trustee of a small charity - that was surprisingly easy to achieve, so not necessarily impressive.

Boastful people will always be boastful, whether it is in real life or on FB. If you actually know the people, rather than they being passing acquaintances who have friended on FB, you will know if they are like this. Perhaps unfriend them, or unsubscribe to their FB feed, if they are that annoying.

Notso's aquaintance sounds like someone I know, who makes sure everyone knows about her fabulously successful DSs, international jetsetting DH and lovely home. She had a nanny, when everyone else used childminders, has cleaners and other 'help' and went on about them all as ways of demonstrating that she was better than everyone else.

[Bumpsadaisie]

Bonsoir Lots of people (I'm one of them) don't feel any need at all to broadcast their life to the world!

Fair enough, there is nothing wrong with that.

But what for you is "broadcasting your life" is, for someone else of a different personality type, "staying connected and reaching out" to others. People who are natural extroverts need to feel linked up to other people, just as those who are natural introverts shrink in horror from what they see as "broadcasting" and self-publication.

[pinkmoomin]

I enjoy reading Facebook boasts, and the posts of regular boasters on here. They make me snigger like Mutley.

Don't care if they are for real or self-deluded, life would be duller without them.

[Notso]

That's one of the reasons it's so boring. Same with the grammar school, I live in Wales where there are no grammar schools so I find it hard to be be overly impressed with her children going to one.
Am a bit at the cleaner but if I really wanted one I could prob have one I'm just too lazy to tidy first and I'm not paying for someone to clean around my mess.
These things obviously matter to her a great deal and there is no reason shouldn't be proud of her family but when a conversation about the dentist ends up with her saying for the umpteenth time what her husband does for a living it does make me want to scream STFU.