To get irritated by the "self lovers" on Facebook?

[ClapHandsIfYouBelieveInFatties]

I know I don't HAVE to be on FB but it's handy for communication in general. However...I find some of my friends get RIGHT on my tits with their regular self congratulatory posts.

"3lb lost in one week! Having a well deserved glass of wine!"

"Worked three nights, cleaned the house and baked a cake...patting myself on the back."

What do they want!? Congratulations for perfectly ordinary achievements!?

I can't bear it! The whole "well deserved" and "didn't I do well" brigade need to keep it in a bit!

Do you do this? WHY!???

Hear Hear!

My friend calls Facebook 'smug book'.

My fb stream seems to be full of bragging. Bragging about being at a concert, museum, premiere, holiday destination, airport lounge en route to holiday destination, children's black belt in this, performance in front of the Queen in a special viola ensemble organised by the Early Music group at RCM, at the circus, at the beach at the humungous birthday party, in the kitchen baking, at the theatre, celebrating a child's birthday over weeks with trips and parties and presents and glory everywhere, and on and on and toddlers' first this and that, and fish caught and ice buckets emptied and marathons run, endless endless endless, 10k this for that charity and 10k that for that charity and the bike rides to lands end on a donkey backwards and the triathlons in Quebec and the lost dogs and the fallen out tooth and the WEDDING ANNIVERSARY trips to Paris and Barcelona and Madrid and NYC and the baby's first solid food and Granny's 100th Birthday in the Lake District and weddings and weddings and weddings.

Soz not soz

time to get off it!

I think everyone has a FB personality. There are those that are always miserable, those that are always bragging about themselves, ones who are pure comedy, ... actually thinking about it - everyone on mine is bragging. Some are subtle, some are less so. And they all have different things to brag about - husbands, babies, education, jobs etc.

I can't bear it! The whole "well deserved" and "didn't I do well" brigade need to keep it in a bit!

Same could be said for the shit on peoples parade brigade.

Same could be said for the shit on peoples parade brigade.

Oh no, I will shit on their parade because the aim of it is to make me feel shit.
You dont post a long list of shit like the shit Queenceleste just perfectly demonstrated for any other reason then to be smug and make people think " wow how does she do it ! Wish I was like that !

I refuse to believe you think people are actually interested in " just done all the house work...phew " .

queenceleste sums it up so well. Living life through media with a constant audience needed.

Yes but it is mostly bragbook isn't it?

My friend has no children and no husband and she said to me 'if I was on fb I would end up killing myself!' and she was only sort of joking. She said it is for people with kids and marriages and stuff to brag about.

I am guilty too, but increasingly I'm posting less and less and using it for private messages. I do think I would be psychologically healthier if I stopped going on it....

did you see how this Dutch girl faked her Asian trip

There's a lot of falseness on fb isn't there?

I don't actually mind the self congratulatory posts. The posters that annoy me are the people that post endless pictures of their kids baby smiling, baby not smiling, baby with food on face, baby is pink, baby in yellow, baby standing, baby sitting, baby lying down and on and on and on-.

Just do what I do Op, remove them from your news feed or delete them. Annoying problem solved.

I did once post and update saying something like "seriously people stop flooding news feeds with pictures of your kids". I got lots of people telling me I was a miserable git

Sorry, I am now flooding this thread, forgive me.

But I have to say there was a f who posted ever single song 'jam' she played over the week end and just jammed my feed with it and also - I don't care what she's listening to! Be continent woman! Post occasionally with something meaningful! Not 'i went to the loo and passed a rather painful stool.' No I am not interested in your defecation!

AND may I say finally that I really really really detest the couple that are in the same house, messaging to each other on fb to put the kettle on or let the dog in and worse, sweet nothings "Thank you for being such an amazing husband" on their fb pages! NO MAKE THEM STOP THAT!

That's the worst

Sorry, I'll get my coat

bendybrickpumpkinpatch are you me? I could have writtenyour post word for word.

No-one yet has mentioned the "inviting the world into our conversations" type posts.

Man: Have been married to my wonderful wife for 10 years. Hapy anniversary babe, i love you more than ever.
Woman: You too hon, love you so much, you're everything to me xxx

OK, well tell each other in person then! You're probably in the same room.

ha ha cross post with queenceleste

whoops
I have more to say but need to go now!



all flowers for myself because I am so young, energetic, attractive, loved, successful, loving, lauded, applauded, interesting, curious, well read, well travelled, noble, hardworking, fertile, etc etc etc
[leaves thread bowing deeply]

What I really hate is the christmas eve picture of ALL the presents under the tree. Lovely that they can afford it or have lots if family to buy stuff for their dc but it must make some people feel like shit.

seems to me that FB is very handy...it allows you to see what people are really like, facebook is the 'rope' with which so many people willingly hang themselves.

I have just I removed somebody from my friends list who posts far to many photos of her newborn, the latest was asking if we thought her baby had a stomach upset. With pictures.

Oh no, I will shit on their parade because the aim of it is to make me feel shit.
You dont post a long list of shit like the shit Queenceleste just perfectly demonstrated for any other reason then to be smug and make people think " wow how does she do it ! Wish I was like that !

If it's making you feel shit, that's your own insecurity. If it wasn't other peoples nonsense wouldn't bother you.

So what if she's smug? It might be lies. She might be trying to make herself feel better & there are plenty of boring people who insist of commenting on bowel movements and what they've eaten that day.

If her posts bother you so much why don't you just hide them instead of bitching about them.

I refuse to believe you think people are actually interested in " just done all the house work...phew " .

Completely valid as a status update. Didn't know you could only post what would be interesting to others.

Why don't you share your oh so insightful and fascinating updates so we all know what we should be posting.

If her posts bother you so much why don't you just hide them instead of bitching about them. was for OP.

YABVVU

It's a social media site, people can write whatever they like.

I hate the people who preach what people should and shouldn't say. Get over it, block or hide their posts.

My DP calls it "bragbook", he despises FB.

I do hate the boring mundane stuff that people post but even worse than that are the people who post a status just to have a stealth brag.

Arrrrgh! There's one thing worse than all of the above, and that's the bloody annoying Time Hop posts.

As if people's self-congratulatory, smug posts weren't irritating enough 5 years ago, we can now all relieve those special moments thanks to time hop...

Oh, I love it when people brag about doing their housework, etc! It actually makes me get up off my arse and do mine. It almost becomes a bit of a silent competition, because my house should be lovely and clean and tidy, and it isn't. So I go away and do it and that way, the next time I see a smug post, I sit there thinking "Ha! Mine too. In. Your. Face!"

I need to get out more...

I think that it's those who seem to take the happiness/success of others as some kind of personal insult who gave the ego.

When I post that I've been for a run it literally does not cross my mind to think 'yeah, I run. Hope that makes X feel real shit about herself today'.

Completely valid as a status update. Didn't know you could only post what would be interesting to others.

But your posting it for OTHER people to read ! I can tell myself i'm amazing for washing the kitchen floor, but I dont post it so other people can tell me !

Actually I dont post at all. I quit as stated earlier.

Prefer them to the moaning but not quite telling you what is wrong posts.