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!???

Next time she says she's lost 3lb, say Wow that must have been a big poo.

One girl I know who is currently fighting her ex for custody of their children is always posting pictures and statuses of how drunk she got at the weekend. Public settings too, so the world and his wife can see.

And she wonders how her ex knows when she goes out.

I find it therapeutic to block people like this.

GET. OFF. FACEBOOK. if it annoys you so much that you'd go onto ANOTHER website to bitch about your bloody friends, then you need NOT TO BE THERE, FFS.

I find FB handy too to see what people are really like. There was a woman i quite liked....until I realised that on FB she was PA and a total fantasist. Now I steer clear, and I really would have taken a great deal longer to realise it IRL.

anyway, i hardly ever post and usually just post banal random old shit, like the fenton you tube video and stuff like that. [boring emoticon]

I think YABU with respect yo the wright loss! Losing 3lb in a week is a good achievement and if it is someone who has to work hard at controlling their food intact then brag away I say!

love this and glad its just not me!!!!

A mutal friend is having a tough time of it, marriage in tatters, cat just died we all know of the situation. So she group messaged the other night and said thanks really means alot to have my friends around her. This was met by lots of "you'll be fine hun, we are al here", "chin up lovely all will be ok" etc... THEN the self lover wrote

"Soon be Saturday hope yr ok"
Oh btw we just had a lovely cheapy pub meal down the village scampi and steak only 4.99 what a bargain really lovely to get out for me just me and DP, so lucky"

Even then suddenly changed the profile pic to a kissy pic of them both.

We were all godsmacked and the mutal friend broke down to me on the phone the next day over it

That's fb for you. If it bugs your too much hide them?

I have a fb friend who does this. I quite like her status as they give me a laugh. Lots of bragging about how she's just done all the cleaning, walked the dog, baked with tge dc and has prepared a meal for a dare night with her "hubby". She gets lots of " aw baby ur wonder woman " type shit.
She also posts lots of photos of flowers and chocolates from said hubby.

Narcissism well and truly alive!

I'm not on F/Book, because I couldn't stand it either.
Everybody look at meeee - I'm walking the dog
"Look at the photo of the amazing meal I'm having in the pub"
I love my husband/boyfriend sooooooo much - isn't he gorgeous (Vomit)
I've just reached level eleventybillion on CandyCrushSaga What are you? 12? Who gives a fig?

Idiots

I'm joining the Celeste step

I think I particularly hate the "Share this photo if you care" crap. A lot of it is from "Britain First". Do people actually realise what that organisation stands for?

And even if it is a legitimate "care and share" photo - do they honestly think that if you don't share it, then you don't care? It's blackmail, of sorts.

AND ALSO - I do not like being tagged in photos. If you want to publish a pic of me, then bloody well ask my permission first. Especially if I didn't even give consent to the photo being taken in the first place!!!

Bah!

hula how tacky of her. And I don't just mean the scampi.

I really don't mind these posts. The only people on my Facebook are my real life friends and family, so people I actually care about. I like to hear that things are going well for them, and have no problem with them being proud of their achievements, whether that means they've cleaned their house, lost 3lb or run 10k for charity.

CLpa Hands ... yes that's what I thought as well, I nearly posted "Was it scampi in a basket" and are you sure that was real steak and not that cheapy substitute meat...she is the one big elephant in the group that everyone is nice as pie to BUT calls her behind her back. Not me though I just dont speak to her. Very scampi selfish person

FB makes me question my friendship judgment because in RL the people who post utter shite are often sound, normal non egotistical people, yet when let loose on FB, they become absolute ARSEHOLES !

I've 'unfollowed' about 3/4 of 'friends' due to their insufferable status updates, some of these people are considered 'close' to me and have no idea that I don't get to see their daily nonsence

The only people I know who hate Facebook are the people who can't handle seeing other people happy because it reflects on their own insecurities. You have 100% complete control to look/not look, to unsubscribe, block their feed, etc.

The fact these people continue to log in and look means they have the sadistic need to do so. nothing would make them happier than seeing their friends post about struggling, being sad, depressed, poor, etc so it would make them feel better about their own lives.

Just get over it. let people do what they want to do and focus on your own life.

The only people I know who hate Facebook are the people who can't handle seeing other people happy because it reflects on their own insecurities

What utter bollocks (sorry, I don't normally swear, but - really)
Nothing to do with seeing people happy. We know (among our friends who is happy and who is not. Unhappy friends get support, happy friends get congrats - your every move doesn't have to be in the public domain, for crying out loud!

I would actually go as far as to say that everyone who has to document their every waking moment is the insecure person.

And you don't need to look at it. But you still do and then you complain.

Are you saying people's statuses should be considerate to everyone on their friend list to try and please everyone? So their status is for everyone else and not for them?

"I would actually go as far as to say that everyone who has to document their every waking moment is the insecure person."

Like everyone who writes in a diary then. Their status is for themselves. I don't think they write a status then ring up their friends asking what they thought about it.

Fareast - if that last comment is directed at me, then no, I don't look and complain. I am not on Faceache because it annoyed me so much. I'm giving the reasons why I opted out of it.

Thank you.

Do you record your every movement? Just out of interest . . .
Do you think everyone is really interested?
How many people may have blocked you, might you think?
Have you ever pondered?

Like everyone who writes in a diary then. Their status is for themselves. I don't think they write a status then ring up their friends asking what they thought about it

A diary is normally a very private correspondence to oneself. Putting a status on F/Book is pretty public, usually begging for a response.

Bit of a difference, I'd say.

If the status is just for themselves, then why not keep it to themselves (via the very simple security setting)..

My gripe lately is the "feeling blessed" statuses.. no you are not blessed just because your husband came home early from the pub once and brought you a kebab...

I hate those pointless, banal, smug updates about nothing much as well. I think if you can't say anything really funny, interesting or thought provoking you should just say nothing at all.

If you are really proud of something/someone then fair enough, have a bit of a boast, but it has to be worth it, like child took first steps or got elected to PM or broke the land speed record or something, otherwise meh, we don't care.

Top of my hate list are the 'share if you hate cancer/love your sister/feel sad about orphans type bollocks.

And the gratuitous sharing of horribly violent and abusive videos with the tagline 'share to help catch this bastard'

Yeah, because making your friends watch a dog be kicked to death by a man in Malaysia is really going to help the police catch him when your friends are mostly residing in Dudley.

Oh and the cryptic attention seeking posts. They suck.

"I think if you can't say anything really funny, interesting or thought provoking you should just say nothing at all."

Mumsnet would be a very different place...