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!???

I like FB lots and enjoy interacting wit friends I don't get to see often enough in RL - seeing the occasional holiday photo or picture of sporting achievements, beautiful birthday cake etc.

However I HATE the "Something has made me unhappy but I'm not telling you until you ask" posts and the "Love you, hunnybunny super husband" posts. I'd love to block the worst culprit, but can't really as she's my SIL :-(

Oh, I thought we were talking about Facebook - am I on the wrong thread???

Facebook is annoying because you can't always switch off everyone's comments without having any "friends" at all. Mumsnet people are not friends, it's just a place to swap comments and ideas. A forum for free views and discussion compared with a social network where you actively accept "friends" and choose to whom you speak are again, quite different.

Someone recently posted on my Facebook, "They should teach self love in schools, it is the most important thing you can learn."

To which I replied, "Announcing a lesson on self love will be met with hysterical giggles as they assume you are going to teach them how to masturbate. No thanks"

(Sorry Really - my last post was aimed at Fareast, not you)

I want to be friends with Rose

That's the sort of thing I post on people's statuses. And at good proportion of them hate me for it

I don't care. I post what I want, when I want (within reason - I don't go around kicking people when they're down!). And my updates are boring to 50% of the people on my fb, and interesting to at least some of the rest. You can't please everybody all the time.

I should probably apologise - I thought this was a forum for opinions and discussion but I think what is actually being sought is people to agree and make each other validated in their irrational hatred for other people's freedom to do what they like.

As mentioned - you can block posts from your wall. You can choose not to read them. You can even choose not to log in to FB or to quit it. But I do not see how you can possibly take umbrage at what someone else chooses to do simply because you don't think it is worthy of sharing by your own standard.

My view is that is says more about the person getting annoyed than it does about the poster. Whether or not they are lying, embellishing, faking a better life than they are actually living - that is their own problem. I just don't get why people need to be so wound up by it.

My view is that is says more about the person getting annoyed than it does about the poster

And yet here you are, getting annoyed by views expressed by posters

Apology accepted, BTW

Yeah, if I managed to clean the house and bake a cake while I was at it, I'd feel like it was an accomplishment too.

I'd rather see posts bragging than the ones that are like "Ugh.. DP has done something stupid again. But I'll defend his actions to my last post because god forbid you ask why I put up with this shit".

Happy to have a new friend, Diseases. Actually, given my posting style, happy to have a friend at all.

But, I do object to people trying to put new age bollocks into the curriculum. We have enough McBollocks as it is (Scotland).

I do this.

To annoy people like you ;) I am trying to encourage people to drop me from their friends list because I only accepted them as I thought it was rude not to.

Sadly all it seems to achieve is them bitching and moaning about me behind my back. When oh when will they get the hint.

No - but seriously, I have been posting a lot about my weight loss and putting pictures up of my dinner because then I get lots of people telling me how well I am doing and it makes me feel like carrying on.

"But what do you say that doesn't come over as mean?"

Do you have to say anything? Is it really that important to you that you feel like you have to say something on social media in response? Really? Maybe you are taking your facebooking a bit too seriously if you have the urge to respond to things like that?

I'd say have a think about if you want to make a choice between going down the mean and snidey route or if you want to just be pleasant and nice.

people spend way too much time being annoyed by the most silly me things on Facebook. if your friend was being deliberately offensive or racist or something I would understand but she is just commenting on her own life on her own page, hide her posts if it is really annoying you

I don't know what the worlds coming to, what with people using FB for what it's intended for.

Had I personally known that F/Book was intended only to send and receive photos of my lunch or to know that someone was just off out to walk their dog, or send people links to racist and homophobic sites, I never would have signed up in the first place. I think it's initial intention was to get people chatting and raise social awareness, but that sentiment appears to have now been lost a little bit along the way. The Pop-up ads also have a lot to answer for.

Thank goodness I left . . .

I bet you were a right laugh on your FB.

Actually, I was - thanks!

My fat club has a closed facebook group - perfect place for posting pictures of lunch, sharing weight loss and struggles without annoying everyone else.

I have recently started the couch25k running program. Each time I have successfully completed a session, I post it on fb. It helps keep me motivated because if I don't do it then I can't post and I'll be shown up as a quitter.
I also post because I am quite proud of myself for a change. It's actually a huge achievement for me, even completing the first session was a big deal.
I really hope people aren't trying to think of things to say to/about me that aren't mean. Everyone is free to hide me if they dislike me sharing the only thing I've done recently that I'm remotely proud of.

I don't think fb was intended for bragging initially Usual.

Getting and keeping in touch with friends was the original purpose I thought.

Now its mostly a way to brag, be smug, be PA, start affairs (allegedly - not seen this personally ) moan, getting your political views across, have a dig etc.

the 'purpose' of face book is to gather data from it's users in order to sell on at a profit, a bit like the farmers milking machine...it's there to milk the cows.
It's free because you are the product

You call it bragging,being smug etc.

I call it updating my status on my FB page.

True, Middleton and Suzanne
Big Brother really is watching you, but not everyone always realises it.

Don't like FB, don't bloody use it.

I like to laugh at the smuggery from the to intellectual for FB lot.

Don't like FB, don't bloody use it
I agree, I only use it for stalking...very entertaining :o

Bragging and smugness isn't the best of qualities.

Tbf I only have a few of those sort on my fb, it keeps me entertained I suppose.

I only have people I like on my FB.