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!???

That's the thing I do like them.
It's just an oddness about fb that brings out this other side in people.

Like a need to be praised continually. Insecure I suppose.

YABU.

I don't see it as bragging. Just an opening to start a conversation. Pretty much like on here.

I have a FB friend who has lost loads of weight and has talked about it a lot along the way. Thankfully she has kind friends that take her statuses as a chance to support her and or just to talk.

I also enjoy statuses about babies, housework and random shite.

I love the randomness of FB. I like knowing what my mates and family are doing.

I like seeing their photos. I don't see it as bragging or being smug.

And if you're happy doing it, Usual, then carry on. No-one is asking you to stop.
This was (I thought) a free discussion on the pros and cons of the site.
Some people like it, others don't.
Everyone is entitled to their view, (aren't they)?
In the UK we still, thank goodness, live in a free world - democracy. Where points of view can be discussed (even if it is only silly F/Book)

But a status about a night out along with photos isn't bragging. That's just stating what you've been up to.

A status of '" spent all morning cleaning, now making a healthy lunch to eat with my munchkin before meeting daddy for coffee " is!

I will carry on, happy in the knowledge that I don't have any of the sneery fuckers on this thread on my friends list.

Well I personally post about things I AM proud of! Sometimes. I often post boring shit, but life IS boring sometimes. I put up pictures of glorious landscapes I've seen and I can assure you I'm not taking credit for their existence!

What is so wrong with 'self love' (other than the masturbation link, I totally get that!)?
Why put down those around you who have some self esteem? Or who perhaps crave it via those willing to give it?

Don't be too sure

You best press that unfriend button then Middleton.

I don't have any of the sneery fuckers on this thread on my friends list

There, see - this is exactly the reason I don't like to befriend some people
Now, you might not like me on your "friends list" - I would really not like to be on it.
Some people feel the need to swear, others don't
Swings and Roundabouts.

I'd quite like you to be on it, Evans.

I could spend hours annoying you , with my bragging and smug updates.

YABU.

If people aren't being offensive then why get your knickers in a twist. If it bothers you don't look at it.

What? Who said that??

See I find it hard to believe that you are smug and brag on fb usual..
You aren't like that on here.

Having a laugh, writing interesting facts about your day etc isn't being smug.

I expect that's what the OPs friend thought she was doing

I'm kind of conflicted about this. On the one hand, I do dislike any form of bragging or smuggery... on the other, I know in my heart of hearts that a lot of the time, what seems like bragging is just someone wanting a little validation - it's like people feel they haven't really achieved something if they don't get any recognition for it. I can't get cross about that, really - some people need and thus seek out more praise and support than others do.

I don't update my status very often TBH. My FB is about as interesting as watching paint dry.

But I have no problem with how any of my friends use it.

You know you can hide all these posts from your news feed? No need to even block people. Job done.

Life is too short to get worked up about this, YABU.

"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. "

You are aware that people can post about their dinner AND raise social awareness?

Though I believe you are a bit wrong about why it was started.

Why was it started, DuellingFanjo ?
I really am interested - (hate cryptic posts where you have to guess).

I have relatively few annoying FB friends. There's one who is ordinarily pretty cool but hasn't posted about anything but the Scottish referendum in weeks. That's getting old. If someone is very annoying I will just unfollow them and that doesn't happen very often.

I sometimes post little boasts - but it's because I'm genuinely happy about something positive. I mostly post self-deprecating stuff or silly stuff.

"People do it in real life too - I sat next to someone collecting from Cubs a few weeks ago who was moaning about being so busy because she'd just started a job and that she hadn't been able to attend the PTA meeting because of cubs.

I'd been up at 6am, walked the dog, done breakfasts and packed lunches, been to work, come home, cooked dinner, walked the dog, dropped off at cubs, been to the squeezed in PTA meeting and was collecting from Cubs.

I just nodded at her and put her on my avoid list."

I don't understand this at all! Some lady feels stressed because she's busy.... so what?!

Wasn't it started by a geek who wanted to create a social network for his friends and fellow university students to network with each other?

According to The Harvard Crimson, the site was comparable to Hot or Not and "used photos compiled from the online facebooks of nine houses, placing two next to each other at a time and asking users to choose the 'hotter' person"

Lola. Totes about raising social awareness

Wasn't it started by a geek who wanted to create a social network for his friends and fellow university students to network with each other?

Oh thank you - but wasn't that kind of along the lines of what I suggested, without the rather insulting "geek" reference? I said "Get people chatting, raise social awareness" - Isn't that similar?