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Original poster

"Timehop". Facebook. Bit mortified...aibu to wonder how i have any mates left?

58 replies

InTheWhiteRoom · 02/03/2015 17:37

i have started using that timehop app (every day it shows you the statuses you wrote on that day in the years past) ....and looking back at my past statuses over the years has made me absolutely cringe and realise that I am a real twat on facebook. bragging, jezza kyle style laundry airing,. vaguebooking, soppy declarations of love between dh and i, depressing statuses, public bitching, "i'll PM you hun" , over sharing, you name it have done it

i genuinely do not understand how I have any mates left, god knows what they say behind my back

what in gods name have I been thinking? theres no excuse, i knew what i was posting

I am 35 years old fgs. not 16. And I am the facebook friend you all hate and moan about on here :(

i need to now make a concerted effort to either not post at all don't i? as i seem incapable of self moderation. or only post things that aren't twatty and annoying Blush ....or just delete facebook but i am addicted

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paddyclampo · 02/03/2015 17:41

I sometimes cringe at some of the stuff I've written too - especially stuff I wrote 5 or 6 years ago!!!!

dragdownthemoon · 02/03/2015 17:43

Timehop is THE WORST, I can't stop looking at it but I also am a facebook dickhead. The worst.

EatShitDerek · 02/03/2015 17:43

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Cornettoninja · 02/03/2015 17:45

Omg, has facebook redeemed itself and become a useful tool of introspection and self awareness? Grin

Don't worry about it, if we had every moment of our lives played back to us on a regular basis we'd all be permanently cringing. Its the teenagers I feel sorry for. It's a rare one who manages not to ever be a monumental twat, this poor generation have it published online forever!

MaidOfStars · 02/03/2015 17:46

Every time you make a new post, stop and think 'Why am I doing this? What is the purpose? Do I need FB to help me achieve this?'

The twattiness will begin to decrease.

But I wouldn't worry too much - most of your mates will have blocked you by now Wink

Nationaltrusthandbook · 02/03/2015 17:47

Maybe stop using the timehop thing and just hold your head up high re future postings! Grin

GotToBeInItToWinIt · 02/03/2015 17:50

I've got timehop. I've found I wasn't all that twatty but I posted a hell of a lot of boring stuff. Why did I think anyone cared I was eating cheese and drinking wine?! Or that I was off to Pilates? Or that work was boring? Or that I was hungover? I post very little now!

ChipDip · 02/03/2015 17:54

I recently looked at my old posts from when I first joined:
At work
Working late today
another late day at work
Blush And so on.

Massive cringe

GotToBeInItToWinIt · 02/03/2015 18:01

Haha chip I have a relative who still does this now. Every day. She checks in at work, then puts a status like 'work again', 'bloody work', 'I hate work', 'ill at work' Grin

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InTheWhiteRoom · 02/03/2015 18:31

glad it isn't just me who makes a show of myself on there

and yeah gottobeinit I posted so much boring crap too. who cared that I had been to aldi? or cleaned the house from top to bottom

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SaucyJack · 02/03/2015 18:34

Nah, it's fine. That's what FB is for.

People are far more interested in your dirty laundry than your new wallpaper, honest!

LittleBearPad · 02/03/2015 18:34

One woman I know shares her time hop statuses every day. It was tedious the first time. It's dire the second.

AliceLidl · 02/03/2015 19:06

I hate TimeHop. I had to block the app to stop seeing all the Timehop posts, although somehow a couple are still slipping through every now and again.

Mostly it wasn't worth sharing the first time, but that can be said of 99% of things shared on Facebook by everybody, except for that rescued squirrel found on a hot pavement, who was absolutely worth sharing because she's cute Grin.

So you can be forgiven for all of the above the first time around OP. It's the repeating of stuff from years back, that was hardly worth it then and really isn't worth it now, that bothers me. Once is enough.

Facebook also seems to have a new thing that tells you who last viewed your profile and how long for or something. That's not going to end well either.

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InTheWhiteRoom · 02/03/2015 19:18

Facebook also seems to have a new thing that tells you who last viewed your profile and how long for or something. That's not going to end well either

OMG are you being serious

Shock
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SpongeBobJudgeyPants · 02/03/2015 19:27

Don't worry about it. When I had a nasty messy divorce I did a bit of this....he was being such a wank badger, and I didn't have many people I could off-load to in RL. Not great, but better than murdering someone, which was the alternative Grin

guiltynetter · 02/03/2015 19:33

tells you who last viewed your profile and how long for...

WHAT?! are you sure...

AliceLidl · 02/03/2015 19:34

I am serious, I saw it earlier on a friends profile and now I daren't go back and check what it's called because they will know. Grin It was this big thing showing who looks most at your profile and gives a big % just to rub it in.

So now I have to stop stalking DH's work colleague who asked him on a date once by putting on a baby voice and saying she needed looking after, even thought she knows he's married, and he turned her down because he said he had a bean in his eye. Especially as I have to stalk her using the account I set up for the dog once. Don't ask. Grin

bigmouthstrikesagain · 02/03/2015 19:36

I will only use timehop when it shows you your future posts... "tripped over the cat, broke my hip lol" this day 30 years from now , sorta thing.Smile

Allstoppedup · 02/03/2015 19:45

Arrggghhh! I know your pain! I had mine pop up the other day for 4 years ago and I had excitably popped up a status declaring that my 'niece was on her way!'- As in my SIL was in labour! cringe

I was early 20s and had no kids myself and pre mumsnet so don't think it even occured to me how twattish it was to post anything like that! My only slight saving grace is that my brother and I would have had very few mutual friends and I felt very left out as I live very far away from my family and just wanted to share my excitement!Blush

I kind of dread checking my time hop now too!

Onecurrantbun · 02/03/2015 19:53

I joined Facebook aged 17.... I dread to think what a knob I was

mummypig14 · 02/03/2015 19:58

alicelidl that's a scam. Facebook doesn't ever show a person if you've looked at their profile.

You click the link and it just puts th same thing on your wall without giving you info or it tells you the person you interact most with (ie. The person your in photos with or talk too) which isn't the same as who looks at your page!!

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InTheWhiteRoom · 02/03/2015 20:11

Especially as I have to stalk her using the account I set up for the dog once. Don't ask Grin

ACTUAL lol

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latenightworker · 02/03/2015 20:18

m.facebook.com/help/210896588933875?sr=1&sid=0ca7XDAckWG8xZ2Nb

As a PP said, Facebook won't tell anyone who's been viewing your profile.

SaucyJack · 02/03/2015 20:20

You sound like my kind of woman Alice.

CalleighDoodle · 02/03/2015 20:21

Agree about timehop!!! And with photos. Yes lovely a photo of your ghild with ice cream on her face. How interesting. Please wipe her face rather than take a photo maybe??? two years later. Oh look child with ive cream face. Why repost?!