To be absolutely sick of people bragging on social media

[SeagullSal]

It's reached ridiculous proportions, people 'checking in' at posh hotels, sipping glasses of Champers in spas and even documenting new car purchases (that seems to be the new thing with a hands over eyes emoticon denoting the 'worrying' amount of money that they'll soon be spending.)

I am happy for people having nice times - but it's the ones who document every single sneeze of good fortune that I'm absolutely sick of.

Do these people not realise that a lot of people have nice times in nice places but just don't wish to ram it down other people's throats in a continuous stream?

Time I took a break I think. And breathe.

People seem to need to moan that others are bragging when they post on FB to make themselves feel good.

'It does seem now that if it's not bragged about on social media it didn't happen'

This is what i'm talking about.

I think people think i am a total loser with no friends, because I don't constantly post of fbook!!

Are people only allowed to check in at cheap hotels?

RachelZoe - yes that.

More and more people seem to be doing it though IMO. Checking in at Mulberry. WTF?! This is just not socially acceptable in real life.

Why wouldn't you be proud of your son when he has just became a father?

Because all he's done is stand there and said "Breathe darling. Remember, we agreed we didn't want any pain relief..."

I will be delighted for my sons when/if they become a father (although not year as the eldest is only 16!) but I wont be proud.

This is just not socially acceptable in real life.

Do you never say "Oh, I went to X today!" in conversation then?

Oh guess where I've been today? Mulberry! And I bought a bag!

No. Way.

You need some forever living Facebook friends in your life for the ultimate cringe!

I don't have too many friends who do it, so I can kind of laugh at it. I must confess when I'm reading the FL FB friends, I get sucked in and wonder why I am not so content!

Glad I never joined, I can't be doing with it all.

A scientific study showed that the people who brag most on social media are insecure/ unhappy Gawd, I feel sorry for my sister then, her marriage must be on the rocks! Dh likes to point out her posts on his Facebook so that we can do vomit signs at Sis and BIL calling each other 'Babes' in smug little messages about how great they are. Everything is a thinly veiled stealth boast about new cars or weight loss or whatever. And Sis goes in for the 'inspirational' posters as well. Plainly she is not really related to me by blood, one of us must be adopted!

Why usual?

I don't mind the braggy posts, but these are my family & friends so I know and love them.

The 'like and share if you have a goldfish you love' bollix gets tiresome though.

What's Forever Living?!

Streamline your friends lists to weed out the infuriating ones. I've just unfriended someone this morning because I got sick of a months worth of AHHMAAHHHZING travelling crap immediately followed by harping on about finishing a course. Couldn't be doing with it. Don't see her any more. Unfriended. Easy.

I've got others I've simply 'unfollowed' - I didn't want to know about the successes of Every Single Meal the baby ate. But I can go and look at the pics if I so choose.

My fb account is blissfully boring! Only the people I actually care about sharing reasonable opinions (the Britain First stuff a few years back made it really easy to identify the arseholes who needed to go). I get my politics reflected and validated, insightful feminist and scientific articles shared and discussed. Action women doing amazing and actually inspirational things. It's wonderful!

You just need to be the architect of the Facebook you want to see.

SoupDragon

I wouldn't if it was something very expensive no or something banal like shopping. I spend a lot of money on clothes and crap like that, I'm not going to sit with friends who are struggling to make ends meet/have normal amounts of money and say "Gosh I had the loveliest day, dropped £££££ in Tom Ford". It just isn't polite, and buy telling people the implication is "yes, I am very rich, isn't that wonderful". If someone posts a new bag and says "love my new bag", that's very different to someone saying "Went to Chanel and got this amazing bag". That is gauche and tacky.

Everybody is so self-absorbed nowadays! They imagine everyone else gives a toss about their bloody package holidays in Benidorm, new cars, champers with their spa chums and on and on.....I do nice things with my DH, friends/family etc but don't need to let everybody know. Why would I? I camp off FB for this very reason. I got fed up with the boring, over-sharing braggers. Never missed it!

By not Buy, Freudian slip there.

Rachel Zoe - yes.

someone who is posting 10 videos of carnival and 20 photos of a speedboat day trip is not having fun, imo. They are trying to make a point. I don't delete them because I'm pretty nosy. I don't hate them, I just think you can't be having that much of a good time if you're just taking pictures all the time...

I never post about shopping. Although I do have lots of fabulous charity shops finds I could boast about... But I don't want to make the people paying full price feel bad

Olddear I do care about my friends doing stuff like that though, why wouldn't I if they were my friends?

I love seeing holiday pictures, ok I might feel a bit envious on a grey, wet, BH Monday but I still love seeing them. It's like looking at a nice magazine, you can lose yourself for a bit. Why does it have to be perceived as bragging?

The shopping bit is a bit cringe worthy I agree, but surely if you had bought something as expensive as a Mulberry handbag (or shoes whatever they make I have no idea) you would tell your friends? All depends how you do it obviously.

I agree that if you can't be happy for people then either don't follow them or perhaps social media isn't for you.

YANBU. People posting pics and updates about their "amazing" lives are usually the ones that are just trying to convince themselves that actually life is ok now matter how shit it actually is. so in some ways good for them for trying to concentrate on the positives, but on the other hand it's tedious because knowing all my fb friends, I know it's not how they are really feeling. it's the fake it til you make it mentality. if it works for you then excellent, but it's awful to watch from the sidelines.