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To ask if you ever post "those" things on Facebook?

43 replies

TheHouseOnTheLane · 03/10/2015 13:34

You know...these things.

If you do, can I ask why? Who are you telling? Why are you bothering?

I see quite a few of them on a weekly basis from otherwise reasonable people and can't help but think "God! If you've got an issue with someone then sort it out or forget it/them"

AIBU to hate them? They're so passive aggressive!

To ask if you ever post "those" things on Facebook?
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99percentchocolate · 03/10/2015 14:40

Yanbu, I hate them. They make me incredibly paranoid. I get my own back by posting ridiculous statements like this one though.

99percentchocolate · 03/10/2015 14:40

No pic Hmm

Notasinglefuckwasgiven · 03/10/2015 14:46

So glad I deleted it after 8 weeks Grin could not cope with it any longer. To the passive aggressive posts I just used to comment, " you get that laundry out!" Apparently that's not the appropriate response Hmm

BalloonSlayer · 03/10/2015 14:52

Someone I really like once asked me if there was any way with remaining FB friends with someone without having to see all the crap they share etc.

As it happened I did know - as I had asked Mumsnet some months before - so I told her how to Unfollow.

Then she Friend requested me. I accepted and !!! Shock !!! the stuff SHE puts on! She even shares stuff about Peter Andre!

God only knows what the things were she objected to from her pals . . . Confused

OnlyHereForTheCamping · 03/10/2015 17:24

A couple of local business owners do this, it puts me off darkening their door

BorisBaby · 03/10/2015 17:58

I had one once aimed at me our DD's are friends at school and we walk home together about once a week. That day I was walking the longer way (half the normal way) home with a friend she posted something like "you think you know who your friends our then they blank you!" She had loads of "what's up" and said she'd PM them so I posted " what's happened? " nobody else replied and she hasn't walked back with me since Grin

Starkswillriseagain · 03/10/2015 19:22

I hate the shitty quotes. I hate facebook at the moment though. One post with an ultrasound picture was talking about not asking someone if they are having kids- really upset me because I have had a miscarriage and personally while the picture catches attention I felt it was a poor choice.

Which is why I finally deleted my facebook. I'm sick of the not thinking and sheep 'like' personality. One idiot friend shared it with me when 1) i want only certain people knowing about my miscarriage which her shareing implied (i had pms asking me) and 2) she knows those pictures set me off at the moment.

Sniv · 03/10/2015 19:34

I wonder who actually sits down, cracks open Photoshop, and makes these things? Who's sat there scrolling through pictures of minions until the find just the right one to illustrate a passive agressive quote? And why?

MissFitt68 · 03/10/2015 19:49

I'm guilty of the exercise/healthy ones

I love to tell the world how far I've run

Sparklingbrook · 03/10/2015 19:51

Geri Halliwell is a great one for them on her Twitter. Millionaire, just married a millionaire so YY all the happy quotes are just lovely. Hmm

TheExMotherInLaw · 03/10/2015 21:35

sniv I also wonder why they can spend so much time faffing about with the graphics, but can't be bothered to check their spelling.

Kaekae · 03/10/2015 21:41

Someone on my Facebook constantly posts one which says "At least I don't have ugly kids" which is really funny because her children are all in their 30s and have already lost most of their teeth and hair.

Prettyeyedpiratesmile · 04/10/2015 12:01

An acquaintance on my FB lost her mum, dad and husband within two or three years of each other. Horrendously tragic. Happily she's now got another partner and they've bought a house etc and seem very happy.....the only thing is that she CONSTANTLY posts these pictures with captions on her FB about how she lost the only love of her life and how she'll never got over it. I just feel a bit sorry now for the new partner and his family who must just be like Hmm I'm not sure if she'd benefit from grief counselling. I know it must be devastating for her but to be so public when she's got a lovely new partner seems strange.

Prettyeyedpiratesmile · 04/10/2015 12:02

I should add she's also a HUGE fan of the passive aggressive posts and pictures Confused

SomethingOnce · 04/10/2015 12:10

I know somebody who uses these as her WhatsApp profile pic. Usually, they seem to be PA jibes at her adult daughter, but one made me feel a bit paranoid...

SourceofInformation · 04/10/2015 12:18

I've only recent started with the Facebook after years of resisting "because of all the trouble it causes" but so far, it seems that all my friends want onlyvto projector lovely they are. There's nothing pa only loads of love and kindness Hmm

HugoBear · 04/10/2015 12:30

Not quite the same thing, but the main thing that does my nut in on Facebook at the moment is grown adults posting Minions. Fuck off!

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