AIBU to think this is the worst Facebook check in status ever?

[Sunnymeg]

A message has appeared on my Facebook wall from brother in law to say he has checked in at his local crematorium. I knew he was going to a funeral, but surely I am correct in thinking that this is so not the thing to do!

That's grim.

I only check in at airports when I'm going on holiday because it's exciting. I don't understand other check ins such as nandoes or shopping centres etc. it's not much of an occasion.

I also hate the hospital check ins followed by all the concerned comments. Talk about attention seeking!

Perhaps he is just letting people know where he is and/or giving them a heads up not to contact him while he's there?"

Really? How important he must be that everyone on his wall needs to know he's unavailable!

I posted a few months ago about someone who checked in at a funeral and tagged the deceased in it

I did a shocked smile, I'm not even sure how to react to that!! Awkward!!!

The oversharing on Facebook never surprises me anymore, but this is a bit much.

"I don't understand other check ins such as nandoes or shopping centres"

Yeah it's just asking for 100 friends to ask, "Oh, while you're there can you get me some piri piri chicken/pop into Tesco's for us?"

"Perhaps he is just letting people know where he is and/or giving them a heads up not to contact him while he's there?"

Puntastic beat me to it - if he doesn't want to be contacted, he should switch his bloody phone off. It isn't a necessity to have your phone on at all times - no matter what some people think!

There are websites dedicated to these inappropriate Facebook posts.....wow. Just wow at some of them. Wish I hadn't searched for it. Off to work horrified at the human race

He wants sympathy.

If 'be asked for time off for dr or dentist I sometimes tag myself as proof that I had a real appointment and I'm not just having a lie in. Covering my back a bit.

fluff you tag yourself at the dentist so your employer can see where you are? It's all sounding a bit 1984.

And if he doesn't want to be contacted, switch off your phone FFS!

People are forgetting how to behave normally.

Is he dead?

*I posted a few months ago about someone who checked in at a funeral and tagged the deceased in it."

That is really bad. Could only be worse by lifting the deceased's head and shoulders up out of the coffin to share a selfie photo*

Oh good god, if this were possible I reckon some dullard FB user would have done it

They tagged the deceased!!!! OMG

Is he dead?

Facebook turned off automatic location tracking this June, but a lot of people still have it enabled. Crematoria have FB locations - mainly because they can be hard to find - so anybody with location turned on will be checked in.

Also assuming it's an auto check-in. My MIL did this... Checked in at all sorts of inappropriate places. She looks on FB maybe 3 or 4 times a year, only uses it to see photos of distant (in terms of place) relatives! We only found out after she sent me a friend request when I signed up (which she didn't know she'd sent!) and I saw she'd checked in at a few crematoriums (crematoria??). She was horrified and DH and I had to spend a good hour checking all her settings on everything IT-related!

Wait for the photos of the coffin followed by a video of it moving away through the curtains. Maybe he'll add a few of crying family and friends too

How does that work though Fluffy? I could check myself in at Disneyland right now - but I'm sat at home without a Mickey Mouse in sight .

I know most phones will locate you automatically nowadays but you can still check yourself in somewhere else.

Back to the OP though - very disrespectful. Phones don't belong at funerals once everyone's arrived (remembers aunt & uncle getting lost on route to the crematorium for dad's funeral and needing directions).

YANBU, Its a horrible idea.

And the op who's cousin selfie'd at a funeral?! WTAF.

I have a friend who is a policeman who checks in everywhere, he's in the PSNI and although we have a kind of peace here, its not THAT safe. He's been told numerous times, but he just does it, and his privacy settings are pants!

Automatic location tracking doesn't check you in thought does it? You have to do that in your status update.

That's terrible!

Although I do'nt understand; I love holiday check ins and the like. Effectively advertising that your house is empty to all and sundry. - am I very odd, but I only have friends on facebook who are the sort of people I'd feel safe to say "oh, we're on holiday next week" to anyway. Do people really shy away from saying they are going away when talking to people they know just in case they come round and nick their stuff?

Alice - no, the automatic thing doesn't check you in, you have to chose to do it, that what makes this so crass. Some folk have no decency anymore, of course, some folk never had any decency, just we didn't have the technology for them to make us all aware of their lack of decency so easily...

So disrespectful, like he's at the pub or something. If someone did that at mine I would haunt them!
Sorry if it's already been said, but out of interest have you clicked on the place he's checked in at? It should show how many other people have checked in.. Just wondering if it's a common thing!

I don't think I'd be able to stop myself commenting on it "wow, how disrespectful ".