aibu t be annoyed at facebook photo of your dad

[NoahVale]

How many of you are willing to put a photo up

what is that all about,
willing?
grr

My sister put up a photo of our mum

Who is brave enough to repost ... a pic of them as a faaaaabulous mum / of their dad / and recently I was "challenged" to post a pic of ... My dog.

Unfollow button is a wonderful, wonderful thing.

'Willing' etc etc: primary school-level reverse psychology not worth a nanosecond's thought

Well if I dated put my df up on fb he would be convinced that within the hour he would have his bank account emptied, house broken into and an alien life form generating in his attic. So I will show my love for him and his paranoia by not doing so.

Pretty sure my father wouldn't want me to randomly put a picture of him on facebook. He doesn't have facebook.

Also, it would be unfair to do it, anyway, because I ignore mother's day.

My Sister posted some soppy nonsense about my mum on her Birthday, which is sweet and all but seeing as my Mum and Dad don't want / have access to the internet she never saw the bloody post.
Haven't seen it pop up yet but I bet she will join in on this one too, she absolutely loves this shite.

Did anyone else read the title and think "oh what the fucks he done now?"

Just me?

I have close relatives all over the world. Although I do email/send Christmas cards/FaceTime them, I know that they appreciate seeing what my family (dh and ds) and I am up to. I often post purely for their benefit - and get comments back saying how much they enjoy it.

I don't copy and paste the "are you reading this/cancer/dementia/etc posts (despite or because of the fact that my mum died of a form of dementia brought in by a head injury ) - they just seem to be too affected. They're also nothing to do with what I'm doing just now.

I might post ds' Nat 5 results when he gets them but I'm not sure (I may just use a Secret group that I'm a member of, to share with people who've also been going through the angst of exams). I definitely didn't embarrass post anything about ds on my timeline in advance of his exams.

I still take a picture of him on the first day of every school year but now I have to set the privacy to "Only Me" when I load it up, so that I can keep a record for my own benefit .

People use Facebook for all sort of different reasons. If you don't like something, you can hide the post or scroll past it.

I would be willing........................if my 'dad' wasn't such a giant cunt!!!

Interesting to see how many posters aren't taking the slightest bit of notice of the ones who are giving personal reasons why they do something. To label something as self congratulatory nonsense when several posters have said they do it in honour of a father they've just lost, is fuckwittery of the highest order. The irony is that ploughing through a thread like this and proclaiming yourself to be the one in the right is far more self congratulatory then putting a photo on Facebook. No one has any idea what's going on in people's lives or what's behind anything they do, so why not let them alone to do it and stop being so arrogant.

I've never met my dad, don't even know his name. Not that I'm on Facebook either. I'm not sure whether to be upset or just meh?

My dad is on Facebook - posted up a few albums shortly after Mum's accident (when she was recovering and before the decline started) as a way of sharing with his friends literally around the world what they were doing.

Nowadays he doesn't post but he lurks and will then tell me he's seen (for example) that we've been able to eat out on the patio (celebrating our recent summer ): he's often away for weeks at a time and this is one of his ways of keeping up. He also facetimes regularly - but that's at different times and tends to be when I'm inside - whereas he likes to see my garden (as do my aunts on both sides of the family).

But Shelagh, the posting of photos isn't an issue, it is the message which is just copied and pasted with no though to the wording.

Oh no, I'm definitely not brave enough.

Someone might think I'm actually a man!

shelagh , have you RTFT? I used the term self congratulatory to refer to people who blatantly post their children's achievements on FB ( and these are children who are far too young to be on FB), nothing to do with the posting of family photos, dead or alive. And I think the other 2 people who used that term were referring to the same.

by all means put tonnes of photos up of your dad, that is your prerogative, but to ask if anyone else is willing to do the same is annoying and pointless., and might strike a nerve with some people who have no relationship with their dads/have no dads.,

I saw that one it kind of made me have a sharp intake of breath, but that could be because my dad died last year. I will put a photo of me and my dad but I will do it on his birthday next week, because that is when I want to put it up and would do so without the Facebook status thing.

I'm willing, Dad would be highly unimpressed though. It's not even fathers day here but local people still tag you in this BS.

I have never met my dad.

Couldn't care less about photos of dads on FB

I saw that and got a bit annoyed as my Dad is a waste of space. Decided to treat it with the same attitude I treat Father's Day and ignore it :)

"only my true friends will copy and share this post about autism/depression/cancer/true love/potted flowers" to which my only answer is Fuck You

My dad died when I was small.and I have about one bad black and white photo of him so it irritates me greatly!

I agree Clandestino

My true friends will remain friends whether or not I copy and paste a Facebook message written by someone else. Somehow the exhortation makes it really worse.

If they want to join in, that's their prerogative and I just scroll past but I'm refuse to accept being judged if I don't.

I do remember one of these though from a year or so back - only because it was a total pisstake of the whole "copy and paste this status"