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Sharing photos of your holiday on Facebook...bored?

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angelos02 · 02/08/2016 17:47

It is holiday time of year & I am not of the social media generation (41) but I still don't understand how people have time to share photos of their holiday on Facebook. A couple I know are even on their honeymoon & sharing photos of their hols. Surely they have better things to do?

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myownprivateidaho · 02/08/2016 18:04

One of the nice things about being on holiday is having the time to laze around surely? I mean, not if you're trekking up Everest I guess, but a beach holiday or even a city break? And I get the impression people post updates from their honeymoon as a way of sending their regards to all the guests who made the effort to come to their wedding,.

Ellybellyboo · 02/08/2016 18:05

As others have said, it takes a couple of seconds to share a couple of photos on FB from my phone.

Doesn't mean I'm bored or not having fun

I only have about 20 friends on FB who are close friends and family who like seeing what we're up to.

I never share more than 3 or 4 from a holiday though.

BodsAuntieFlo · 02/08/2016 18:05

One of our friends went on holiday before us and completely flooded our newsfeeds with photos of sun sea and sand while we were all facing rainy, freezing weather. He regretted it though as four different couples went on holiday at the same time to four different places and he was tagged in every photo we all uploaded. It was a bit of fun, that's all. I upload photos to FB while on holiday as does everyone on my friends list. It's not boredom or showing off. I like to see people's photos except of food

MrsMushrooms · 02/08/2016 18:06

It only takes a few moments to upload a photo and people on your FB are friends so likely to enjoy seeing what you're up to. Excessive sharing is perhaps annoying, but we love sharing photos and my parents enjoy seeing what we're up to. Likewise, I really enjoy seeing photos from my friends' holidays pop up! Let's be honest, it's hardly interrupting otherwise fascinating posts on FB!

myownprivateidaho · 02/08/2016 18:06

And OP, why are you even on fb if you're not interested in others' lives?

Pagwatch · 02/08/2016 18:07

I've been on holiday for a week and posted two photos of my DD doing something that made me laugh.

I took the photos as we were all eating supper, looked at them, knew my sisters would find them funny, tapped on each photo then tapped on the FB link. That was it. It took about ten seconds. We finished supper.

What's all the 'I can't be arsed to waste my holiday uploading photos' thing about? What takes so long?

ThatsMyStapler · 02/08/2016 18:08

If I'm on holiday, I take a few photos, if I like them I pop them on Facebook. It's the same machine used to do both, and it doesn't take any time at all

Also I like the yearly reminders you get

AndroidAddict · 02/08/2016 18:08

I like to see some holiday photos and agree with most others in that it really doesn't mean you're wasting your holiday time, not relaxing or not enjoying it. I like to see where people have been and what they have been doing.

What I don't like to see is when people upload 57 versions of exactly the same shot. Also, surely they can see that their photo is blurry? Why upload a load of blurry, out of focus photos that look as though you took it as you were falling down a hole whilst pissed? That's my bug-bear.

augustwashout · 02/08/2016 18:10

I don't think two lovely pics of dinner is what op is talking about.

Its the constant up dates, one acquaintance is a bugger for it. They must be constantly asking folk to take their picture.

DameXanaduBramble · 02/08/2016 18:10

It's the 'me me me' generation we live in now. Email those you're bothered about and leave Facebook for the cute videos of cats cuddling dogs, that's what it's turning into anyway.

CedarSpring · 02/08/2016 18:13

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BodsAuntieFlo · 02/08/2016 18:15

cedar. I'm so glad FB didn't exist in my younger days Blush

HemanOrSheRa · 02/08/2016 18:16

I create an album when we go away and upload the photos from my phone as I go along so I can delete them from my phone. If fb friends wish to take a look they are more than welcome!

HuckleberryGin · 02/08/2016 18:19

I updated few from each day from ours so that the grandparents can see them, my sister etc. My family live all over the place. Much easier than my mil carting around the albums from their cruise.

My family like to see what we and their grandchildren/niece/nephew etc have been doing.

Euripidesralph · 02/08/2016 18:23

Oh for God's sake I hate this pseudo stealth boast smugness .....tes yes you're terribly deep and more evolved because you feign to "misunderstand" in a crude attempt to belittle something you feel is an easy target....crack on and be smug and ignore the massive cultural an economic benefits to globalised information sharing that includes social media

But please don't include the rest of "your " generation.. I'm only 4 years younger than you and I do not wish to be lumped in with such idiocy thank you

NerrSnerr · 02/08/2016 18:23

Each to their own. If someone wants to share a picture they can, if they don't they don't have to. Love the 'who has time' comment, as pp have said- it takes seconds. Who has time to start threads on Mumsnet? Don't you have better things to be doing?

hotdiggedy · 02/08/2016 18:25

I like seeing photos of holidays, especially family ones but then no-one on my facebook posts masses anyway. I always wish they would put a few more on!

AuntJane · 02/08/2016 18:27

I'm a fair bit older than you. When I go on holiday I will post the occasional photo of things I think my friends might like too see - not endless selfies.

It's so much quicker than sending postcards, and no-one feels offended that they didn't get a card!

lacktoastandtolerance · 02/08/2016 18:27

It's the 'me me me' generation we live in now

This is an enormous and ridiculous myth. The relentless "working class" scrubbing of the front step is just as much a case of posturing as the pouting selfie. Humans have always postured and always will. The baby boomer generation has long been accused, often rightly, of selfishness, as have many others. All generations have selfish and unselfish people. They just have different mediums and circumstances in which to express it.

"This generation is rubbish" is one of those opinions that immediately makes me disregard anything else someone says.

FuzzyWizard · 02/08/2016 18:28

I upload them fairly regularly when I'm on holiday. Mainly for my Nan and my mum to see. I like seeing other people's holiday photos too. In fact my summer holiday destination last year was chosen because I saw nice photos on Facebook posted by an acquaintance that I practically never see.

Johnny5isAlive · 02/08/2016 18:28

OP, if you're registered on FB (presume you must be) what do you use it for? I use it for photos and news updates

ABloodyDifficultWoman · 02/08/2016 18:30

I hate it when people just upload every photo, even the shit out of focus ones. Who looks through an album with 160 photos on it?

Oh so this! I like to see occasional holiday pics and I don't see it as showing off - unless it's daily shots of lobster red legs stretched out on a sun lounger Grin - those are ridiculous!

ShatnersBassoon · 02/08/2016 18:31

It's hardly baffling. People like to show holiday photos, and have done since compact cameras were invented.

Hulababy · 02/08/2016 18:32

So on holiday you never has a few minutes of spare time, you are really busy busy busy all the time every day?

I uploaded some holiday pictures into a FB album. My parents and my sister enjoy seeing them. A couple of friends had asked to show them some shots of specific places, another is planning a similar trip and had asked us to keep her posted for more ideas for her trip. Plus it is a good back up form pictures - having had a camera pick pocketed one holiday and losing all the photos we had taken this is important to me.

I often have spare time on holidays - few minutes here and there.
Maybe in a restaurant when dh has nipped to the restrooms, or like last week when dh and dd nipped to the shop underneath to but a new top.
Or when chilling by the pool - dh and dd in the pool, me sat siping a drink on a lounger alternating reading, looking at social media, taking photos, reading something like MN or the news.
Or in a morning or late afternoon when on the hotel/vila getting ready - only one of us can go in the shower at a time.

I don't believe anyone really never has a spare minute on holiday.

And lets face it - to upload a photo to a FB album takes less than 30 seconds. Infant it usually takes less time to upload than it does to take the photo!

If you don't want to see - scroll on or unfollow the friend.
I put mine in an album as I know it is often easier to hide if someone wants to.

Personally I enjoy seeing my friend's holiday snaps.

WorraLiberty · 02/08/2016 18:32

It's the 'me me me' generation we live in now. Email those you're bothered about and leave Facebook for the cute videos of cats cuddling dogs, that's what it's turning into anyway.

Yeah, everyone should only send photos by email.

That way you don't have to take responsibility and simply click 'hide from news feed' Hmm

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