To be fed up with the "we are having a considerably better summer than yaou" that goes on on Facebook?

[Puzzledconfusedandbewildered]

I know the answer is to delete Facebook but it's like a car accident I can't turn away from.

All summer it's been like one long competition of who can do the most fun things with their children and who can squeeze in the most days out. It's like I'm stuck in one of those sickening mummy blogs and can't find an exit to run away screaming from it all. So I await you all telling me IABU even though my tongue is firmly in my cheek about it all

Surely no one puts photos of a pretty mediocre - crap day on Facebook?! It's purpose is to shameless gloat to others.

The idea that people are looking at my holiday posts and thinking I'm doing it to piss them off strikes me as bizarre. I only post about twice per week on holiday but do it to show my friends and family the nice things we do. I will obviously not post a photo of me sat in my caravan looking on mumsnet as I am right know because who the hell would want to see that?

I agree to an extent. There are different classes of fb users as far as I can tell:-

1. those who post everything good or bad and provide far too much detail but on the plus side they tender be more honest than most

2. those that are constantly slagging off an ex or a friend or anyone and putting some shit meme quote on by way of some form of revenge

3. the worst - those that pretend their lives are the best, the children are amazing all the time and so are the husbands/partners (famalam/hubster/fambo are used a lot) whilst many of them are secretly planning to leave the 'hubster' any day now.....I know a couple of those!!!!

4. those who put photos of select days out/hols and silly things the kids have said/done and also some of the shit stuff of everyday life but make light of it by saying at least they have wine (I fall into this category)

5. those who don't post much on fb other then the occasional politically poised post. They are too high and mighty to post photos of their children but probably watch everyone else's moves on fb intently and sneer a lot!

So there you go.....enjoy

I'm putting the odd snap off my holiday on but its our first as a single parent family after a couple of years of hell being brutality honest my ex is abusive he agreed to me going away then abused me via my son to the point I threatened to stop contact so sorry if I post the odd happy snap from the sea but we are happy 😊 so unfollow the posts that offend

As a parent who really struggles during the holidays for various reasons including a chronic illness and associated depression, a child with ADHD and another two children whose main purpose in life is to wind up the first, I made a conscious effort to post something positive every day. To the casual observer it would appear that I am trying to outdo everyone's summer, but what my 42 Happy Days photos don't show is the several hours of crap and stress either side of the brief happy moment!
If anyone wants my apparently idyllic life though, they're welcome to it 🤔

Omg wow! 600 facebook friends?

I have 80 and some of them I haven't seen for 20+ years.

Amazing.

If you have hundreds of FB friends you are bound to have problems. I have less than 50, and not all of them do much on it. It means that we are actually interested and enjoy seeing news.

I don't share loads but if I happen to take a particularly lovely photo or go somewhere I think others might enjoy I have been known to share. Wasn't aware I was doing it simply to upset people. I quite like getting ideas from other people sharing. That said I'm not bitter and unhappy with life hth

Friend me lovey, I am barely leaving my house due to my depression! That should make me feel better.

OR, focus on your own life and what you do and whether that makes you happy!

I actually quite like seeing my friends having nice days out, even though I cannot manage them. Green eyes in reality but not by nature, I guess.

Who wants to remember the arguments, you want to look back on the happy memories

I would reconsider who you have as friends, if you are not happy looking at the fun stuff they get up to.