To detest FAMILY day out, FAMILY meal, FAMILY fun!

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Why do some people use the word "Family" to describe everyday activities?

I come across it on MN, Facebook and often irl.

I mean, the kind of families who do everything together anyway.

"Oh, we had a great family holiday". You never go on holiday separately and haven't for fifteen years.

"I made a really tasty pasta bake. #familymealtimes." As opposed to any other type of meal you ever have.

"We enjoy family day outs at the local arboretum."

Etc, etc.

Don't get me started on "Quality time".

I'm going to have some quality family time now, mumsnetting.

I love doing sarky hashtags:

Happy Birthday! #onedayclosertodeath
Yummy food! #eatitexcreteit
Lovely view! #gazingintotheexistentialvoid

Annoys the happy clappy types no end.

I hate it, too.

Lots of these hashtags and labels are cringey, I agree, I don't understand what's wrong with using the word "family" per se. It's just descriptive and avoids saying DH + DDs + GPs + SIL + DN + whomever else may be included.

I suppose if you don't do a lot of things when you aren't with family you might see it as an unneccessary descriptor. We all do lots of things separately in our house, we rarely all eat together, we work, go out and do activities separately and don't all go on holiday together. There are lots of things which are not "family" things.

I think the last time I used a hashtag unironically was #catsagainstbrexit. I like ironic hashtags; I have a friend who has to go to Croydon once a month for work and each time posts a photo of a manky grey cup of "tea" in the station cafe or a deliberately unflattering selfie of herself pressed into the corner of the vestibule with someone else's bike jammed into her ribs because she couldn't get a seat, or something along those lines, with the caption #livingthedream.

I'm a great believer in live and let live on FB but I do have a couple of friends who are genuinely lovely but who overdose on hashtags. One of them posted a photo of herself with a friend the other day and it was like an explosion in a hashtag factory. #bestie #bestfriends #girlsquad #teamgirls #hanginwithmyhomey #gogirls #drinkswithfriends #likeasister #bff #pleasehelpme #Icantstop #itsasickness #call999 #shootmenow #makeitstop #hashtagshavetakenovermylife #aaaargghhh

Agree with most of the previous, but the one that makes me shudder is "another deposit for the memory bank" which someone I know is fond of saying

Picture of incredibly fit, beautiful person who has just been to the #gym with #noexcuses.

Well, I barely get 2 seconds a day to myself, and I have a horrendous pain in my knee that no doctor can seem to diagnose, but you're right it's just an excuse. See you at crossfit!

Pagestillnotfound404: 'explosion in a hashtag factory' - genius. Off the top of my head I couldn't remember my most hated hashtag, so I went to my friends Facebook (she is a serial offender).

#myworld !! Puke.
-anyone who says this lives in a crap world-