AIBU...to be so done with people’s ‘cryptic’ social media statuses?

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AIBU...to be so done with people’s ‘cryptic’ social media statuses along the lines of:

“Someone made a serious mistake today! Fuming!”
“Just so fed up with it all”
“Hates liars”
“Let down again!”

Cue the nosey taskforce – probably just what the status owner wants – commenting asking what’s up, followed by “I’ll inbox you”! We all get fed up, let down etc but isn’t that what a phone is for? To call/text friends or family to vent, not be all ‘mysterious’ over social media?

Any social anthropologists out there that can shed any light on why people do this? A feeling of being lonely/needing attention maybe, even though they often have hundreds of social media ‘friends’?

I'm tempted to type, well you haven't got real curves, you've got rolls of fat hanging over your knickers though. They always tend to be aimed at slim women, usually posted by permanent weight watcher members

Actual LOL

The death wagon is soooo weird.

mumofthemonsters - I've so thought that for ages about the type of women who post 'real women have curves' - my cousin, much??

There was one of these on my feed today, and some absolute treasure had posted "Why do you keep doing this? No one knows what you mean." And I love that woman.

Feeling #sad at this thread
inbox me huns

I've recently had my first friend start flogging body wraps and slimming juice on Facebook and it's driving me demented (almost as demented as my husband who I keep whatsapping screenshots to!). The posts veer between being generic things (which are posted by an app called Everpost, which I swear is a plugin for automated emoji-laden grammatically incorrect aspirational kool aid bollocks) and then the occasional 'real post' that is all 'I got a hundred pounds today purely by recommending some great products to my friends. I love running my own business. Do you want to join me? Inbox me NOW!'

It's such a lame pyramid scheme and makes me so grumpy. I think I'm going to have to hide her posts which makes me sad as she does a good line in comedy cat videos

I know attention seeking bollocks, either say what has happened or keep quiet! Oh yes I saw a couple, My son is my life, I will love and defend him with all my life, even when he's 50, if you hurt him I have an axe under my bed! I fear these men will be what we call man children! And feel sorry for any potential pRtners who have to deal with a mil like that!

I hate all the 'I'll PM you' or 'I'll text you' or 'ring me, urgent!!!!'. I love a bit of drama but the vague, attention seeking shite does my head in, tell us the bloody gossip or bugger off.

My step mum does this a lot. Her recent one was a photo of a&e with the caption 'ugh, going to be a long night '. When she gets home, we were all there and she says 'FGS why is everyone calling me?!'. Errrrm.

Geeky I had one of them, it got to the stage where she was PMing me (and it seems, every other woman on her friends list) to start my own business with her as my "mentor". I had a word with her in the end and she stopped doing it to me, but I have noticed that her friends list is getting shorter and shorter so she must still be PMing others. I feel quite sorry for her actually as this is the official guidance on how to get more clients/sellers from the company she works for yet she doesnt seem to see that it is losing her friends, both real and online. Hers is body wraps aswell.

within an hour of her dad dying a girl I'm Facebook friends with had posted a picture of herself draped over his dead body in the hospital bed.

Obviously it's very sad that she lost her dad, but why was the first thing to cross her mind to ask someone to take this photo then to put it up online?! I could give thousands more examples of her attention seeking ways, but this one was just a step too far.

Excellent thread! YANBU.

I have 2 vaguebookers to keep me entertained/annoyed in equal measure.

One of them favours the hospital check in followed by all the huns inboxing her.

The other is more direct, usually along the lines of not needing a man whilst being totally financially dependent on a man. She does nothing for sisterhood.

I'm always tempted to post one of these beauties, but never had the nerve:

www.buzzfeed.com/lukebailey/question?utm_term=.no4Qx9paA#.mhxWyq04P

The other is more direct, usually along the lines of not needing a man whilst being totally financially dependent on a man. She does nothing for sisterhood.

Ha ha I have a friend who constantly posts Memes about never financially depending on a man, and having her own money, being independent, having her own personal income, etc etc .......but she doesn't work, has absolutely no intention of working and all her "own money" comes from the state and the CSA payments from various fathers of her different children

people who feel it is their right to announce a death that is nothing to do with them

Yep, agree. And also people who announce births. "So pleased for my friend Lucy on the birth of little Billy Bob weighing 6lb, born 10 minutes ago" posted onto Lucy's FB wall. Let her announce it herself ffs!

I have a very very dear friend who, IRL never mentions her religion or evangelises or anything. I've known her my whole life and love her dearly.

BUT! If she sends me one more bloody 'Jesus Loves You - Share if You Love Jesus' Facebook post, I will stuff a crucifix where the sun don't shine.

She knows my views on religion, so why does she bother?

One of my school colleagues has just dumped/been dumped by her partner because he cheated on her. I only know this because about 80% of my FB news feed in the last 48 hours has been her liking memes like "a true hero is the man who will always be there and never lie to you" and "the hardest trials in life show you who your real friends are" and "when you find the one who texts you when you get home just to know you're safe, keep him" and "a real man only needs one woman" then lots and lots of videos of shit sad love songs from the 80s. I'm almost wishing my cousin would post more virtue-signalling shit about her kids' hobbies and the PTA just to give me a bit of relief.

Garlickylicky That's awful

The memes I find stupid are the ones along the lines of "don't bother keeping people in your life who don't make you happy"..."don't make an effort with someone who doesn't make an effort with you" ...

Not exactly preaching kindness, empathy, etc is it?

My SIL has form for all the above!

She also went through a stage of posting how ill and tired she was, which led into the GP check-ins, off for tests, then waiting for test results etc etc. These posts stopped when they couldn't find anything wrong with her.

My friend's daughter does this and it drives me mad.

'I need to learn to stop being so trusting and kind, I only end up disappointed - you know who you are'.

Cue a million 'are you OK huns?'

My SIL is fond of the 'poor me. Sick of everyone taking advantage of me and having to do everything for everyone' lots of her friends posting about how great she is etc
She is the laziest cow ever and totally takes advantage of mil - expecting lifts here there and everywhere and bil works 6 days a week long hours while she doesn't work at all.
I have to step away from facebook when I see one of her posts

Oh god I have one of these on my fb unfortunately they are a close relative so I can't delete. I've started unfollowing the worst culprits so I don't see it. I can't stick the idiots who share blatant scam posts. No one is giving away a top of the range car or luxury holiday so stop it already.
The newest bugbear is being friends requested by friends of friends who only want to add me to recruit me for one of the many, many pyramid type businesses that are about at the mo. No thanks. I have pics of my kids on there why would I add a stranger?

I heart houmous -an old Facebook friend posted similar once and because I had had a few wines, I commented "what a load of misogynistic shite" and blocked him!

Is it just me but does anyone else want to scream when there is the meme posted "Put this on your Facebook profile for an hour in support of any one suffering from depression/cancer/mental health/nits etc? I know who I think will do it" or something like that? So if they think you'll do it and you don't, does that make you a bad person? Or are they just a bad judge of people? Or in reality can you just can't be arsed? We all care about depression /cancer /nits but don't need to post on fb to prove it!

And also, when people post "fuming" "so unhappy " or once "OMG" with nothing else for context, I want to kill them x

Oh I get so annoyed with these. Love the one about best parts of my life don't make it to social media.

Also I want to post 'I don't fucking put 3 photos of my dc in artful poses every day as I have a life'

Fb makes me so passive aggressive,