To be irritated at spoilers on Facebook

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I know it isn't the most pressing issue of the day but I'm getting quite fed up with people putting spoilers on Facebook. This morning someone had put up a post revealing the winner of the GBBO. It was followed by a bunch of people saying that they hadn't seen it yet - the poster responded with "Oops".

I'm not convinced that it's thoughtless - they know that they're putting up spoilers. AIBU to find this damn inconsiderate?

Years??

I unfriended someone abroad who posted a spoiler about the last episode of the mentalist before it aired here.
I'd kept saying no spoilers please (we became FB friends through our love for Simon Baker ) but she thought I'd have seen it in the tv mags etc.
I only unfriended her as I genuinely didn't want to know anything else. And I did get a lovely surprise watching it when it aired here.
It then took me months to find her again to explain why i'd unfriended! I couldn't rename her surname as it was very unusual. We did have a laugh about it!
I think if I didn't want to know something that had already been on, I'd stay offline till I had a chance to see it.
I took my boys to see the new Star Wars film when it came out and I'm so glad I did. The next day, lots of kids were talking about the big spoiler in it! I had my two well warned not to say a word

YABU stay off Facebook if you don't want to find out.

YABU, stay off the internet till you've seen it or risk finding out. When 14 million people watched it live last night it's going to be hard to avoid finding out if you go online.

YABU, it's not a spoiler if it's been aired live.

It is irritating, i agree but how long should people keep quiet online about such things? I am a huge TWD fan and purposely logged off of all social media from sunday afternoon until Tuesday morning as I didn't want to see any spoilers about Mondays episode.

Once it's been aired it's not a spoiler.

People who wine about spoilers after a show has been aired are far more irritating, and they do it on MN as well as FB.

YABU. It was on the front page of all the newspapers this morning so hard to avoid unless you avoid shops! Agree with others, need to avoid internet if you don't want spoilers for TV.

You can't really class it as a spoiler the day after an episode. The day of maybe, but not after that.

If it's posted beforehand by someone in the know, YWNBU. But it's fair game after the show's aired. I didn't see GBBO last night, so I stayed off social media and avoided the news til I had chance to see it on catch-up.

The only thing I find a bit annoying is where a show is aired in the US perhaps the day before it's aired in the UK... and then there is chit-chat online about it. For example, I'm currently LOVING Designated Survivor on Netflix but the new episodes are put on in the UK the day after they're on in the USA. So by the time I see it, I've seen a few things about it online. That said, it's up to me to follow the discussion groups on FB - if it's that bad, I need to remove myself from them. It is a shame though because I enjoy discussing the show with others; just need that extra day for it to be aired in the UK.

YABU. It was aired last night, it was on the front pages this morning. I couldn't watch it live either, so no internet or radio for me until I watched it after lunch.

once it has been aired on 'normal' tv - ie not downloaded from US - then its fair game

YABU

DD was highly pissed off to see the winner of GBBO on instagram this morning. We always watch it together over lunch on the following day. She shouted Arrrrgggghhh in her room and she said she'd seen it. I told her she was a lemon for going on any social media as it was bound to happen. She only had to wait a couple of hours! We still watched together with her keeping very quiet.

Last year she saw it on someone's news paper on the bus. Twice this morning I had to do the running away from the telly with my fingers in my ears thing when Breakfast news kept bringing it up

and then bloody Candice won!

Once it's aired, I think it's fair game to post about it online.

I deliberately stayed off fb until dh fell asleep and I could watch GBB in peace as I knew there would be posts and I was right, a friend had put it up straight away (funnily enough it was a friend who was aching a series a while back and posted asking for no spoilers as she was watching the finale a bit later).

Once it's aired all bets are off. Same with books. I had massive rows with a couple of Poldark groups on FB last year because of spoilers. The first books were published 70 years ago FFS. On the couple of occasions I missed GBBO I stayed off social media till I'd caught up. Expecting people not to talk about it is absurd.

Here in the US, things air at different times due to our time zones. I'm in Ohio, in the Eastern time zone, so when something like The Walking Dead airs here, it won't air for three more hours for my friends in California, for instance, in the Pacific time zone. It would be pretty awful of me to post about the episode on social media before they've had a chance to see it, but after it's aired everywhere, I think it's ok.

YABU It was broadcast to millions last night, it's not ricketsvufbfevto think someone may mention it on the internet. People want to talk to others about it, but wait for you to catch up.

Ha ha rocket science to

I think you need to stay off facebook i had to i watch it recorded and just had to stay away. People post spoilers

I dont watch it but my facebook imploded with walking dead spoilers people were going nuts and shouting omg IVE NOT WATCHED ......

What woud be an appropriate time to allow people to discuss a show OP?

YABU. Stay off of Facebook or unfollow the repeat knuckle draggers

I have a family member who is like this about results for a particular sport. I've always found it very self-involved. So a person who doesn't want spoilers can't possibly stay off social media, but everyone else is supposed to cater to that person and stay quiet?