To be fed up with people referring to 'first world problem'?

[Olympiathequeen]

Enough with it now. It's been done to death and it's very irritating when you read it in every other post slight exaggeration

It might be minor, it might not be one experienced by desert nomads, it might be many things but it's not a first world problem, it's a problem.

And it's pretentious.

DSs rarely plays with them, but they look so much naicer

I think the old fashioned way of saying it is 'There are worse things going on in the world'. I remember people saying that in the 80s. Sometimes people do just need to get a bit of perspective on what they're complaining about. So, for example, complaining that you have to shop at Lidl instead of Waitrose during a period of unemployment is definitely one of those problems.

I don't really hear it in rl

From my understanding of the way I see it being used on here it seems to be a way of trying to bypass the inevitable onslaught that some people on here like to do, screaming at the poster. "your moaning about that when there are people in real suffering, how could you be so shallow"

It really annoys me though as does (lighthearted) but it's used for the same reason so I don't think either are going to go out of use.

Sometimes the saying is used to dismiss problems that are genuinely completely trivial, and then I don't mind someone pointing that out. Sometimes it is someone pointing out that someone's actual, substantial problem isn't that serious compared with famine, rape and war, which I find obvious, smug, annoying and pointless.

So, it's definitely a social media (is MN social media?) phenomenon.

I also hate it when people start sentences with 'so' but I have now succumbed

I massively hate the term. It's so dismissive of people's feelings. My headphones broke recently. They were expensive and I can't afford new ones, but apparently my feelings on the subject don't matter because I'm not struggling for life.