To think the end is nigh for Facebook?

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Am I the only one to get irritated by the self congratulating posts of offspring doing amazing things, photos of saying goodbye to old car and hello my new Range Rover, or 'feeling content' headed photos of posters on holiday, or look at me looking beautiful and pouting photos by 40yr old mums? Perhaps I am miserable, but feeling a bit over it and feel,pressured to like such posts in case seen to not liking...oh the dilemma!!

I've hidden a few friends because of their endless political ranting and meme sharing. I am sick to the back teeth of it.

I think threads on MN moaning about FB have had their day.

I hope not, those are my favourite ones. I don't care about parking ones but Facebook rants are great.

I deleted the Facebook app and now only log on through the website once or twice in the eve to catch up on notifications. I feel so much better as now I'm just in my own little world instead of always seeing I was missing out in trips and such like.

I also have hidden some people from my news feed whilst keeping them on my friends lost which solves that issue.

Lastly I still have messenger app so I don't miss actual messages as they come in.

I deleted FB, was so utterly sick of it - no FB for two years

But I missed groups about things I'm interested in, so now I have an anonymous account that nobody IRL knows I have, I have no friends on it :) and I just belong to groups and chat about cooking, knitting and sewing

No trout pouts
No endless memes
No look at me and my pet dog with another stick

It's brilliant!

My peers pretty much stopped posting stuff when our parents joined years ago not it's mostly "name shared lad bibles video" and ad and that kind of guff. There's the odd baby, some holiday photos and selfies but even most of those came from Instagram.

I agree that people only really post the positive fluffy view of their life. I do wonder what would happen if I posted a brutally honest account of my life. People would probably just get upset and tell me to stop.

Facebook is for old people like me, my kids don't use it at all.
I am glad the schools still do, it helps me keeping up to date.

It helps if you chose friends you actually like, so you share their good news instead of being jealous of them.
If people put negative things, they will be accused of being drama lamas. They can't win.

You do know you can close your account, don't you?

It's all about WhatsApp and Instagram these days.

This. It's only the older generation on FB.

The thing about myspace and bebo was that it was only kids who used them and then they stopped when something more exciting came along. FB has been impressive by managing to get the oldies into it. That might make it not as cool for kids, but it still has massive uptake there even if they then use whatsapp to communicate (whilst also having a FB account). And as they get older it tends to be facebook that they use more too.

Facebook isn't going anywhere for ages.

And so comes the monthly anti-facebook thread with the inevitable "I'm so much better than you because I dont use Facebook because its shit" replies....

i think kids are internet savvy, they know what goes on stays around, and if they're looking for careers/to be taken seriously they need to use more private platforms.

My eldest and her friends have been on FB since time immemorial, they post very little on it but use twitter/snapchat/instagram as do the students I know.

FB is for idiots, kids and OAP's :D

The trouble I had with just blocking people from my FB feed is that I'd then occasionally run into them and they'd assume I knew all the latest minutiae of their life, and when I didn't it became embarrassingly clear that I'd blocked them, and that caused me more guilt. Also bonkers SIL threw a massive family strop because I wasn't 'liking' her pics. (She is also why I'm not on IG). Life is too short for this sort of shite.

I've unfollowed all my 'political' friends, and those who constantly post pictures of kids 'making memories'. Including one who constantly bombards her feed with pictures of how cute her kids are and how perfect her family is, then when we went on a night out she got drunk and told us all how much she hates her kids and how much her boyfriend is a nob head! People only post the good stuff making their lives out to be perfect! Don't let it get you down op and definitely don't compare your own life as most of it is bullshit anyway!!

I thought this is the reason FaceAche was created

We use it (secret group) to update family and friends on the progress of my husband's cancer treatment. It prevents the endless phone calls (however kindly meant) and means I don't have to keep repeating myself when I just don't have the energy.

All the other self-congratulatory shizz/smug homilies I avoid.

The end is nigh for it because kids don't use it anymore. Mine have no interest in it nor do their peers. It's all about WhatsApp and Instagram these days

Hmm... My students (aged 18 to 22-ish) are on it constantly.

facebook is such a pile of.

its for normal people, who lead boring, unchallenging lives so they never have to go outside their comfort zone, blabbing on and on and on about their kids, their schools, their dinners, their holidays Zzzzzz.

or whacky idiots, again with no self awareness, blabbing on and on and on.

or people who make political "statements" of 5 words with nothing else to back it up - they couldn't have a real political conversation to save their lives.

goodbye to all that!

I love facebook, and have a lot of fun on there with friends and family and colleagues, but there are half a dozen or so of the 100-ish people I have on there that grate on me a bit. So I have unfollowed them. It's basically social suicide to unfriend people. But if you just unfollow, they don't know you've done it, as you're not 'unfriending' them. You just don't have to see all the shit they post!

DaringDating

you seem to have "interesting" friends, maybe you should get out more.

I dont judge people who dont use FB so I love the people here that judge others who do!

It's not all about what "the kids" use you know! :D Adults are internet users too. FB is a giant and is going nowhere.

While I wouldn't go as far as saying I 'love' Facebook, it does have it's uses since we moved to the other end of the country!
I know people tend to project a certain view of themselves though, and it's worth bearing this in mind when you scroll through their highly filtered lives.
I've started shrinking my friends list to get rid of the masses of weirdos I've picked up on there over the past decade, which means I'm only seeing things from the people I really care about.

I have clients, close friends and family on mine. It's still very popular amongst younger people. I'd say if the young people in your life are saying they're not on it, they're just trying to hide the fact that they've blocked you. 😉😁

It always amazes me the underlying bigotry, racism or political views that people express on Facebook that they have never spoke about in RL! 😮 It certainly makes me very careful what views I give, when taking to people.

I get pissed off with the 'share this to kick cancer' bull shit. Yeah right, you've helped cure cancer by sharing posts. I had private messages from two family members, recently. It went something along the lines of "post this ❤️ On your FB, but say nothing else. It's to support a cure for/support for breast cancer victims". Just fuck off will ya! I don't ❤️👍😡😢 your cancer posts because you do fuck all, in a practical sense, to help raise funds, etc for cancer. And breath.

Went to a social media conference recently. Basically one of the speakers said that now facebook was for the grannies (using it to kep in touch with family), twitter for the middle aged (to rant and be 'sardonic'), instagram, snapchat, house party for kids who dont also don't use email at all anymore. Obviously this will change again and evolve and the younger demographic use SM hangouts I couldn't even name.

There's a delete profile button if you don't like it you know?