To think the end is nigh for Facebook?

[Rabbit01]

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!!

If the stuff you list in your OP is the only stuff you see on FB, then you are doing FB wrong. Unfollow or hide the boring stuff. Find some interesting, thought-provoking pages and groups to follow. Post some interesting stuff of your own and hope that your friends join in a discussion.

Every so often I will spend a good half hour scrolling down my newsfeed and clicking unfollow, unsubscribe and unfriend to certain people and pages. It's so refreshing! 😁

I deleted my facebook 2 years ago and have never looked back! I cannot stand it and do not miss it one bit.

You need better friends not a better social media platform.

The thing is, I follow a lot of news outlets, blogs, etc. and so the newsfeed is great for aggregating things for me in one place.

A while ago I started "hiding" real people when they posted things that were of no interest to me (as in, keeping them as a "friend" but hiding them so that their updates no longer appear on my feed). Now I can't remember the last time I saw a post by an actual person on my newsfeed . I guess everyone got hidden in the end! It's still a useful tool for keeping up to date with blogs and news though!

I have to say my FB friends, esp good 'real life' ones don't do this. I tried insta but I find that worse for selfies etc #boring

I doubt it. Though I am not on it.

I've stopped looking at it because I was being slightly stalked by an ex who could see if I was online and then would bombard me with messenger messages. It can also make you feel like crap when you're single and everyone else seems to be having lovely holidays and meals out with their partners. But I do miss the Archers Addicts forum!

I do hope so!

The amount of arguments/fall-outs - wars basically I have seen because of FB.

Hate the thing. Yes I am on it, but never put posts about me, as frankly don't think anybody cares, and I certainly don't care that my friend from school is struggling to think what to cook for dinner.

I share funny videos and petitions and the like, but other than that, meh.

Oh l thought l was the only one. I have told myself to stop adding friends on facebook because l am tired of all these intimate details that are being shared on facebook. I cringe at the pics and achievements and holidays and and and that people publicize just like that on facebook. I also think that putting children's pics on facebook is an abuse because we just put them there without asking for permission. These children will certainly not say thank you when they see the pics online as they get older. Of course we are proud of them and their achievements but must we spread it on social media? l feel obliged to like pics and comments even though l think it is stupid. I am telling myself to just ignore it and am asking myself if they will know or feel angry if i remove them
from my list of friends (lol).

I don't know anybody who has fallen out because of Facebook. And it's like chatting - what you post doesn't have to be earth shattering. I like a little speculation about dinner menus! You get the FB you deserve, as others have said.

The only person I know who fell out with someone because of Facebook was always falling out with folk any way. Her bar of how to be a real friend was set unrealistically high and she saw personal slights in everything. Facebook is just people.

I've started using it so it's definitely on the way out. It'll go the way of skinny jeans.

I don't have pouting pics either, lots of politics and sport related stuff apart from one relative who does the endless stuff about her daughter but I love her so read it but wish she'd talk about herself and what she is in to a bit more

As others have said: it depends on who your Fb friends are. My feed is mostly articles and discussions about philosophy/theology.

I some times also get bored of looking to selfies and other bullshit people post like dining out and their dishes every day, their amazing happy party life etc but hey..... push UNFOLLOW and you never have to see them again !

It's not necessarily people that I don't like but people that I like but changed to a different level....

I've never had a Facebook account, but I might create one if it becomes niche and obscure with fewer than 100 people on it.

People can put whatever they like on Facebook. Either unfollow them, delete your account or deactivate it.

I find I only use Facebook to read MN these days ( that's the only way I can get MN to work for a reasonable amount of time, with a low level of ads). Everything else on FB I couldn't be bothered wasting time on.

I love FB. I enjoy reading about friends' achievements and looking at their holiday photos - why wouldn't you? It helps me keep in touch with friends around the world.

There is some junk; I have a friend who posts 15 identical photos of her toddler every day, and one who loves her dire motivational memes, but I just scroll past those in the way that others are probably scrolling past my slightly excessive posting of hedgehog stuff.

And I really don't feel any anxiety about whether ds will hate me for posting that photo of him stuck in the cat flap. His generation have got far greater problems being stored up for their futures than their parents sharing a few embarrassing photos of them.

What Acacia said ^^

I've moved round the country a lot and it is a wonderful way to keep up with the everyday, hum drum things that my friends are up to and that I might have been involved in with them when we lived locally.

I hardly ever see boasting posts, but maybe that's just the sort of person I'm friends with...