To hate the term 'Making memories'?

[NotBigBrotherAgain]

It just makes me cringe!

Someone that I know is continually hashtagging it on Facebook and Instagram. Even a walk to the local shop with her kids is #makingmemories.

AIBU?

I use that term because its what Im doing after my marriage of 36 years ended 4 years ago. In fact it was one of the reasons I eventually went ahead with my separation. I decided I needed to make new memories for me (and my children) so that when Im older I have more to look back on than the memories of the agony I was living. Ive done things since I separated that I only read about before. There have been times Ive been terrified, times like the day I went zip lining on the highest zip line in the world - its taller than the empire state building. Im so scared of heights - not that I am anymore. When I was approaching the line I was really scared but I just told myself - you're making a memory, and you'll either cry with laughter about it in the future or you'll cry you were so scared. I cry with laughter when thinking about it.

I make memories to replace the memories of a nightmare. No one else has to like it.

YANBU, anyone using lots of hashtags (well, any really, but the occasional witty or truly relevant one is fine) just makes me grumble.

I know someone who adds #lovemylilsmitheroos (surname changed to protect the lame innocent) it is most definitely not done in jest/ironically either

#makingmemories and #familytime are the preserve of people who have signs like "live, laugh, love" on their hallway wall and when they visit new places they go to the same chain shops and restaurants they could go to at home.

Oo no, I'm with you. I'm usually a "live and let live" type of person and love being nosey/reading everything on FB, but the hashtag #makingmemories really winds me up for some reason.
Surely everything you DO is making memories?!
The best memories are made spontaneously and in the spur of the moment, not because you've hashtagged the shit out of forced fun and tagged it "making memories" for your future self to look back on.

Yep. Everything you experience is making memories. I'm making memories when I take a shit. Difference is I have the decency not to plaster it all over Facebook.

mrspeelywaly
I really liked your post and I am glad you are making good memories!

Sorry OP yadnbu

This makes me laugh out loud.

I am probably BU here because I guess this is a nice term but I find the term 'bless you' really condescending when it's over used. Once is enough. One friend says if after nearly every statement and it's soooooo annoying!!!

It's not an expression I use but I think it's to the point and quite cute

Hate yolo

Baffled as to why any of this upsets anyone. Why not just let people be happy? What's wrong with using these terms?

Oh I'm so angry about someone else saying "making memories" or being "blessed", they annoy me so much, I'm so angry they seem so happy and use some term which irks me, I'm so superior because I never would.

I hope DC have some lovely memories of great times we've had together but 'making' memories seems all wrong. You do things of all kinds together, enjoy them at the time. You can't have a memory until later when you look back and remember something in the past.
Setting out with the intention of 'making' memories seems so grim and lacking in joy and spontaneity.
Enjoy life and the memories will make themselves, no need to announce them to all your friends, they are personalto you and your DC.

I really don't understand issues such as this. Does it really matter if some people say "making memories" and are happily doing so?

It reminds me of a photo I saw a while ago, of a little girl pulling her mother's sleeve, asking her to come and play, and the mother saying, "I can't darling, I'm busy making a Facebook album of all our happy days out"

I can't stand LOL.
Seriously?! Lol? Seeing it a lot more on MN too which makes me want to start redirecting posters to NM...

Making memories, we used to call it going out for the day.

I've only come across it once in RL.

Said by a family member whose newly relapsed DD's breast cancer had been assessed as grade 4.

They don't have time to wait for spontaneity.

But yes, it's forced 'fun'

And sometimes you damned well need that.

Absolutely not being unreasonable. Why do people feel the need to state something their body naturally does?! A forced memory isn't real and I bet their children don't remember it the way it was lovingly staged.

Can I add the current hashtags I've seen on Instagram #informalkitchensupper

And any shit you can buy with Prosecco o clock and wine o clock etc.

laguage?

Also kids remember the weirdest random stuff. "Do you remember our holiday in Sardinia darling". " Yes that was where I ate a hotdog and was sick on my foot"

Kerala1 my child is the perfect example of this!! We've not long come home from his first holiday abroad and when my Mom asked him his favourite part, it was when he got to eat two different types of ham at lunch time!

YANBU! Famalam, doggo and pupper making memories with bub too young to make memories.

YANBU - can we just put all hashtags in Room 101 please? I find them SO cringe inducing.