To hate the term 'Making memories'?

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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?

Agree it's so annoying, especially the 'blessed' -the casual overuse has ruined a perfectly good word.

Someone said on here ages ago when folk say #makingmemories they always think 'no you're not, you're on fucking holiday like everybody else'. It makes it easier for me to think that every time I read it! Like the bless you too

While the language of 'making memories' may be a little clumsy and unsophisticated - it's horrible to be so sneery about people doing nice things with their kids.

This term effects you not one jot. Live and let live.

'Love you to the moon and back'. Oh do fuck off. Any ornament/wall decal with some sort of statement usually about family. Any ornament which is a crappy word 'sleep' in the bedroom for example, or sentence 'It's wine o' clock' or some such shite. Makes me irrationally angry.

I took DD to Disneyland Paris when she was 4. About a year later she said

"Mama, do you remember when we went to Disneyland?"

"Yes darling." said I.

"We washed our knickers in the bath."

#makingmemories

#making memories with this one is my ultimate annoyance, does your daughter not have a name? Do you not know your friends name? Makes me want to delete Facebook maybe I should, grumpy old woman

As a parent of grown up children, I can confirm that however hard you try to "make memories", they will forget most of the good things and only remember the problems, disasters and inconveniences.

Just get on with living and forget all the memories nonsense.

I don't mind the making memories stuff, although I'd never use it because my children don't sleep and I can't remember anything anymore

What I don't like, for no good reason, it's bubs, bubba or babba. It really bothers me.
Which is ridiculous because I call my DC all sorts of stupid nicknames that I'm sure annoy everyone else.

#makingmemories is particularly annoying because it is symptomatic of "performance happiness" that is so rife on Instagram and Facebook.

It's the external, public display of something that can only really be genuine if it is a private and internalised. As if happiness only exists in photographs. Utter bullshit from people who are too anxious to prove they are happy to enjoy the moment as it goes by.

It's so try hard isn't it?

Agree with "goals"
Some of my photos get posted on Pinterest with a "goals" comment. If only they knew....

I'm not on Facebook and whenever I read this kind of thing I feel I've done the right thing. I would spontaneously combust if I had this sort of nonsense shoved down my throat.

It's not about being upset or jealous that other people are having a good time. It's about the smugness and the self-obsession. If a family is having a hard time or coming out of a hard time, of course everyone who loves them will be really pleased to see them having a happy moment. But when people post endlessly about every trivial detail of their lives, and especially when their friends know perfectly well that it's not a truthful account, of course their contacts are going to find that irritating.

Are the people #makingmemories the same ones taking pictures of everything whilst not actually enjoying the moment, or sitting in front of you at the school play filming the whole thing on an enormous iPad?

YANBU
It's fucking twee and smug.

But they're just #livingtheirbestlife.

😷

I have a colleague who spends all day saying her kids are little shits, really naughty, can't wait for the weekend so they can go to their dads etc. Her FB is full of #myboys #makingmemories #blessed😍 #mummysboys

yes majestic they are

Read the circle by Dave eggars. This constant marketing of our lives to our peers is actually fucking weird.

#this
#thisgirl
#justthis
#feelingblessed 😍😍
#feelingtherage 😂

Vomit inducing bollocks

YANBU and brilliant for posting this - I thought it was just me being a grumpy old bag

Cannot stand it; just go out and have a nice time. I don't even mind cute or good pics of said day out but why the need to #makingmemories?

I almost feel it's a smug way of🖕the rest of us who are just letting our kids make their own fun YouTube all day.

Also on my list is #this one (it reminds me if he who shall not be named), and #familytime (all time when you're all not at work or school is family time, not just when you get monopoly out once a year).

God I am cynical.

The people I know on FB who use #makingmemories or #blessed are just as likely to complain to me at playgroup about how their kid doesn't sleep.

It's a total show for social media, one that I find cringeworthy - I prefer a healthy dose of cynicism in my parenting

This constant marketing of our lives to our peers is actually fucking weird

Yes,that sums it up perfectly,it is really weird.

We used to call it ' having a nice time' or ' going out for the day' too

This constant marketing of our lives to our peers

THIS!!!

That is exactly what it is; but why, oh why do people feel compelled to do it?

My OH actually thinks you can make memories. He said it once when I was annoyed because he was late for a long standing arrangement. He was put out that I was annoyed because he'd been busy #makingmemories with his kids

My experience is the people who over market their lives are the ones who are the least secure in their lives or are they are making a living from it on instagram.

This might sound arrogant but I do loads with my kids, we have lots of holidays and days out and I have job with loads of travel that could look glamorous. If I wanted to I could market my life very well, but I don't because (I) I can't be arsed (ii) I don't feel the need to and (iii)I'm too busy actually living it to think about uploading constant thoughts and pictures.