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?

My hatred is the parents who post a conversation with a child on Facebook, expecting us readers to find it as hilarious as it is(?). But the problem is, it's not hilarious. See below:

E I swear down this kid is nuts , told him he can't play on his tablet as it needs charging so he only goes in the kitchen comes out with a battery and is trying to put it in his tablet ha ha

I don't get how a) That's Facebook worthy and b) Why it needs an accompanying picture of a child with an iPad! Facebook is literally a place for all parents to think their kid is the only kid in the world who can do the most menial things!

It's irritating but harmless. Fwiw, the people I know who do this most are either into those selling pyramid schemes or compensating for stuff that's going very wrong in their personal lives.

I find the phrase "making memories" depressing because it's not about living in the now and enjoying yourself now. It seems to imply a miserable future where you'll need happy memories to look back on because you'll have nothing else

On the contrary. I have a fabulous life and not just because I have 5 children and 6 grandchildren who I see 2 or 3 times a week and who are a huge part of my life. I'm also kept very busy looking after my severely disabled son at home with the help of full time carers.

I've just had a few unplanned days in the Uk and before I left I attended the opera on the spur of the moment, alone, twice in one week just because I could. I'll remember that whereas I won't remember much of what I'd have done if I'd stayed at home channel surfing.

Tonight I'm at one of my toddler grandsons having a sleep over with him because he's missed me whilst I've been away. I was collected from the airport by another of my children and brought straight here.

My future will never be miserable and I'll never be alone, not have anyone, or anything else. My today is very happy and my tomorrow will be also.

I have a work colleague whom I follow on Instagram and she always writes #makingmemories and #blessed and some such nauseating nonsense.
If I see one more I am blocking her! She only talks abut her child and insists on showing me ever picture, video etc of said child. I have 2 adult kids and rarely mention them unless it is of interest IE son 2 is joining the forces etc.
I don`t remember being so gushing of my own children but then one of them was born in the 1980s before all this technology.
Maybe it is my mood as I am almost menopausal!

I don`t remember being so gushing of my own children but then one of them was born in the 1980s before all this technology

It never ceases to amaze me how ordinary our children were years ago.

People continually banging on about how fantastic their lives are were the reason I hardly ever look at FB now. I prefer it here. Less bullshit have seen too many people IRL at daggers drawn while if you believed the FB posts you would think they were the most loved up couples ever.

I agree BUT my terminally sick friend used this phrase and with very good reason

I am glad she made me make a few

It doesn't bother me but then I have a child who was diagnosed with a life limiting illness (cancer) last year. He is doing great now and in remission but you just don't know what the future holds.
Make those bloody memories and brag and boast about them too! I love seeing those type of posts on fb now.

Exactly Jemima hope its all up hill for you all

THE HIGHEST ZIP WIRE IN THE WORLD?

Fucking hell!

It's not the doing of it people are querying obviously everyone wants their kid to have happy memories its the splashing of it all over social media

Malania Trump has just tweeted "Looking forward to making memories" as she moved into The White House this weekend. Donald wasn't there; he was playing golf in New Jersey. What sort of memories does she mean, do you think?

'Memories of the time I told him I was going ahead with the divorce. That I'm asking for 50% of everything, including the Russian stuff. That he can have Barron every other weekend and he can't just leave him in the clubhouse with a security serviceman...'

Someone on my f.b put a picture of her embarrassed looking 12 year old and feeling blessed once. I cringed for him. She also kept on about an operation he was having and tagged him. He asked her not to. He was having a tooth out.

Vanilla and Gasp - Spot on!

Yanbu.

A young guy I used to train with posts selfies of him and his girlfriend under the hashtag #relationshipgoals. I cringe and think something very bitchy whenever I see it.