FB Holiday Season Wankers

[GirlOnATrainToShite]

I know I know it's FB blah blah get a life etc etc.

BUT seriously why oh why do holidays turn perfectly normal people into complete narcissistic wankers.

FB feed FULL of 10 or more friends posting about 20 + photos a day of their bloody holidays.

In the "olden" days anyone would avoid looking at someone's holiday snaps like the plague but now it's perfectly acceptable to brag all over social bloody media about it. Yes one or two photos are lovely and I am happy to see people having a great time but seriously do I need a blow by blow account of your bloody holiday? I would have come with you if so, get off FB and enjoy yourself.

Maybe this is compounded by seeing a close friend yday who was avoiding FB because of this as she had to cancel her holiday due to cancer diagnosis.

But another friend tonight has posted in one of the background show type posts "waiting to fly home, thanks for all your lovely comments, glad you enjoyed all the photos, we've had an amazing holiday" as if it was a show for my benefit.

Maybe I am a grumpy cow and I need to stay away from FB but god when are people going to get over themselves.

Someone I know just posted an album of 26 photos entitled 'Quiet afternoon at home'.

Kids sitting watching telly, view from their window, baby eating a banana. Who the fuck takes pictures of such shite and thinks it's ripe for wider consumption?

Sorry I don't upload my photos for you to look at particularly I do love the memories that pop up down the line so I'm stoking those for me.

Amen OP. People never on FB suddenly hyper bragging with 50,000 holiday pics. Boring so I use the unfollow option.

I don't have a massive number of facebook friends. My facebook friends are all people I like. I like seeing people i like happy whether its holidaying, baking a cake, linking to something from a while ago.

I have one or two family members who are lovely, are facebook friends but I don't follow their posts in my feed as they're sharers and dominate the entire feed. I do check out their feeds periodically and like to see what they're upto and say hi (my family are global).

I cannot stand facebook I really think it brings out the worst in people showing off etc. I don't understand the constant need for reassurance from your 'friends" that your holiday was super duper and Patti g you on the back for having a great time.yea!

I came off Facebook about 4 years ago and do not miss it at all!

I've recently been on a big trip so have probably gone overboard on pics. However, as a previous poster said, a good way to do it is to post an album's worth of pics at once - that way it's only one post so doesn't clog up the newsfeed of those who don't care.

This, I think, is one of the profound questions of our time. I can never quite get my head round the answer. Certainly, I find it all rather bizarre and it has made me look at some people in a very different light!

Same here! I've deleted mine quite recently because I'd rather live in denial and pretend that the personality people show in real life is the real them rather than this #blessed version of themselves online.

I've just been considering tonight whether I should delete my Facebook for a bit. I can normally take it with a pinch of salt, but at the moment it's really getting to me. Other people's holiday pics when I can't afford to do anything, really rubs salt in the wounds. Shouldn't get jealous, I know, but it is hard sometimes.

My SIL recently posted 157 photos after a visit to a Transport Museum

I don't get he idea tha people are showing off. Surely everyone knows where they are re anyway, so there's nothing to show off about?
Like others, the people on my Facebook are my friends. I like seeing what they are up to. If I think there are too many pics, I scroll past. If I'm curious about one, I post a question. What's not to like?
Delete I find this hard to believe: she literally spends more time posting about the holiday on fb, than they do actually enjoying it Assuming she is asleep for eight hours, that leaves 16 hours a day. You really think she's typing on Facebook for more than 8 hours a day, everyday? Or is it more likely it takes her about 5 secs to upload her photos (which she took quickly and easily with her phone, rather than having to get a camera out and faff about) and add a comment at some point in the day, for example when she's waiting for her DH to come out of the shower?

My friend has been at [theme park] for a week or something and the pics have been endless. I started by being a bit annoyed but now I am completely obsessed and I am not going to be able to cope when she goes home

And for reference, I can't afford a holiday this year. Doesn't mean I think everyone else should stay at home.

YANBU. I don't mind a snap or two as I do like keeping up with what people are up to, they are my friends after all.

But 150 photos, mostly without people in and a photo of every old building they passed or everything that was on the walls of a particular cathedral? No thanks.

Back when you had to pay good money for photos, my mum's motto was 'don't take a photo without a person in it'

I am going on holiday - but love that there is normally no internet and I have a holiday from that too

I'm confused that so many people are annoyed that friends' Facebook feeds aren't catering to their specific entertainment needs. Their Facebook profile isn't there to suit your interests. Who, exactly, is the self-centred one again!? The person who posts their own photos on their own profile which you're perfectly free not to look at, or those of you who are pissed off that someone else's profile doesn't meet your specifications?

OP, YANBU.
I feel the same. Am so tempted to take one of the 'view from my hotel window' except as we're not going on holiday it will be 'view from my bedroom window' which is my weed-strewn drive and my very dirty and scratched 2008 reg C4 Grand Picasso - preferably in the rain. Classy.

YA most certainly NBU. I have a work friend who has posted 261, yes 261 photos of her recent trip to NY. She only got a few likes when she first posted it so she has re-shared it this evening 🙄

I do agree about photos with people in them being slightly more interesting.

Why announce to the world that your house is empty?

I don't leave my house empty. Between the housesitter and her gun collection, the neighbour and his gun collection, and the dogs, I suspect the house is least likely to be ransacked by burglars when we're on holiday.

Yabu
I have about 30 facebook friends. Most of them family and close friends. I'll be putting a fuck load of photos on of my family holiday..... In fact my 94 year old gran has insisted that I do.... She looks forward to seeing them. Even when I couldn't afford a holiday I still liked seeing my facebook friends trips..... Because I genuinely like to know what they are up to.
If this is pissing you off about facebook maybe you need a cull of your "friends"

I think unless you are doing something particularly scenic or unusual, keep holiday pictures to 10 or less for the general fb audience, i.e, not your parents. There is only so much interest in ubiquitous photos of kids in a hotel pool or ornate holiday drinks people can take. It's nice to see a few...no one is going to go through 57 of them.

@moutonfou, ooh I think that might have been my holiday ...

If it's their wall then why do they have friends to look at it ......

Social Media is like a diary.

You can choose whether to read another persons posts or you can choose to unfollow them.

Lets be blunt, people are on social media because they are nosey. You just don't happen to like the posts, jealous perhaps? so you choose to call them narcissistic. You don't have to finger through their photo albums.. But in 10 years time, when the posters children have left home, or in 15 when their mum is dead or in 30 when they are widowed, those photos and memories will mean a lot.