Just why would you do this?

[witchofzog]

Second aibu in 2 days. I must be a right grumpy old cow. Or maybe I am just surrounded by twats.

I logged onto Facebook earlier to see a post from a friend. The family cat died yesterday and she posted yesterday that her youngest dd has been really affected by it. Today's post is a photo of the little girl on a sofa looking sad and on the verge of tears with the caption. "Hate seeing my little girl so sad over tiddles"

Just why? What level of attention seeking is this? Aibu to think she is an utter twat? ( I actually feel this will be unanimous )

[WilyMinx]

One of ex-FB friends gave an almost-daily commentary of her divorce proceedings and tagged her ex-husband in all of them.

[BatShite]

I have a few friends who do stuff like this constantly. I actually had to remove someone a few days ago for posting a photo of her clearly very ill child with puke on his clothes and wth his head over a bucket looking mournful. I just don't get it. Why on earth do people do it? Seems to be attention seeking to me, but this person rarely gets any replies on stuff like that (the puking photo was the last straw but there has also been other gems like taking a photo of her baby in the back of an ambulance not long ago, with a caption of 'another sleepless night, great') so its not working if its for that...

[berliozwooler]

The best thing about Facebook is that you can unfollow people or hide certain posts. If only real life were so simple.

[PricillaQueenOfTheDesert]

You’re right, your friend is just an attention whore. I can’t stand it when people are fishing for compliments or sympathy, I have no time for needy folk.

[CakesRUs]

Yanbu. Really dislike this kind of thing on FB.

[disneydatknee]

There’s someone on my fb who’s son suffers really badly from croup and has done for many years (I think he’s about 9/10 now) and every time he ends up in hospital she posts photos of him in the hospital bed all sad. It really irritates me. He’s ill. Leave the poor lad alone!

[LolaTheDarkdestroyer]

It’s awful the worse ones are the people that post pics of their kid sick in a hospital bed...why would you do that?

[witchofzog]

itsonkyme My thoughts exactly. I think some posters here are definitely guilty of these sorts of posts on Facebook themselves 😊

[Itsonkyme]

Can tell we've touched the odd nerve on here! Very defensive!! Love it!!!

[JoieDeFuckingVivre]

One of my old Facebook friends took a picture of her DD in the back of an ambulance!!! Like who does this?

Also fucking annoying:
Checking into hospital

DSis posted birthday messages the other day to her friend, gushing about what a fab friend she was yadda, yadda, yadda. Only 6 months ago she was slagging her off.

[yerbutnobut]

We live in a 'poor me' culture, fuelled by social media where by you can post about all your woes and wait til someone comes along to stroke your ego! exactly the reason I'm not on it.

[witchofzog]

what insightful and meaningful communications do you post?

Well nothing insightful and meaningful I don't use Facebook for that. Mine is mainly for the odd photo of family friends (who all have Facebook and do similar) , occasional funny dog videos I have seen elsewhere on Facebook (maybe not funny to everyone but some people seem to like them too) and rare status updates if I have something I want to share. I wouldn't share a photo of my ds crying or puking or doing anything he would be embarrassed of (Or anyone else for that matter)

[RagingFemininist]

What about the child??I bet they won’t be happy to have a photo of them in tears when they are teens/young adults.

That’s why there are talks about hav8ng a law allowing adults to delete any photos of them from W they were young une.

Because people are posting to make themselves feel better, wo a thought for the child in the photo. (Or consent but that wouod be obvious from children)

[MargoLovebutter]

I love it. I am so nosy that I love all the over-share stuff. Most of my friends are far too sensible to do it but occasionally I get the odd sniff of dirty laundry hung out to air in public or cheeky insights into the homes of friends of friends, who haven't locked down their privacy settings and it reminds me how much I love FB!

[PiffleandWiffle]

Well, as she's got 400 friends, she's unlikely to notice if you fuck off & stop following her posts.

What insightful and meaningful communications do you post out of interest??

[DrPill]

A friend of mine posted a picture of a mouse he'd killed in a mouse trap. YANBU!

[LizzieSiddal]

My cousin just posted a picture of her son hanging over a bowl, retching

Watch out, there will be one of him on the loo, next!

[RandomMess]

I post very little and tend to only put on the humorous things that happen, bit of light relief for friends/family.

[Ski4130]

Un follow her, you won't see her posts then and they won't cause you a second thought. Simple.

[witchofzog]

Since when did I say I actively disliked her? I don't like what she posted. It is a dick move. It doesn't mean I dislike her.

[splendidisolation]

Here's an idea, how bout you stop "being friends" with people you actively dislike

[witchofzog]

Tummy bug pictures, chicken pox rashes and the "I don't want to go home to my wife" post that one poster mentioned. Also too much information. There is a difference between a "Poor little Tommy has been really ill today" post and a picture of his rash or his head down the toilet. I just think the pictures are unecessary and not something the children will thank them for. And as for unhappy married man. How would his wife and kids feel to see this? Some people dont seem to realise that one ill thought out post could then be seen by their family friends and colleagues who don't want or need that level of detail

[Itsonkyme]

I know someone on FB who works in A&E and really pisses me off by stating, practically every week, "first night of 8, so exhausted, don't know how I'm going to get through this".
First of all, it doesn't inspire bloody confidence in A&E if she "can hardly keep my eyes open". And the other one is, "soooo ill"
Aaaaarrrrgh! She thinks shes the only one in the World bloody working.
I don't Block as I like screaming at the screen: "Fuck offfff you moaning cow"

[TheDobbyClub]

Someone on my facebook feed yesterday (one of DP's friends) posted that he was dreading going home after work and that it wasn't a good sign for his marriage.

It was a serious post, and dozens of people commented telling him to keep his head up etc and he was replying and saying about how he was going to talk to his wife seriously about leaving this time etc. (They've been in an unhappy marriage for years, which is common knowledge).

This guy has two young teengage kids who, while they don't seem to be on Facebook, certainly have friends there age who ARE on Facebook, and whose parents are friends with him.

I just can't believe he is sharing this level of personal information, and that so many people I am acquaintances with are commenting and offering support as if it's normal. God forbid someone's son or daughter sees what he is writing via their parents' facebook account and mentions it to his kids.

[millsbynight]

This is why I’m not on Facebook! That kind of behaviour would drive me mad.