Showing off posting pics of your presents on Fb

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My best friend thinks it’s showing off and she has been really snarky about people we both know posting pics of their gifts

Personally I really like seeing what people have had but also because I like to see people I like happy

Although I personally then decided not to say / post a pic on Fb what I’d had for fear people would think I’m a show off twat 😩

@neonrainbow I think we know the same person.

This is the reason i deleted social media days ago..... Im broke, could'nt afford to by my kids much!
The humblebragging makes me feel like a shit parent!
Ive never been one for these sorts of posts (even when i was flush)

Cringey. Each to their own but not my cup of tea

I just posted a picture of the clock DD gave DH and I, with our names in Gallifreyan symbols. We are huge Doctor Who fans, and so a a lot of our FB friends, who I thought would like to see it. Those of our FB friends who aren’t interested in Who will presumably just skip past it.

My feed has been filled with photos of my friends and their families enjoying Christmas, some included presents, some having lunch, some having a tipple, some playing games - it's been fabulous!!!!

Cringey and show offy! SIL does it every year.

Life is not a competition.

Last year I saw lots of posts with Christmas trees ambushed by presents but nothing this year.

What happens in my house stays in my house.

I like to see what others got.

I got dressing gown slippers and hand bag as I do every year.
I still act surprised. I still say i love it

Cringe cringe cringe. Vulgar, ostentatious and just bad manners. And painfully common.

Honestly, I’d be shamed if a picture of our presents were posted on social media. I was hard pushed to think what I wanted, so only asked for one thing. He got me two other tiny things. Quite honestly, the dog had more presents!

I wouldn’t post photos of my or dds gifts on social media, that’s not to say I don’t talk about gifts with close family and friends, we have a group convo in which we’ve asked each other if they’ve got anything and shared photos.

Nobody on my friends list has shared more than a decorated xmas tree earlier in December, tbf though, i only have people in my friends who are actual friends and I see regularly and speak to regularly in real life, if I had friends list bulked out with my hairdresser, or mums from school there’d have been some showing off on my feed, I think it’s a bit cringey when sharing to friends who are not friends as it’s assuming people other than your friends or family need/want/should know what gifts they’ve been given.

I don’t get it but other than a mild cringe it wouldn’t bother me, and I’d just scroll past.

@maelstrop. We went a bit mad on the dog haha and We def spent more on her than I did on dh, or him on me, It’s puppy’s first Christmas though and I git a bit carried away

I am sat at his mil back door having a fag in my new dressing gown which i dont need cos he got me one last year.

This is a bit shit.

I know i should be greatful.
But I am not.

I have a friend who always posts endless pictures of every occasion just to stealth boast. Last night was personalised wooden Christmas Eve boxes for each of her children (the eldest is 20), the youngest showing the £40 she';d received in said box amongst other things, then this morning it was the huge piles of unopened presents including numerous Pandora bags. It's become quite a joke among family now as we all wait for the next boast. It's a shame really, money is no object to them but its never enough for her to just enjoy what she has given her kids, it always has to be more than anyone else could possibly give.

My instinctive reaction is that it's showy offy and braggy, but I suppose it depends. I'm not on Facebook, but dd does Snapchat and Instagram and has shown me loads of photos that her "friends" have posted. They seem to be either trying to show how many presents they have or showing off about the brands. I kind of forgive them, because they're only teenagers, but it still seems pretty tasteless.

But I would be happy to see photos of excited young children opening or playing with presents (as long as the photo didn't "accidentally" show a mountain of presents in the background) or a photo of 1 present that was meaningful to the recipient such as the Dr Who clock above.

It's braggy, tacky, in poor taste and actually a bit common to take pics of piles of gifts or list all the crap things you got for Xmas.

I think showing a DC on their first bike, or similar is ok. I also know 2 couples who got engaged at Xmas and posted photos of the ring which I think is fine.

But not piles of toys for kids, or gaudy displays of handbags and jewellery for adults etc. It's the same as showing massove piled of wrapped presents under your tree.

I saw pics of food and presents on FB today. Unexpectedly, it made me feel sad. I think because so much conversation lately has been about austerity, people using food banks..knowing people both here and abroad suffer and don't have access to food and money in any significant way.

I'm not saying we have to be worthy or virtue-signal, but...leave it out with the "look at me I've got all this" showing off. It's so boastful.

I loved my presents from OH and DDs. It wouldn't even occur to me to sit there take photos to put online. Being happy feeling Christmassy showing appreciation. Just us, in our own space. That was nice. I've had a lovely day.

We're all different I suppose. I think lots of us can get very caught up in craving attention, adulation and validation from others, and will find ways of justifying it no matter what. It's so easy to do it with the advent of FB isn't it?

I haven’t seen many “Santa’s Been” posts this year but most of my Facebook friends seem to be abroad for Christmas. 🤣 Or maybe it’s because I haven’t checked Facebook much.

I have to admit I posted on fb about presents.

I have had a really shit time of things growing up and most of my adult life, in the past year my life is finally what I want it to be (or almost, I still wouldn't turn down a lottery win) and I looked at my little pile of presents and DD and DH unwrapping theirs and it just hit me that for the first time I can remember I am truly happy. Not that DH and DD don't make me happy normally but there's always been something in the background, especially at Christmas, and there wasn't today.

I don't do it myself but not that bothered by others really.

People are bizarre with social media. Boasting about crap. Empty vessels make the most noise and all that.

I mean, showing off about “brands”. Zzzzzzzzzz. I couldn’t be less interested or unimpressed!

Pictures of children playing with a new toy or even sharing a board game, that's nice particularly for the gift giver. Usual to send the picture but fb might hit some other relatives or friends who might appreciate it.
Maybe a "new boots out for a walk" type picture for an adult is ok.
Anything showing multiple presents or a massive pile of unwrapped gifts is just unnecessary. It's only meaning is some odd idea that loads of presents = good parenting. Such as my cousin - who posts awful pictures of stacks and stacks. With updates saying she'd "forgotten some". THEN posts about having another load of presents to come (not how nice to see family etc or that the children had a lovely day).

It's crass and vulgar. Whoever mentioned above about the money made into a fan shape - a grown adult I know posted that exact thing a couple of years ago, the fanned wad of cash among her piles of new clothes and stuff. I found it utterly tasteless and it actually put me off maintaining a friendship with that person.

This year all I've seen my friends posting about is food or dogs, much better