to stop people 'making memories'

[DiplomaticDecorum]

It's a pissy pants phrase - every time it's mentioned it makes me heave. Just stop, you sound ridiculous, every fucking minute of every fucking day is making fucking memories, it's how we as a species survive.

Bugger off and live in Disneyland with all of the little tweety birdies and pink bollocking princess fluffy crap. Start living life as an educated grown up, stop with the stupid filtered selfies, and stop being so bloody feeble. Hope this has made a new memory for you all. Now fuck off.

So an adult taking a photograph of themselves means they are vain, or immature?

How odd.

So an adult taking a photograph of themselves means they are vain

Yes.

So an adult taking a photograph of themselves means they are vain, or immature?

When it's several and for no apparent good reason, yes.

I think most of us can tell a 'vain' photograph from an ordinary photograph.

They're pretty easy to spot.

I think most of us can tell a 'vain' photograph from an ordinary photograph.

That'd be the ones that are side on view, with the gut sucked in, hair artfully flicked and a trout pout, just showing off the new outfit.
As opposed to the cheesy shot with the bad hair where someone's bashfully showing us something they did/somewhere they went and only managed a wonky selfie.
Yes??

I disagreed with someone and she said, 'if you don't like my sparkle, step off my rainbow!'

If you don't like my sparkle, step off my rainbow! Oh my god

I'm going to sound really thick here but what does a hashtag actually do?
I have a friend who's always posting instagram pics on fb and there are loads of #theboy #family #whateverotherbollocksicanthinkof

I'm not on insta so not sure how they end up on her FB feed

You can use hashtags to search for things. If you type it in on Instagram or Twitter it’ll show you all posts associated with it.

So surely if you use #family or whatever, there will be millions?!

Hash tags don't do anything on Facebook, so they just look a bit try hard. As if I were start going #unreasonable on MN, everyone would be a bit .

I suspect people who use hashtags on FB have seen them used on Twitter but have no idea what they're for.

I agree about Facebook hashtags looking try hard.

As for people saying why do you befriend these people etc. We all have friends and family with annoying traits. It's only on mn though that you're not allowed to have a lighthearted moan but have to go nc with people instead

Oh I'm starting to wish I was on Facebook.

Think I kind of love the sheer self-indulgent twee-ness of the #smugfergusons. Am a bit in awe.

If we were making memories they would include:

"Stop poking your sister!"
"No. We can't go home. We've been here precisely 23 minutes. [Hisses] We. Are. Having. Fun."
"Why are you holding your fork like a shovel. It's a shepherd's pie not a grave."
"I dunt wanna see the lions. They're up a big hill and a bit crap."
"LANGUAGE!! But, yeah, they are..."

And the inevitable weary, "One day. Can't we just have one nice day."

#making memories of a yet another day we'd rather forget.

My husband would just post the receipt.

Ah here, I'm probably just jealous though. I taking a shocking selfie. Shocking. Blargh.

And I couldn't get a decent photo of the kids together for love nor money. Buggers ruin every last one.

The hashtags on Facebook are probably just part of the original Instagram post, shared to Facebook.

#ineedtogetoutmore

The DCs have toned down “making memories” twaddle, thankfully. Probably due to my deeply unimpressed face.

They won’t stop saying bloody “bucket list” though. The phrase - in a healthy 10yr old - feels very very wrong.

My friend has this one. I love it!

DD's best part from when we went to a safari park was "when the birds peed on daddy". Ok then.

Why are you holding your fork like a shovel. It's a shepherd's pie not a grave."

Now I'd like those sorts of posts

I have such a friend on FB. Her posts are always funny.

Beautiful inside and out. I hate that phrase!

So an adult taking a photograph of themselves means they are vain, or immature?

How odd. You know that by saying 'how odd' it doesn't actually mean that it is? I find adults spending their time taking endless selfies extremely odd. Add to that the bunny ears and I'm done.

I think some people are confusing memories with people spending shit loads of time posting hashtags on Facebook. Not the same thing at all.

I find it odd that someone would judge another for taking a photograph of themselves. It's bizarre. Why do you even care?

I'll take the odd selfie because I'm disabled and I rarely feel good enough to be in photos. If I'm feeling good, I'll snap one and post it because it makes me feel good. It reminds me that I do have good days and I can feel confident now and again.

Again, if you don't like something that someone else does, remove them. Scroll past. Don't look. Delete Facebook. It doesn't mean you have to do it yourself.

I can't understand why everyone is advising to unfollow such people in FB. I bloody love the entertainment of their daily updates

One of my FB friends recently wrote a long post about how people are always telling him and his girlfriend that they are everyone's "couples goals". He went on about how it's because they put so much work into their relationship and its based on love and respect etc etc (not envy) They've been together about six months