AIBU to be cringed out by 'making memories'?

[Chickenwings85]

What sayings cringe you out? Mine just recently is 'making memories' I absolute cringe so hard when I see it all over Facebook and Instagram.

"I know I'm asking for the moon in a stick but ..."

I really do hate #blessed. I sometimes feel like (grumpily) creating a post about my family outing adding #cursed. Especially if it has not been a good outing.

I shared a quote on another thread about social media but it's relevant here too I think and one I remind my teen DDs of when they get the social media envy and gloom and that is:
Never compare someone else's showreel to your cutting room floor
FB is full of edited lives that make you feel crap.

There's always one

If that was aimed at me I hope there is more than one person in the world who does not pour scorn and judgement on people trying to do little things to make their children happy and then sharing it with the people they thought liked them

When people say "Little tribe"...Just hate it, I don't know why..

Constant posts of kids playing with wooden toys, bare foot on the beach and #slowlife blah, blah, blah... in the meantime one of the parents streams their life on Instagram

I realise I’m Probably just a moody old cow but my personal hate list is;

“Live, laugh, love”... erm no thanks.

#soblessed

It's not doing nice things with chn that's the issue, it's the contrived photos and hashtags that accompany it. Why would anyone else want to see it apart from your mum?

But why would you want to put your child's life online? Such an invasion of privacy.

Making memories makes me want to vomit. Why can't you just get on with life without putting pressure on yourself to make memories all the bloody time. Also couple goals. Ahhhhggggg..

I love seeing my friends doing things with their children, can't imagine ever looking at their family pictures and thinking they are contrived and then taking the piss.

I have a one or two FB friends who use some of the hashtags listed on this thread. In both cases they have overcome adversity in their lives and are trying to do better for their children. They would be so hurt if they thought I was taking the piss behind their back whilst pretending to be their friend

Making memories makes me want to vomit. Why can't you just get on with life without putting pressure on yourself to make memories all the bloody time

Because I just don't have happy childhood memories and I don't have any parenting role models and so I have to work at parenting and I want my children to be able to look back fondly on their childhood and not wince in pain.

I also have been in a situation where I thought that my children would only have memories and photos of me - and one child was a baby at the time.

Is it so hard to understand that not everybody has the same life experiences , priorities or advantages.

One thing I despise is "cutesie" language. I particularly hate adult being used as a verb: "I did me some adulting/I adulted today". Yuck.

The reason I hate the #soblessed #hubby etc. hashtags isn't because I don't think that memories deserve to be made but I just don't think that everything needs to be posted online. Who are people trying to convince? If my partner ever posted something lovey dovey about me on their Facebook I'd either assume they'd been hacked or I'd just be embarrassed.

There is a thing I’ve noticed on FB (and in real life actually) over the last few years of people referring to their daughters as ‘Miss Firstname’ - eg ‘taking Miss Ava to the park’. It’s a bit U.S. pageant.

For those of you listing various things you hate on FB, Instagram etc. why do you have FB etc.? What do you post on FB?

@ Tw1nset trust me when I say i had a crap childhood with beatings, verbal abuse etc, but what I don't understand is why can't people just quietly get on with making memories why advertise it every 2 seconds on social media. Why do I need to know that you are making memories with your children? Just get on with it without makinag a hoo haa on social media.

If that was aimed at me I hope there is more than one person in the world who does not pour scorn and judgement on people trying to do little things to make their children happy and then sharing it with the people they thought liked them

I do shitloads of little things to make my kids happy - today I took them for pancakes, then to the beach, bought them little jewelry boxes to decorate and now they're playing in the pool whilst I drink coffee.

I do not, however, feel the need to validate my parenting by making up shite and contrived hashtags to show off to everyone how brilliant I am at life.

When did we all get so fucking needy for attention and vain with it? The only people I accept it from are friends with their own businesses who require an online presence as part of their marketing and even then I hide them.

I have very limited social media presence and I guess that's part of it. I don't give a shit about Instagram and the only reason I wanted to join Twitter was do I could tweet Dwayne Johnson and Ryan Reynolds.

I don't pour scorn on people doing things with their kids, don't be obtuse. I do pour scorn on people who hashtag every fucking thing they do.

Much like I pour scorn on every adult who selfies every 5 minutes, (especially those taken in toilets).

I imagine these are families with young kids. Just give it a few years - till they have teenagers - it’ll be #tryingtosurvive#moodykids

I do know teenagers are fun too.

ineedaholiday Deleted facebook. The people i truly care about, I talk to them face to face.

why advertise it every 2 seconds on social media. Why do I need to know that you are making memories with your children? Just get on with it without makinag a hoo haa on social media.
What do you want to see on social media if not pictures of your friends doing things with their families?

#Freerangekids aka they went outside

Pmsl

Making memories is just inane bollox (terminally ill patients aside) which doesn’t make sense. I have plenty of memories of childhood - I’m sure my parents never thought they were intentionally ‘making memories’ at any point, we were just on holiday.

Hollibobs - kill me now.

Nomnom - makes me want to vomit.

Also I hate the memes/posts which say ‘If you love your children repost this trite load of garbage...’ Or ‘if you have a beautiful daughter post a photo of them’. No that’s just an excuse for you to post a pic of your daughter (and I do have a beautiful daughter but just don’t post pics of her every 5 mins for attention!!)

Don’t mind ‘2 sleeps’ - and have b en known to use it myself (although not on SM).

Don’t mind ‘hubby’ but hate ‘hubster’

tw1nset I have deleted FB due to the fact that so many people are fake on it. Also the people I truly care about I speak to them face to face. Also I do not believe in posting pictures of children on social media, as once on the internet, it is basically public property.

Also the people I truly care about I speak to them face to face

That must be lovely. I don't really have family but I am lucky to have wonderful friends - but they are scattered all over the place and so FB allows me to keep in touch.

tw1nset I have deleted FB due to the fact that so many people are fake on

Maybe I am naive- I don't see a lot if any fakery on FB - but I don't have a huge number of people on there and only people I genuinely like.

Lil. I hate it so much!

Off out with lil man/ lady.
Went on a lil shopping trip.. etc.

What is it with people posting very "intimate" details of their lives?

Fgs I hate being a woman, it's so unfair!

Went town, put dinner on, was gonna clean up but it strikes again. In agony. Hate being a woman. Every month it is. I gave her the boot after she put up a post for recommendations of electricians to fix her GAS cooker.

#twat