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.

Without doubt mine is the tacky sleeve tat, depicting a clock face with the time either kids or partner arrived etc
Ugh..
I now have 3 sheep mates who all have the same tat
Yes, hate tat's with a passion!

@Tw1nset
My personal issue with the photos is not that people share them, but that they share so many. A couple of photos of your holiday/kids doing an activity etc, no problem, even with twee hashtags, but 5 posts in a row each with several photos? Too much. People evidently chose which photos to share very carefully (unless everyone is simply much more photogenic than me) which is the performative part, years ago people would have just stuck them in photo albums, and people made jokes about being forced to look at friends' and relatives' holiday snaps. Social media just ramps it up because unless you hide people, which kind of defeats the object of being on there in the first place, you can't avoid this stuff.

I have a friend who refers to herself and Dp and dc as ‘ mummy bear, daddy bear , baby bear’...
As in ‘ daddy bear and baby bear are having a day making memories whilst mummy bear has a spa day’

😳😳😳😳

The science of memory is mysterious and interesting. What sticks in our or DCs’ minds is unlikely to be what we’d ideally like!

I have given up on defiantly vs definitely

Seems the whole world now says defiantly

I also hate "angles" instead of "angels"

"Love my little angles all the world"

Imagine being inside some of their heads!

I also hate that a lot of the pics people post are with dog ears or some other ridiculous filter. I like Snapchat but keep the fucking filters on the app itself! I don't know what anyone looks like anymore!

I save my scorn for the sour-lemon lipped social media haterz, of whom I know many

A kind of moral superiority “Oh Lord! I don’t use Facebook - ugh!” like it’s carbs or drugs

I see your 'threenager' and I raise you....

FOURNADO!! (not envy)

Most hashtags piss me off to be honest.

A few I see regularly 'making memories' 'family time'

Someone I work with hashtags the shit out of everything over Facebook and Instagram.
E.g: #datenight, #thisone, #dinner #food #wine #goodcompany #drink #margarita #nachos #bogstandardchainrestaurant

She also uses '...... hair, don't care' a lot. Eg
'Pink hair don't care' 'messy hair don't care' etc.

I had to unfriend as any post from her made me twitchy.

Another I've seen recently - a couple of people I went to uni with have been sucked into an MLM and I constantly see 'Bossbabe' and 'living the dream' - usually with false, poses photos of either feet up on a desk/sofa or a pair of legs looking like hot dogs with a holiday resort background and an IPad or notebook somewhere artistically places in shot. Dude, really? Your best life is making notes while lying round a pool and taking a million photos to get the best one for social media?? Saddo, move on.

Writing this has made me feel stabby.

#homicide #irrationalanger #IwillfindyouandIwillkillyou

Wine o' clock. .....and all that that implies.

I do think some people forget how public it is as well one of the people I know post pictures of every single thing her children do and has had to have it pointed out that pictures of her 10yr old in the bath and younger children on the toilet are inappropriate. It just seems like some people feel they have to photograph everything or it hasn't happened.

I've also seen photos of children crying or having a tantrum with #someonesinamood or similar. I know it's none of my business but I feel for the child as it seems such an invasion into their life.

Yes to most of the above. I don't care if it's sneery, I like feeling superior to people who go on about their 'gawjus lil lady'. To be honest I only really use FB because it's the best way to find out what's going on in my local area. The sneering is just a bonus.

I always think the constant desperate gushing about how much you are in love with your 'hubby', or how happy your 'lil famalam' is etc. is a bit like Thatcher's being powerful or being a lady. As in, if you have to keep telling us you are, you aren't.

What really upsets me though is how these chavvy posts are normalising butchered spelling and grammar - gawjus, huni, cheeki, defiantly etc.

I have a family member that after every post about her child writes : #babysmith2017 as in "here's wee Johnny all ready for his first haircut#baby ( actual word baby I'm not trying to cover up the name ) smith2017.
Now shes pregnant again "it's sore kicks today"#babysmith2019

I am not on FB but I have seen some of these phrases on gifts (mugs, wall plaques etc) in shops wondering what they mean. Now I know! This thread has been illuminating, funny and depressing in equal measure. Ironically posting all these psuedo statements like Living My Best Life just make them look like they live in a very narrow way, minding massively what other people think of their lives and families. Living your best life is surely not needing to do this unoriginal needy crap?

As I don’t do FB I don’t see all this. Lots of everyday sayings that I hear on radio are on the train make me sneer a bit though. People who reply that their tastes are eclectic when they are asked what their music tastes are. A colleague whose favourite singers are Dion and Gloria Estefan (nothing wrong with that if that is your thing) told me her music taste was eclectic. Her tastes are completely uneclectic. Having the latest compilation of Now That’s What I Call Music is not eclectic. I could not hide the smirk. This is just another phrase to demonstrate that the person is somehow a higher person.

Reaching out is beyond the pale, particularly in a business communication. I also hate posters on forums who start their post - Ok, I will bite when they add their contribution. Like the while thread was aimed at them out of all the thousands of users and whose ultimate goal was to get them to contribute.

Slightly off topic but all variations on a theme!

Beeziekn33ze I second you on the dreaded Rainbow Bridge!

9amtrain I agree about Snapchat filters. A couple for fun but on every bloody photo? It's not cute unless your 4 years old.

Another FB is. Attention seeking such as...

"having such a bad time. I am so done with it,". Followed by the obligitory
"what's up hun?". Ugh.

Right back to my cup of tea.

Lil instead of little.

Hubby.

Loose instead of lose.

Out my bed, going Tesco’s instead of out of my bed, going to Tesco’s.

I was sat there, he was stood there.
Bought instead of brought and vice versa.

Draw instead of drawer.

Yourself / myself (unless you’re Irish) - this is a particular bone of contention for me, as I’m Irish and when I say it I now feel like I have to explain afterwards that I’m allowed to say it! Otherwise I see people (probably MNetters), silently judging me...

@PenelopeThePufferfish yes x100 to myself and yourself. When did it become a thing? It sounds very call centre-ish to me.

'Not gunna lie' - annoys every fibre of my being. I didn't think you were going to lie^ 🤯^

Twee and cringeworthy, and all this hashtag nonsense! Boasting much.

Yes the photos with ears/nose filters are irritating. One of my FB friends posted something about how she wasn't pretty but she didn't care, people had to take her as she was etc (it was one of the generic ones, not her own words) and the photo she posted was extremely heavily filtered, skin smoothed out, eyes larger, with rabbit nose and ears. So much for taking her as she is!

I've also seen people post their kids' pictures with these filters, can be fun I suppose but again these were with the skin really smoothed out, they are near teenaged girls and I wonder whether this affects how these girls feel about their own appearance.

Bleurgh - "this one", "these 3=my world" ..... tragic

Yes to most of the above. I don't care if it's sneery, I like feeling superior to people who go on about their 'gawjus lil lady'. To be honest I only really use FB because it's the best way to find out what's going on in my local area. The sneering is just a bonus.

Wow! Isn't the point of FB that you fill it with your friends? So you enjoy sneering at your friends?

@ileftmylunchathome unless that is your Instagram account I don't think that you should be linking somebody's account, filled with pictures of their children, for everyone to take the piss out of. She could be a Mner and very hurt.

My FB has various people on it, not necessarily all of whom I would consider friends but have the need to remain in contact with for one reason or another.

I have a friend who in real life is (mostly) intelligent, articulate and lovely. On Facebook she's a complete twat and her constant use of "lil lady" and "lil man" make me want to be sick out of both ends. It is infuriating. The word is little. Little. Little. It's six letters, only three more than that fucking 'lil' bullshit.

I had to unfollow her, and I suspect she's clocked it because each time we meet she'll ask "did you see I took the kids to x, only you didn't like my post on Facebook". Each time I smile weakly and say that I must have missed it whilst dying inside as she logs onto her Facebook specifically to show me the post with inevitable 'lil' captions.

In actual fact now I've written all that down I've decided she's just an arse. Ignore the first sentence.