to be SICK of facebook but also addicted

[BebeRainbow]

If you post...

holiday / day out type pics - showing off

Selfies - narcissistic / attention seeking

good stuff that has happened - ie new car, new house, holiday booked, kids done well in exams / parents evening - that is showing off

cute pics of kids - smug

pet pics - annoying

If you post what a shit day you have had - attention seeking / negative

Political / current affairs type stuff - you look like you are on a soap box, also tends to start arguments

YOU CAN'T WIN. Yet I can't stay away from the place as I will feel left out of stuff and also i am nosey

And I am finding myself disliking people that i like in RL because they piss me off on fb

Also AIBU to think that in the past it was a more innocuous, gentle form of social media? its gone a bit feral i think?

Can I introduce you to Instagram?

Unfollow them if you still want to keep them as friends. Unfriend if you don't.

I am on instagram , I quite like it

I joined Instagram this weekend and am limiting myself to only following real, proper friends and lots of light and fluffy accounts (like fashion and interior design, no instamums or "influences" and their pouty faces). I've decided that social media should be fun, FB sometimes feels like a chore and I just need to ignore it! I do, however, find FB useful for keeping up in village gossip on our local group page

I was in a similar position to you over a year ago, I was finding myself scrolling through it and just getting annoyed with most of the stuff I was seeing and just generally finding it a negative place.

I deactivated my Facebook account and said I'd leave it a week and see if I wanted to go back onto it. A week passed, then a month and I just had no interest in reactivating it. Perhaps try this yourself and see how you feel? Or maybe delete the app and just have a look through every so often when you feel like logging in, the constant notifications usually lead you to be on there more than you usually would

I found just taking the app off my phone (but keeping messenger) helpful. I also unfollow anyone I find annoying. Instagram is much less irritating and I find it less negative too.

Like everything else with Facebook it depends on your friends. My friends wouldn’t judge like that. They are my actual real life friends, not random people. We are pleased for each other about good th8ngs and supportive about bad.

I left fb at easter the first week or two is a bit weird but feel so much better for not being on it ...I was at a place where I was planning what photos I might post on fb before the actual event I was thinking of- crazy!

I really felt like deleting it earlier. Someone I know posted this:

Chilli for tea, was really nice, even the kids enjoyed it.

And just...so fucking what? Who do you imagine gives the smallest fuck about that??

If I didn't need it for school/family abroad I'd get rid of it.

I've not been on Facebook for about 2 years now. One of the best decisions I had made.

Get rid. It's so liberating.

I did the same as blackbirdblue and deleted the app - if I wanted to go on, I'd have to use the site. After a week or so I stopped looking.

Deleted my account 4 years ago for the sake of my mental health. One of the best things I did at the time. I was telling a friend about an incident on Facebook a few years ago where a few work colleagues ended up in a massive slanging match over the organising of an event. Things got nasty and the event was cancelled in the end. Never been so relieved to not be on there

Try scroll free sept! I’ve removed my social media apps from my phone purely because I was spending far too much time on fb, twitter and Instagram. They don’t make me annoyed or angry or cross or jealous though - they just consume too much of my time when I should be doing something more productive.

I had a Facebook friend (friend of a friend), I had to give her the boot from my friends list.

She uses it as a running commentary about her life "ironing done, dinner on and then non nights"
She even broadcasts her period. "I hate being a woman" "stomach ache, Mother Nature strikes again"

It’s all fucking bullshit.

I take absolutely no notice of the bollocks that people post and rarely post anything about me.

Don’t let it bother you. There are worse things to have to worry about.

I know what you mean. I've recently unfriended everyone apart from family and a couple of friends who live far away and I don't see often. I've unsubscribed from most of my pages so know I really only see posts from family and cute animal videos. It's quite boring now actually, spending much less time on it which can only be a good thing!!

I'm off it now. Do not miss it at all. Just feel a bit aggrieved at how much time I wasted.

I REALLY do not miss seeing the school parents Facebook page. What a mind numbing load of drivel & stupidity (and this is from quite an intelligent bunch of people).

Paddington I REALLY wish our school had a parents group. I bet it’s comedy gold 😆

Well I’ve managed to stay off it for a couple of days but I feel kind of ....odd

I work in social media but this summer I took myself right off insta, Facebook, twitter etc for a month.

It was wonderful. And I didn't really feel like I'd missed out on anything. I'm seriously considering retraining so that I don't have to use it for work any more. Try coming off it all for a while and see how you think.

I do hardly anything on FB, go in, like one or two things. Never post status updates. Very occasionally, like once a year, a couple of holiday snaps. That’s it. I’m not on instagram, that sounds even worse. Can’t be arsed with Twitter.

When you go off it for a few weeks/months you realize how boring it is and then you don’t get annoyed with what people you normally like put up. I used to be addicted but now because I’m not interested in the above things you mentioned in your post that my friends list do I just don’t go on. Every so often I need to deactivate to see what events are on near me but that’s all. It’s pure muck.
I love Instagram though no negativity on it

Bebe I'm sorry to inform you, you're suffering from a modern day affliction called FOMO* which can only be cured by going cold turkey.

Go on, hit the Delete button, you know it makes sense
We can do an all-nighter vigil and hand hold if it gets too traumatic

• FOMO - fear of missing out

LOL daisy

I think it is a fear of missing out. On what though I don’t know?? Pictures of peoples dinner and “inspirational” quotes?