To be bored with people shouting about not celebrating NYE

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I get that this is fashionable these days for a certain generation - hell, even MY generation. But why are people so desperate to tell the world that they’re staying in for NYE?

I don’t understand why people are so proud of it. It’s all over my Facebook - memes with pictures of people hiding under duvets; long posts about how it will be ‘bliss’ to avoid the ‘midnight madness’... it’s like a badge of honour.

It’s fine to stay in if you want to - but why make such a fuss about announcing it?

I didn’t know people were! Perhaps you need to get off Facebook?

I’m staying in btw 🤣🤣🤣

Perhaps you need to get off Facebook?

I’m not on there 24/7, but thanks for the tip.

Staying in and planning to be asleep

I went out every NYE as a teenager and twenty something. Now I don't. It's not that unusual to just not want to bother.

No shouting though. Except if the fireworkswake me up and frighten the cat.

It's also pretty tedious the amount of angst other people's Facebook posts seem to cause. I'm not sure making a Facebook post about staying in on NYE could be classed as 'making a fuss'

It's Hogmanay!!!

Wow, the zeitgeist has finally caught up with me!

I gave up going to pubs/clubs on NYE about 20 yearsago. I just got to the point where I couldn't stand the whole air of enforced joviality, the idiocies of the once-a-year drinkers and and the way men you've never met think they're entitled to stick their tongues down your throat just because it's midnight on 31st December.

For a few years, we'd go to friends or host at ours, but I stopped because my abusive ex had an alcohol problem and was much worse when pissed and I never got back into the habit after we split. DP and I stay home, have a drink and are often asleep by midnight.

Well I was hoping to go out, but all my plans have fallen through. So it will just be me by myself watching tv. I’d rather turn it into a positive even though to be quite honest I’m feeling quite down about it.

I will be watching other people’s fireworks from my room though (it’s an attic room with skylights so good for firework watching!)

It's also pretty tedious the amount of angst other people's Facebook posts seem to cause. I'm not sure making a Facebook post about staying in on NYE could be classed as 'making a fuss'

Fair enough - but why tell people at all?

Possibly because they’re trying to make themselves feel better about it?

@Cough I don't know..... maybe people are a bit lonely or a bit meh and want to connect with others in some way and find some common ground around NYE. Maybe they want to feel they have made the right decision about staying in and want that confirmed, maybe they just want some attention. Who knows.

I'm always quite surprised how many people post things like this too, given how many people ARE out. I'm not going out myself, as I have a 1 year old and am pregnant, but would be if my circumstances were different!

I also noticed this although wasn't bothered by it. Don't you think it's probably more indicative of the age skew on Facebook rather than any big change in the habits of the various demographics? So all of us who took up using Facebook in our early 20s are now more 30s, approaching 40s with kids and all the exciting "yay look at me I'm out somewhere exciting for NYE posts are probably on another platform?"

I'm sure it will soon be drowned out by the people shouting about how fabulous their NYE celebrations were and how blessed were to have them, lol.

It’s been too much pressure to have the time of your life. We now spend it in our pjs (preferably)

Fair enough - but why tell people at all?

Who knows, then again I don't understand most people's Facebook posts. People seem to be more concerned with telling people what they're doing than just getting on with it. A large part of the enjoyment of doing anything seems to be telling other people. . I don't actually have Facebook so only know what I see on other people and what I'm told.

oops this may have been me. I've been talking all week in rl that DH and I are staying in and playing Mario Karts with a bunch of party canapés and mulled wine in the slow cooker. I will inevitably share a photo on insta of the food spread with a Happy New Year caption.

Why? Because I am really looking forward to this evening, these things make me happy and I share things that make me happy.

If we didn't have the baby we might have gone out to a house party or something but we are just going with what's easy for the stage of life that we are in.

I enjoy staying home on Hogmanay. I can wish those most important to me a happy new year in person. And I won't be filming the occasion on my phone, or posting pictures or videos of it on social media. I find social media posts suck the life out of occasions, life is seen through a lens rather than eyes these days.

I post things like this so it comes up on my TimeHop and I can look back on what I've done on previous years. As a disabled person it makes me feel great that I'm not the only one stuck in the house having a takeaway. YABU and I suggest that if people posting stuff on their own social media bothers you enough to come and post about it on an Internet forum, you should get off social media.

I think it's a bit of backlash against the "look at us all out having a great time with out friends" type posts. Some people couldn't give a stuff what others think, but others can feel left out of things and a bit inadequate if the don't have plans. I'm sure it helps if they can see plenty of others are also staying home too.

im not going anywhere tonight because i have to be at work in the morning and town is a nightmare i dont want to go anywhere near, what will piss me off is i will be asleep at midnight and the bloody fireworks will be going off , will wake me up and it will be about 1am before i can get back to sleep

Fair enough - but why tell people at all?

Maybe they're fed up of being made to feel that they're 'boring' or 'not joining in' for not wanting to go out for a night of enforced jollity (after all, there is no fun like the pressure to have THE BEST NIGHT OUT EVER!!!!!), non-existent taxis, inexplicably having to pay for a ticket just to cross the threshold of your local and eight-deep bar queues that require the sale of at least one kidney to finance a round that would normally see you change from £20?

I've been nagged about not going out before, and had people try to drag me out to things I don't want to go to, so I too am tempted to put the equivalent of an Out of Office on my social media accounts!

Guilty of biting. But who cares.

But in the spirit OP, I’ve learnt to not pay much attention to FB. I am alone with my little one, not caring much about what others are doing..

It’s just another day/night. I will be feeling a tad smug in the morning though!

YABU and I suggest that if people posting stuff on their own social media bothers you enough to come and post about it on an Internet forum, you should get off social media.

On that basis we should shut down AIBU altogether. Isn’t it pretty much all moaning about other people?

I reserve the right to enjoy the things I like about social media but still moan about those I don’t. I ‘suggest’ you pull yourself together.