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AIBU?

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To be bored with people shouting about not celebrating NYE

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CoughLaughFart · 31/12/2018 18:45

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?

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brizzledrizzle · 31/12/2018 20:32

I post things like that on Facebook but nobody else sees it because of my privacy settings, I like it when it comes up on Timehop a year later.
NYE is a shit time though, Im always on my own and its just another night except I feel more depressed and miserable.

InSightMars · 31/12/2018 20:38

Thing is OP, just like on here, people on social media have the right to post what they like. No, you don’t have to like it but if you’re bored with it, click the little x in the corner and find something that interests you instead.

With regard to the ‘staying in on NYE’ phenomenon, well, I’m guessing most of those, like me, having a cosy evening at home tonight have all been there and done the queues, the crowds, the cost, the cold, the futile search for taxis and the hangover enough times that it no longer appeals to put out a lot of effort for very little reward. Yes, I’m a bit smug about not feeling the pressure to impress anyone else with my social whirliness any more. I have a very fulfilling social scene the rest of the year, events I actually enjoy without all the drawbacks NYE has so I don’t particularly care if anyone else finds me boring or antisocial because I fail to step up on this one night of the year.

LaLoba · 31/12/2018 20:42

Think that maybe if you were having a great time then other people enjoying NY their way might not bug you so much. When I used to go out for it I partied like a rock star and wouldn’t have noticed social media if it had existed then.
Maybe having a better time on your night out might take your mind off other people’s different ways. Or perhaps you need a lovely, peaceful, cuddly quiet night like wot I’m having.

Walkingdeadfangirl · 31/12/2018 20:58

Why is it any less 'acceptable' for someone to celebrate staying in than celebrate going out. FFS YABVU

WhyDontYouComeOnOver · 31/12/2018 21:11

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

Not really, though that's what AIBU is famous for and many of the posters need to get a grip and worry about their own lives rather than someone else's.

I ‘suggest’ you pull yourself together

I'm quite together, thanks. More so than someone whining about what others do on their own social media

ashtrayheart · 31/12/2018 21:16

Isn’t most of Facebook full of unnecessary ‘telling people things’ though?

TheHodgeoftheHedge · 31/12/2018 21:19

but why tell people at all?

Isn’t that the question to ask all forms of social media?!

Sparklingbrook · 31/12/2018 21:22

I did think FB was for telling people stuff. I am not on it for various reasons one of them being I don't know anyone that I would be of interest to that I can't speak to, text or email individually.

I have had a couple of text conversations tonight and told people I was staying in.

LauraMipsum · 31/12/2018 21:24

Fair enough - but why tell people at all?

Why tell them you're going out? Or that you've got a new dress, or new eyebrows, or that your aunt's poodle is chasing bunnies in heaven, or that your cake burned, or your new sofa is three days late, or whatever other inexplicable things people post? Facebook is for telling people what you're doing. That can include "nothing."

BishBoshBashBop · 31/12/2018 21:25

So its ok for people to shout about going out and post endless pictures in various places with #makingmemories plastered all over them, but not for those staying in.

stopgap · 31/12/2018 21:36

I haven’t banged on about it, but have never liked NYE and have avoided it for many years. I adore Christmas and the build up and love going out for Christmas meals and to parties, but will always be in for NYE and ideally asleep for 11pm. I find it quite a sombre occasion which makes me reflect on family members who’ve died and ongoing wars, which is uncharacteristic for me, as I’m usually an upbeat person.

JacquesHammer · 31/12/2018 21:39

The whole basis of FB is “telling people stuff”

Babygrey7 · 31/12/2018 21:41

Why tell people at all?

You could say this about EVERY SINGLE FACEBOOK POST

Walkingdeadfangirl · 31/12/2018 21:46

I am going to post on FB that I am not going to post on this thread any more because it is ridonkulous. Does that make me unreasonable?

NOTthepinkranger · 31/12/2018 21:47

So many people on here are annoyed by what others post on Facebook... delete them or delete Facebook. It really shouldn’t impact your life so much that it annoys you enough to post about it on here.

MorningsEleven · 31/12/2018 21:58

IT'S HOGMANAY AND I'M NOT GOING OUT

I soooooo hope I haven't ruined your new year.

Accountant222 · 31/12/2018 22:13

It's only the past few years I've not gone out NYE, I used to love a party or the Pub, had some brilliant times, rolling home at 7 am, those were the days

Butteredghost · 31/12/2018 22:15

I agree with you OP. It's great to stay in on NYE which is why so many people, perhaps most people, do. Therefore it's a bit silly to make fb posts about how "unusual and crazy" you are for staying in.

toolazytothinkofausername · 31/12/2018 22:17

People still use Facebook

WildCherryBlossom · 31/12/2018 22:27

I am tucked up in bed with a cat and a cup of herbal tea.

LavaLampLover · 31/12/2018 22:31

I left facebook.

Not only do I not have to see tedious posts from tedious people, but I don't feel compelled to update people with every boring detail of my shitty life. Which is shitty. It's been so much nicer since. Quieter.

I was hoping to be out earlier, but today has gone totally tits up and I'm in. Like the majority of the proceeding years.

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CoughLaughFart · 01/01/2019 02:05

I am going to post on FB that I am not going to post on this thread any more because it is ridonkulous. Does that make me unreasonable?

No, being vile for no reason is what makes you unreasonable.

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uer587392 · 01/01/2019 02:13

Yeah, it's weird this year, everyone seems to be orgasmic about wearing their 'PJs' and watching telly. "Bliss!"

I've done that every night since the 27th, and I'll do it tomorrow. But tonight we went out to a big family event with live music and fireworks. Which I must have secretly hated, and longed to be in my 'PJs'.

Walkingdeadfangirl · 01/01/2019 02:50

No, being vile for no reason is what makes you unreasonable
Quote me a single thing I have said that is vile? I know you wont be able to because I haven't. Hence I suspect you are being very unreasonable.

BananasAreTheSourceOfEvil · 01/01/2019 02:58

I avoid facebook like the plague over Christmas and new year. Whilst I only have people I know irl on it, it seems like a competition to see who can say ‘happy Christmas!’ Or ‘happy new year!’ First. Then the hangover posts about illness.

I love them dearly as my friends but I don’t give a fuck. Then there are the hashtags. Ohhhh the hashtags.

For anyone that cares I watched the Mr Bean New Years episode in peace. #bliss #makingmemories

#vomit

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