To ignore this face book check in to hospital?

[marymarkle]

I have just had a status come up on my face book of X feeling worried, and a check in to the local hospital. There are lots of comments saying - are you okay x, what's up X, but there is no answer from x.
AIBU to totally ignore this status?

I work in an emergency department where there is awful phone signal. It’s quite funny watching people unable to post on FB with their sprained toe but I feel sorry for those who are really unwell who can’t get signal. Is just a terrible building

I know a woman whose child has a non life threatening condition but needs yearly check ups. Yes every year she announces she checks in waiting at the hospital (no specific department) with said child but does not specify why, so everyone worries and she never comes back to explain. I only know what it was as I used to work with her

Of course you should ignore it. I wish everyone would just ignore the Facebook content that annoys them instead of creating a big song and dance about it on Mumsnet.

As a poster said upthread I also unfollowed a person who was doing this frequently - as did a lot of others and the problem is now I wouldn’t
Know if she or her family really were ill. A kind of modern version of the girl who cried wolf.

I never comment, sometimes I'll randomly like it.

Ugh, I know someone who does this - if she ends up in A&E you'll hear about it. Surprisingly, she did it when she took one of her children in as well - I was wondering why she was on the phone at a time when the child needed medical attention! Child sent home with meds thankfully.

Does this dress make me look fat! (I'm as thin as a rail).
Lol, my bf just bought me a snack (picture of lobster).
Just popped into hospital for a triple by-pass.
Miss me, anyone?

"But, she photographs every hospital visit complete with a sad face selfie, a photo of the cannula and then a photo of of her meds."

Oh yes, I've seen that and wondered why? I would never think to even take a picture during the times I was in hospital and there were many weeks where I was in, out, then rushed back in, etc. I've even seen a mother and son taking a selfie where the son was in bed with a cannula. I even saw another lady post a photo of her hospital ID tag. Oh, and her IV bag. WTF? Just why??

It's called "vaguebooking" and they should defiinitely be ignored! Unfriended even, unless you truly love them in every other way! But if you do love them in every other way, tell them to stop being a dick on Facebook.

I live in Dublin and yesterday morning there was a crash in which a woman in her thirties was decapitated and people stopped to take pictures and a video without her family being told first.

It doesn't get any worse than that.

Rip Jackie x

YABU to bother posting on Mumsnet about something so trivial.

People go on facebook because waiting around in hospital is boring!
It is annoying she doesn’t say why though. Maybe the signal has gone or she is being seen. If you aren’t bothered, ignore.

Of course you can be ill and on facebook. I posted when in with stomach pains prior to laparoscopy and appendectomy. Messaging people passes the time. I have had varios injuries and procedures over the years but never been unable to use my phone except when I fell down the stairs and was in a neck brace!

Even if you are with kids, you might spend a few minutes with your phone. The last time took my son we both sat looking at our phones during the 2 hour wait for him to be seen. He had swallowed a piece of chicken bone and thought it was still stuck in his thoat.

The irony of an attention and approval seeking thread when moaning about an attention seeking post

My Auntie does this a lot - I usually just 'like' which I am sure is not what she wants to see

My DB's 'D'P does that whenever he's in hospital, or else he'll write long, rambling statuses when he's ill and complain to anyone and everyone that he can't paint or whatever it is he wants to do (nevermind the fact that he wasn't bothering when he WAS well enough to).

He always makes a big deal out everything - yes, he has some health issues but he has to make a song and dance out of everything. We were all visiting my parents once and he had something wrong with his hand and he was telling everyone about how much he's suffering and how he's had to learn to do everything without using that hand, before giving us a demonstration of how he's even managed to learn to pick up carrier bags using just two of his fingers on this hand. My DB rolled his eyes and said, "Or you could just use your other hand."

Another vote for attention seeking twaddle to ignore. Let's face it, if it is bad, the last thing you would think about is Facebook.

I don't think some people are always announcing it for support, sometimes they do vaguebook. It’s different if you check in and say something like “in hospital with a maybe broken leg, in pain and bored. Long wait!”.

Being in facebook is fine anywhere, but why do people have to check in and say "at the hospital with bubs" or "back up A&E #worried". No need for it at all.

Just browsing through facebook to kill the waiting time is fine.

Anyway so many people got so sick of her updates that they unfollowed/blocked etc. Except when the baby was born he was seriously ill and rushed into scbu and very nearly died. As was her way she posted it all over facebook. Except so many people had unfollowed her that they didn’t know and she had literally no support

Poor woman. That’s really sad.

Let's face it, if it is bad, the last thing you would think about is Facebook

I went to A&E with suspected broken ankle (I definitely haven’t been referenced, mine was broken).

I used the 5 hours I was in A&E waiting to work - which for me is on social media.

I have a relative who does this, often when she is taking other people to hospital appointments. I think it is a bit martyrish..ie look at me taking these poor ill people to hospital, aren't I marvellous...type thing.

I'd ignore it, if they are well enough to 'check-in' via facebook, it's not serious

Now come one OP, your relative could have a leg that's like a breadstick after it's been in a blender

I love This Country too

You don't have to like or comment on every post you see and you have no idea about the ones you don't see so why do you need to ask? The person has no clue who has seen her post.

I don’t reply to these posts. I have checked in before on Fb but usually with a photo with dc in plaster 🤣. Hate it when people check in without bloody saying what they are in for and if they are ok, they are just waiting for the “are you ok hun?” Posts.

Not long ago one of my friends posted that the reason why her and DP don’t seem with it, it was cos of y (that she herself says will pass) but she wanted to explain so we all knew why she wasn’t with it. Cue all the ‘oh be strong’ and ‘don’t explain yourself to people who don’t matter’.

@Myheartbelongsto I couldn't believe what I was reading yesterday (I'm in Cork) - the Gardaí actually had to appeal to people not to show those pictures. What sort of a sick twisted individual would even consider taking them - and then to share them on social media?🤬 What were their phones even doing in their hands? Poor lady & her poor family. RIP.