Social media posts that annoy you the most?

[MadamGrumpsalot]

Anyone else find particular types of social media posts teeth-grittingly, skin-crawlingly annoying AF? A few examples of the little gems that make me cringe:

• "soppy status alert" followed by ramblings about how this man is her rock blah blah blah. These people live together.. why doesn't she just say it to him across the sofa? Why the need to tell everyone in fb/Instagram land??

• the attention seeking "cryptic" status. Usually goes something like: 'I just feel so alone, I don't know how this could happen to me' where the actual thing they're upset about is purposefully not mentioned so that they get tons of comments asking about it!

• Those long winded statuses that say at the end "if you're my true friend you'll copy and repost this on your feed, if you don't I'll know our friendship isn't true". Errrm no, it's just that IMO our friendship is a RL thing and with two toddlers to chase after at home I don't really have time to be sat reposting bloody essays on social media (she says... posting a grumpagram on MN )!

• the "quitting social media" or "taking time away from social media" posts. Okay, totally understand that it's good to unplug (in fact, my gripe with social media generally is that people need to be more present and enjoy experiences rather than friggin posting about them!) but if you truly wanted to unplug I figure you'd just stop using the app for a bit. No need to announce it surely? RL friends will know you're okay as I'm certain people don't simply use FB/IG for contact!?

• the standard Christmas/Easter/MothersDay/Birthday/Thursday posts, usually with a photo collage of the day itself. On Xmas it would typically have pictures of the presents in piles (which in itself seems a bit showy) with captions like "the boy did good" or "totally spoilt". Yes. Yes you are.

• finally.. the bloody Juice Plus/ Nutrilife/ Skinny Coffee/ Herbalife posts trying to get you on their sodding pyramid scheme with enticing BS about earning £220 an hour from your sofa! Bore off.

There are so many more but that's a start! Can you tell I'm in a grumpy Monday mood

A friend posted a photo of her child hugging her dog that was about to be put to sleep.

'She's saying goodbye for the last time - heartbroken'

@Kayleidogyn that's made me laugh so much

LOVING all of your replies and sitting at my desk at work tittering away!

I've remembered another one... the "press the middle button to complete the sentence" nonsense that people post on a daily pissing basis!

Also - Boomerang posts on IG. Enough said.

@Sonders

Jesus Sharon, I really don't care that your bag of fresh carrots got substituted for tinned but at least give me the full story!

Those fucking Minion Memes.

Pictures of food.

Check ins at the hospital/doctors/dentist etc..

Posts about their dog

Holiday pictures because I’m envious!

Yes bmw do have 10000 luxury motor homes they can’t sell because they’re last years model. Apple have 500 iphone x’s too, and Virgin have 300 weekends in Vegas.

Can’t sell any of it. So they’ll give it away if you like and share. Feel free to add your sob story of your great aunt’s uncles budgie dying and the break is exactly what you need.

I do agree about announcing fb breaks though- i took a break for mh reasons and when i felt able to go back several people had unfriended me. I do sometimes think about unfriending people who don’t post much as i suspect they have me on limited profile so i can’t see what they post, but they can see everything i do...

@nutellalove we have a girls WhatsApp group (this offender isn't in it as I cannot fucking stand her) & my mates screenshot her posts. The worst bit is, she's friends with a famous MUA!

I felt exactly the same all attention seekers that's why I deleted all social media from my life and that was nearly 6 yrs ago now :)

The “win a holiday” ones never fails to amaze me that people still believe these things!

Two friends did - one was a weekend in Windsor, the other won a holiday to the Maldives, both went , no catches.

Constant updates about people’s kids - no I don’t want to know little Harry’s bowel movements, or see what he had for his lunch in the disgusting picture you’ve posted of him covered in food. I also don’t need to know every illness you and your kids have got at the moment! Nor do I need to read their full school report or see how many presents they got for their birthday

I also don’t know why you feel the need to wish your 1 year old ‘happy birthday’ on Facebook when he doesn’t have an account nor can actually read.

Gratuitous posts about dead people - I actually have a relative who takes this one step further by checking into the cemetery where her DF is buried, posts photos of his grave AND photos of her kids posing next to his headstone!!! So unnecessary.

And yes to the hospital check ins with no further information.

Yes yes and yes to all of these!!

The picture quotes are so annoying too... 'if there are people in your life that give you no joy, then your life is better off without them' - you're right Karen, unfriend

Oh and people who post ‘RIP’ to celebrities as if they knew them personally

Possibly outing..

Stolen art/cartoon strips, particularly used by those wanting to promote their own business page but see no need to contact the artist over licencing fees, and then trot out the 'but its on Facebook, so it's free' line.

It ain't. Here's my bill, or would you prefer court?

After that, vaguebooking - either tell us or shuttup.

Friend posts selfie, announces she looks fabulous and is glowing because she is so in love.

People ask who she is seeing.

Friend posts she doesn't want to post her private life over facebook.

Same friend also did the hospital thing (collapsed having a minor procedure) and refused to give private details.

People who like their own posts, don't know why that drives me mental.

My friends sister is currently selling “younique” make up and keeps posting horrendous pictures/videos of this women applying shit make up!

Another friend loves to tag everyone in stupid posts like “tag the drunk girls” etc

My other friend posts selfies with the caption “ergh looking rough today..” eyeroll.

A few years ago there was a no make up selfie for cancer but it it was all about the person being told how beautiful they were “without “ makeup and no find raising or awareness raising whatsoever had to call out an old school friend on that one so fucking offensive to people who’s looks have been revenged by Achual my hsving cancer
Also the resent 10 year picture thing with all the comments being about how you haven’t aged, so sexist and vain

I'm clearly more tolerant as pretty much all of these just make me roll my eyes and scroll past. And help me to get a sense of people to help decide if they really are people I want in my life.

But the one thing I cannot stand and block people for regularly is the random quote or meme with some outrageously, easily checked fact, designed to rile people up. You know, the meme with a picture of an old man in a wheelchair and the line, "80% of pensioners die without receiving enough benefits to live but refugees are living in 5* state-provided accommodation". It's like if it's a meme, it MUST be true and any ability to actually think just goes out the window.

Similarly, the ones with some kind of terrible warnings attached - picture of a broken car seat and a message about how gangs are using broken down car seats at the side of the road to lure unsuspecting drivers into stopping so they can be murdered as part of a gang initiation.

I spend a lot of time posting links to Snopes before I delete them forever!

People who post really personal messages about their kids, e.g. "Been up all night with poor Timmy who has the shits"

WHY does anyone need to know that?

Also, people on LinkedIn posting about how hard they've worked and how if we all just quit our jobs, worked 25 hours a day, 8 days a week and had an investment from mum & dad, we could all be as happy as them. Fuck off.

@mamamamysharona - I always think that too. I wanted to post something the other day, but it would have required mentioning a specific condition DD had and I just didn't think the whole world needed to know. So I didn't. I post things about my DC regularly, but try to keep it fairly light. Details of her intimate health issues is a step too far.

People who moan about the kind of things other people post. Oops, now I read that back, it sounds like a dig at the OP, but it's not what I meant. I was thinking more about people who post loads of their own shit, but get irritated if something else is happening to divert attention from them, then they moan about how dull it is that everyone's talking about the football/Brexit/The Apprentice, and they should stfu and listen to meeee.

#blessed #myworld #familyiseverything #youcompleteme #myson-shine #pefection #howdidigetsolucky

Fuck off mate.

Someone I'm friends with actually checked in at a crematorium once. Pure attention seeking and actually quite disgustingly insensitive.

I hate all the happy mothers day posts and all the bragging about mothers day presents. I would never wish my mum happy mothers day on fb.

"Delete if now aloud" - always spelt that way too. Gives me the rage!

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