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

I have a friend who constantly says she's deleting fb, with a whole speech about how down she is, gets loads of "you OK hun?" replies and she's still there days later. The same friend keeps posting rants about her ex, and snakes who go to him with info about her... Then the following week they're back together and she's all "this one" with pictures of their heads with hearts round them and how did she and her son manage without him in their lives... The following week she's called the police on him, the snakes are once again being hunted and so it goes on. I wish I'd counted how many times they've broken up and got back together!!

Oh and on the birthdays of people who have passed on "hope you're having a brilliant time up there"

Anyone that spells you'll as your and he's as his.
Oh and anyone that uses that stupid monkey covering its face emoji after every single thing they post.

So proud of my little genius #straightAs, #tengcses
And
I am so bloody angry
And
Why are people such backstabbers?
And
Sunday morning chill #blessed #mumofone #familylife

If we are going down the spelling and grammar route...
Chest of draws
Could of, should of, would of
There blue
There house

I'm glad I'm not the only one sick of all the crap that gets posted on Facebook.

Making memories

Serial hospital check ins

Cheeky anything

Shitty looking food pics, at least make sure it's a good quality photo before you upload your beans on toast...

Going overboard with bragging and acting smug. There's a difference between checking in to a holiday destination, posting photos and being all "all inclusive 5 star hotel? Why not wink wink" followed by more of the same each day.

As hazeyjane said the special children for special parents thing is a load of Bollocks,no I'm a normal parent i m not wonderful I never expected a child with disabilities I have one, I do my best for him because I love him just As any parent loves their child .

Oh yeah... also like and share if you care. Actually requests to like and share anything other than people in need e.g. if something has been stolen or someone is missing etc, those I don't mind.

Something else i hate, when it's something the rest of the world has been doing for years like taking kids to nursery etc, someone does it for the first time and puts big posts about it like they've discovered the earth isn't flat... Yawn yawn yawn

Thoughts and prayers people, thoughts and prayers.

This is the reason I deleted all my social media. 👍🏻

Is Mumsnet social media? I hate it when someone posts on AIBU “This is my first post so please be gentle...”. People aren’t going to be gentle, they are going to tell you how horrible you are.

One of my most hated social media posts is also my most hated MN post...

‘DH said...’ ‘Just told DH and he laughed so hard’

Who cares? Get your DH his own social media/MN account and let him post. Don’t you have thoughts of your own?

I get FB posts from BabiPur Hangout, God knows why I signed up, but it is full of photos of vast quantities of wildly overpriced wooden toys, all rainbow coloured with captions such as "See what the postman brought today' . Also lots of photos of 'My LO ( add some 'unusual' name), dressed in shapeless dresses with horrible twee prints. All incredibly competitive and very unstealthy boasting,

Pictures of food - why? Unless it's a work of art. Usually it's a plate of unappetizing fish and chips.

Checking in at funerals - with photos of them all smiling round the funeral flowers and looking sad by the coffin. Had to delete her.

Pictures of food - why? Unless it's a work of art. Usually it's a plate of unappetizing fish and chips.

Disagree with first part. Sometimes it doesn't look like work of art but someone spent hours and hours preparing it. And for many actually cooking something is an achievement.

Agree with the part about unappetizing fish and chips pics. 🤢

When people whine and moan about how annoyed or pissed off they are, then someone comments "what's up?", then the poster's reply "it doesn't matter"....

Looove this 😂 although slightly guilty of a couple.

My bug bear which has been mentioned are the birthday posts, WHY ARE YOU POSTING PHOTOGRAPHS OF YOURSELF FOR SOMEONE ELSE'S BIRTHDAY??!! Happy birthday hun, look at all these photos of us together, but with me centre middle.

Hypochondriacs. I have one "friend" who I swear has one of her nuclear family in hospital at least once a month, obviously checks in every time, she has a medical condition but you can tell with the ailments her other kids and husband go in with that it is total over zealousness.

People who seem to constantly have their kids off school for sniffles and colds (and tell Facebook about it) and then moan publicly about the school probing them for their attendance.

People treating Facebook like Pinterest, "wish list" albums for their house.

"I serve too" "support our heroes" drippy military wife posts (as a military wife myself).

And people who take pictures of their new cars or house.

Hun, I don't care. I am so glad I no longer have any form of social media platform lol I still remember what it was like! I am much more confident since deleting the damn thing.

All of those. And fitness instgrammers who post before and afters when the before shots looks like what most people would aspire too. There’s one in particular who alway posts the same before shot with something like ‘I was so unhealthy and eating a chocolate bar per day, I weighed about 9 stone, I hated looking at myself in the mirror’. The before shot is a perfectly healthy weight 20 something in her bikini.

Another one I remember who used to live off benefits (she was capable of working, just didn't want to) posted "feeling so exhausted! I have just cleaned the house from top to bottom! Now it is time for well earned cup of tea, pop my feet up and catch up on JK show"

Then you've got those who actually do all those things AND go to work.

The 'school clique' postings.

I have a friend who got together with one of the 'popular' boys a few years after we'd all left school.

She now posts birthday messages on all the 'popular girls' profiles, even though she had fuck all to do with them then and now.

IRL - their relationship is a shitstorm that is obviously going to implode. She spent the first couple of years of their relationship making lame brags about having 'bagged' him. The rest of us have mostly forgotten who these people are, and are just waiting for it to implode. She's the biggest drama queen I know, so I'm expecting it to be spectacular.

On the topic of school friends, when people you didn't like from your school days adding you on Facebook and do one of 2 things 1) be super pally, like your photos etc despite being a raging bitch to you in high school 2) completely ignore you, clearly just Fb stalking.

There is one guy I know who likes to post things purely to demonstrate how much money he has - so for example he'll post a picture of something mundane but with his wrist in shot, so you can see his Rolex. Most recently he posted a slow-mo video of him throwing notes into the air accompanied by some self congratulating hashtags. In real life he has 5 kids (with numerous different women) and doesn't ever seem to spread his 'wealth' their way. He was always a bit of a twat but clearly FB has allowed him to explore his inner narcissist.