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

One ‘friend’ who posts about her chronic illnesses every day. Every. Day.

Gosh, that's harsh isn't it? I have friends on FB who post things about their health or the health of their children frequently, but I imagine it is all consuming for them and if they can find support or an outlet via social media...surely that's one of the good things about it?

I have a fb ‘friend’ (read; person I worked with briefly who requested me to be nosy and whom I keep for teeth-gritting/ego boosting purposes) who ticks loads of these.
Endless posts about chronic illness; check
Mysterious, unexplained visits to hospital; check
Posts about knowing who your real friends are; check

Mumsnet is social media

I'm no longer surprised by much, but the check-ins at crematoria/other funeral venues genuinely made me do a double-take. Unbelievably crass.

Last week I saw my first #Famalam! Even worse was that it came from a person who normally has sense. That word is eye-clawingly awful; only made worse by the hashtag.

Sticking my neck out here and saying I like people's holiday pics, but that's because travel and adventure really rings my bell. My friends are currently having the journey of a lifetime in the Antipodes, a thing I've wanted to do all my life. I'm enjoying logging in every day so I can live it vicariously through them!

Just thought of another. Hobbyists. People who have to remind you day in and day out, hourly, of their hobby. Horse people, I'm mostly looking at you. Constant sharing of superior "traffic slow down" type posts, not having any money memes etc etc

I've no doubt people hate my superior feminist memes and posts though 😁

Drinkies wiv these two.
Mummy and daughter time wiv this one!

I’m a hillwalker and do post photos of the scenery I see, so I’m a hill bore. I justify it by telling myself they’re nice photos and that anyone not interested is welcome to scroll on past.

I think we all post a load of old crap don’t we? Really?

I'm chronically ill, but keep a lot about my illnesses off of SM because my healthy friends have made assumptions about my abilities (or lack thereof) and have left me out of stuff thinking they were being kind.

I also have a lot of chronically ill friends. Their posts don't bother me, unless they're moaning about not being able to do anything around their house/go out/work, then post that they've got a better social life than me. Another posts a fully made up and hair done selfie every day, captioned with how ill and rubbish they feel and look. Well, if I'd put on a full face, clip in extensions in AND curled them just to do the school run I'd be needing a rest too! When I was having a bad day when DS still needed taking to school I considered pulling a tracksuit on over my PJs and brushing my hair a win!

I have one friend I've had to mute because everything on SM is picture perfect, but I hear from my DM (who is friends with her Mum) how IRL everything is falling apart. On SM she's married to her best friend, has beautiful children and a thriving business. In reality her DH is no help financially, with the kids or round the house, both kids have health issues (but she and her family have a long history of treating anything less than perfect as shameful) and she's having a breakdown and not wanting to run her business even though it's the family's main source of support. I can't deal with the discrepancy and find it easier to be sympathetic when not constantly bombarded with #blessed posts.

Many of my friends have reached the having DC stage (I had DS comparatively young) and suddenly they're all trying to be SM influencers. Lots of formulaic posts about products they love, photos of every healthy meal they give their kids or themselves (along with weight loss journey tags) and competitive mothering about parenting styles and mum guilt. I sit there like "Just WAIT until the teenage years!"

Lastly the "friend" who constantly posts about things that make her heart hurt which are all thinly veiled "look how caring and humble I am" type posts when she can be one of the biggest bitches ever. And I can't mute her as she is a big part of my hobby group and I need to see her posts about that!

Personal faves

“Today would’ve been great great grandads Birthday. He would’ve been 156 years old. Fly high. You are with the angels and Princess Di, and Jade Goody”

“Checked into A&E” then nothing.

People who just moan about how ill they are all the time 🙄

One person on my FB is a particularly bad culprit for most of the above!

80% peddling her MLM scheme bullshit complete with before and after pictures that all look the same regardless of which product she’s trying to promote.

10% ‘omg got so much done today, cleaned the house, washed the dog, walks with fam, now putting my feet up with a cuppa #blessed’ type crap that nobody is remotely interested in.

10% ‘snuggles with my best boy’ ‘#mummy life’ ‘poorly princess’ drivel

And the latest, a zoomed in scan picture inviting everyone to guess whether it’s ‘team pink’ or ‘team blue’. Just why?!

Constant selfies, all with filters. If u think you're that bloody gorgeous put a natural photo up, not one with fucking bunny ears! And the comments, "you've got lovely skin hun" "aw thanks babe".

IT'S A FILTER!

I'd say MN is Social Media... but I guess it's pretty anonymous so a bit different.

But the comments on lost dog/ people posts with 'Shared Dorset' 'Shared Grimsby' really get me... oh great so you're in touch with the whole of Dorset so that's covered...???

The holiday picture albums of 40 odd pictures

Anything directed at just one or two people, especially if cryptically worded to make anyone else feel excluded.

Almost all memes

'My little family.' My father's wife. Posts. This. Constantly. Myself, my DS, my DD, my sister etc are never featured in these of course, as it's a rewritten history, innit? me, bitter? Never

I came off of social media (except mumsnet) and don't hate humans as much now.

Sharing a lost animal post that is two years out of date or on another continent

The make £1000’s if you pay £160 thing 😡

What are we aloud sorry allowed to post then?

My nephew killed himself 3 years ago. Not a day goes by where somebody doesn't mention him on Facebook and my brother and sil love it. We know he's dead and cannot read the posts but it is a comfort to those who knew and loved him.

I agree with most of the above.
Things I find quite funny even though they are annoying are the succession of middle-aged male friends discovering MapMyRun type running or cycling apps and relentlessly sharing their tedious Sunday morning runs/rides;
indulgent and ridiculous selfies; and photos of appalling craft tat.
I am currently struggling with an epidemic of people on SM unable to spell “cue” as in “I politely told my parents we wouldn’t be letting anyone breathe in the same room as baby for the first 24 weeks, - que/ queue cbf from my mum”
My greatest hatred is reserved for the posts in the run up to Remembrance Sunday involving comparisons between immigrants who all get free leather jackets, 5 bedroom houses and driving lessons, and a “Hero” who is currently homeless on the streets. In fact all the “Our Heroes” posts by men I used to go to school with who considered a weekend incomplete without a Saturday night out in their waxed jackets “squaddy-bashing” in the local pubs (there was an army barracks very close to our small rural market town.)
Some members of the armed forces are heroes, perhaps many, however we have completely devalued the word hero by applying it equally to anyone and everyone who has ever been in the forces. A lot of the lads who joined up when I was a school leaver before the Gulf War and its aftermath, joined up because they’d done fuck all at school, were getting into a bit of bother, and were virtually marched off there by their mams. Others joined to get a trade, - a very good reason, but with no expectation of active service unless they joined the army (Northern Ireland). Some of those lads may have proven themselves heroes in subsequent action but it’s not a given.

@LightDrizzle I have to say that's not my experience, we are a military family with lots of military friends and I see none of the posts you mention from them (though I know exactly what you mean!!) I find it's the (working class, if I can be so pointed) Brexiteers on my Facebook who are far removed from any military experience who spout the crap you speak of. We (DH and I) get incredibly embarrassed by how the far right leach onto the military as a way of making their point. I know exactly what you mean, but I personally don't see if from those in the military itself.

Userisi - My experience is identical, I went to boarding school for 6 years and the majority of my friends there were forces families, I’ve never, seen them post such shit, nor bandy the word hero about. The culprits are a few Facebook friends I picked up from the (excellent) local comp I decided I wanted to go to at 15, and some of DH’s former rugby friends.
He has got one friend who actually was a submariner donkeys years ago and incessantly posts about it, - to talk to him you think he left yesterday, but as for the rest, the closest they got to the forces was contact between fist and skin on a Saturday night in The Bay Horse car park.

Yes, those that mark themselves safe. A bloke I know marked himself safe after the Manchester bombing, he lives in Ramsgate, single, in his 60’s, never been to Manchester (I only mention his age/marital status due to the demographic of those killed/injured).
Oh and a lady I know who checks in to our town’s very mediocre shopping centre and then the Wimpy for a coffee half an hour later.

I don't really understand this - surely if you are talking about Facebook, these posts are from people you CHOOSE to be friends with? Why complain when you are actively adding the things you don't like to your feed? If it's other social media, then I may be mistaken (don't use that much) but surely it all works the same way - if you hate people who check into hospital hoping for a bit of support, then just get rid of them from your feed?

The making memories one, some posts where they have about 20 posts, showing 30 photos each just tells me that they're spending more time taking photos and uploading them on Facebook then actually enjoying the day. Oh and the Snapchat filters. Sometimes I can't even tell who it is because there are so many things in the way. The worst one is a works colleague, she creates albums of them, she'll do at least three albums of them a few times a week and then she'll do albums of photos of herself, just headshots, some posing, some pouting. I have tried deleting her but she found out and didn't talk to me for a week. It doesn't help that i work on the same section as her

Silly middle aged women who post selfies with filters giving them “cute” bunny noses and ears, giant bambi eyes, rainbows and stars. Vom.

The PA posts and the current ones about letting people in your life.

Memories of people who have died depends, maybe it the difference in those that write about someone and those that write to them.

I agree that on the surface it can be seen as crass but an event for a funeral does have its uses especially if people are all over the country. It means someone doesn't have to spend hours passing on the same messages or risk messages being lost along the way. Timings can easily change too so an easy way to inform people.

Political posts. Especially popular during last general election when my labour voting friends thought everyone would vote labour if they told us to over and over again. We didn't.