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

Also people wishing their children happy birthday on fb. Why not just say it to their face.

Wow! A lot of people judging and moaning here! Seriously, most of this is what social media is all about! If you don't like it, don't go on it?! 🤷🏻‍♀️

It is all annoying but you can sometimes get funny posts on there too.
I tend to scroll past the shit and block the idiots.
Life was better before all this though. We had to meet people to hear about their trip to the hospital! ( Thinking about it, maybe that's an upside as you can scroll past it all and not have to hear about it face to face! )
Think of the positives.

Appalling punctuation, spelling and grammar.

People that “check in” at hospitals, clearly fishing for attention

YANBU op. I'm 3 months off it now and it feels good!

I hate the passive show off - "yet another bloody weekend spent at xyz. The things we have to do for kids." x could be Euro Disney, y could be Lego Land, z ciukd be Universal studios. (Friend...you know who you are)
Similarly, 'anyone else had trouble with their Audi Q7, with the S line badges working loose after just a week or two".
And 'only we could get snowed in, in our holiday cottage. Even the hot tub is frozen, could only happen to us".

Yep all of them esp the attention seeking hospital one
I’m done with it all now and I’m having a great time (altho spending too much time on MN instead!!)
Life without Facebook is great!

I agree with a lot of these but in my case when Ddad died suddenly relatively young, I didn't have the energy or inclination to tell friends that I hadn't seen for a while and wouldn't see for a while.

So a FB status of a lovely pic on the day of his funeral put the message out there. I don't grieve publicly but this acknowledges that I love and miss him. Same with the occasional pic of my mum.

Also pics of DC for overseas relatives. I'm unlikely to send them pics directly and this is just easier.

But memes? No thanks

@madamgrumpsalot I don’t think that’s about attention, I think it’s that they don’t want people to forget their love one. It’s awful to think people just forget about it. I know for me I feel like I’m disrespecting my child if I don’t light a candle for him and post a picture of him on his birthday. Does that make sense? He still my child, even though he’s gone and I love him to pieces.

Cryptic "I know something you don't know" posts.

Wishing one's DP Happy Birthday/Valentine's Day/Anniversary despite seeing them in person that day.

I have unfollowed the person who does both of these.