To wonder why people have to post on Fb when they are on holiday?

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I mean FFS enjoy your holiday and step away from your phone / social media.

So, a relative is on holiday, somewhere really expensive, hot, all inclusive (yes I’m jealous), they go on holiday quite a lot. I have had to look at every meal they have eaten, every trip they have been on, every cocktail they have had and photos of every waiter that has served them. I mean, surely if your on holiday you should be having fun and not sat on your phone taking photos of every morsel of food you eat??

And before anyone suggests I hide their profile, I just have 😁, I’m just miffed at why someone would be on Fb all day whilst on holiday?

If we're away for a bit I might take quite a few pictures but I always wait until we're home to post them. I'll just upload them to an album and leave them there. If people want to look/comment, fine but it's not up for them and certainly no pictures of food!

I don't want my kids remembering our holidays being about us always stuck to our phones. I want to spend time with the people I am away without worrying about my next facebook post. I have a friend who will post a photo as soon as she's anywhere, it feels like an obsession. I have been on facebook for 11 years now but I have drastically stepped away from it. I hardly post anything because I now like to keep some things private and those who are actually in my life know what I am up to.

I used to get annoyed about people posting about their holidays, or days out/nights out/whatever (jealous!) but then I realised they're mainly doing it because it's something out of the ordinary for them as well. It wouldn't be much fun to be posting about having fish fingers and mash in your dining room for the 365th night in a row whereas if you're on holiday you can post a photo of yourself having local version of fish fingers and mash somewhere new. Let them have their little moment away from the mundane everyday life.

Isn't it only to make other people jealous /envious

No, I dont think it is. Well, not the people I am friends with on FB. And its not why I post either. I'm not sure what you and your friends use Fb for, but its nothing to do with trying to make people jealous for me.

If you're having a great time on holiday you aren't sat on the phone and facebooking!

Or you are having some well earned rest to chill out and do your own thing, and quite like sometimes laying in the sun reading what's going on in the world, and posting the odd snap, in between reading, drinking, eating, chatting and watching your children?

What kind of holidays do some Mumsnetters have that means they don't have a single free moment whilst away?
I mean, I do assorts on holidays and we are fairly busy most days - but there is always at least the odd 5-10 minutes each day when you're sat doing nothing isn't there?

There's the burglary thing so I always just post a couple of photos when I get back.

The thing that I don't get is why ppl post photos of themselves and friends out at pizza Express or wherever. I mean presumably everyone there remembers going. Why do you have to announce to the world that you went out?

I don't want my kids remembering our holidays being about us always stuck to our phones.
I don't remember my childhood holidays being about my parents stuck on their cameras (or their postcards, or the Daily Express!). But I'm glad we got the photos.

I love seeing people’s holiday photos.

I think this is one of those things where if you are a happy person with a nice life, you take pleasure in your friends holidays and other happy events.

If you’re generally a bit miserable with life, it’s harder to feel joy at other people’s good happy posts as it rubs it in a bit.

It's so I can gloat at YOU OP. I'm trying to make YOU feel sad. It's very personal, actually. #sarcasm. #ILoveFacebook

I think this is one of those things where if you are a happy person with a nice life, you take pleasure in your friends holidays and other happy events

That's a good point, I think it does boil down to that really.
I mean, I'm terminally skint, can't afford to go anywhere, have a little house that's in desperate need of doing up, but I'm generally happy with my lot.
I see others on FB with their big houses or fancy holidays and I either feel inspired to get my house looking nice or live vicariously through their holidays
I don't think "why them and not me", "wish my life was like that", or "alright for you can afford holidays and I'd have to scrape for a night away in a tent"
It's much better to be happy being you even though that's easier said than done.
People don't post just to piss you off. They post for themselves.

“Isn't it only to make other people jealous /envious/“

I don’t think anyone is envious of our tent-in-the-Highlands camping holidays, but we do stay (and play) in stunning places that are worth photographing.
I’m not looking to make people jealous...I’m showing off the scenery.

Sorry, completely agree with OP. They sound completely nuts posting photographs on social media every 10 minutes. But this is what people do now.

Interestingly, I was reading an article last week (in "The Spectator") on our increasingly surveillance of ourselves and others with film and video camera.

Quoted Susan Sontag (40 years ago):

People had begun to "prefer images to real things" and the camera had become the "device that makes real what one is experiencing".

Later in article, an example given was the way people go to concerts and watch the whole performance through their iPhone screens and "an undocumented holiday might as well not have happened".