Daily holiday social media updates

[Stripyseagulls]

Friend is on holiday abroad at the mo & is literally posting 20 photos daily on Facebook and Instagram. Her holiday looks lovely but why the hell would you waste your precious holiday time posting constantly on social media? When I go on hols, we switch off all phones & social media to get away from it all as generally I am frazzled and want a break from everything.
Aibu or is this the done thing now? It’s like a bloody ‘look at us’ news report every day 🤪

We often do big road trips in the USA. We visit offbeat places. I post loads of pics and updates because quite a few of my fb friends are interested.
It also acts as a travelogue.
I am not showing off, just sharing the experience with interested friends. Anyone who doesn't want to see can always snooze me!

Some updates irritate me a bit. It's more when people put up 'now for bed' and biting stuff like that. If someone is doing something nice I like to see the pics. They probably just take a picture and click share, then Facebook. Takes 2 seconds and shouldn't interfere with their holiday enjoyment.

Not biting stuff, boring stuff.

I'm currently on holiday, I post a few photos every day or so, my parents and family back home want to see how my son is enjoying his holiday. I use SM as a way of chilling so upload photos when my son is playing with friends or I'm sunbathing. I don't see the issue you can snooze notifications for certain periods of time if its bothering you that much.

I know someone like this, many pics every day...I just think if they were really enjoying themselves they wouldn't have so much time to fill taking pics and uploading etc!

Sounds like they've been following too many influencers and thinks that's the norm!

Yoo-hoo everybody and their cat's neighbour's cousin! We're all away in sunny Timbuctoo for the rest of the week and there's nobody at home! Help yourselves (shouldn't take you more than a minute to jemmy the back door).

I love seeing people’s holiday photos! I nag my friends to post every day so I can live vicariously through them.

I don't get it either, my dad does this and so do some of my friends. Do many people realise that insurance companies now have clauses in them that if you have advertised that your house could be empty they will refuse to pay your claim.

Are your friends burglars MigGril and LifeisGoodish?!

I’m with you OP, it’s boring.

I’m old fashioned. Take loads of snaps but they’re for us only, don’t see the need to spam others with photos of my kid paddling or a sunset.

I live in a place people visit on holidays and it drives me mad- people keep stopping and posing and it is hard to get past- then fuss around gushing at their pics! It's a beautiful place but all they seem to care about is their photos not enjoying the atmosphere etc.

I just think social media has sent people mad!! Everyone wants attention & to show how great their lives are & how perfect it all is!!

I love seeing my friends holiday posts. Isn’t this what Facebook and Instagram is for? If you don’t want to see photos don’t go on it.

They're basically saying "please burgle my house - it's empty", especially if their IG is public

Because they’re having a nice time and want to share it with their friends on Facebook. I like seeing my friends happy and enjoying themselves.

There are 24 hours in a day and it takes maybe 2 minutes to upload a few pictures and write a status. You’re no better than them just because you don’t engage with social media when you’re on holiday.

I post when I’m on holiday. People don’t like it, they don’t read/look at it. It’s quite simple really.

That’s what social media is for though. What do you think they should be posting about?

@conkee you are right & on reflection, it’s actually made me think I should come off social media because I do think it’s a bit mad. I used originally I thought it was all about connection but now I mostly see people using it as a news feed to their lives and I am not sure it’s healthy. God knows what it’s like for young people who maybe feel less secure in them selves.

I don't get this either.

My PA used to send me pics from her holiday. Mundane beach shots with toes and cocktails etc etc pics of her and her hubby selfies.

I used to think wtaf dk you bother going on holiday for if all you are going to do is be on your phone and update everyone at home about what a “great” time you are having.

I can’t talk. i often have to ask friends for photos of events we are at as i didn't take a single picture I was too busy having fun and I’m grateful in those circumstances.

I LOVE seeing people’s holiday pictures on fb, BUT. Some people put up a careful curated set of pictures that show a lovely mixture of the scenery, the people, places they visited, with descriptions of what you’re looking at etc, that I love and find entertaining. But I hate the ones where it’s just one upload of 200 pictures with several that are practically the same picture, blurry pics, no idea what it’s a pic of, etc etc.

I do think it’s unwise to put pics up whilst you’re away and check in to the airport etc because you’re essentially advertising your house as being empty (unless you have a house-sitter).

I think there is an opportunity here to reduce insurance premiums. An exclusion clause that should you post holiday photos on social media whilst on holiday, coverage is not provided for burglary or criminal damage for a given period after they are posted. Say 14 days as most holidays are not much longer than that.

You can snooze people for 30 days on facebook. That’s what i do when a certain person i know goes on holiday. Just click on the three dots up the top right of their post! You can thank me later!

I do this! I know it probably drives some of my friends mad, but I don’t live close to my family so I upload pictures of what we’ve been up to and then I don’t have to save them all for when we get together every few months.

When we were on holiday DD would have a nap after lunch so I’d sit by the pool uploading photos on the hotel WiFi, I’m not taking photos all day, just a couple of natural ones while we’re playing or waiting for food to arrive, if you don’t like it then scroll on by. Oh and we had house sitters so I wasn’t worried about people knowing we were away!

YANBU. My phone goes in the safe not to be seen again until the end of the holiday.