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 🤪

It takes seconds to upload photos. People are used to incorporating their phones into their lives now. It doesn’t encroach on family time or holiday time. It’s minutes.

I think people who talk about social media encroaching into quality time are often a bit behind the times

Posters here are weirdly bitter about social media. And it’s mad because they always claim to see “friends’” posts.

Indeed @IvanaPee. Even weirder when you consider that 'here' is also social media!

Exactly @LonnyVonnyWilsonFrickett.

Apparently MN is more highbrow. 🤨

I don't consider MN or any other forum to be social media.

@cavalier but that's the point, my day to day life is rammed, I rarely have time to play around on social media.

Holidays are (for me) chilling on a sun lounger, people watching, reading a book or having a potter around SM (I also interact with other people's posts more when I'm on holiday) whilst the children play in the pool.

If you like biking around the Mallorcan mountains or safariing in Kenya for your holiday then crack on - life would be boring if we were all the same and if you're one of my Facebook fiends, really, please do feel free to de friend me

@Somersetlady yeah, but if I send it by WhatsApp then that doesn’t give them the chance to opt out and it would feel more like showing off, at least if social media people can politely ‘not see’ photos if they don’t want to.

I upload loads of photos as Facebook acts as my photo album also my mum likes to see what we are doing big you find it irritating then mute them for the duration of their holiday

We got home from holiday this morning. I just checked my FB and I posted 3 separate pics, 2 of them were of the view from the room and 1 was a picture of dd and I with a lovely lady who has worked at the hotel for years and this was the 3rd time we've been. She asked for my FB and then tagged me in it.
I doubt anyone cares that much about other people's holidays

I love seeing people’s photos from holiday.

But then I like everyone I’m friends with on Facebook so.....

I have some acquaintances I need on there for work - list created, limited profile job done.

Social media gives you the tools to create your own timeline. Don’t police how other people use it.

YANBU. Someone I used to work with posts daily photos during the school holidays along with an essay of their day. Example, "Day 3 of the summer holidays and we're camping..." and about three paragraphs of their day. Sometimes it's several posts throughout the day updating everyone on each activity. I really should unfollow/unfriend. It gets too much. It's like reading someone's diary but I'm not interested. As a PP mentioned, I think people are too used to following social media influencers or "mummy blogs" and they get carried away with sharing their daily life.

Stop being so miserable.

People take photos on holidays anyway, it takes a few minutes to share and make a facebook post.

You can both enjoy being in the moment of your holiday and spend some time on social media.

Posting pictures takes minutes. Many people like looking at travel pics of their friends and family.. Just snooze them or come off social media for the summer.

Is anyone actually aware that if your home is burgled etc, and you've been silly enough to post about your holiday on any social media, then your insurance won't pay out ! Telling the world that your house is empty is not a good idea. :(

Take all the pics you like, but don't post them while you're away. If it's just for close family to see then send direct to their phone, don't use social media.

If you don't like to see people you know having a nice time it's super duper easy to just 'unfollow' them on Social media. They won't know so you won't damage the relationship.

Sorry, ! was meant to be a ?

:)

It really doesn't take long to post photos so it doesn't take anything away imo. Thankfully FB has the hide feature so you don't have it to endure it 🤗

Jealousy isn’t a nice colour on you

@ Passthecherrycoke

That's a bit rude. Different ages have different experiences and do things in a different way, just because they do things differently doesn't necessarily equate to being ' behind the times', it's simply different choices. :)

I'm sure you wouldn't be happy for them to say that you'd need an operation and sedation to physically separate you from your phone or that no-one needs to hear about where you go, what you eat and who you're friends with, would you ?

Different choices shouldn't mean it's open season for insults. :)

I don't get it either. Have a bloody holiday!
Upload the pics on your return to show your interested fam/friends.
Before our hols I always make a passive agressive statement like;
Wahooo, off on our jolly's, family time, so pics when we get back :)

Do you see posting on social media as a chore?

Most people do it because they enjoy it, so why wouldn't they do it on holiday?

Wahooo, off on our jolly's, family time, so pics when we get back

I don’t see how that’s any better than posting photos. Still attention seeking blah blah.

Also don’t see how it’s passive aggressive!

It might take seconds to upload a photo but how much time are all these prolific holiday posters spending checking how many likes/comments etc each photo has. And don’t tell me that’s not what it’s all about!

I do this because otherwise DM and MIL are texting and phoning us every day to check we're ok and still alive. We're in our mid 30's.

Snooze them if you're not interested.

I don't know why people do that either. Nobody cares! If the photography is interesting then maybe I'll have a look, but most of the time it's extremely dull and repetitive. I genuinely don't care about my friends' holiday insta updates, unless it's somewhere absolutely phenomenal.
But it's the norm thesedays tbh.

Oh God this was me last week, but my phone was running out of memory capability for photos so putting them on fb was a way of saving them so I could delete them off my phone and make more space. Takes a few minutes each evening to download 10 photos or so. Was not a "look at us" thing at all, I simply wanted to make a photo album of holiday memories on fb for me.