So many pictures????

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So, Kelly has been to the zoo with her 3 totally average looking kids. 200 + pictures on social media ensue, of out of focus/cut off/disinterested looking/scowling kids and animals, telling the world all about #mylife #makingmenories #childmodel #lovehim etc etc, all tagged to the children's personal profiles as mementos when they're old enough to use social media or possibly even use a manager to do so because they are all so fecking #photogenic
From what I can gather, a day is c 200 images, a week 800 and 2 weeks is 2000 out of focus meaningless crap pictures. I get that you love your kids. I get that you think they are beautiful and deserve a life in the media, but please, delete the crap picture and give me a couple of nice pictures of each kid and I promise I'll look at them and give you likes - I don't have time to look at all of this nonsensical tripe!!! Urgh!!!
Standing by to be told what an awful person I am...

Just stop following her then or whatever... no shit SM- nine of these ‘issues’ as the meerkat would say ‘simples’

I don't have time to look at all of this nonsensical tripe!!! Urgh!!! so don't look then. No-one's forcing you to do so

You sound dramatic even though there's a simple solution - un-follow the posts. That way you don't have to see anything and be a judgemental ass.

As for your comments, you are not the one to decide what they share and what picture they think looks nice. They're not sharing for your sole benefit or as if they owe you it.

What's it to you how many pictures other people post?

I have unfollowed several people for bombarding sm with their #relationshipgoals#sohappy etc. Every picture is at various pubs and they are in their 40s and still post about getting wasted every friday like teenagers. I got bored. Just unfollow. They wont know and you ll be less irritated trust me.

The thing is, when you have kids, you just want to share their pictures for any reason. Sue me!

You lost me at average looking kids

Aren't all kids gorgeous?

Anyway, unfollow is your friend

Find something else in life to be upset about. Seriously. If this is all you have in life to get worked up about please find something worthwhile to channel this energy into. 'Average looking kids' ?? you are doing life completely wrong.

‘Average looking’, as opposed to all of the supermodel kids you mean?

My eldest DS looks like a supermodel, he's ridiculously good-looking, can I put 200 photos of him?

I completely understand what you mean. I never know why people put photos up which are duplicates/out of focus etc. This is so horrible of me - someone on my sm put some photos/videos of her granddaughter saying, in all seriousness, "Darcy Bussell - watch out". I don't think DB has anything to worry about. I am a cow though.

OP I’m with you. I find it shocking how much so many people share of their kids online anyway, but I hate, hate, hate the paparazzi style shots that end up plastered over fab of me and my kids. If I or we pose for a photo we know is being taken, that’s the kind of thing I might expect someone to post. What I don’t expect is 25-30 ‘nothing’ shots taken without me realising at my child’s birthday party, which include a lot of our home in the background, being plastered on social media. Feels like a complete invasion of my privacy. I realise I e strayed off topic a bit here but it’s kind of the same thing...take a nice photo where everyone is smiling not just frantic snapping at nothing, capturing unflattering images of unaware people!

Surely it's up to the individual what they post on their own social media and ultimately your decision if you view and continue to follow them.

I really don't understand people who get worked up about social media, when it's their choice to be on it, just don't use it at all or follow certain people if it bothers people so much.

Just ignore. Or if it'll cause drama if you ignore, put a bland "looks like a great day!!" style comment on the album as a whole. Then scroll halfway through and line a couple of random photos.

I’m with you OP - MIL uses Facebook as her “blog” and she just loves to update everyone about everything she’s done each day. Every fucking day. Countless pictures.

So what? Just unfollow or unfriend her if it annoys you that much. Or just don’t look. I put photos on social media for my family and for myself. I don’t care what Sue who I was in Sixth Form with thinks.

Mute, unfollow, block, scroll past. You don't actually have to look at any of them, you know.

So don't look.

I wonder if we have the same mutual friend?? She even created Facebook accounts for them!

I love putting photos on Facebook coz I love it when you get the "memories" and can look back at it all. Plus my storage on my phone is full, and Facebook is free :)

Nice of you to comment on the looks of the kids OP, you sad fuck. It's bothered you THAT much that you've come to Mumsnet wrote a lengthy post about it. And 'Kelly' is the one that's a pain in the arse? When I see someone posting 563 photos of their day trip to XYZ, I do this brilliant thing, called scrolling. Try it.

Aren't all kids gorgeous?
Nope 😂

@greathat I do that too but you don’t have to make the albums public, you can change the settings so only you can see them if you want

My sister in law does this, but because she doesnt have a great phone so she uploads them all to Facebook and then can delete them all and free up storage for her next family outing, which makes sense. As PP says, its free

I did expect to get flamed
For the record, I am not incensed, angry, raging or anything about this, it simply irritates me and I cannot fathom why people would put hundreds of naff blurry crap on rather than a couple of actually nice pictures. You know, where you can see what you're supposed to be looking at and where there's only 1 picture of each "thing" rather than 15 almost identical images but with a very slightly moved head and so forth.
Also, the "average looking" kids wasn't meant as an insult. Most kids are average looking. Perhaps I meant that they're nothing out of the ordinary. But certainly not worthy of mum constantly commenting that child is so gorgeous and should be a child model in order to elicit praise from others. Especially when this is only ever about 1 child and not their siblings.