So many pictures????

[sockatoe]

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...

@sockatoe out of interest, are your children average looking?

I post pictures of my son & our outtings all the time. Why? because he's gorgeous & because I have family on my friends list that rarely get to see him so they can keep up to date with what he's doing / how he's changing.
I do occasionally worry about people like you being on my list & getting fed up seeing it & having a bitch to people about it (or even going so far as to make a whole thread on a forum about me) but then I remind myself that it's MY account & they can simply unfollow or unfriend me. Just like you can do with this proud mother.

Totally agree with OP
I've unfriended 2 friends in recent weeks - exactly for this reason - the word DULL doesn't even begin to express how utterly fucking shallow some people are these days.
BIL usually calls in once or twice a month, from the moment he steps through the door until he leaves his nose is buried in his phone - constantly fucking pinging, no conversation, just sits and expects to be waited on hand and foot...drives me fucking insane.

Dull shallow narcissistic fuckwits!!

YANBU. Unfollow and disengage. I've done it several times, one in particular would post 30 photos every single day of the walk to school, same again walking back and of whatever crap they did after school. All out of focus, blurry and kids couldn't care less... a weekend would be 300+ photos a day!

The after school 'activities' were always watching tv, playing on a games console or decorating biscuits (read: smothering a digestive in runny icing and various sugary items) so not even vaguely interesting. Oh and several 'inspirational' quotes every day and a status update every 20 minutes.

Another one I had to walk away from would share 700 photos every weekend before she had kids. All out of focus/shit and date stamped with a date 8 years in the past... now she's had a baby it's just endless. Out of 800ish friends she gets maybe 10 likes at best which says it all.

I've always thought that when children are born they should get branded on the arse with how good looking they are out of ten. Then the government could devise an algorithm to tell you how many photos you could post daily.

I have a friend who treats Facebook like a blog. She doesn’t post one pic of the sunset if she can post 30 of pretty much the same thing. Yesterday it was flowers. Not just a few different interesting flowers but about five or six shots of the same few flowers from different angles. Times six. So only the first few pix show up on the fb post you have to click to see more. I rarely ‘click’.
She’s a lovely woman but needs to edit!

As someone who does photography as a hobby I do understand where you're coming from re. the multiple out of focus, blurred shots of the same thing. I often think to myself why someone can't pick the best and ditch the rest, but I am a self confessed photo snob!

I'm not rude though and when one of my friends posts a status update like the one you've described, I either ignore or give a cursory like and then scroll on by. No-one forces us to look at each & every one of their photos.

greathat I wouldn't rely on fb storing all of your photos. It compresses the image so it loses quite a lot of the detail and, whilst it's free now, there's no guarantee that it'll still be free (or even here at all) in 5-10 years' time. I'd suggest storing them to a dedicated cloud service as well as on a hard-drive and creating an actual printed copy.

@Bwekfusth indeed, my children are charmingly average. I see the beauty in them, but mostly that's easier to spot in pictures when they're in focus and before you've seen so many that your eyelids are drooping.
I certainly don't constantly seek out and pre empt compliments from people about their good looks, whilst remarking a) they ought to be models or b) they are my mini me/other thinly veiled request for reassurance of my own beauty.