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To think mum instagramers giving festival advice should be honest about hiring a festival nanny?

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089ville · 27/07/2019 06:18

A very big Instagram family are playing music at a family festival and sharing it all along with their tips for going to a festival as a family.

However they were unmasked on tattle (a gossip website) that during the daytime the kids are a few ft away and looked after by a nanny.

I don't mind the nanny but aibu to think they should at least be honest about it and not hide it?

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Sinn · 27/07/2019 12:21

Instagram is all fake to create FOMO.

Don't believe any of it. You should see mine, I look like a millionaire with a size 8 body and a gaggle of adorable DCs and pets.

I love creating it but it's not real.

user87382294757 · 27/07/2019 12:39

Well I guess it is all about feeling better than others- the influencers / bloggers pst to look better than others, then the gossip pages post about them, to feel better than them.. I guess.

ItStartedWithAKiss241 · 27/07/2019 12:54

I think hiring a nanny for a festival is an amazing idea! I’d certainly do that! It should definitely be in the top-tips and I suspect it was only missed out as they feared they would be judged, like on this thread x

Sindragosan · 27/07/2019 12:56

Instagram has its uses. I know it's all advertising bollocks, but if I want to get ideas for house/kids/fashion, I can find loads of suggestions.

I don't use Instagram as a guide on how I should live my life, but if I want some ideas on outdoor play, or how a new light might fit in with my decor, very useful. Its a tool to be used, not a stick to beat yourself with.

Sciurus83 · 27/07/2019 13:00

Christ that Tattle site is vile, I thought we were a nest of vipers over here on AIBU but that's something else. I mean, why?!! Who actually has the time or inclination to get het up about such banal nonsense

SuzieBishop · 27/07/2019 13:03

YABVU. And sad. Who cares???

Fuckedoffat48b · 27/07/2019 13:48

Why the coyness over "A very big Instagram family" OP. Why can't they be named?

ElspethFlashman · 27/07/2019 14:55

Tattle is sickening. They make us vipers look like ickle fluffy bunnies.

I don't have any problem with someone hiring childcare for a festival - I've never followed them (all I've heard has been negative tbh) but I believe they have a large and young family.

What I'm less impressed with is sharing top tips for managing a large family at a festival whilst omitting that the biggest top tip is to hire childcare.

But tbh there are a whole heap of unseen Nannies in the background. It always makes me feel uncomfortable. They may not want their faces all over social media but they are never even acknowledged as existing.

jamoncrumpet · 27/07/2019 15:58

I don't think there's anything wrong at all with going to a festival and hiring a nanny. They have the money and fair play to them.

I have more of a problem with FOD's constant money making posts featuring the younger two, who are not old enough to give informed consent.

SilverySurfer · 27/07/2019 16:02

Honestly, I just don't understand why you give a damn about these vacuous nonentities.

gingerbreadsprinkle · 27/07/2019 16:34

Sinn

Well said.

If this is shocking to you OP, I suggest you check out r/instagramreality on Reddit. It's eye opening and more evidence of all the fakeness of social media. I don't really blame these people though, they are just insecure and/or trying to make a living. It's unfortunate that people are falling for it, but there have been people falling for snake oil since the beginning of time.

cheesydoesit · 27/07/2019 18:04

SD1978 I wondered the same thing. I have no time for any of this though.

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089ville · 28/07/2019 15:27

If you don't have any time for this or aren't interested just don't reply to the thread, it's very clear what it's about before you clikc on it..

It's not about the concept hiring a nanny for a festival, it's the dishonesty about it. Going on about spending a weekend away with the family and no screens allowwd, only to just palm them off to a hangover nanny. There's lots of good familes on Instagram, but the hooper's are so disingenuous. That's all really.

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gingerginger2 · 28/07/2019 17:33

I don’t see how it’s disingenuous.

I don’t see how they’ve bragged about family time, as far as I can see there’s 2 Instagram posts about the festival, neither of which are particularly braggy, just kind of normal really.

LolaSmiles · 28/07/2019 17:39

I see the OP's point.
I've not seen the exact posts but I would imagine given the cringey influencer style it's the difference between 'here's us at a festival' vs 'here's us at a festival making memories and having family time. It's so much better to have no screens for quality family time #makingmemories #noscreensallowed #famalam'

Probably a bit like the 'natural beauty' shots of fashion instagrammers where they've actually had hair and makeup done.

I think the bottom line is people should assume influencers are professional liars and and not pay that much attention to them. Starve them of their likes and status and watch as they fade into the background because nobody cares about their fictitious life.

PandaPantaloon · 07/08/2019 20:36

I don't see a problem with it. They aren't breaking any rules and they aren't obliged to show you the minutiae of their lives.

This is just another excuse for posters on tattle to rip them apart. I read part of a thread on their once where they were both ripped into for how they look, their dress sense, how they talk. Nothing about them breaking rules just petty shit, from school yard bitches.

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