To cringe when people like/ ‘react’ to their own Facebook posts?

[Wishuponaleprechaun]

I have noticed a few people on my friend’s list doing this. My cousin is terrible for it, if she puts a status that she deems ‘funny’ she’ll ‘react’ to it with a laughing like, if she puts a post up that’s sad, she’ll react with the crying like etc. She even goes as far as to comment on her own posts with emojis like 😍 all the time. I know it’s irrational and worst things have happened at sea but it drives me crazy.

She’s not the only one, I have others that like/ react to their own posts. I’ve just looked at a business page and they do it too.

AIBU to think it’s just a bit...cringe?! And do YOU do it? If so, what’s your reasoning behind it?

I do it. Its just an expression of the post being funny etc. I acknowledge that for some people it might be annoying or cringey but theres worse things to be guilty of.

It depends why people do it. If they are genuinely liking something then fine. I suspect some people do it to bump it up the newsfeed which is a bit sad

Don’t think PP have understood that she’s LIKING HER OWN POSTS! Not others.

@QueenArseClangers that's exactly what I meant - people liking their own posts so that it bumps the post up their friends' newsfeeds

My SIL does this. I don't find it cringy, I'm just baffled by it. I presume that she posts something because she likes it, so why then 'like' it?!

I don't get it either.

If you wrote the post it's fucking obvious you like it.

I cringe too.

I thought only comments bumped the posts up the newsfeed, or do likes bump them too?

Yeah, just reread that @RockingMyFiftiesNot sozzers!

It’s a bit like gameshow contestants clapping themselves. Cringetastic.

YANBU
Does she litter her posts with "hun" or "babes" as well? That properly makes me cringe. Or those "I know only my true friends will share this post" ones as well. Cringe cringe cringe

I have a guy on FB who posts and instantly likes his own post. At first I thought it was a mistake but he does it every time so now it's obvious he's just an idiot. But I don't want to remove him as his posts always descend into arguments that are hilarious to watch unfold.

Ew no do people actually do that on purpose? I’ve done it a couple of times by accident but I always unlike it again quickly! I just assumed people have done it accidentally and don’t realise it. Actually liking or reacting to one’s own posts is cringey and embarrassing.

The real life equivalent is telling a joke, pissing yourself laughing and then saying 'ahhh I'm just so funny!'. On that basis, YANBU

God that’s just embarrassingly desperate.

The best thing to do is ditch Facebook.

Unless you’re actively using it for important things, I genuinely think it just breeds unnecessary rage and anxiety.

Oh I have a colleague who does this. It's embarrassing but I don't think she's realised she 'shouldn't' do it.

@Iggly I agree.

I’ve got to stay on it because it’s the only way I can keep in touch with my very big and international family, but if that wasn’t the case I’d have left it years ago.

However I’ve completely disengaged from it and don’t let anything that happens on it factor in my life at all. I also don’t have loads of random loosely connected people on there. Close friends and family only.

Agree with ditching Facebook, I did earlier this year and I feel considerably more content and get less angry now I don’t have things like the this to get annoyed with.

I can’t believe the number of people who look to see who has reacted to a post in the first place.

You don’t have to specifically look, it tells you in the notifications or whatever it’s called. I dgaf about any of those things but it still tells me.

I don’t think likes bump comments up your newsfeed? Isn’t your newsfeed based on the people you most interact with?

I’ve never seen anyone do this 😂😂😂 cringe

Worse one on my list is a random girl I went to school with. I've not seen her in over 20 years, was never really mates with her at school either. But she added me and it was in the early days of Facebook when you'd add people back to be polite.
She seems to do nothing but follow a guy out of a boy band around. Everywhere he goes, TV appearances, theatre performances, she is there. The guy must think she's stalking him, the band hasn't even been a band for about 5 years at least. I find it rather weird, she also likes all her own posts as well.

Oh I misunderstood. I thought you meant using smiley emojis. I don't like my own posts.

I've got a colleague who does this too, to not just every single one of her own posts, but to every individual photograph she posts in an album.

Odd. Very odd.