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What's the biggest lie/distortion you have seen someone post on social media?

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grumpelgoatskin · 19/12/2019 12:36

A friend posts regularly on Facebook about her very happy marriage and her wonderful husband.

In reality she cannot stand him and is looking for a way out.

I have no idea why she feels the need to post these lovey posts when she could just post nothing.

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WheresMyChocolate · 19/12/2019 13:31

My mum posted about having kidney failure and being rushed into hospital and being kept in overnight and not knowing when she'd be allowed to go home. Cue lots of sympathy. Fact is that she had a bog standard urinary infection but refused to wait for a GP's appointment the next day so went to A&E. She wasn't kept in overnight, she just had to wait for hours and hours because she wasn't a priority and they were busy and she could (and should) have gone home any time she liked.

IamPickleRick · 19/12/2019 13:32

Oh and a school mum who posts about her busy life and how hard it is for her and much she’s done with her kids each day when she drops them off at her mums every single day and very rarely has all of them together on her own. She crops her mum out so that it looks like she wasn’t there helping her.

Pyjamaface · 19/12/2019 13:34

I've recently deleted my bull-shit poster. If something was in the news, or a new trend then she would be involved/affected by it. She posts about how amazing her unemployed, stoner boyfriend is and how much in love they are. Last time I went out with her, she spent the whole evening chatting to men online trying to get one of them to come to her hotel room.
She's also another one that loves to post all the inspirational quotes about supporting and understanding mental health issues but actually only wants to talk about her own problems, she once argued with someone on her page because they said they were struggling with X condition (as a response to a quote she posted). She promptly argued that they didn't have the condition as bad as her, nobody understands and how if they wanted sympathy they should post on their own page!

Absolutely batshit

ShinyNewNameTimeAgain · 19/12/2019 13:35

A girl I was at school with got married to a guy who already has 2 kids from a previous relationship. She’s forever posting things like ‘behind every step mum is a mum who stepped up’ about these adult kids who are only a couple of years younger than her. She’s also forever posting fathers4justice posts about the pain caused by women not letting fathers see their kids. I know the ex partner who stopped the father seeing her kids after he beat her up, left her with permanent injuries and threatened to burn the house down with his kids inside. But of course it’s all lies as far as she’s concerned.

TheMovingFishfinger · 19/12/2019 13:36

A distant relative posts lots of pictures and long posts of how much she misses her mum, how much she loved her etc etc. (The mum has passed away, obviously). The reality is that when the mum was alive they constantly argued, the daughter hardly ever visited and i think the mum had kicked her out of the house as well at some point.

micah · 19/12/2019 13:37

The bbc politics correspondent "journalist" who published on twitter that "hundreds" of Labour supporters had been shipped in (via taxi at labour's expense) to protest outside a hospital when Matt Hancock visited after the "boy on the floor" story.

Including that a protester had "punched" and advisor.

Because she was a reputable abc source this was then picked up across mainstream media.

Only for the video to come out an hour later showing the advisor hadn't seen a chap in a high vis on a pushbike because he was looking at his phone and walked into his outstretched arm. And "hundreds" was about 5.

Gobsmacked.

dailygrind22 · 19/12/2019 13:38

@Tombliwho jesus that person could have a whole section on here dedicated to her Hmm

GhostsInSnow · 19/12/2019 13:38

I'm massively confused by what someone doesn't post.

She has 2 children. Every day she posts photos of them, quite normal, yes? Well no, because they are time hop photos from years ago. She never posts any new photos, just lots of old ones.

Her MIL is very involved in their lives and seems to dominate childcare. I wondered to myself whether the old photos are simply because she doesn't get much chance to post new ones as the MIL takes over. She only works an hour a day so work can't be the answer.
I don't know if I should worry for her tbh.

greeneyedlulu · 19/12/2019 13:41

My lack of a double chin in my photos GrinGrin

Namestranger · 19/12/2019 13:42

I know someone who recently decided to use her Instagram to promote an exercise class she teaches. She's gone into full on "#bossbabe" mode with constant updates about how stressful but rewarding and exciting her business is and constant motivational Instagram stories featuring such gems as "just be yourself, no matter what!" and pictures of her laughing uproariously holding plates of salad etc. It's weird. She has 300 followers who are friends and family and no one ever replies to anything.

Christmastreejoy · 19/12/2019 13:43

I find the more someone posts about how great their partner is, the closer said couple is to divorce/separation

neonglow · 19/12/2019 13:44

I think we’ve all witnessed the ‘too many snakes round ere, just me and me kids from now on!!’ people who are then back to arguments and drama within 2 days 🙄 😂

Oh and the standard MLM posts- the sellers who go on about having massive orders to place and being busy yet there is zero likes or interaction with any of the posts/raffles/games/adverts on their product page.

ShinyNewNameTimeAgain · 19/12/2019 13:44

I also have someone that constantly posts the most ridiculously filtered photos of herself. They’re so filtered that her face just looks like eyes and a mouth drawn on an egg. Which would be fine I guess but she does it for her all her baby daughter’s photos too which makes me feel sad.

Christmastreejoy · 19/12/2019 13:44

My biggest lie is angling the photos I take to not include the mess and chaos and create a fake illusion of semi order 😂🙈

wetpants · 19/12/2019 13:44

Someone I know posted on FB how income from Juice+ allowed her to ditch her job. Except I happened to know that she was let get go and was furious about it too.

Namestranger · 19/12/2019 13:45

They’re so filtered that her face just looks like eyes and a mouth drawn on an egg

😂

wheresmymouseorgan · 19/12/2019 13:51

We once took MIL away for a few days for her birthday. She spent the first day moaning about the location of her room (not right next to ours), accommodation (bed too soft/not enough pillows etc), location (too far to walk to places she wanted to go), weather (in the UK), not having been able to pack as much as she wanted (she wanted to come in our car so space was tight) etc etc.

At one point she informed DH that he was uncaring and all her friends' children do more for their mums and took herself off to the hotel bar for a coffee and a sulk. And started posting on facebook about what a fabulous time she was having, loving spending time with her wonderful son etc etc with loads of photos of the hotel/gardens etc saying it was her 'new favourite place in the world'.

Stickybeaksid · 19/12/2019 14:02

#blessed #memories #your husband is shagging his colleague and you know it

JustChangedForThisOneTime · 19/12/2019 14:08

An early twenties woman on Twitter - loads of pictures of her, her son, her dad, general family. He son was ill, then her dad, people sent money. This was over the course of months. Then she went on holiday to Australia and posted a picture of a sign she had taken. Turns out it was a picture lifted from Google. The whole thing was a lie - the pictures used on the account were stolen from a girl in the North East whereas this person was apparently from Manchester. I don't know how it was kept up for so long. And how so many people fell for it!

MsChatterbox · 19/12/2019 14:26

My mum once told me not to come home from uni for Christmas (she had a new bf) I still came home and she posted "can't wait to have my baby girl home".

tinytoast · 19/12/2019 14:30

@Tombliwho Did you hear about the drama around Mother Of Daughters this year too? I will all over that instagram drama!

cokehoke · 19/12/2019 14:39

Wasn't there a wellness blogger in Oz that cured her cancer with her diet but she didn't have cancer

LazyFace · 19/12/2019 14:43

MsChatter: 💐 That must have been quite shitty. I hope you'll have a nice Christmas this year!

Jokie · 19/12/2019 14:48

The happiest relationships are those kept off social media. I've got a few people who show a wonderful successful life with lots of holidays but in reality she's a fake MLMer who borrowed a lot of money to try and "get on the ladder".

MsChatterbox · 19/12/2019 14:59

@LazyFace thank you! It was actually a bit of a shock because we have a really good relationship. I'm sure she wouldn't even remember saying it now.. It was a few years ago! But still hurts my heart when I think about it.