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

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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.

Not an individual but still made me

CNNs coverage of the capture of a wanted war criminal from the war in former Yugoslavia.

They said Serbia had gone mental, riots, Molotov cocktails, the whole bit. They showed footage of the Metro in flames etc

Thing is I was in Belgrade at the time and although riot police were there just in case, nothing happened. The march was quiet & peaceful.

And Belgrade didn't have a Metro, it was some old bit of stock footage.

@tinytoast I sort of heard about it but I never followed her. She sounds equally as batshit!

One of my friends is epic for this:

Posting "this one" etc ❤️

Days later IRL they are divorcing and she is saying

"Vanya, I hate him I hope he drops dead"

At a later date :

Photographs of amazing gifts from new boyfriend

Reality :

They've had a huge domestic

"I've taken the Christmas tree down Vanya, I'm not having it, he's an animal"

Everything is guaranteed to be extremely opposite to Facebook

We were showed a heavily filtered profile pic of dhs sister.

Dh now calls her Pete Burns.

There was a girl in my gym that used to photoshop the heck out of her pictures, to the point she looked to be a size six but in reality she was about a sixteen (nothing wrong with it, but you would never have known it was the same person). It all came out as she was an “influencer” and had been doing the whole promoting diet teas ect as to how she lost so much weight so a lot of people were very cross about it!

My exh posted he had won his case against me.
Apparently he was getting access to my dc and had bought a new car to collect them the next day.
Meanwhile in the real world he lost. His previous car had caught fire in a garage and due to it not being insured he got £0 to get a new car.
Same as when he posted he had won a case against 2 innocent ddogs- that due to his lies had spent a year in police kennels - while their owners sold their home to pay legal bills. Posted that 1 had bitten his face. All posts of support...
Fraudulently spent government benefits meant for his dc and posted he had gotten compensation from the ddog attack (that didn't actually happen irl just his crazed imagination).
He forgot to post the bit about his prostitute habit...

Couldn't have happened to a nicer bloke clearly Winter

@ShinyNewNameTimeAgain why do people filter babies and children?!? Baffles me

He has a mobility scooter now and I have vivid day dreams about him meeting a snow plough in the dark....

'Get Brexit Done'.

Manager at work, devoted family man, loves his wife and kids hashtag blessed. Shagging one of his direct reports who he then promoted. Everyone knows. Absolute hypocrite.

I often wonder if my cousin writes the gushing posts her husband makes about her on Facebook every anniversary, birthday etc. They sound exactly the same as her gushing love drivel. I don't know seems a bit much, I think normal stuff like down the cafe having a bacon butty together type photo is normal, you are my world 🌍/ rock / soul mate / reason for existing makes me a little suspicious.

Also have a size 18/20 friend who edits herself to look a size 12, edited her son to have a six pack on a holiday snap ( he's a chubby 16 year old) and seems to stretch her neck so much she has a pointy chin. You'd never recognise her in real
life. I'm always tempted to say something, but I don't want to hurt her feelings. Just don't know why she does it so extremely, it's very obvious. Lots of bendy backgrounds !

One of my friends has around 6k Insta followers so is essentially a mini-influencer. I realise that she has to be entertaining/relevant for her followers, especially if she wants to make this a career etc so the one off white lie is understandable - but she lies about everything and it’s so unnecessary.

For example, she had to write off her car and captioned something about driving with it for 7 years. 7 years ago she wasn’t even 17, let alone passed her driving test, so it’s impossible for her to have been driving for 7 years. Weird thing to lie about.

Also we used to work together and she posted how she worked for that company for 5 years in her “leaving post”, when in reality it was 3?? Again such a odd thing to lie about.

There’s other little things, eg a massive song and dance about ‘not going to completely embarrass myself for 7th year ruining at this year Xmas party so going to be sober’ - when nothing that bad happened in the past, and 7 years ago she wasn’t even employed because she was like 15/16.

Someone I know regularly posts about what a great mum and pet lover she is, in reality she neglects her kids. They never have clothes that fit or are fit for purpose, never cooks dinner for them, never has food in the house, makes her eldest child do all the house work while she sits on her bum doing nothing all day/night, doesn’t take them anywhere and regularly gets a new animal and rehomes them within a few months and the animals she does keep she doesn’t feed so they starve. I hate social media I don’t get why people need to lie.

CakeandCustard, I think you should inform the social services about this woman. Those poor children are probably desperate for someone to rescue them.

Instagram. A local mate who posts luxury lifestyle ‘living well’ stuff is in reality penniless and in a very unpleasant sex for money/stuff on/off relationship with a revolting, egotistical old goat of a man. Yuck. It’s shallow and totally materialistic. And utterly fake.

The insta perfect family GIDS my mate posts when in reality he hit her with a frying pan full of hot oil this year. I can't bear it

Guff not GIDS

I know a guy who posts photos of his new cars... In reality he does a few shift cleaning for a dealership and takes photos with them when he can

Someone once edited me out a photo of my then partner and edited in his ex boyfriend before posting it on instagram and tagging them both in it. It was actually a very good photoshop! It still gets re-gramed!

My ex used to post pictures of his new furniture etc in his house. He lives in his mums box room on a blow up mattress.

A couple of people I know are always moaning about people who post about every little detail of their lives, when that's the very thing they do! They even post memes about people who do that . I thought that they were taking the piss out of themselves to start with but I genuinely don't think they realise that's how they come across!

I have a friend boasting her perfect life and family always off on Enid Blyton adventures. It's all so staged and faked. There isn't anything particularly scandalous about them, but they're just ordinary.

@GhostsInSnow I don't post current photos of my DCs either, because they don't want me to. You would think I never do anything with them if you went off my FB feed.

there is a couple by us that are always posting status' such as 25 happy years love you to the moon and back blah blah
in truth she will shag anything with a heart beat married unmarried makes no difference after one affair they split up so havent had 25 together really but he took her back for some reason or other
she has a permanent disability she says she slipped on the stairs truth is he locked her in the bedroom after a drunken row she tried to climb out the window and fell causing catastrophic injuries
its all a load of codswallop

A woman who I know used to post pictures of things she'd cooked on Facebook. Myself and my husband had a game of seeing who could google and find the picture from whatever website she'd plagiarised it from the quickest.

I often posted that her photography skills were second to none and she should make it a full time career but she'd just reply that she was just really happy just doing the cooking or it was a fluke. I even went so far as to mention the cookbook she'd picked the photo from and say we'd cooked it before but it didn't look as professional.

She's stopped doing it recently and I think maybe someone has made her aware that we're on to her. Not sure how, maybe battering her with a frying pan whilst telling her we know what she does because the v v blatant posts didn't hit home.