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Your Social Media pet hates?

297 replies

TazzyDrunk · 29/12/2019 18:32

I will start

Someone who constantly bangs on about politics , especially the ones who make the same points over and over again about Brexit.

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Trewser · 30/12/2019 11:17

People who say about themselves how they are a very caring person, and how awful everyone else is

I thought this was just people I knew! Do others do this?!

TheLittleBrownFox · 30/12/2019 11:17

Ouch @TheSquitz Although I'd have agreed with you until a month ago when I found out by her dad posting on her social media that she had taken her own life. Her fb page was the only way 100s of us found out and her dad communicated funeral and wake details on there. Two weeks later and just 4 days after we buried her, Facebook reminded us all that it was her birthday. Lots of birthday messages posted including one from me. Grief is an odd thing. Flowers

Toomuchgoingon · 30/12/2019 11:18

I hate animal videos with pretend speech especially "hoomans". They are bloody dogs/cats. They bark or miaow

Mrsjayy · 30/12/2019 11:22

I am ashamed to say i don't understand a lot of the younguns "speak" my dds love an Emjoi and i can't work them out Blush

NoCauseRebel · 30/12/2019 11:30

“If you’re reading this then congratulations, you’ve survived my friendship cull.” Followed by a load of “oh I’m soooo glad about that/that we’re still friends” replies.

Someone I know posted about their wife’s death on facebook within half an hour of it happening and before the kids and other close family even knew. It caused an awful lot of upset within the family.

PapayaCoconut · 30/12/2019 11:33

Someone I used to be friends with is a "yoga teacher" by correspondence course, who has never taken a yoga class in her life. She's clearly asked all her friends and family to endorse her online as she's got 100% positive reviews from people like her SIL, former neighbor and others who live about 100 miles away and are very unlikely to have ever been taught yoga by her. I don't think she's ever had a single customer, yet her social media makes her look like a real pro. It's so horribly dishonest.

MamaWeGotThis · 30/12/2019 11:47

Someone who posts a vague status then replies to comments with "I'll pm you hun" Hmm

The hospital thing, then ignoring comments until something along the lines of "I'm fine all good"

Lilopup · 30/12/2019 12:05

There's a girl I went to school with who almost weekly posts asking for lifts from people. It's usually to the hospital, which has a bus stop right outside!

A colleague also posted about a car accident she had last week, complete with photo of her child strapped to the stretcher in the back of an ambulance. The furthest thing from my mind in that moment would be taking a photo.

I have a couple of MLM bots, which are muted quite often.

darkriver19886 · 30/12/2019 12:11

Those that start threads with "I know nobody cares. I don't expect anyone too." 🙄

As for the A&E ones.. In February I got admitted into hospital due to an obstruction in my bowel. I don't remember doing it but I ended up dating face book which filled in load of gaps. The posts weren't vague though.

Yeahnah2020 · 30/12/2019 15:27

#blessed, actually # anything
Hospital check in’s
boasting about first class travel
Selfies
Passive aggressive vague statements
Boasting about kids achievements
The list is endless 🤮

Theroigne · 30/12/2019 15:32

It’s why I came off Facebook a year ago to the day and I’ve never looked back! It really does seem to have become a repository for the lowest common denominator these days.

HunterAngel · 30/12/2019 15:38

The ‘I know my friends will repost’ lot. Always with the threat of unfriending the people who don’t repost. I’ve never reposted and I’ve yet to be unfriended.

The endless, endless quiz results.

People who check in at hospitals.

The people who post long winded rants but don’t reply when people offer support

peaceanddove · 30/12/2019 15:40

The competitive caring, gushing about how incredibly much you incredibly love your incredible partner, child, parent, friend. It's all so saccharin and superficial, somethings really should be private.

Same with people actually arguing and falling out all across Facebook. Jesus, please have some style and dignity people.

ooooohbetty · 30/12/2019 15:45

Also the people who tell us they are leaving a group (just go, we don't care) or tell us they are having a break from social media. Again, just do it. No need to make an announcement.

CruCru · 30/12/2019 16:06

I don't much like anything chain-lettery. So the posts which rant on about cancer / autism / mental health and say that if you are not a horrible person, you will copy and repost. No, no I won't.

Recently a friend is doing a thing where she posts five books she's enjoyed over five days and nominates someone else (me on one day) to do the same. This isn't terrible but I'm still not going to do it.

There's someone I don't see any more who once put up a massive post about how she'd donated loads of food and drink to a local needy family ... with pictures of the family being given the stuff. My first thought was that I hoped the children didn't get spotted by anyone they knew and get crap for this at school rather than how incredibly generous she was. I haven't seen her for quite a long time.

NameChangeNugget · 30/12/2019 16:10

The people who think it’s obligatory to “check in” at airports. Bunch of cocks Grin

SusanneLinder · 30/12/2019 16:23

Apart from the "Living my best life " and the share Mental health/Autism/ Cancer, I don't mind most of these.
I actually like holiday pics, cos I am a nosey cow...Grin

redcarbluecar · 30/12/2019 16:27

I like holiday pics too. I find the sharing of book and album covers quite boring.

GrumpyMiddleAgedWoman · 30/12/2019 16:50

People who post crap they haven't bothered to even think about, never mind fact check. I have a wonderful cousin who can usually be relied upon to put nothing in the comments except a link to Snopes.

Anything that tries to guilt me into sharing 'for cancer awareness'. I'm aware, thanks. I think most of us are.

Anything that tries to guilt me into sharing 'to show that someone is always listening'. And this will prove what to whom, precisely?

Anything where a pet is called a 'fur baby' or someone uses the term 'pet parent'.

And yet, there I am on FB, every bloody day....

Mrsjayy · 30/12/2019 17:10

I love checkins at airports , holiday pictures, photos of first class exotic islands it is nice that people are having a nice time. As long as folk are not # blessed they get a "like"from me Grin

Echobelly · 30/12/2019 17:18

People whose posts seems to be always the same very specific and dull thing. Ones I've known - child car seat safety, 'On the bus to [one of the same two dull places]'

Reposting photos/videos saying things like 'This shows MUSLIM gang beating up INNOCENT GRANDMA in London' where there's no evidence the gang is Muslim, that the person they are attacking is an innocent grandma and where all the surroundings suggests it's not even in the UK.

More innocently, but still annoying, sentimental stories accompanied by pictures of a person saying 'This child/grandma from Nebraska/Africa said....[or had some thing happen to them]' Uhm, names and precise places if you want me to believe this one, guys.

'[X] Police are warning women to be on guard for this terrifying sex gang kidnap technique...' This would be on the national news if true. No 'sex gang' is going to be kidnapping wealthy women from supermarket carparks in the developed world when sadly there are much easier places to 'get' women

BatleyTownswomensGuild · 30/12/2019 17:31

Definitely guilty of the Brexit ranting on social media Blush . Whole thing just made me so angry.

Cannot bear constant bloody selfies. Have one 'friend' who literally posts a new selfie in a daft pose every week. The vanity of it drives me nuts...

BlindAssassin1 · 30/12/2019 17:31

Not just the desperate, attention seeking hospital checkins but the following 'you're so brave hun' stream of comments that follow.

Its so insincere that I wonder if they're actually slagging the person off behind their back.

Holidayaddict · 30/12/2019 18:10

As my username suggests, the only posts I really enjoy seeing are of friends' holidays & days and nights out, so long as they are not braggy " look at me in the first class lounge/my 5* hotel suite/the Ivy". I only tend to post myself if I've gone somewhere or done something interesting (just a few pics, not albumfulls). I'm thankfully not guilty of any of the other sins mentioned on this thread. If it weren't for the holiday posts I think I'd ditch Facebook altogether as I agree with pretty much all the pet hates listed here!

ALongHardWinter · 30/12/2019 18:39

People who post 'inspirational quotes', especially when you are friends with the person in real life,and know that they are most definitely not inspired. And people who keep banging on about politics, especially Brexit,and how much they hate Boris Johnson. OK,I'm not a fan of either,but I don't keep on about it at every opportunity.