Your Social Media pet hates?

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I will start

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

Making memories, you ok hun, living my best life, Chester draws, gawgus hun, grrrh !

@Galahappy Yes the witch hunts can be pretty awful. Social media as judge and jury potentially ruining someone's life especially when taken out of context or when the few seconds do not actually tell the full story.

"New Year, New Me"

Preachy shit. Not religious preaching - I just sort of eye roll at that. But stuff about how to talk to/relate to children/mentally ill people etc, step by step guides to correct inclusive woke interaction, exhortations on how to be a good person with the rather obvious subtext that the person posting it is so much better and enlightened than you.

The latest one is the ten year photos
OMG look how I've aged.
Cue... Oo you look fab

Oh yes! 😂 Friend posted this and everyone commented how good she looks and she killed it with "Wow #thankyou . Looking at pics I might even look younger! Must be the #healthyeating ! Haha"
So tempted to comment...😂 Maybe she was born with it. Maybe it's a NewestFilterWhichMakesYourSkinOnPicsBabyArseSmooth

Fascinating is that she is normally not like that!

Anyone who tries to get in first and announce something

Oh god, hate the grief merchants!

Close friend of DH sadly died. DH & another friend were asked to ring round their circle of friends to let them know personally. DH had hardly got started when one of these friends rang, upset that he'd read it on fb. Turned out that one of the friends who'd already been called told his sister who then told her friend (who barely knew the deceased). This friend took it upon herself to announce it on fb! Apparently, she got lots of "hope ur ok hun" type responses. Sickening!

The sharing of a picture of someone with a message that they have done something wrong (assault/theft etc) but the one single photo shows no evidence of anything happening

Competitive sadding over dead celebrities, particularly if said celebrities have been dead for a while.
Aggressive vegans. I don't have a problem with veganism as a personal choice but stop trying to convert everyone.
People who bang on about their gym routines or running schedules.
People who generally bang on about one particular, small subject such as an illness they have.

On local groups -

I need someone to do my hair/makeup /lashes. Been let down. Tonight, in 20mins. Must be mobile and can get to me in middle of nowhere. Can only pay £5

"I love my kids" - I know they've been dumped at their nans for the weekend as they're all "shits"

Absent dad's are shit.im supermum and dad. - really stops her ex seeing kids to punish him.

Hospital check in, with just the name of a child. Same thing every few months at a medicine review appointment. She loves the attention.

The death announcements are just bizarre.
My dad travelled to see his elderly mum. She died while he was in the air (10hr flight) and my cousin posted on Facebook immediately she heard. I had to ask her to take the post down as didn't want my dad having a quick scroll on the coach and finding out that way. What's wrong with letting a few days (hours?!) pass before turning straight to Facebook?!

Also the virtue signalers who tell you about their good deeds and how they gave a McDonalds to a homeless person.

I was unfriended when I replied to one of these saying it'd be much better to give them a home made bowl of chilli

The posts that pretend to be personal, inspirational stuff, but are really hidden MLM recruiting.

Open MLM recruiting.

Using Facebook as a 'super-medium' - i.e. a way to communicate with the dead. Except it isn't, it's a self-indulgent public display of grief without purpose. I miss my Dad every day, especially at Christmas. But why would I post it on Facebook, especially addressed to him, e.g. I miss you Dad - today and every day'? He's not reading it!

Whereas if someone posted, 'I miss my Dad every day, but I'm really feeling it today and need a handhold' then I'd be right there. If someone posted a tribute to their loved one - that's a beautiful thing. But the 'look at poor me'? No.

I'm not on social media (except this. Is this social media? It's not, right...? ) for a reason so I hate it when people in work insist on showing me - or reading out to me - shite on their social media.

I want to scream I DON'T HAVE SOCIAL MEDIA BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO SIFT THROUGH THE WITTERINGS OF BALLBAGS I KNOW SO WHAT MAKES YOU THINK I WOULD HAVE ANY INTEREST IN THE WITTERINGS OF BALLBAGS YOU KNOW?

But I'm far polite/pathetic and I meekly aim for appropriate noises and some nodding.

Honestly, it's worse than listening to someone else's dreams.

Messages to people not on Facebook, including dead people, old people and babies. Why would you wish Happy Birthday to a one year old on Facebook?

Hospital check ins.

Screenshots of Fitbit displays showing calories burned.

Any photos of date nights.

Any photos of road trips which I later find out were about 10 miles long.

Any photos of medical issues. A work colleague recently posted a photo of her small broken toe. However, the photo also showed she had athletes foot.

Happy Christmas / Easter / New Year from mine to yours

The 10 year amazing lists of achievements/exotic places they’ve been.

Sorely tempted to post that I have finally mastered the art of good roast potatoes in the last decade and hoping to to tackle reverse parking sometime over the next 10 years.

All the boss babe MLM people who clearly follow a formula of what to post on social media to grow their "business"

I have to admit that I think worse of the people who comment "You ok hun" on every vague attention seeking check-in or post than of the actual poster

@Allergictoamop

Haha! Me too!

"It's just me & the kids from now on, sick of selfish people letting us down. You'll need me before I need you! Rant over"

Translation: Mum (or in my case, Auntie Orange) won't babysit tonight.

" Some people really need to [insert weirdly specific complaint]."
Don't be passive aggressive...just tag the person who pissed you off!!

@Blueshadow Sorely tempted to post that I have finally mastered the art of good roast potatoes in the last decade and hoping to to tackle reverse parking sometime over the next 10 years.

Do it. I posted my plans for the next decade: get curtains for DD's room, and re-hang the mirror over the fireplace. It has been popular.

It sounds like I'd be getting a lot of eye rolls and judgement, because I "check in" when I attend my hospital treatment every few weeks. I do so because it's a bloody lonely time hooked up to a drip, (unless I'm reading a book in which case I don't) and with family (mainly), and friends all over the world, I lose track of time zones etc, plus I'm a complete workaholic, so it's an easy way to let them know I'm having some down time. (I don't do it for sympathy, it's routine and they all know that, I have very few people on my new Facebook account.)

The things which bother me though are:
"copy this/don't share/I know who the 3 people will be" constantly in my feed because of 1 person who loves sharing that chain letter crap.
Political posts or rather rants, as everyone thinks that they are right/
Posts which are racist in any way /
inflammatory comments about religion /
people complaining about "a" being single parent getting more money than they are from working because child "b" is "supposedly" disabled (they think they know better than the Dr.) /
mlm crap, which is a pyramid scheme under a different name tag, /
Random posts which people share without fact checking /
Amber alerts shared by people who live in the UK and don't have any contacts in America /

There are probably many more, but I keep my Facebook for family and real friends now, so I'm thinking of past experiences...
People who share missing persons or pets posts, without looking to see that they've been reunited 6 hours ago /
Posts about child abuse or animal abuse /
Pedophile hunter groups, don't they realise that they can jeopardise an entire police investigation, meaning that the person will walk free despite being guiltily? /
Talking about "guilty" I absolutely despise the whole "trial by Facebook" bullshit that goes on. (There are 3 sides to every story people, your side, their side and the truth) /