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Most annoying Facebook posts to me are:-

236 replies

glitterytrainers · 03/01/2020 14:21

So blessed, date night, Love my man so much (no one belongs to anyone else unless you gave birth to them and even then they could fuck off and ditch you), feeling joyful, feeling thankful - the list goes on - what are yours?

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Ohtherewearethen · 03/01/2020 21:59

Comments such as, 'Run over the rainbow bridge, furbaby' and 'taken too soon, fly high with the angels' about a pet or person they don't even really know.
One of my friends swings between saying how perfect, sexy and handsome her husband is to what a dick he is and it makes me feel very uncomfortable. Especially when he replies giving his side. Cringe. Another one seems to have terrible luck with people talking about her/her kids behind their backs. She's all, 'Say what you want about me but you say anything about one of my kids and I WILL find out. I WILL hunt you down and make you pay. You upset my kids you upset me and you really don't want to do that'. I just think, seriously love, you and your kids are not that exciting. Who the hell would find something to say about any of you?

Ledkr · 03/01/2020 22:29

People sending messages to people they with.
Happy birthday to my amazing hubby.
Heres an idea TELL HIM YOURSELF.
Also hate the ones with a pic of their kids saying "my world" yes cos for most of us out kids are just a minor factor.

Ledkr · 03/01/2020 22:32

Oh and my exh gf whom he went off with posting about the importance of relationships and sticking with them even when things are tough.
He was shagging her when I had just had out 4th child and was recovering from cancer. That is quite annoying Angry

Yellowmellowgem · 03/01/2020 22:40

The self righteous charitable posts.
The ones who tag themselves giving blood or how many charities they’re part of but you know them in real life and how selfish they are. The tags aren’t to raise awareness but to say “aren’t I great?”.

Don’t get me wrong charities rely on these people and there are the genuine people who I really respect but just irritates me when it isn’t for the charity it’s for themselves!

bluebella4 · 03/01/2020 22:42

When parents share anti-bullying meme and their child is the class bully! Fucking annoys me!! Piss off you tool!!

CustomerCervixDepartment · 03/01/2020 22:44

lego yes, I only follow women from a niche community on Facebook, and am in secret groups and hilarious pages, I don’t follow any colleagues or locals or relatives, so I never see any of the dirge people often complain about, it’s so easy to choose quality content, if I only followed idiot locals I would hate it too. The way I use it I have a wonderful friendship group, support, camaraderie, intelligent women across the planet and interesting links, memes and posts, it’s great.

namechangenumber2 · 03/01/2020 22:46

Yes @bluebella4 !! I recently unfollowed someone who is the mum of a boy who's been particularly nasty to DS at school recently. Not only was she posting anti bullying memes, but likes to post cutesy pics of her darling boy telling everyone how lucky she is to have such a lovely boy..

I also can't be doing with vague posting. Ok, I don't mind tagging yourself in at hospital, but at least don't put a vague headline on it! Just say what happened and if the person is ok?!

I used to be so much more tolerant. Is it an age thing?!

Idontlikeithere1 · 03/01/2020 22:46

I have a friend on Facebook who posts about her daughters sassiness all the time. At first it was funny but it’s constant and think it’s too much of the little girls life as her antics for so many people to see. I unfriended when she repeatedly put ones of her on the toilet having a poo and thinking it was hilarious. I found it down right odd.

CharlottesPleb · 03/01/2020 22:48

I'll take a billion posts about people feeling blessed to have their fur babies if facebook will put a "get fucked" button I can use when people obnoxiously overshare their ignorant/hostile/fuckwitted take on politics.

bluebella4 · 03/01/2020 22:53

@namechangenumber2 YES!! The top one #myworld!! Dead on 🖒

JacquettaW · 03/01/2020 22:56

I don't get that much fuckwittery tbh. The key is to make sure you have loads of interest pages and then your feed gets swallowed by that rather than all of the nauseating posts Grin

Having said that, there's one who sneaks through that I have to mute because it's all murders, rapes, paedophiles in the area etc...

Turquiose · 03/01/2020 22:56

Oh yeah agree with the posters about photos of people's 'furbabies!' ffs they're dogs and cats rabbits etc. Also yeah if it's your dcs birthday why congratulate them via Facebook and tell everyone how fantastic they are? Can't you just tell them face to face like a normal person?! Esp when they're still living at home as they're still at school!!!! 😂 😂 😂 Plus you've just given out their personal info-dob (eg. it's my Jimmy's 7th birthday today...) their first and last name and the area they live in sometimes their school too. We'll done on protecting your dcs then! This gets me everytime. Sorry but people who do this are thick.

CharlottesPleb · 03/01/2020 23:17

I don't get that much fuckwittery tbh. The key is to make sure you have loads of interest pages and then your feed gets swallowed by that rather than all of the nauseating posts

Oh yes, snoozing and muting and swapping are glorious.

Also can be used by polite people, unlike the "get fucked" button I fantasize about. Grin

Yes @bluebella4 !! I recently unfollowed someone who is the mum of a boy who's been particularly nasty to DS at school recently. Not only was she posting anti bullying memes, but likes to post cutesy pics of her darling boy telling everyone how lucky she is to have such a lovely boy..
Yeah - a while ago I read with a raised eyebrow, an acquaintance's virtue signalling and rather patronizing posts telling us all about invisible disabilities. Someone with nasty form for assuming people they don't know 'look healthy' and 'could work if they wanted to', and mouthing off about it.

CharlottesPleb · 03/01/2020 23:17

Swamping! As in other facebook posts. No swapping going on

FrangipaniBlue · 03/01/2020 23:19

The ones wishing their partner/siblings/parents/children/next doors dog happy birthday when the recipient isn't even on social media.

Just.fuck.off

FrangipaniBlue · 03/01/2020 23:24

The endless sharing of lost dogs / missing persons posts from TEN BASTARD YEARS AGO!!

Dip1 · 03/01/2020 23:35

People who post ‘I’ve just been for a shit”

Miljea · 03/01/2020 23:54

People who are smug about how amazingly well they curate FB that only love, light and positivity flows their way... 😂

ChilliandLemon · 04/01/2020 00:35

The fake holiday giveaways.

‘The winner didn’t claim their prize so we’re giving it away again!!!’

As if Disney just giveaway a cruise because it didn’t sell.

The sob stories about why they should win. Please let me win, my neighbour’s cousin’s cat ended up in prison for dealing, and it’s really affected me. It’s been a terrible year.

And on and on it goes. If you click on the page you can see it’s fake FFS.

VeryLittleOwl · 04/01/2020 08:07

People who mindlessly share things without fact-checking them.

The one that got my goat over Christmas though was my SIL (married to DH's brother), who posted a timehop thing from a few years back with the caption, 'Miss you, Dad.' (1) it wasn't her dad, it was a photograph of a photograph of DH and his brother's dad and (2) he died at least 15 years before she met DBIL, so she never met him.

StillCoughingandLaughing · 04/01/2020 08:40

Went to: The University of Life

I don’t know why people keep applying there. It can’t be a very good university. All its graduates seem to be terminally thick. I bet you don’t need many UCAS points to get in.

glitterytrainers · 04/01/2020 09:17

I also wonder if some of the post going on about wonderful husbands soul mates etc. are warning someone else off - as if they suspect them of having an affair? Couldn't be arsed myself!

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Lex234 · 04/01/2020 09:42

-rant posts about partner/wife/husband-made even worse when they respond to the post and the whole argument is laid bare for all to see

-constant selfies

-Tag your sister's best friend's hamster's pet pigeon and if they don't respond in 2 nano seconds they owe you a KFC

-Work/Life is shit posts

Also think you get to see people's true colours when their comments on public posts pop up on your timeline.

LolaSmiles · 04/01/2020 10:50

Work/Life is shit posts
Or worse given threads on MN:
AIBU To think my manager and colleagues are bullying me? Apparently I've broken a social media policy by some of my comments and now I have a meeting. I feel people have betrayed my trust. Either my manager has been stalking me or my work friends have been spying on me. What I say on MY social media is nothing to do with them.

Then it turns out they've either explicitly or implicitly slagged work off online / posted unprofessional comments / not got their privacy settings right / have commented on a public page / have been on a discussion on someone else's page and that person has the manager added etc.

RedPanda2 · 04/01/2020 11:42

The joint accounts are the worst - JoanneandChris etc - who cheated???

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