To not get what this has to do with Caroline Flack?!

[Rainbowb]

Have been getting tagged in lots of FB posts with photos of the poster pouting at the camera saying:

The news of Caroline Flack has been so devastating.... 😢

Let's do this for Caroline Flack 💔
#ChallengeAccepted 😍 #24hours
(If I didn't tag you, please don't be offended, I tried to pick people who I thought would take part).
All too often, some women find it easier to criticize each other or themselves instead of building each other up, with all the negativity going around, lets do something positive!!
Because you are beautiful!! 😘
Upload 1 picture of yourself... ONLY you.
Then tag 25 or more gorgeous women to do the same. Build yourself up instead of tearing yourself down ❤️COPY AND PASTE
If I tagged you, don't disappoint me.

How on earth does posting a pic of yourself and desperately fishing for compliments help Caroline Flack or anyone else?! The way people respond to a tragedy by creating another hashtag bandwagon is so appalling!

I had also never heard of her and almost got as much of an earful from my mum about being horrible for not knowing who she was as when I didn't know who princess Diana was when I was a kid.

I've been tagged in so many of these have ignored them all. I don't know how they ever thought I would join in after I've ignored every "keep this post sharing for cancer" and private message saying "hey girls take a selfie in your pants and share it for cancer but say nothing" or something like that. I've been unfriended for saying I don't share stuff so I'm definitely not "fun".

It's just attention seeking of the highest order and the weirdest thing I've found is some of the people joining in with this are the same ones who said a close family member was selfish for killing themselves but for some reason a famous person doing it is different.

Fakebook, coercive drivel, never done it never will.

I've not seen this on Facebook (I'd love to get able to say it's because I have friends who are too sensible to post this nonsense, but I'm sure it's just coincidence), but it's about as relevant as that ridiculous "post your shirt colour without saying anything else to promote breast cancer awareness" shite that was doing the rounds a few years ago. Attention seeking rubbish.

This type of hysteria started with Princess Diana's death, with all those crowds of people appearing to think that they were grieving more than the princes, who had lost their mum. I felt it was really horrible that the boys had to be dragged out in front of those people who hadn't even met their mum just 1 week after she had been killed in the car accident. I confess to having been less upset myself, although obviously shocked, the one thing that really moved me was seeing the card addressed to 'Mummy'.

Now it appears that any time someone well known dies, if it's a tragic death, everyone gets hysterical and pours out their grief about it as if it was a beloved family member or close friend.

I hadn't heard of Caroline Flack either before her suicide was on the news. Yes any suicide is sad, but hers in no more tragic than any other.

I also find it distasteful to be getting so upset about a minor celebrity committing suicide at a time when thousands of people around the world are getting ill and dying of coronavirus.

I’m so glad it’s not just me that thinks this is crap. Her death is tragic but I don’t understand the attitude to her being charged. Domestic violence is an issue we need to deal with more effectively regardless of whether a man or woman is the victim or abuser.

The picture chain main makes me cringe - on the plus side I didn’t know I could change setting to stop people tagging me so off to do that now!

Ah yes, it’s the same as the ‘breast cancer awareness’ private message that was going around. You were asked to pick X amount of people to pass the message on and put a Purple Heart as your status... but women only and you’re not allowed to tell men why.

As if men don’t get breast cancer. It’s not spreading awareness if you don’t fucking tell people about it. Ridiculous.

All these photo challenges are created by someone who was too insecure to just put up a selfie(not meant in a harsh way) and wanted people to think it was done in justification of some recent tragic event.

How about we all just be more compassionate towards one another.

How about a simple reminder to check in with a friend or family member once in a while, ask how they are and listen.

A reminder to check in with yourself occasionally, we can have a tendency to subconsciously suppress our feelings.

We are led on to think that sadness is weakness.

Ugh. No one has wanted to fix my crown and the bloody things are everywhere. If I was bothered about this stuff I could be quite upset about the lack of tags. Who on Earth comes up with this crap. It wasn't like Caroline Flack didn't have loads of friends anyway. She seems like she was well loved, so the whole sentiment seems bizarre.

It’s a fucking joke.
All the attention seeking ,selfie lovers are doing this on my fb.
They’re always the pics with full make up and hair done , not like a normal every day look.
It’s embarrassing

I have been ill with depression and when I was a teenager I had a violent boyfriend and grew up with abusive parents. So I have experienced all these things my 'friends' are suddenly aware of on Facebook. I don't agree with the hero worship of CF or the idea that being kind can cure mental illness. But now I'm feeling sad and rejected because no-one has tagged me for any of these challenges. So much for being kind!🤷‍♀️

It’s quite ironic that “be kind” is now being used as a way to berate other people who disagree with you.

This mass grief hysteria is awful.

I've seen loads of these the past few days but haven't been tagged in any. People must think I'm not "fun" or pretty enough to take part. Either that or they know I'm not down for this kind of utter horse shite.

I saw a post saying the gossip mags were being replaced by a selection of other magazines including slimming mags. Like that is going to help self esteem.
The pokisg tge crown posts really annoy me.

Someone may have said this but CF posted something like ‘if you can be anything, be kind’ in the months before her death. So #bekind has become her legacy.

Isn’t Love Island itself part of the same problem? Obsession with surface appearance, gossip, sniping, over-exposure online and in the press. I think her career was built on the same social attitudes that ultimately ended her life.

I think Love Island is part of the problem.

My kids (and my contemporaries in fairness ) judge me to be old fogey because I have complained about it from the start.

'Reality' TV and the likes of BGT/celebrity etc are part of the problem. Bullying dressed up as entertainment. Scrap it all. It is the modern version of viewing asylums. I had to look up CF as I don't watch them but I remember them when they first came out. I watched out of curiosity and found them distasteful. Not watched since.

We don't so much live in a democracy these days, more like a hypocrisy.

I saw someone post #BeKind earlier on facebook about that man who set his wife and three young children on fire and then stabbed himself.

No.

No.

No.

The last thing the world needs is people being kind to family annihilators. Fuck off and then when you get there, fuck off some more.

chain letters are a sign of a mentality that has never left the playground, and all too often that mentality is from females.

same types that watch a show where females compete on appearance and willingness to have public 'affairs'.

the whole thing is just revolting. At least Big Brother didn't insist on 'coupling up' and that was bad enough.

2 words ... grief tourism

This same post was going around FB a year or so ago and has just been started up again with the Caroline Flack message. I can't really see how me putting up a picture of myself without make-up on will promote kindness. I don't believe that if I randomly put up a make-up free selfie without the Caroline Flack message people would be piling on to tell me how rough I look (even if they would probably be thinking it!)

Most of the time the pictures have been filtered to oblivion anyway, so it's not as if people are genuinely showing a vulnerable side of themselves.

Ive observed that the women posting this sort of shite are either MLM-types, or the girls who were bullied at school (often both). Nobody has dared to tag me yet, but I won't hesitate to comment my disgust if someone does.

*bullied

*bullies

*bullies