To be utterly sick of all the social media virtue signalling right now

[lightnesspixie]

Just that really

YANBU. It’s giving me the absolute rage too.

Do you have an example?

Oh God, YANBU!

Yes including #clapforcarers in a country that majority voted a party who don’t want to fund them properly. My town has been a Tory safe seat for 100 years, hearing the claps on Thursday just sounded like pure hypocrisy

Absolutely spot on.

I heard a woman on the news saying she decided not to go into retirement because she worked in a bread factory and had to keep working to "feed the nation". She's such a hero.

Yes, people posting on Facebook knowing if anyone can recommend an NHS fundraiser or a food bank to donate to.

I’m sure most people do genuinely want to help but some of the posting about it is unnecessary. I’ve signed up with a local group to do telephone check ins (pregnant so can’t go out and about) and no one knows except me and the group.

Haha I have! Have to go on twitter for work occasionally, I work in a super right on industry which is great in many ways (but never be mistaken that it is formed of a huge majority of terribly nice middle class peeps, many privately educated).

Yesterday someone was going ‘I thanked the cashier at the till in Waitrose for all she was doing by working (or something). She immediately burst into tears as I am the only person who has ever thanked her at all in this crisis.. As I left with my organic freekeh and vegan produce, I pondered to my self, ‘—

You get the idea.

and us mner's now Clover,,...

Yep. Mine is a Facebook friend posting pictures of notes she's written to give to neighbours offering help with food delivery etc. Which is of course lovely but surely you know that without needing 50 people to confirm it for you

I've turned off all notifications on all social media including WhatsApp and I highly recommend it!

Oh and it really is true that the people who have not been following govt guidelines are the ones blithering on about clapping and shopping for your elderly neighbours.

There was one going viral, where somebody has took pictures of young kids on a park (I would guess age 10+) Separate pictures, they wasn't together. Wrote a massive essay how these people are disobeying the rules, spreading the virus, youth of today etc.

Well the mum commented! She pointed out how they didnt get her in the picture because it didn't fit their motive. She and her son went for a walk as allowed and don't be a creep taking zoomed in pics of young children.

Others are taking pictures of shops claiming they are price hiking, when in actual fact they aren't. The one that went viral near me, complained the shop was trying to charge 1.10 for a loaf of bread. Was urging people to boycott it, when this is over the public will remember. It was only whenever people pointed out £1.10 for bread at a corner shop is good, did they back track.

Why shouldn't people ask for recommendations of their friends? You said it yourself, most people genuinely want to help. For instance, you just posted about doing telephone check ins (virtue signalling?) and I thought, what a good idea, I could do that.

Yes!

The virtue signalling has been doing my head in for days!

Yes! I recently saw someone post about the clap for keyworkers thing saying 'thanks to everyone for clapping for me'. She's a fucking receptionist in a probation office. Uh, I wasn't clapping for you love.

I've just been on a similar thread, and someone has posted a screenshot of 6 year old hero 'Charlie', leading all of the elderly to the front of the queue and shaming others for not social distancing.

I know a few people who have deactivated FB this week. It's too depressing, esp. the finger-wagging jackboot-lickers wetting their knickers at the idea of reporting, naming and shaming others.

I live in a bungalow.... I am getting a lot of notes through the door. And corresponding FB posts in the Village group. I haven't the heart to tell them that I am perfectly able to shop so far, but you would think the steep steps up to the door and no parking would be a bit of a give away that you have to be mobile to live in our collection of houses.

It makes them happy - so if they need an out let to keep them in good mental health then so be it.

There is a primary teacher on our estate who is fuming that he has to work, constantly posting about his 'sacrifice' and how NHS staff are getting all the attention.

I've thought this for a while, eg when I see FB video clips of someone offering a free haircut to someone down on their luck. Nice gesture, sure. But why film it? I do nice stuff for people all the time, but I don't make a song and dance about it

People are scared, panicked, genuinely want to help. If that leads to a bit of sentimental nonsense on social media, so be it.

I'd rather see people posting stuff which actually engages with what people are going through now, than endless showing off and unfunny memes.

There was some video being shared last week of some thuggish looking bloke leading an elderly frail lady to the front of the queue in Lidl. Who originally shared it? Oh yeah, the thuggish looking bloke!

Also seeing a lot of people offer lifts out randomly to NHS staff! How is that social distancing?

Nope. Give me memes over fake sentiment any day.

Mine is a Facebook friend posting pictures of notes she's written to give to neighbours offering help with food delivery etc. Which is of course lovely but surely you know that without needing 50 people to confirm it for you

Yes, @islandislandisland this is the sort of thing that's winding me up. For 3 years, I've been taking food to an elderly neighbour. Outside her family, no one else knows I do it. This week, loads of emails flying around offering to help anyone who needs it. My neighbour doesn't have email. And none of them will think to offer to get her food when this is all over

Spoke to my friend the other day. She was returning that day to work as a psychiatric nurse in a#e after 2 weeks self isolation. She was shittjng herself for obvious reasons and said that she just wished that people would stop the virtue signalling and let her get on with her job. As a result, I didn't do the clap for carers.