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

[lightnesspixie]

Just that really

I fed up of it. I work in a hospital

I CHOSE this job! For the pension, career progression & job security 😆😆

I do nice stuff for people all the time, but I don't make a song and dance about it

Christmas is charidee.... and charidee is Christmas.

It's just as bad on here in all honesty OP. Except it's the self isolation police on here. You must never leave the house ever again!!

@Unescorted - I wouldn't call that virtue signalling. I'd call that genuine offers of help. The ones I can't stand are the, 'To save the world I have not left my sofa for 13 days. My mucles have atrophied and am eating mouse droppings. I'm doing this for all you selfish people walking past smiling and laughing as though life was normal carrying shopping bags and going for walks.' Er yes, we're allowed out to exercise and shop. As long as we all keep our distance, no harm done. You don't need to get rickets to be a good citizen.

I do quite like making a difference.

I literally care about every patient I see.

But again, I chose the job! I knew it was crazy 😜

Oh God, YANBU. It’s the PTA writ large.

Turn up, help out, check on your neighbours, family and friends but stop the fucking bragging on social media you dozy bullshitters.

Slightly off topic, but wasn't there a thread about not doing the rainbows in the window thing? However I can't think what's wrong with kids painting rainbows tbh...please someone put me firmly in my place.

It does remove the sincerity, somewhat I agree.

Someone went a bit cookoo over the rainbows thing cos of the association of pride and transgender people with rainbows. She was really really offended by rainbows in windows because.. well actually I'm still not sure.

A neighbour posted a photo of about 20 loaves of bread she had baked and delivered to vulnerable people in our village.

It's a lovely thing to do but I question people's motives when they post photos of said loaves and photos taken by her DH of her by people's doors with a thoughtful expression on her face. By all means do such a lovely thing, but for the right reasons, not for likes.

Plus, I want to know where she got all that fucking flour from to bake them in the first place!

God yes! A friend on there hasn't wrote a thing for months. suddenly she's, in a round about way telling everyone how good she's being, voluntering to help the elderly.

Yesterday she put how a 74 yr old man was about to be evicted from his flat, said 74 yr old is her millionaire dad who owns loads of flats to rent out yet lives in a shit tip. She'll be worried she'll lose the rent on the flats, right kind she is!

At christmas I paid for a lady shopping who didn't have enough money. I didn't tell anybody because I did it to be kind, not to show others what a bloody marvellous human being I am.

Oh God yes.

Let everyone clap for the NHS, but not leave any food on the shelves for them when they finish work.

@1984isnow can you link the thread? 😁

Oh yes

I work in emergency services and it’s interesting how it’s mainly those colleagues of mine who are workshy or are in back offices are the ones putting the “I can’t stay home” frame on FB.

I almost commented at one guy having put it. He’s known by everyone as doing FUCK ALL and dodging all work. Huge cheek to compare himself to NHS.

Also it’s “stay AT home” grrr.

Where I work (not medical) it’s pretty quiet (calm before storm maybe). I consider myself lucky to have a secure job and a distraction tbh.

Also another colleague is “a hero” according to his deluded girlfriend then there is a pic of them “isolating” in the garden with a BBQ - so heroic!

and us mner's now Clover

Ha true @BillywilliamV! But no one on here knows who I am - I don’t think...
My point was lots of people (most people I think) are wanting to help and do so privately.

She was really really offended by rainbows in windows because.. well actually I'm still not sure.
I'm not sure either😊 Did the op ever explain why in the end?

I honestly don't have friends like this - if anyone started with virtue signalling crap I'd de-friend them immediately. Just do what the government says, be a decent human being, look out for your neighbours, keep yourself busy and don't feel the need for constant validation. It's not that fucking hard!

I know I may get flamed for this, but in my part of the U.K. no hospital admissions as yet for Corona, and I was in Tescos on my way to work last week (Key worker, but not NHS), and a woman in nursing uniform crying in the entrance, surrounded by staff, loudly commenting how upset she was as they had no milk and she had just come off a night shift. Cue, staff murmering they had milk in the back and would get some for her. I absolutely appreciate the NHS are doing a great job, and I know just because we don’t have corona hospital admissions up here yet that we are likely to get some in soon, but it made me eye roll.

Yes! It’s annoying.

One woman on Facebook has advertised her batch cooking to help all the neighbours. She is cooking enormous quantities of food she hopes to give those in need locally. Wonderful.

All people want to do is buy our own food from the shop and help our neighbours as and when, but the shelves are empty. Yet she has ingredients to cook for 50 every night.

She is being declared an angel and basking in her virtue. I don’t know, maybe I’m being too harsh but I just keep thinking well perhaps if you’d left the food in the shops.....

There's just been a discussion on our local FB page about this very thing.
My town is a Tory stronghold yet people were all for clapping the NHS, seeming to forget many of them had voted for the cuts.
And some people wanted to clap Boris. "Let's stand behind him"

Someone on a local Facebook group is trying to drum up a "fart for Boris" movement, where everyone stands outside at 8pm and farts in disgust for the PM. It hasn't had any takers but did amuse me.

Wow, you lot really do have a jaundiced view of the world!

Surely you could argue that criticizing others for virtue signaling is a kind of virtue signalling in itself? Because you are telling the world that you are too intelligent, modest or self sufficient to need to tell the world what to do or what you are doing.....

And as I am now announcing to you that I am too intelligent to criticise people for virtue signaling, I think I now have the moral high ground! Feel free to counter post and grab it back.....

I think the stress and boredom is making people post more than they usually do. A lot of it is crap. Some of it is downright dangerous. But the vast majority of it is people getting on with being people in all their flawed and variable humanness. If it's getting on your nerves, that may say as much about your mental state as it does about theirs.

I am not above getting wound up by social media by the way, but save my ire for those posting that if we were all vegan it wouldn't have happen, or that dolphins allegedly swimming in the canals of Venice show that the world is healing itself. Not virtue signaling. Just crap.

I’ve logged out of social media for the time being because I’m finding it’s completely fucking with my head. 7 days in and I’m not missing it at all. I’m only speaking to those I want to speak to.

Whiskeybysidedoor: get her to post on here, she'll be deluged with people calling her a murderer because she's cooking for other people and putting them at 'risk' 😂

MN is full of the virtue signallers too. Often the same people you saw tearing apart an upset poster just moments before..