AIBU to fed up with Virtue Signalling

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Just that, really.
It's great that people are doing things for others/being considerate, but doesn't posting on Social Media seem a bit boasty?

I'm with you OP. My Facebook feed is currently full of sanctimonious, self congratulatory, me-me-me posts and it makes me want to claw my eyes out. Not my friends (none of whom are so twattish) I hasten to add, but people posting their good deeds on local sites so everybody can fawn over them. The narcissism is just cringeworthy.

I really liked the idea of clapping for the NHS workers (although couldn't myself as was putting children to bed.) I hated the fact that so many people had to record themselves clapping outside of their own houses. WE GET IT. YOU'RE A LIVING SAINT.

I've hit "snooze for 30 days" on so many of my Facebook friends that I've really only got DH left on there.

I'm actually going to delete one ex-colleague if I see her post once more. She doesn't work for the NHS bit she has signed up for NHS volunteering, and then today has put a status up about "clapping for us" and changed her profile pic to one of those "proud to work for the NHS" frames

Absolutely agree I'm fed up of seeinf so many smug people. Yes its nice to be nice but please stop sharing how you are being nice every 2 minutes.

On a seperate note.

People are suggesting we get all our Christmas lights back out and lit each night "for the NHS". For God's sake.

You've got me worried now, I've put some lights back upin the front window but only because im stuck indoors for 12 weeks with a small baby and he likes the lights. Hopefully my neighbours dont think I've done so to signal my virtue.

It’s like that question ‘If a tree falls in the forest and there’s no one there to hear it, does it make a sound?’ If you do a good deed but there is no photo of it on Insta/FB, did it even happen?

My local page had a woman telling everyone how upset she was seeing an elderly person at the supermarket, she was so upset that she let them in front of her in the line to enter.
I accept that was a nice thing to do but no reason to have to post it all over a towns Facebook page. It was obvious she just wanted the likes and comments about how wonderful she is.

It followed by somebody saying how they give any elderly people they see at the supermarket their business card and seemed quite put out that having done that they they see the same people in the supermarket the following week so they obviously can’t be helped.

yep, everybody feeling so smug and smelling their own gasses over the 'NHS clap' that theyre doing another one, rather than actually talking about funding the fucking service properly.

And a few companies broadcasting their deeds on social media

Omg I've just seen 2 separate posts where people have left notes and chocolate attached to the top of their bins for the bin men this morning. I mean, great it's a lovely thing to do but really why post photos on Facebook and encourage others to do the same - we can't all be as fuckimg perfect as you!

I think the prefect types and grasses are all gathered on here, ashamed to actually show their faces and real details.

I feel much better after this thread 😃

@Thymelord yes I’m fucking grumpy too then 😃This rainbow, oh aren’t we all so positive! shit is really getting on my tits.

As is the “oh, maybe the world is in a better place now we’ve all slowed down!” Crap.

It’s not better, businesses and lives will be fucked and old people spend their last days isolated. I’m not even starting on the fucking clapping.

I’ve come off Facebook 😂

we had one on our local facebook corona support thread. 'Look at me, i took brownies to all the NHS workers' with a million pictures and telling us how they cried and thanked her. I had to bite my tongue so hard not to ask whether the journey to the hospital was an essential trip and how sure she was that she wasnt infecting the entire hospital by her good deed.

Neither do I understand why it’s people who still have jobs that are supposed to get all the free stuff 😂

It’s like a nation of Marie Antoinettes with access to social media

Haffiana I think you'll find that Foxtrot Oscar works. Either they know what it means and will shut up, or it'll take them some time to work out, so they shut up whilst they're thinking!!

YANBU. Someone posted a picture of their kids sticky taping rainbow pictures onto the side of a fucking ambulance outside the station the other day . Of all the stupid things to do.

Christ. People aren’t going to think my Christmas lights are for the key workers are they? I’m just too lazy to have taken them down....

YANBU!!! One person in particular keeps posting the nice notes she leaves for the bin men, and has set up some sort of charity that she has been spamming everyone with. And actually she wants to continue it as a job off the back of the virus as she quit her job last month, which I think is a bit tasteless somehow and presumably means a % of the money she’s asking for is for her pocket. It pisses me off.

Just do the nice things - no need to make a huge song and dance about it!

My sister has managed to make covid 19 about her and the "life saving" surgery she had almost a decade ago, how the NHS doctors saved her life, how she knows all about isolation as she spent a few weeks in hospital, and a few months recovering at home, how she knows exactly how precious our NHS staff are as she has personal experience of it, yada yada blah blah blah. That woman could make anything about her fcking heart fuckig surgery. She's doing my head in.

I realise I've gone off at a tangent - the point is she's making a huge song and dance about the clapping and the praising and I just wish she'd do it quietly!

I saw something being shared last week about selfish people leaving shelves in shops empty and what about those poor old people who fought in two world wars for us we can't leave them some food ,my parents are both two years off 80 and were both three years old at the end of the 2nd world war to have just about fought in the second world war someone would have to have to be about 93/94 years old and I would be gobsmacked if there was anyone alive who fought in the first world war .

Yanbu. I work in a care home. We have had so many cakes. flowers, kids drawings and meals bought up to us this week. While it's nice we already have all this stuff. What would be nicer is if people had thought about the residents 3months ago and just come in for a chat with them. We can make as many cakes as they want. But apparently now everyone cares and wants to post it on Facebook

There was a news story about a nurse getting loads of praise for staying with the man who crashed his car into hers and he died but she started with him and got lots of praise. I was - surely most people would stay in that circumstance? (As a nurse I think she can get in trouble for not staying but not 100 per cent on that.) it just felt like a normal thing to do in those circumstances rather than exceptional.

It’s like at Christmas suddenly everyone remembers the elderly and the poor. They give, feel better, forget about them for 40 more weeks, and often vote against their interests.

The whole clapping and banging pots thing baffles me a bit. What if this goes on into the autumn/winter? Aren’t they all going to burn out?

I’m hugely impressed by underpaid grocery store staff, chemist shop staff, postal workers, transit etc working through this. I don’t see the big fuss being made of them, so that’s part of what makes me 😑 at all of this.

i work in a hospice. Please forget clapping, if you can donate to your local hospice instead! We are not fully funded by the NHS and need your help 😊 We also like cake

These people are annoying. Most of them were annoying before this.

I was also annoyed by Italians singing to each other on their balconies. No thanks, if I want music I’ll tune into Spotify and listen to the professionals.