To be annoyed by Facebook nominations?

[Ritascornershop]

Well, annoyed and puzzled. Lately too many people I know are posting on Facebook things like “over ten days post an album that influenced you, but with no comment”.

Why no comment? Wouldn’t it be about 100 times more interesting to initiate a conversation about these things? Is it to try to cull people’s tastes for the algorithms? Get possible passwords? I don’t see the point (& don’t want to have to be on fb daily when someone nominated me just to post a photo of a 30 year old album).

AIBU? And can someone explain this to me please?

The poster isn't supposed to leave a comment, their friends are

These games pop up here and there on social media, but I think there’s been a bit of a surge since lockdown where people have a bit more free time to do them.

Because people are bored and for me it's been a fun way to re-connect with old friends and to talk about the music that was the soundtrack to our youth (all in the comments)

If you find it annoying just scroll on. It's harmless fun while people are in Lockdown

I find them all a waste of time. I have never responded to a single one so luckily most people don't bother nominating me any more.

I agree with you that pictures of album sleeves without comment are really boring and pointless. I hate the nominations and the clunky wording of the copy/pasted status.
Someone on my FB has been posting his favourite singles for 10 days and has been saying what the songs mean to him. Much more interesting and has actually made me add a few things to Spotify playlists.

Agree. The nominations are so fine but the 'no explanations' pisses me off. The explanation is the interesting bit. I'm not interested in a random album cover without the story about what it means to you. Humph.

I never get nominated for those 'tag the strong, brave, beautiful women in your life' posts, so I guess my resting birch face transmits over Facebook too.

Mind you, I was also the person where chain letters were sent to die back in the day. My friends sent them to me as I just binned them.

I never get nominated to do those things.

Bitch face* I don't have the face of a tree

The ones that annoy me are:

"Motherhood challenge! Post one picture that makes you proud to be a mother"

"24 hour selfie challenge - come on ladies, instead of putting ourselves down let's build ourselves up! Post a selfie of just you"

"Pet owner challenge! Post a picture if you love your pet"

Of course go ahead and post the picture, post 100 if you like, but why on earth is it a challenge?

The point of “post a picture of yourself challenge!” flies right by me too. And I grumpily think less of people posting to those things too.

For the couple of people disagreeing, wouldn’t it be a lot more interesting to explain why you like the music or why it was meaningful? Just a photo of an album is flat to me, goes nowhere. I get being bored, but start a conversation online about it!

I did the album covers one. With explanations. I couldn’t see the point otherwise.
There is one doing the rounds now to post a picture of yourself as a baby or toddler. Harmless and quite amusing. Like a PP I will never do the “build women up” shit or any kind of “I know who will share” bollocks

Have you noticed the security questions when you join a website?

• What's your favourite book?
• What's your favourite place?
• What's your favourite film?

You don't need people to post descriptions - just the names will do.

Post a picture, supporting beautiful women and you're one because I've tagged you. No. Piss off. I've not worn make up for a week and that isn't going to make me spend 40 minutes putting it on now.
Albums that mean something to you.
No. Piss off even more. I don't care about yours any more than you would about mine. Individual taste isn't comparable.
I'm not getting any awards for participation over here

My friend is currently doing the album covers one. I am seriously in awe of how much cooler than me she was

@latebreakfast I wonder about this too, otherwise it makes no sense to me.

@MT2017 I am seriously cool and if I’m going to talk about music I need to go on about it, not be all mysterious.

It's the same as the ones I've seen about posting a photo of a happy memory no explanation. I'd far rather read the background to the photo

Everything about FB is a bit sad. Not sure why this would annoy you so much.

They are just another way of showing how popular you are.

'Post a selfie challenge' would actually be a challenge to me but only because I only have two photos of myself on FB. It would be a challenge to find another one I like! But most of the people who do this challenge have thousands of photos of themselves on there, so how is that a challenge?

The way it's dressed up as 'show how strong a woman you are' by posting a photo of yourself baffles me. How is that doing anything to show your strength? Is your strength simply measured by how nice you look after trowelling half of Boots on yourself face and by how many 'yassss QUEEEN!!' and 'gorge hun' comments you get?

In usual times I roll my eyes and scroll paste. In these times I'm just scrolling past. If I'm nominated for something I'll chick a like to acknowledge but I don't play.

Its all about staying sane imo. Crack on, whatever it takes.

'Post a picture that makes you proud to be a mummy'
Fuck off. Want me to post a picture that makes me proud to be child free?

Also 'post a picture of X. The aim is to flood Facebook with positivity rather than negativity!

I just ignore them but then I have not really been on Facebook lately. The only things I m looking at are posts in my cat owners group as they make me happy. 🙂

There’s a tag people you think are amazing dads one going round too. These and the amazing mum ones can actually be a bit hurtful if you don’t have kids. I am seriously tempted to make one up tagging my childless/childfree friends!

I keep checking in on fb as my neighborhood group posts a lot of useful info about local govt that I need to know/gardening tips/free stuff/etc.

Then I see one friend posting about a dozen items a day about Covid (he seems to be losing the plot in his retirement) & other people posting these non-conversation nomination things. I could “snooze” them for a bit I suppose.