Does it annoy you?

[Vernonisfit]

Inspired a little by another thread. I tend to post most days on my Instagram with pics of my toddler Dd, do people really find this annoying and is it over sharing? Does it piss you off to see pics of others children or do you think it’s nice to see?

If I find that people post too much, I unfollow them if on Facebook (i.e. not unfriend) and just get rid off Insta.

I'm not sure why parents think they have to post so many pictures of their children, though. Do they have no rights to privacy?

Moaning about what someone posts on their private profile on instagram is like demanding to be let into a house and then moan that you don't like it and you don't want to be there yet you are still sitting there and ask for a coffee refill🤷🏻
Leave if you don't like it🤷🏻

I do the same OP. Its not always daily, it depends on what we do. Sometimes i go 2 weeks without a kid post! and sometimes its a few in a row.
Account is private with just people i actually know.
My family is all over the world, so is DHs. I have a cousin who i grew up with like a sister. She moved half way across the world when we were teens. To this day we are very close and message/call weekly. Try to visit each other as much as possible. But because of some circumstances before corona and now the corona situation i havent yet met her 1.5 year old and shes already pregnant with DC 2 now. I love seeing their photos, because its the best we can do atm.
I have close far away relationships with most of our families and some friends, because i also moved overseas. Its great that sm helps keep in touch and keep each other updated.
If people dont like it they can mute you.
Also, whatsapp isnt safer than insta and it would be annoying to send the pictures separately to 10 people.

It's is annoying especially when they use a 100 hashtags.
#lovemychildren #love #boy #girl. Urgh.

I only have people I personally know on my Instagram no way would I be public or allow people I didn't know to follow me or see anything of mine.

I'm always conscious of posts I upload anyway even though I know they are my family. There was one picture of my DS eating a banana but pulling a funny face. I'd never upload that for the fact it could get manipulated by a sick perv. Makes my stomach churn.

To be honest I find social media oversharers insecure and some just plain annoying. If someone was posting daily pictures of their kid, the first thing I’d think would be ‘where do they find the time for this?’ then secondly ‘I wonder if somethings wrong why they feel the need to fish for compliments this often?’. I never think ‘wow what an awesome parent!’. It may not be nice but that’s how I feel.

It’s not necessarily boring, more sad. I feel sorry for people who incessantly post about their children and have nothing else.

To be honest I find social media oversharers insecure and some just plain annoying. If someone was posting daily pictures of their kid, the first thing I’d think would be ‘where do they find the time for this?’ then secondly ‘I wonder if somethings wrong why they feel the need to fish for compliments this often?

You're asking yourself the wrong questions. What you should be asking yourself is this:

Why are you looking at daily pictures of someones kid if you find them annoying and insecure? That's weird of you.

And wondering where they find time to post...how do you have time to look at all these things you dislike?

Is something wrong with you that you feel the need to seek out content to annoy yourself with, and then judge the people posting it rather than yourself for choosing to consume it?

No I don’t look at them, I scroll past or mute.

You do though, otherwise you wouldn't know about them. You choose to have their SM linked to yours. What's that all about?

@andtheHossyourodeinon hit it on a head tbh

@andtheHossyourodeinon, the OP asked if it annoyed people. I said it did. No need to take it so personally unless you’re one of those who posts about #mykids, #myworld, #livingmybestlife on a daily.

I don’t bother looking at them I scroll through or mute. I’m never publicly rude but you can’t police what’s in my mind. I find it super weird to want to post daily pictures of their kids. I wouldn’t even want to see daily pictures/updates of my closest relatives kids.

One of my oversharers has started infiltrating LinkedIn with her kids now. I basically stopped going on to Facebook because of people like her filling my feed so I’d have to scroll through constantly. It started becoming super annoying.

It doesnt bother me, I may think aww or wow hes getting big etc. Or if I think they post too much will hide them from my newsfeed.

Yes, people posting photo after photo of their kid(s) is annoying and I’ll unfollow them so I don’t have to see.

It’s just too much; nobody thinks a child is as cute as their parent does and nobody else is really interested even family.

One of my oversharers has started infiltrating LinkedIn with her kids now.

Actually I am with you on that. I started seing it there too. Problem is that LinkedIn is more difficult to guard then otger SM because it keeps showing what your connections liked and so on.

Kids don't belong on LinkedIn.

You sound a bit bitter though tbh..why does it have to mean all those things? Why can’t it simply be that it’s a quick post inbetween daily activities because he funny/sweet etc..?
What do you post about?

@Tellmetruth4

It depends if you have every person you've ever met on your facebook/insta though. I only have people I speak to or that I like, so seeing pictures of their children having fun, cat snuggled on the radiator or whatever doesnt bother me. If it was everyday I would think too much.

@Vernonisfit

You sound a bit bitter though tbh..why does it have to mean all those things? Why can’t it simply be that it’s a quick post inbetween daily activities because he funny/sweet etc..? What do you post about?

Why can’t it be because he’s “funny” or “sweet”?

Because nobody else cares

I have a similar Instagram account - private so only family and friends can follow it, and I post every few days, but it’s not just photos of DD (DCat features as well )

If a friend was posting frequent photos, I would like seeing them, unless they were too perfect/ staged - like when you see lovely photos of a perfect family outing but your friend had told you it was a nightmare with tantrums. I’d also feel uncomfortable with potentially embarrassing photos (potty training etc.

So, I like photos to be realistic but not too realistic!

I'm not pissed off but I find it boring and just ignore it. I'm sure there are people who like such photos but there are ways to unfollow or mute people without them knowing or feeling offended so it's all harmless.

@emilyfrost But we could say that about most pics, couldn’t we? I don’t really care or understand lots of selfie pics..too many pics of food, booze, nights out etc..in case do we all just not really care about anything else, or just kids 🤷🏻‍♀️

Yep, Annoys me but I feel like unfollowing the couple of friends that do this is rude so I mainly end up just ignoring feed.
Even once a week is too much imo,

[quote Vernonisfit]@emilyfrost But we could say that about most pics, couldn’t we? I don’t really care or understand lots of selfie pics..too many pics of food, booze, nights out etc..in case do we all just not really care about anything else, or just kids 🤷🏻‍♀️[/quote]
Rarely do people post photos of the same meal over and over again; it’s usually a different one. Similarly nights out are different each time.

Your kid looks like the same in every photo.

OP I think you and many other parents have the best of intentions when sharing pictures of your children, I don't find them any more or less interesting than lots of the other things online, and people can always scroll past if they're irritated.

Having said that, it's worth keeping in mind that regardless of the privacy settings on your Instagram, once you have uploaded a photo, it's loaded and saved to Instagram's server, and consequently to their owners, Facebook. Where they go from there you have zero control over, so please be careful with the type of content you choose to share 🙂

Mine are grown up but i love seeing pictures of the little ones in the family. I dont go in instagram every day
I put my knitting on instagram, bet thats boring for some