Do you ‘hate follow’ anyone?

[Ohchristmastreelove]

Hate is a strong word but hopefully some will know what I mean.

Do you have people on Facebook/Instagram/Twitter who you find intensely annoying but somehow you can’t help but look at their posts and wind yourself up/eye roll?

Yes! It's compulsive

Yes. Lucy Kane. She's just so fucking irritating

No.

I have a couple of Facebook friends that I’ve unfollowed/put on restricted as there’d be a massive fuss if I un-friended them but otherwise, no.

Yep.

One likes to regularly air her dirty laundry in some level of detail. It’s like a soap!

The other just got to the point of being outrageously irritating so I deleted and blocked her.

no! I'd get too pissed off... I tried to follow the spectator on Facebook once just to get a more Conservative take on things... and I had to unfollow in the end because it was just annoying me so much... I doubt I'd fare better with actual people who I disliked.... who wants to be annoyed every day lol?

Another term for this would be mental illness to be frank. You're essentially their biggest fan! Doing nothing but annoying yourself whilst getting their engagement up!

Imagine being proud of doing this🤮

God yes, isn't that the point of Facebook?

As in people I know- not famous people. I don't get the point of Twitter

I hate follow the Facebook group ‘Mrs Hinch Made Me Do It’. I actually like Mrs Hinch, but compulsively hate follow that group because I like to eye roll at the endless stream of grey sitting rooms and crushed velvet sofas. These days it’s non-stop ‘please show me a pic of your hot choc stations’ as if twee jars of Options and marshmallows on a little shelf in your kitchen are now an absolutely necessary part of the Christmas experience.

Yes on YouTube. The Indie Projects. DH and I have our Sunday twenty monute hate when they upload their new video each week

This really annoys me on FB pages that are there for enthusiasts of particular things. There is always one miserable sod who seems to join deliberately to rain on people's parades. If you don't like a particular hobby/brand/activity why follow a FB page about it? It's perverse!

Yes. My best friend's ex. I really shouldn't but it's compulsive viewing.

I’m forever unfollowing people, I find people highly irritating 😆
I know exactly what you mean though. I have one friend who has an absolute instasham account, it’s not even funny how she puts herself across on there and actually is in real life. It makes me really bemused and also a bit sad, so I don’t follow her anymore but I do occasionally look her account up to see what she’s saying she’s been up to 😊 better just to see her in real life.

I sometimes read the Arnica Parents Support Facebook group posts to eye roll. Though I feel very sorry for a lot of their children. I first looked at it to try to get some ideas for some natural remedies to work alongside conventional medicine but I couldn't take any of the advice from the page as my general beliefs on medicine and science are so far apart from theirs!

No but I try to follow a range of people for a range of views eg trump and Obama

I hate follow the social media of someone I knew at university. She always had put downs for me, and whenever I was around her I was filled with self-doubt and feeling of failure.

Her blog is all about how hard she finds life and how she tries to #bekind and all that bollocks and I just think GOD IF YOU KNEW HOW YOU’D MADE ME FEEL.

These days it’s non-stop ‘please show me a pic of your hot choc stations’ as if twee jars of Options and marshmallows on a little shelf in your kitchen are now an absolutely necessary part of the Christmas experience.

That has annoyed me just reading about it

I had to accept a FB friend request from the husband of a friend.

My (real) friend is lovely. But she married at 18, and not wisely, imo. However, they seem happy enough 30 years on... she is a kind and tolerant person and seems to just ignore his weird ultra-right-wing bullshit.

Maybe he's a nice person at home. But on FB, ALL you get is the ignorant, xenophobic comments and shares. I could have hidden him, but I was just too busy rubbernecking at the horror. Some of it was unintentionally quite funny.

Eventually I commented to question one of his weirdest posts (in a very mild, polite way). He instantly unfriended me.

Can't say I see this as a loss overall, but it does remove one of my sources of entertainment when I'm bored.

No! How weird. Life is annoying enough.

Yes. A friend’s ex who posts on Instagram about his yoga practice, how it informs his spiritual approach to parenting, the way he’s made his fortune by following his true calling etc. Meanwhile, in real life, he’s bankrolled entirely by his high-earning ex-wife, lives in shit and all the parenting is done by the live-in nanny. I can’t stop following

Every so often I'll look at David Cameron's twitter and enjoy everyone responding to everything he posts having a go at him about holding the referendum and stuffing up the country.

Yes, a friend who likes to constantly post all the amazing things she does with her perfect (rude) children, who makes me feel shitter every time I saw her on Facebook, so I've unfollowed her

No, I know the toxicity of social media and unfollow anyone that even slightly annoys me once. Life's too short.

There is a woman on FB who LOVES an audience. If she doesn't get instant adoration, she starts tagging people and does the kid with 100000 presents for Christmas photos. It's compulsively awful.

No, since I've been through some pretty traumatic stuff in RL, it put things in perspective and I decided I didn't need to share that with some random coworker or In-law for them to scroll through for entertainment.

It's much easier to control Instagram
and Twitter et al and not have randoms follow your every move.