To ask if you are a regular Facebook poster can you explainhy do people post literally what they do every day on FB?

[bigbeautybummum]

Why some people post what they are doing every single day? I'd love to know from someone who does. Friends posting what their DC doing every day, daily family stuff etc . I just don't get it?

@ooowhataday

And your post to *@FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop* is unnecessary. Because she posts everyday you accuse her of being a 'best life' person. You do realise OP that you don't have to look at what your Facebook friends are posting. Just hide the 'best life' people from your feeds if it makes you feel 'flawed'. You sound bitter that 'best life' people might be having a nicer time than you.

I don't actually post every day! Maybe once a month tops, but if other people want to post daily more power to them. I just don't know why anyone who hates social media so much uses social media

@bigbeautybummum

Frangi, assume you're a 'best life' poster then. I use social media for lots of interesting entertaining and useful things but bragging and documenting everything I do every day isn't one of them.

I assume you’re a bit of a twat if you think people posting everyday things as a diary is ‘bragging’ then. We can’t all be as interesting and entertaining as you

@FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop well I think you should post more often then... the memory feeds are fab! 😆😆😁

So are people supposed to only post every so often (the highlights, braggy?) or daily so you can see the mundane, non brag-worthy stuff? It doesn’t work both ways.

Facebook memories are just ace. I like posting something I'd like to reflect on.

@Catflapkitkat I follow Mr Lumpy and friends on twitter. They are brilliant. 🦨

Misses point of thread

I find it a lot weirder people who have fb, seem to log on daily for a nosey but NEVER post anything themselves.

It’s like a weird peeping Tom thing.

I now restrict most the people on Facebook so only a few good friends I interact with can see it.
I got so fed up of other people wanting to control what others post. We are all different some post less, others more. Yet some people ‘don’t get’ those who post less/ more and bang on about it.
I posted a lot one week in a happy mood not realising how much, and I had someone like the OP moaning. I unfriended them on fb (not real life) and yet for ages they were actually funny with me in rl. Because they didn’t like my Facebook yet I made it so they didn’t need to see it…

Yes @Insertfunnyname, then when you meet them they bring up things you’ve posted like ‘oh, the play you went to looked nice’. It’s creepy as they read everything yet don’t let on.

It appears that it is what Facebook is for. So if it bothers you I’d suggest just deactivating your account?

It’s a bit like being annoyed that the library you’re stood in is full of books.

Because they want to I guess. I post around once a year but other people can use it how they want, there are no rules around it! I have a friend who posts daily, I think she just likes to document her and her children’s lives. Almost like a diary with pictures. If people don’t like it they can unfollow her (I have ).

It’s the complete and utter baby / kid spam I can’t stand.

Since my friends have had children there are multiple photo drops each week and never anything else. Mute!

@ooowhataday

I post a lot , when I meet up with friends or when I go somewhere, even if it's a nice walk or something. I do it because I enjoy it when the memories come up. Everyday Facebook tells you what you posted on the same date in the previous years, it's really nice to be reminded of moments.

Me too

I think people who are trawling Facebook then moan that people use it are weird.

@TheViewFromTheCheapSeats

Yes *@Insertfunnyname*, then when you meet them they bring up things you’ve posted like ‘oh, the play you went to looked nice’. It’s creepy as they read everything yet don’t let on.

Yes! This happened to me on Saturday night. Met someone at a party who I vaguely know - she chatted all about things I'd put on Facebook, I had her as a friend but completely forgotten as she never likes comments or posts anything but clearly reads everything. It is very disconcerting!

@FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop

Have to say one thing that's more annoying than people putting everything on Facebook, is other people who have social media accounts and moan that others use social media for it's intended purpose.

Yes. This

Anyone would think you can’t control what you see in your news feed. I have annoying FB friends, I either unfollow or unfriend them

I don’t post everyday, every couple of weeks normally, depends what we’ve been up to

And that's exactly why the op is being unreasonable @Blankspace4 , if she doesn't like seeing these posts she can mute them, the people posting the baby spam will really enjoy their posts popping up on their memories in the coming years. And I say that being childless myself and having unfollowed a lot of baby spammers!

Boredom, connection, attention, loneliness, need for validation... any number of a huge list of reasons I guess.

Having said that I dislike it. My friend posts pictures of her sleeping child on there covered in love hearts and I find it weird. I just post pictures of days out/ when something interesting is happening that I want to share.

Because I enjoy seeing what my friends and family are up to, and hearing about what's going on in their daily lives, and seeing the little things that make them happy and knowing when things aren't going so well for them and they want a bit of support, and I think that most of them feel the same way about me and that those who don't can unfollow me, so it makes some people happy and can be easily avoided by people who don't like it.

Because they can.
Like why do people post mundane questions here.
Or why do people post pictures on insta.

Because... They can.

Also, for many people it is keeping in touch with family and update for them. Others have it as a fiary. Everyone uses it differently

Because Facebook has spent a decade and a half working hard and paying lots of extremely smart people lots of money to make its platform as addictive as possible?

@FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop

Have to say one thing that's more annoying than people putting everything on Facebook, is other people who have social media accounts and moan that others use social media for it's intended purpose.

I am with you on that😂 And I have like 100 posts in 4 years😂

I assume OP means when people post a picture like "here is the cereal I had for my breakfast", "just putting some washing on", rather than fun photos/ updates of family life.

I don't get it either, OP!

But I don't follow people who do that because they irritate me

I just don't know why anyone who hates social media so much uses social media

I hate fb but still have an account. It's only because my entire extended family live abroad (parents are immigrants). Luckily family & friends are similar to me & no one posts lots of shit or bragging posts.

I just want to say, it's never really Facebook what's the problem, but the user.
SM overall give you actually massive level of control over what and who you see (bar ads of course). If people don't use these, and then moan it's shit, it's like always moaning about not having soft boiled eggs, but hardboiled ones and yet still refuse to use a timer🤷🏻 Self knflicted annoyance

People are funny. I know two women who are best friends, they see each other all the time as best friends do. They seem to do most of their communicating over FB. Not via Messenger, but on their newsfeeds. Odd!