Getting annoyed at virtue signalling on Facebook local groups

[Floogal]

Ignoring the fussing questions everytime a police helicopter is on patrol or fireworks. Where I live it's usually the same thing. Always along the lines of;

" I've got a lot of old tat but want to donate it to charity"
" I brought the homeless guy on the high street a coffee and had a chat with him"
And, this " how many homeless people are there in town? My (photogenic well dressed) twin daughters want to give out Xmas packages" obviously hoping to appear on the local news or "and finally...' on ITV news. Usually the 'ooooh aren't you wonderful' gushing replies. Gives me the raging arsehole.

So annoying and the ones who claim their kids had the idea are the worst. Your kids don't want to litter pick 9-5 every Saturday and have their pic taken to be put on socie meeds. They either want to do it to help save the planet or you're making them (that's your business)but why post them on Facebook. If someone else posts your good deed I'd congratulate you, if you do it yourself your a bad meff/desperate for attention.

@CrapDrawer

I get annoyed by similar posts and also posts where someone has found a phone/ bank card/ jewellery and posts on FB to find the owner. What if they’re not on FB. Really annoys me. Take to local police station or send bank card to the bank! Always seems to be someone wanting a bit of glory for doing a good deed but not thinking of the best way to actually get an item back to its owner.

I saw one on a local FB group showing a phone with a baby photo asking if anyone recognised the baby. They'd found the phone on a bus. I live in walking distance of a famous London venue/park which said bus passes, so the owner could come from anywhere in London to visit said venue. I asked why the finder hadn't just handed the phone to the drive which was the most sensible thing imo as the owner would most likely contact the bus station or TFL Lost Property in the first instance rather than trawl local FB groups, especially if they didn't live locally! Funnily enough they didn't answer me.....

Wow your groups are far more exciting than mine, which are:

Which day is bins day?
Photos of parking knobs
Bastard students!
Isnt the new one way road great
People keep pissing in my alley
We hate cyclists
We hate joggers

@emsmar

Is Tesco open today?

Is the tip open?

What time does the x19 bus come at?

Google it ffs!

The virtue signalling is desperate too.

I ask if Google is down.

Oh god yes. One woman posted photos of her son handing out care packages to the homeless and she had a gurning photo with every poor soul. It was mortifying but got the usual 'you're an angel' replies

There's also another woman who obviously has mental health problems but posts ALL OF THE TIME about her health. Fwiw I also have the same health conditions and they're not amazing but also it's not that bad. I'd also have more sympathy with her if she didn't bad mouth 9:10 local businesses who she has dealings with, usually because they've discriminated against her in some imagined way. She also posts a lot about her daughters health issues and personal details, her daughters a teenager at the local school and it's so wrong.

@lightisnotwhite

We have a Lost and Found page that can be shared so dogs, keys and wallets can be reunited. Works well.

However we have a particular woman on the main site who annoys me. Years ago she was the Buying and Selling page moderator. I posted something to which a friend tagged her in and the next person asked for it. I let it go to the person who posted and then DM’d me. The moderator got arsey sent me a post about it going to the “first person” ( which I did) and then threw me off the site leaving me no way of replying to stuff I was selling
During lockdown a different fantastic young lady opened her garage as a free giving site and posted the stuff coming in. No fuss, people could walk up her drive and help themselves.She was incredibly popular and people voluntarily gave her money for her troubles, all of which she gave to charity. She asked for nothing and literally posted the 3k she raised as an end note when she stopped.

First lady in contrast decided to do free giving for charity also. Made a big fuss with lots of posts everyday about what she was doing and suggested donations.. Halfway through the year it then apparently became her daughters site. Cue lots of photo’s of the girl handing cheques over and handshakes every few weeks. Made slightly less then the first woman.

Oh my word i swear we must be in the same group !

"Found a bank card outside Sainsburys today, name of Mr J Smith. Handed in to customer service at Sainsburys". Because someone is clearly going to consult Facebook about their lost bank card rather than go back to the last place they had it. Or "to the person who" yes, because the entire population of our town is on this batshit crazy Facebook group.

Someone I went to school with, and really need to block on SM, was posting a few weeks ago that they wanted to give a "Christmas dinner voucher" to a struggling single mum and asking friends to recommend someone. Donate to a charity you *** rather than getting people to beg for your largesse on Facebook like you're some latter day feudal Lord.

Sorry wrong quote I tagged

@XenoBitch
Haha we had one like that last New Year, not FB but NextDoor when someone posted about how to get rid of her Christmas tree. I posted a link to the council's website with the information and said "there, googled it for you". Some people don't have the brains they were born with.

The ones that get on my nerves is the people that say "oh I found a purse in Sainsbury's I've taken it home, if its yours message me the contents and you can come and collect" or "I found a bankcard outside Costa if its yours bring ID" and I say, why didn't you hand it in to the shop, and I get piled on by huns saying "she's trying to do a good thing" and shit like that.

Sorry @XenoBitch, that should have been @emsmar

@YouCantTourniquetTheTaint - I've had the same exchange with people, WTF did you take someone's purse home with you ??? Hand it in to the nearest shop or the police.

People on ours have taken to posting semi obscured pictures of keys or phones saying "proof of ownership needed to hand over". I'd be calling the police if I thought it was mine.

No virtue signalling on mine.
"There are kids smoking weed in the stairs of the flats"
Ah, leave it, they're only kids/ fucking belt them
"Someone looked at my dog funny. Should I phone the police?"
Ah, leave it. Stop being paranoid/ fucking belt the.
"Kids are trying to boot my front door in"
Ah, leave it. Just kids being kids/ fucking belt them
"Anyone got a spare cooker? Just moved house. You'll have to deliver cos I don't drive"

Gives me the raging arsehole.

I tend to get this more from vindaloo, could it be that?

@Floogal

Ah I love my local FB page. Very posh rural market town but only the the nutty people post. We have had wild boar and puma sightings this week.

But there is the fair share of bollocks too. The lost cards, cats, dogs actually get reunited pretty fast.

What pisses me off is people advertising any work for under £15ph which always infuriates a lot of people with "good luck finding anyone willing to work for THAT!" Those give me the rage.

"Here's my vegan NYE menu"
Said person also sells homemade woollen toys.

A friend keeps asking if anyone has any time to spare to help a charity, yet is off work herself and doesn't appear to be volunteering there.

Family members posting lots of eco stuff, while posting pics of their real Christmas tree, crackers etc.

I've just remembered the fashion a wee while ago for absolutely EVERY TINY THING being a sign of dog napping.

Someone walking past your house - casing it to dognap

A twig on your drive - a code for dognappers

A chalk mark on the road - 100% dognappers

Honestly I almost snuck out in the night to write STEAL THE DOG FROM HERE on peoples front doors just to clear up any confusion.

@Smokeahontas

If you want a real laugh, download & join NextDoor.

I was on my local ND but it was a nightmare. There was a well known troll who changed his name regularly, male names, female names all different nationalities e.g. sometimes a Polish name or African name etc, even joining neighbouring areas which ND refused to acknowledge was possible. He was only there to start arguments and fights. Once he changed his name to mine, and started posting controversial posts, with the outcome people thought i was picking arguments. ND did fuck all about it. One time after another banning, somehow he flooded the site with all his old IDs and posts.....god knows how.

I ended up completely deleting my account. Lockdown had been bad enough for my mental health without pricks like him adding to it.

Another trend is "I hope the parents of the teenagers doing wheelies in the town are proud of your sons today"

Or "Can the parents of the youths hanging around town at 1pm today teach them some manners?"

Lots of dogs keep escaping round here. Luckily, the dog nappers seem to be taking their Xmas break.

@PurpleCarpets

Gives me the raging arsehole.

I tend to get this more from vindaloo, could it be that?

Lol!

@thaegumathteth

I've just remembered the fashion a wee while ago for absolutely EVERY TINY THING being a sign of dog napping.

Someone walking past your house - casing it to dognap

A twig on your drive - a code for dognappers

A chalk mark on the road - 100% dognappers

Honestly I almost snuck out in the night to write STEAL THE DOG FROM HERE on peoples front doors just to clear up any confusion.

Ha, yes! I saw this too. Posts on my local FB dog page. Stuff like "a lady was giving admiring looks at my dog.... she must be a dog napper!". Or mentioning anyone on their phone that happens to be in a park where dogs go.

I was walking behind a lady with a dog recently. She kept looking back at me and looking a bit unsettled. I would imagine she thought I wanted her dog (I really did not!!).

After a road traffic accident - "does anyone know who the person is? / what happened to them? Hope not too serious? " Eff off and leave it to the emergency services you nosey fecker!