Not to want to see your your entire holiday on Facebook

[SirGawain]

Facebook 'Friend' who I get on well with is on holiday abroad. They just posted 75 holiday snaps on Facebook AIBU to think this is excessive. Incidentally they have dozens of random "Friends" so they've just told the world that the house is empty so please burgle it.

I love seeing holiday pics and see where people go to on holiday as I get ideas where to go one day or avoid. 75 pictures is a bit excessive but still I like seeing people being so excited to share their snaps on sm especially after 3 years of covid. I think holiday pics are better than 75 pictures some people post of their daily trips to the same park with their kids.

YABU. Facebook has both 'unfollow' and 'unfriend' options. If you don't like it, use one of them.

Typical ol' Mumsnet eh? Complaining about people posting too many holiday photos on their own wall. The AUDACITY of them!

You would think somebody was pointing a gun to your head forcing you to look at them...

I use my Facebook as a type of time capsule. I love seeing people’s photos and the ones I don’t or I think are boring, I unfollow or scroll.

You know that photo albums were/are a thing right? People would take hundreds of photos and fill these albums to share with friends and family. This is just the up-to-date, paperless version. Not everybody posts things for people to “like”, sometimes people treat social media as a place where they can simply display things that make them happy and have easy access to.

Also, unless their address is listed on Facebook I’m not sure how these random friends that barely know them, would know where they live to burglarise them.

@LikeAStar1994 ( and others) .The question wasn’t about looking at somebodies 75 holiday photos. We all know you can scroll past and ignore.

The AIBU was, is putting on 75 photos is excessive in the first place. I’d say yes for the reason above. People won’t bother to trawl through them all. Just stick a few good ones up.

I don't mind seeing a few holiday photos, in fact I quite like it. But please spare me from the shot of your legs with the beach/mountain/posh hotels in the background. Not sure why, but it really irritates me.

Although not as much as the birds eye view of a round of drinks in glasses, with people's hands holding them. You're having a few drinks and some fun, which is great, but I cringe at that photo.

After losing all the photos from 2 holidays taken when DD was small, which included photos of now deceased members of my family having what was to be their last fun holiday, I make albums of all my holiday pics on Facebook. It might well mean that I post 50 or more at once.

Frankly I couldn’t give a fuck if one of my FB friends was annoyed or found it boring - they don’t have to look.

Just this morning I’ve been looking through the photos of our last family holiday, seeing how happy, heathy, fit and unselfconscious DD was then - it’s a reminder of a better time, and I’m not giving that up for a second.

I love looking at people's holiday pics on FB! I also post loads of photos that I'm sure noone but my mum and my auntie are interested in, because I like to look back on the photos when they pop us as memories, or just to be able to easily find eg a few photos of a particular over the years by looking at the facebook albums Christmas 2015, Portugal 2017 and Family 2021 for example. Or to pick out a photo of my eldest each Halloween from birth. I know there's other ways to organise it but it works for me like this. I certainly don't think I'm an influencer, I've only got about 200 friends!

In our car , we’re on a driving holiday. DH has shot knees from playing sport when younger but is too young for a replacement. This limits our walking.

As we’re not really beach holiday alone type and I refuse to do another cruise until they stop with the stupid mask and testing rules driving it is

3500 miles in 3 weeks.

one of us navigates using google and one drives. The navigator also plays David Bailey and snaps away.

we also have a go pro on the roof of the car recording it all which we will cut, edit and make videos off when we get home.

when we check in to that nights hotel not takes a minute or two to select all the days photos and press upload whilst I download the go pro videos and format the cards.

anyway, enough, have to go get ready for the drive today and the highlight - taking the landrover up the highest pass in the Pyrenees which is only suitable
for 4x4

and there you go mumsnet - can have a go at our environmental impact as well

oh this is me 😁i do it in case i lose my phone

Don't look. X

I love seeing holiday pictures !!! You can just hide them though ?

We have a house/cat sitter when we go away so I don’t worry when I post pictures . Not everyone leaves their house empty .

I definitely don’t post 75 pictures when I'm away but that’s just because I love to post at the end of the trip . I’m not “instant” enough hahaha. I secretly love it when others post a ton though🙃!

As we’re not really beach holiday alone type and I refuse to do another cruise until they stop with the stupid mask and testing rules.

I'm currently on a cruise. No masks (thankfully) and normal activities with no covid restrictions.

There was pre-testing 48 hours before but a video supervised LFT. A bit pointless as (a) you could easily catch covid at any of the destinations and (b) it would have been possible to fake the tests for those minded to. But otherwise, back to normal.

75 photos is excessive but I don’t have a problem with seeing holiday photos

If you think that's bad ,my horrible cousin get multiple sets of prints of holiday snaps made up of her, her horrible DH and horrible DChildren made up and gives us all a set. Fascinating prints of them in Tenerife at the Waterpark, at the market etc etc The DChildren are teenagers now and she still does it.

I agree it could be an invitation to burglars. Unfollow or perhaps leave Facebook.

This is what Facebook is for!
This is what the good people on Facebook do, not stirring up hate, misinformation, promoting dodgy politics and views, trolling or all the other unpleasant behaviour that goes on.
I love seeing pics, videos people have shared, memories, random musings and thoughts on the day.

There's always someone on mn moaning about how their friends post on sm. obviously, they can post what they want on their own sm and you can scroll past, hide or unfriend.

Personally, I love holiday photos and the more the merrier.

I find it odd that a friend posts happy holiday photos and your response is so negative.

Also pp saying they're bragging or posting the minutiae of their lives - maybe, or maybe they're thrilled to have something worth posting for a change. Maybe they couldn't be bothered 'curating' the photos so dumped the lot. If you want a handful of arty photos, try insta. This is what fb is for.

The people complaining about this, don't you realise they're not doing this for your benefit? It's not to show off or make you jealous or even have you judge them. They're putting their memories on their own wall as a time capsule, to look back on the good times when they're bereaved or having a shit day.
Don't care? Don't look. You must be very self absorbed to imagine it's for your benefit!

I have a friend on fb who posts around 25+ photos each time she posts which is normally several times a week. Her pics are amazing though, and she can make really mundane things look interesting. But I have to admit I generally only look at 4 or 5, or sometimes scroll past.
I normally put holiday pics on once we're back.

All my pictures from my eldest daughter being born are on my Facebook. Many members of my extended family live abroad. This is how they've watched my children grow up. It's also a place where I won't lose my photos. I had them backed up on a hard drive once upon a time, but that got taken during a house burglary, so I lost all those.
If people don't like it they know where the unfriend button is. I don't think I've ever criticised any of my friends for what they've put on Facebook unless it's been discriminatory.

You are not under any obligation to look at any of the photos!

Personally, I like looking at people's holiday photos. I also like to create albums for my holidays on Facebook so that I can look at them myself whenever I like. I couldn't care less whether anyone else looks or not.

I use Facebook as free cloud storage so I'll put as many photos on as I want.

I don't care if anyone else chooses to look at them

If you don't want to see them, don't look?

if you want to see pictures of landmarks, you can look at online photos or postcards. Your parents in front of a landmark? they're happy they went there and that is how they will remember it. They are sharing their happiness* so stop being grumpy fuckers and scroll past.

People can't win. If they post carefully arty shots in a "curated" collection of 5 they get accused of trying to be an "influencer" and showing off a lifestyle (that doesn't match the reality of their mundane life)

Facebook retains copyright, i think, over photos, so be careful with your arty shots if you ever want to publish them elsewhere.

*friends, cousins, whatever
**unless you have a weird relationship where they're trying to rub your nose in it