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.

Dreadful. I feel for you.

Patronising much? You are absolutely under no obligation to look at the pictures, and if their house gets burgled, well it’s on them, isn’t it?

I am a big holiday photos fan. The more the merrier for me. It gives me ideas and I like to see my friends and family having fun. I don't think enough people put them on..my own are saved in Facebook albums and it's a very quick and easy way of looking back.

Just scroll past if you're not interested. Or unfriend. Simple

Just don't look.

I guess it depends how people use Facebook.

We got married abroad and had our honeymoon. I've got a few albums on Fb full of photos. They're for me. They're all there, easily accessible if I want to look back on them, instead of having to find where they are on a computer etc.

In the past people would print photos and make albums, we don't generally do that now, so I think a lot of people use Facebook as their albums instead.

No one is making you look through all these pictures. It literally doesn't affect you at all.

So many times recently I've seen people say thinks about how "pathetic" and "excessive" it is for people to post lots of photos, which I just don't understand. If someone wants to use their social media in that way, I really don't see how that affects anyone else. It comes up all in one post, so it's not cluttering a feed. If you don't like it, unfollow them, if it's a regular occurrence

I guess some people just can't bear to see other people doing something that they themselves wouldn't do. They attach baseless negative motives to it. They try to get others to agree with them. They lack the imagination to understand that not everyone has the same thoughts and opinions. I would rather be the person posting happy photos than be the person churlishly griping about them.

Just don't look, it's that simple. Before Social media you had to look at people's physical photos or enjoy a slide show. So much easier now.

Lots of people use Facebook as a cloud to store pics.

Even if the 'friend' just wanted to upload loads of pics of their happy time - LET THEM LIVE - jeez.

I use Facebook as an online photo album of you don't want to look you don't have to.

Or you could enjoy seeing happy people

I don’t have an issue with it. I’ve got some great ideas for holidays and places to go with the kids from seeing stuff friends have done on FB. If I’m not in the mood to look at them then I just scroll on past. You come across as quite bitter tbh.

I don't use Facebook very much but I often wonder if you should 'like' all your friends pictures or not! It's like this pressure in case I've missed any... I hear people say 'oh I saw so & so's holiday pics etc on fb' but yet they don't 'like' them... is there some sort of etiquette that I've missed or what do you all do?

I 'like' them if I see them. I am sure there are lots I miss on the days I don't go on but I don't worry about that, it's meant to be fun not a chore.

Obviously, if I see something and don't actually like the post, then I don't 'like' it.

I put what I want on my Facebook, its for my benefit not yours, so I can look back on them, I use my Facebook as a scrapbook, if you don't like it.. Unfollow me!
(not aimed at you obvs I don't know you lol)

I love seeing my friends holiday photos, I enjoy seeing them happy and having a good time, makes me smile.
I also use FB as photo albums so recently on holiday probably uploaded 60-80 pics a day, just one post at the end of the evening to save them. I imagine people who weren't interested didn't look and that's absolutely fine, but lots of my friends did enjoy looking at them too :)

You sound very miserable and unhappy, maybe work on some improvements in your own life and you'll feel a little less envious of other people enjoying life.

@justfiveminutes yes good point! Can fb friends see if you've just looked at their photos btw?

No they can't see if you've scrolled past.

Think yourself lucky. A Facebook contact has recently uploaded 33 photos of a Showaddywaddy concert.

Best option is to unfollow people. And leave groups where people post inane pictures. Or block the worst offenders.

Holiday snaps are not too bad but I was in a running group on FB where a woman used to post multiple largely identical selfies every day of her and her dog with their tongues hanging out. In the end I blocked her. Eventually I left the group because I got bored with daily near identical running photos generally.

Our friends went on holiday recently and she was obsessed with taking selfies of then eating or drinking G and Ts etc. As he said to me, she didn't know if she was having a good time until she'd received lots of likes from friends and then they could move on to the next activity. Sad really.

I'm on holiday right now and love posting a few photos every few days - the thought that it might be making someone like the curmudgeonly OP irritated/envious/aggravated is quite pleasing, however I don't think I'm friends either on FB or IRL with anyone quite so joyless

If it's someone I like I do tend to like seeing their posts / photos and may even comment on them ( have a nice time , something like that )
If it's someone I made 'friends ' with 15 years ago or I don't know that well I may just scroll past. Depends on who they are really.

We always post a few holiday photos on FB of the wonderful places we have been to, but your argument about posting photos of the scenery is pretty tenuous. I’m sure your friends and family have access to Google and thousands of photos of the Pyrenees scenery if they are that desperate to see some. Just be honest and admit when you post on FB, you’re patently showing off 😂 nothing wrong with that, so many do it, but be honest about it 🤷🏻‍♀️

The family are know locally as notorious over-sharers. Did we really need to see her pregnant daughters baby kicking in a close-up video of her bump!

I think it's different though. A photo album I'd show my close friends and family when they visit, or I visit them. I'd ask them if they wanted to see my holiday pics, or they would ask to see them.

Facebook would be the equivalent of taking the photo album to all the people you haven't spoken however many years and shoving it in their face.

Maybe that's where the name Facebook came from? 🤣

Of course, everyone only ever has their very close friends and family on their ever so tightly secured Facebook pages don't they? So I guess that renders my whole post moot.

I think if people were genuinely using Facebook as a photo album they'd be setting those albums so only they could see them, not sharing them publicly.

I'm also surprised at how many people think Facebook is a secure place to store photos.