To think this is unnecessary and a bit braggy?

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Mum in my son's year whom I'm Facebook friends with has posted a gushing congratulations message to her DS on his GCSE results, details of said results and how proud she is of him etc etc.
The DS lives in the same house. She can literally just speak to him and tell him how proud she is, as I've done with mine. I can't therefore see any reason for posting to him on Facebook, other than it's a stealth brag.
I get that some people have hoards of RL friends/relatives all over the world etc and FB is a then a good way to let them all know family news, but she isn't in that situation.
She does tend to do this for every single thing the DS does well, and
I fully accept I may just be old and out of touch with how people use FB as I'm not one to splash every bit of my life all over it. I just don't get why she address congratulations to the DS? Just tell him to his face

I think you’re missing the point of Facebook - it’s twin purposes are to document your life for others and to brag!

This is how some people use FB. Lots of #soblessed, #thisone and #makingmemories. I just scroll past.

Yes, I think I probably am!

Brag book will be getting some heavy traffic today #soproud #newchapter

Never been happier than since I ditched Facebook a few years back!

Why does someone else celebrating their child’s achievements make you annoyed?

Even if she is bragging, so what? She’s allowed to be happy her son did well and to tell the world.

Why can’t you be happy too?

I give friends a pass on FB on results days tbh. They’re proud, maybe they do want to boast…..I can’t bring myself to get het up about it, personally. I’m pleased for all my friends posting today about their dc’s results, especially this year after all the upheaval.
At least no one is whinging about TAGs this year

Facebrag!
C'mon! I have bragged (am so relieved tbh!)

Guilty! I mainly use facebook to post nice proud things about my children. And to learn about all the lovely things that my friends, scattered around the country and indeed the world, and their families are getting up to! Others use it for very different things, and that's fine too. You can always mute/hide people.

Hate all this on exam results day, i always think of those that haven't done well and are breaking their hearts over it.

Same! Its so insensitive.

This is one of the occasions where you give "friends" a pass. Personally I love to see how their kids are doing and can appreciate someone's 4 is as valid if not harder for them to achieve than another kid's 9. If you aren't able to join in with a friends happy times then maybe consider why you are friends with them on their social media.

Well done to everyone out there today celebrating their child's success story and enjoy all your proud mama moments. Today is a day you are allowed to celebrate and shout it from the rooftops.

I am happy for the son. He's a lovely kid and she's really nice too. I just don't get why she addresses the congrats TO the son, when he's right there with her in person?
If she wants to tell the world yeah fine, but she addresses it to him, not like a 'hi all, Billy had some great news today he got ten A stars and I'm so proud of him'. To me that doesn't sound braggy at all. But addressing it TO HIM does, for some bizarre reason.
I just thought I'd pop it on here and see if I'm weird.

Yeah I hate this too. That and people posting on Facebook to say happy anniversary to their spouse - you're probably sitting in the same room as them, just say it to their face!

Most of the couples I know who do this quietly hate each other in real life.

Urgh it's the fucking worst. People bragging about their 5 year olds reports as if 5 year old is going to see it? In reality the kid probably got a 'well done, now leave mummy alone whilst she's busy on her phone'

Good for her and wanting to celebrate her son doing well! I don't know her but I'm glad for her and her son.

You can scroll, ya know.

And for the record, my daughter got her exam results a couple of weeks ago and despite them being fantastic results, I've not posted on FB. I have however congratulated anyone who did.

It's unlikely those teens are following their mates mum. I would have more of an issue with their mum going online and shouting Susie only got a 3 but she got a 4 in her mocks!

At least she won’t be posting a back to school photo in a few weeks. Every cloud!

Some people document their entire lives on Facebook. I have a friend with 4 grown up kids and every day she posts the longest post you can imagine! All about her children and their achievements, how much she loves them, how proud she is etc etc. She also docenents their health battles and even details of their love lives. I can not believe her children let her post all this info about them!! It seems so intrusive.
I use it to post a few interesting photos now and then. Nothing too personal just nice scenes, the occasional photo of my children. I live hundreds of miles from all my friends and family so I do think it's a useful to just keeping in touch and sharing thoughts, news and photos.

This. 5 years of secondary school, why not celebrate the exam results at the end of it. On my FB everyone congratulates their friends children on their results, no matter what they may be. It's a big day for our 16 year old.

I'm with you OP. I can't stand Facebook posts beginning "Proud to announce..." as if they are some kind of celebrity or institution!!

This is the reason I switched to Instagram about 10 years ago and am much happier there!

The exam results posts wouldn’t bother me but I do hate the pile of Christmas presents posts.

I think you may just be out of touch if you're that surprised how people use FB

unfriend/unfollow and stop judging how other people use their own social media.

Plenty of people have geographically scattered families and share a lot of stuff like this. More fool them for not making groups or lists, but not a biggie.

Of course you get it OP. You’re just being sneery because she’s proud of her son and you find it annoying and common to mention it on fB . At least be honest.