To ask what has made you cringe lately on social media?

[TinaTeaspoons]

1. Ex colleague making a video of herself recounting an episode that she had in the shower after seeing a spider in there. Still wrapped up in towels she was and clearly just wanted lots of attention, likes and laughs.
2. One of my colleagues is with a guy who she thinks craps rainbows even though many of us find him arrogant and rude. She posts photos of herself looking up at him in a simpering and submissive way and it's truly cringeworthy.
3. Mll lady who says she can now retire her husband, how she is the luckiest girl in the world and posts everyday about how blessed she is and how everyone else can be just like her if they say 'yes' to the opportunity of selling her products.

Sometimes I try to post a nice, decent photo of me and it can stand for hours without getting any likes or comments. So in the end I delete it and pretend I never posted it. Nobody asks where it has gone. I'm glad about that because if I tell them I deleted it because "nobody seemed to like it" they would think I was being extremely childish. I would most likely say that I didn't like it any more.

Before anyone says I need to come off for a bit, I have. Since Saturday.

Niece who is a nurse regularly posts photos of herself crying in her car after a horrible shift. I get that nursing is stressful, particularly over the last few years and I understand wanting or needing to share this to garner support but why the crying selfies? One of her friends commented sympathising with her and she replied that yes it's so bad at the moment that her camera roll was absolutely chock-full of photos of her crying! If I'm bawling my eyes out the last thing I would think to do is take a selfie, much less share it online.

The desperate game-playing of Teams Sussex and Cambridge on FB, with their fawning acolytes and one-upmanship.

Oh have just thought of another (although admittedly it was a year or so back) the friend in her late 30s. She has a new boyfriend (who is a bit of bad news tbh) and she posted to her facebook a picture of herself in only a new lace bra and new very sheer lace panties with the caption; 'Treating my man'.

She has a couple hundred friends on facebook which she also uses as her 'business' account for her cottage business. I muted her for 30 days after that and she seems to have come off my feed so i might need to check in and see if they are still an item.

Someone I know has recently had a baby and she’s bought a range of baby outfits with sayings like ‘from my dead uncle in heaven’ and ‘picked by an Angel just for me’, to pose her sprog in. Said sprog has never known dead relative (who has been dead for several years). I’m just wondering if there will be any ‘baby at the grave’ pics come the next anniversary. 😱

This

One minute gushing over his decreased wife the next minute photo of new girlfriend and all their kids with #blendedfamily #rainbowlove

I cringe when I see some of my own posts from years ago. Thankfully I'm now far more social media savvy (as are most people on my friends list). I only post occasionally now and think before I do.

Still have a few over sharers on my feed though. Particularly one couple who are always publicly declaring undying love for each other. Specifically, one will post they're having a tough time over something and the other will will post gushingly"always here for you my darling etc etc" Just tell them! One of them has a habit of posting long rants which no-one replies to (apart from the partner) and then deletes them later. Has also announced they are leaving Facebook several times only to reappear days later!

Finally, I also cringe at the heavenly birthday/angel wings stuff!

Pre-Brexit I had a colleague post all this stuff about how migrants should fuck off back to their own country and leave British jobs for British people.

Cue colleague from Germany posting 'huh?' and the colleague saying 'Oh not you' and then a danish friends of hers posting '??!!' and the response 'Oh not you either' and then another Australian colleague posting 'And me?' and the reply from the original colleague 'Oh FFS!' and then the entire post deleted. I found it hilarious (and revealing of said colleague) but she did post about 10 pm at night and it had already been noted several times that her fb posts tended to get more batshit and rambly the deeper down a bottle she was.

That is how it was, I am irish, white, very English sounding sur name, and I got the "not yoooooo!" reassurances too but tbh at the time, it was a relief to know that the person wasn't going to march me off the premises!

I'm not from the UK (nor the EU) and also got the 'not you'. Oh right then. Thanks for that. Although it did very seriously piss me off when a neighbour started ranting about how his DIL had to go and get a visa in order to stay here and why the hell was I allowed to stay and who did I think I was. (Um- because I migrated 20 years ago and got all the relevant (and expensive) visas then?)

Woman telling everyone that her job as a fitness instructor was one of the hardest jobs out there. I couldn't stop laughing in disbelief. Especially as some of the comments were like 'Too true babes. Nobody knows how tough it is for you' and ' You're amazing hun. Just don't know how you do it.'

Fifty somethings using the hash tags
#truestory
#totesamaze

I agree with whoever said that social media has made people feel they are more important than they actually are. Almost fall into the trap of believing they are some kind of celebrity.

Woman on SM today moaning about being skint, saying she was sick of it.
Would of had sympathy if she hadn't posted her having takeaway every single night for the past week.

Like why? Why do it? So cringe.

I've got a Facebook friend who this too. It's bizarre that they can't see how it looks to the rest of us.

A funny one was when my friend's dad accidentally accounced her pregnancy on FB by messaging her to say good luck with the scan. He posted on her timeline not realising it was public! Luckily she found it hilarious but the poor man was mortified.

You know there's a 99% chance they are struggling as a couple in some way

WTF 🙄 does it really pain you that much to know that some couples are in love, with no issues and are genuinely happy? And that they might want to share that with the world, just as everyone else posts their gushing posts about their kids that they adore or a holiday that they really enjoyed?

So much bitter envy on this thread!

I have one asking daily for either the best pizza takeaway or the number for the local slimming world.

Someone on my friends list has a new puppy. Most weeks it's like 'This little floofball is now 7 weeks old!! Transformed our lives #blessed #thankful' cue the next week saying the same thing with only the number of the week changed.

This. And particularly if newlyweds post it on their wedding night.
Sad wedding if you are posting shit like that rather than celebrating or shagging which you should be doing.

Filters on newborn babies. So cringey.

When people post 'Our home for the next few days' with crappy photos of the inside of a hotel room, including the toilet

Woman I know posting updates every month on her DD. Long gushing posts like '7 months old my baby. You have fulfilled every inch of our lives etc etc'. Every month the same thing.

Does anyone know what time tesco opens?
Does anyone know what colour bin it is this week?
Does anyone know what time the tip closes?

Ffs Google it

The 'nostalgia' posts. "Back in my day kids drank from garden hoses and we played out til the street lights came on". Ugh fuck OFF.

Oh god so many.

one friend posts pictures of her daughter in the playground/bath/cafe pretty much every day with the caption ‘I love you princess unconditionally’ and similar. What’s the point?! The child isn’t going to see it (she’s 4!) - and why the need to do it daily?

hospital check-ins and the inevitable refusal to answer concerned comments, instead saying ‘will PM you hun’

self-congratulatory posts about an amazing act of kindness they did, with a poor attempt to phrase it as how lucky they are / how they hope the person is ok now etc

Posts in local groups starting ‘to the woman in Tesco at 11.47 this morning …’

those awful reels where people ‘jump’ into a new scene / surroundings. Been done to death…

My current bugbear is people trying to emulate ‘influencers’ who happen to have gained loads of followers as mums/ dads/dog owners whatever. So creating an Instagram account for their pet or their kids with constant ‘dogs of Instagram’ hashtags or ‘adventures of Bertie and Prudence’ accounts that nobody is interested in. I’m in a group for owners of a specific dog breed and there’s often posts by people trying to shoe horn in reference to their accounts - stop trying to make it a thing!

I used to quite like Man v Baby and a couple of the others, but even they’ve started to annoy me. Falling over themselves trying to be witty whilst also trying to make profound posts about political/ social issues and taking the piss out of public figures they know are hated..

Colleague posting about her children's accomplishments every day. She read a big word! He won Star of the Week! Parents Evening was amazing! I like them all out of loyalty. I know she can post what she wants. My dc are older so I am not envious. But I do cringe because the bragging is incessant and about such trivial things.