To loathe back to school photos on social media?

[blueskyeve]

I'm clearly in the minority after scrolling through my Facebook feed today. Every single post on there is a photo of a child posing in their school uniform. Why? Please someone explain, I must be missing something.

I proudly post a pic of my DC when they head back. My mother is elderly and infirm with no smartphone and so my DB (her carer) shows her the pictures.

I couldn't give a flying fuck if miserable bastards think it's cringey or whatever other pathetic label they give them.

Don't like it? Scroll on.

Blimey OP you sound a right mardy arsed misery.

You don't have to share with hundreds of people you can just share them with friends and family. It is also a way of storing digital photos. In the end it's a choice, clearly not yours, but 'loathing' other people do it is a bit extreme.

Well, MY social media is only people I know in real life. If you're following hundreds of randoms I can imagine it gets tedious, but I like seeing these pictures of my friend's and family's children.

If you've set your social media channels to be visible to a load of people whom you don't want to see your content, more fool you.

Most likely because you want to share your photos but have this idea that it would be beneath you. So it pisses you off to see other people doing it, enjoying it and not caring about the supposed superiority of not doing it.

I do it to annoy people like you!

If you show printed photos to all your friends they might well look politely but actually be bored to death. On SM they can look at them if they are interested or scroll on by if not.

I honestly don't know why people on here have social media if its not working for them. It isn't compulsory.

I belong to a Facebook page specifically for childless not by choice women. We take the piss out of these pictures there.

This is just tragic behaviour and I'm a bit taken aback that you would admit to it here.

I only have friends and family on social media and the setting is on private. We live far away from family and quite a few friends and we all like seeing these photos, they somehow give me a feeling of positivity. I am just about to post my daughter´s. Milestones, important events and not so important, that is what social media is for. Better that all that boring political stuff some post. I just scroll past, suggest you do the same.

YANBU.

It's a bit strange to have 400 friends mainly ransoms from the sound of it and then never post on your feed. My family live about 200 miles away and I have friends and close family on mine but only around 90 people. There were some back to school photos on it mainly from my now grown up DDs friends. My own granddaughters school photos were just shared on our main family what's app group though. It is lovely to see the children of my DDs friends and my grandchildren all looking so smart.

Worth asking why you are on FB. I hate people posting mundane things like their meals and sharing political views much more.

Totally get your point here, but where I'm coming from is that Facebook can sell your photos to any company of their choosing and there's a whole dark and creepy portion of the web where photos of children are then shared among predators with really unsavoury comments using even totally innocent photos of children at the park or making buns or whatever. It just freaks me out knowing that as a parent I've no control over where that image goes and who has access to it. It can go so much wider than your private profile page and just takes the wrong person to identify a location. The difficulty with a school uniform pic is that it's not an obscure location- if that's circulated outside of your control then it tells predators where to find your child which is a risk (albeit thank god a small one given how many profiles are on fb). This isn't needed for pictures used as profile pics though anyone can download those and put the kids on pornographic sites. Plus the vast majority of kids are preyed upon by people they and their parents know already and use of social media gives people tools they can use to groom your child through exposing their hobbies and interests etc it gives them the info they need to seem really friendly to the child. It's absolutely horrible to think about and of course the majority of people are using social media in a totally healthy and respectful way to stay connected to their family for totally innocent reasons. But to say there's no risk whatsoever isn't correct unfortunately. It's not something I was aware of until I started my job but it goes much deeper than you think and I don't think social media platforms do enough to a) manage that and give people the tools to make a private page actually private and b) inform people on where their information and images actually go, they're too busy making money off it.

@KimberleyClark What a vile, repugnant, and revolting attitude you have. Bet you have no friends in real life. I have met people like you with the same stinking attitude, and I give them a massive wide berth. Don't need negativity and vitriol like that in my life.

My parents used to have some friends who used to bore the pants of them with hundreds of holiday photos when they went to their house. Now you can just pretend you looked at them all on fb.
"Saw your holiday pics, looks like you had a great time" would prob save at least 20 min flicking through a photo album

I am not big on pictures of mine on social media but I quite like the school photos. I especially loved seeing my friends child who has disabilities all set for the first day of school - her outlook was a bit shit as a baby so we understand how proud her mum and dad are to see her living her best life, pleased as punch in her uniform with her big brother!

As a pp said, there's so much doom and gloom about cost of living etc, it's nice to see happy young faces full of promise, optimistic.

They are always stood in front of the front door too.

I don't get worked up about it. It is once a year.

I do have friends thanks. With and without children. I’ve found the response here to remarks on a closed private support group for childless not by choice women to be completely over the top.

Do you tell those friends that you take the piss out of them?

Do you share with your friends everything you post on here, or everything you post in closed FB groups! Thought not.

Don’t look at them. I friend these people if you aren’t interested in seeing photos of their kids and their lives. Boom.

Maybe this is a sign you need to diversify your friendship group (beyond just those wih young children). I see some posts like that but not my entire feed....

Yeah I do share in real life what I say online. It speaks volumes about you that YOU don't. Got no friends really have you? Thought not.

That’s seriously weird. Most of my friends don’t even know I’m on here. And how on earth you can know I don’t have any friends is beyond me.

I don’t take the piss out of my friends
I’m not fifteen