When someone posts on Facebook “My Family Is Better Than Yours”

[HaveSomeIntrospect]

When someone posts with the actual words….my family is better than yours?

Really:

• your mum’s five year affair
• because of your dad’s workaholic
• Your sister’s eating disorder

It was a joke and you are a nasty cow.

Why have you come running to Mumsnet?

If the post is on Facebook, that's where you should be saying your piece surely?

Do you know the Op?

You sound just as awful as them.

Ha I wrote the same but about my sister not too long ago because she helped me with my children while I was really sick and I would have been totally screwed without her. It’s just a bit of a jokey statement where she was showing her appreciation of her family, it doesn’t matter what their perceived faults are she clearly loves them. Why are you so bitter op.

I think she's probably right after reading your op.

So? Is their family, their allowed to thing that, and they're only showing themselves up by paying it at sometime else. You clearly don't have a good relationship with this person if they've messaged you that all just delete them

What’s this actually about, OP?

How can you be offended by something daft someone said.
I imagine you dislike them for other reasons.

Good grief, this is ridiculous. "My X is better than yours" is a tongue in cheek, throwaway FB comment for a one-off good time/incident. She's hardly carried out a thorough introspective comparison between her family and yours and posted this as her considered conclusion has she?

if you have your settings set up correctly only friends will see your posts. Why is this person in your facebook?

YABU, YABU and YABU.

Did you really bring up someone's sister's eating disorder as a familial put down? You're a nastier bitch than someone posting a throwaway tongue in cheek comment about their own family. If you can't fathom that the internet doesn't subscribe to you then perhaps it isn't for you.

Something very wrong with someone who can't compartmentalise this and instead posts a one-sided counter argument on a different forum as retaliation. Regulate yourself.

If you feel that way it must be true ...

So you get so upset by one forum that you moan about it on another one? Just ignore and move in.

I've seen a few people post that phrase and thought it was a silly joke rather than a statement of their superiority.

Either there's a back story here or you're taking other people's social medi posts far too seriously.

Just ignore, ignore, ignore.

You can mute their feed you know @HaveSomeIntrospect

Using an eating disorder to compare how your family is better than theirs is low. I'd never say my family is better than anyone else's but I have a dd battling anorexia and if it was used against her as a put down I'd be fucking fuming.
If you don't like what someone posts then unfriend them

And this is why I happily deleted Facebook years ago. Life is too short for all this shit

People who doth protest too much are a whole, frequently fascinating social media genre in themselves. Although I would've read the better than yours part as a joke unless there's some backstory, and I hardly see how an ED is relevant.

YABU for still using Facebook

What was the context? What prompted it?