To just not really want to post on Social media anymore

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Not sure why?

I always have done in the past, not excessively, but fairly regularly-Fb & Instagram…it was mainly as a sort of photo diary of Dd and things we’ve done as a family with dates etc…but now I just feel so meh about it 🤷🏻‍♀️
I would’ve normally put some Christmas bits up by now, but haven’t and don’t really feel the need/want to. It feels liberating and is making me question why I don’t want to and why I did before.
Have to say I feel a bit down at present so I am a person who probably posts more when happy.
But looking at endless Christmas pics and videos, I just feel a bit ‘Why?’ 🤷🏻‍♀️
I’m becoming so bored by it all, is anyone else?

Totally agree with that. I post the odd thing but god I used to put up some drivel.

Very rarely use Facebook now don't use any of the others except tiktok but don't post on there just watch others (strangers) I think it just got boring. I think Facebook is good for announcements like babies,engagements and deaths ect just to keep up to date but I have no interest in people's day to day lives just like I'm sure other aren't interested in mine so apart from posting the odd thing maybe a couple of times a year I don't bother anymore.

I am counting down the days for Lent to start. I gave up Facebook for Lent this year and it was great! I am doing the same again next year. I had fun catching up on stuff I missed. However, I do still like it and want to keep it but like you said it can be repetitive and boring sometimes. I haven't been on it today though and probably won't for a few days unless I get a message or I want to post some good news (that will appear in the form of a text)

Me and my strange little routines and decisions keep me going in life 😂

It's old hat now isn't it. I think most people have realised who actually wants to see their private family moments posted online? We can share photos with family and friends on WhatsApp groups etc instead. The prolific posters still tend to be though:

• the insecure looking for validation
• people who have money and like to show it
• nice but not very cool folk

I don't mind Facebook for what I think it was actually designed for to be honest and that's local community, groups, networking. It's a great way to find out what's going on in your local area as a new parent for example. The personal online diaries have had their day however.

I can’t stand Facebook. It reminds me of Stepford Wives. You can almost feel the disapproving stares and hear the gasps if anyone posts anything that isn’t cheerful or fawning.
I only use it for games and specific groups now.

Just that it's still social media. If you were out walking the dog or reading a book, I'd not have said it.

I can’t be bothered either. People just use it as a chance to gloat especially around this time of year. Hun, you’re posting a picture of a room full of presents when you were saying last week that you’re struggling to turn your heating on. The internet is full of stupid people!

I used to post a lot more. I live 3000 miles away from my (huge) family, so always felt somewhat obliged, especially when my children were very small. I deleted FB three years ago. I still have IG, but post more like once a month these days instead of once a week, and even that has started to feel like a chore. The algorithms are bizarre these days, too, so I almost never browse. It’s all become quite pedestrian.

Since the rise of the idiotic short form video (tik tok, etc) I am bothering less and less. It all seems so puerile, and designed to make young people feel inferior. I so hope my DD doesn't get into any of this.

Could it because the dcs are now older and less willing to be photographed and are also not as cute as before. We look older as well, so all in all, nothing to see here.

Maybe you just aren’t a narcissist OP. It’s narcissistic people who are obsessed with social media and showing off their lives, you don’t have to compete with them, just relax.

The day I realised how shit it was and deleted it was because of actual shit. A friend posted a photo of her babies Poonami nappy explosion! 🤦‍♀️ It’s just endless oversharing and attention seeking. The photos I used to hate were the ones where someone had taken themselves off to hospital for something they could have stuck a plaster on and then posted a selfie of themselves with a sad face.

I like to see the memories but I don’t post as much as I did. Not posting my Christmas photos as most are my lovely baby nephew and my brother and SIL haven’t shared any photos online of him before

I think it's quite common. There's millions of 'inactive' users on social media. Most people I know are on Facebook but very few actually post anything anymore.

I've never used FB or Instagram and I'm.glad. I have started using Mumsnet to pass the time but find that it is very easy to spend too.much time on these platforms. Do what you wantbto.do. a friend if mine came off What's App. She didn't say, just gradually retreated. Maybe she was trying to tell me something!

I have an Instagram and Facebook account but have never posted anything, mainly because I don't feel like anyone would care and I'm also quite private. However I do enjoy a good stalk of everyone else's content. There's no law saying you have to share your life.

I don't do it to show off.Tbh we have a fairly humble life and nothing show off worthy.
I use it to keep up with family on both sides,.I find it quite entertaining and positive.All started when I was doing 60 hr weeks so couldn't see people in RL.

I enjoy social media but hate the fakeness at Christmas- the picture of the pristine room and perfect tree, especially when you know they’ve young kids and possibly just shunted the mess to the side, because I’m sure there’s someone out there manically cleaning and believing they don’t have their life under control as a result of that perfect picture!

I rarely post on Facebook/IG, I feel an overwhelming sense of wanting to protect my privacy and feel uncomfortable with the vacuous nature of SM. I just don’t feel the need to document my life anymore, and it seems almost crass when so many are struggling in so many ways. I take lots of photos though, but store them and share very few. I feel much more comfortable with this! I stopped believing everything I saw on SM a long time ago, but will still check in to see what others are up to, but in a more measured way. This works for me

I post quite a bit but have been put off recently. I started a thread about how good my DH has been, looking after me when I was I'll. Most replies were positive and I showed them to him.

Then someone came along with a nasty little remark about how doing all the cooking and washing up, and bringing me everything I needed, was to be expected and nothing special. So I deleted the thread, I don't want to spoil things for him.

On Mumsnet there always seems to be one person who can't help being spiteful. If this was you, you should be ashamed of yourself.

I've been the same, the past year or two- since covid really. I feel like people interpret your posts however they want to- happy/celebration post = showing off, sad/contemplative post=looking for attention, family/friends gathering = somebody upset they are not included. Also my boss at work comes down like a ton of bricks on any slip ups on social media so 9/10 it's just not worth even commenting on stuff!
I just think that photo sharing is an era that's ending (the way we know it) and social media has evolved to become something that I'm not interested in xx

I only post on it maybe 3/4 times a year, if that.
I find it very attention seeking and surprised the level of information people post about themselves on there and that they want every tom, dick and harry to know their business.

Especially at christmas when people post countless photos of their children. I mean I also went to the pantomime, christmas fayre, nativity, christmas light trail etc..... I just don't think to post everyday events like that to the world! I think others love the validation of people "liking" their posts

I'm amazed that adult people post such shit about their daily lives . I haven't posted stuff for years ! Very rarely post a cute pic of my son with SN that is known well locally but not benign daily shite like some people do !

I don't use Instagram any more but I feel it all the time and often think I should go back just to be more involved again. I left Facebook a decade or more ago and never went back though.

I stopped in 2016, with the rise of Trump/Brexit. So much shite spewing from distant "friends"

Recently though, I have moved to quite a remote location and it's hard to know what is going on unless you have daily conversations with locals so I have recently logged on again.

I just lurk once a week and watch for upcoming activities. I did unfriend an awful lot of people as well.