To just find Facebook so cringey?

[Rippedjeansharley]

One particular person will post every mundane thing to do with their children.

Hetes a photo of our family movie night in the living room. Or the family cooking a pizza. Like who cares?! She even took a photo of her relative coming home in an ambulance - making sure she got the paramedics in. Like how about give that elderly relative some privacy?

And I have one that posts videos of her talking to the camera in her car “hi everyone, just on my way to work”

I think social media is amazing. But why do people have to share the most mundane things. Just enjoy watching a film with your family. You don’t need to alert anyone you’re doing this.

I don’t think FB is cringey per se, but some people who use it are, IMO. Like the ones you mention OP. The attention seeking types.

I rarely post on my own feed, but I find support groups amazing, particularly on days I can’t go far. And I like to see updates from people. It’s the ones who seem to post every mundane second of their day and the hospital check ins for attention that do my head in. Luckily I only have a couple like that and I unfollowed them.

People who are posting as a diary, why use FB for this? You don’t have control of Facebook. One day it might close down or delete your profile and you will lose all of that content (not to mention that Facebook owns your content, not you - and all the privacy issues associated with that). If you used an actual diary what happens with it is up to you.

I don’t disagree with you but they’d do that in your camera roll too!

I use it as a online diary/scrapbook that I choose to share with some family and friends.
Last thing I posted was of a amusing balloon I saw in a window.
I hope that wouldn't offend you @Rippedjeansharley .

Ha love those but they simultaneously do my head in 😂

"Sunday in A and E"
"What's up?"
"I'll pm you Hun"

Why? Spit it out, Susan! 😂

What benefit does FB give you in your daily life?

Sounds like envy and FOMO (is that still a thing?!).

If it's causing anxiety, then just walk away, delete your profile and enjoy your life without comparison.

Nothing wrong with Facebook at all. Nothing wrong with most people that use it. However, you'll always get attention seekers who are so wrapped up in their own drama. That's life. Just hide them..

@Rippedjeansharley
Seemly Banalities in life and in the background,
is often what we have mostly in common and keeps us intrinsically connected to humanity,
keeps things ticking,

There's even a Facebook group page called Dull women,
i don't know whether it's a newish one,

ive just joined,
as i feel i need to appreaciate more local things on offer,
whether in nature sunset etc,

rather than just wanting to go elsewhere nearest city or next town,
to escape the depressing state of my town centre,
Dull womens Facebook is for women to join who appreaciate slower pace of life and normalities of life to talk about anything,

it could be about something they seen interesting in their front window,
or
their favourite biscuits and other things, or other things etc,

ironically they might describe something about themselves,
and you realise they are definitely not boring ..

As Kevin Bridges said "If Facebook was a pub, you'd look around and say, let's go somewhere else, it's full of pricks in here."

I actually prefer to see more mundane, less "aesthetic" posts. I like when I feel I'm getting a snapshot of someone's real life rather than a more exciting fake life some people try to project.

@cerisepanther73 I love Dull Women on Facebook. I also any group that involves pictures of nature, random architecture and cats.
People use Facebook in different ways. Shocker 🙄😱
If you don't like what you see @Rippedjeansharley you are following the wrong people/groups.

Interests me when people say they are doing it for themselves and not for others to look at.
Could that not be done with a private album?
People use fb/insta to broadcast, let's be honest. Fine, if it suits you, of course.

Its not that I think their lives are uninteresting. It’s that we all do ordinary things like cook a pizza - I don’t get the need for it to documented.

FOMO? From cooking a pizza, telling everyone I’m going to word or giving my elderly relatives that aren’t on social media their privacy?

I think I can do all these things quite easily like any normal human.

Who mentioned anxiety? 😅

What other things do you post about..?

Lots of people do feel anxiety, or FOMO from Facebook, that's all the poster I presume meant as it's not always about you (pretty ironic given the thread subject and complaint lol)
At which if it does you should step away for mental health.
Same goes if seeing friends updates annoys you.
Just mute or unfriend.

I unfollowed a friend on Instagram, I think her Facebook and Instagram were linked so everything posted on FB ended up on her IG - it was daily updates and 10 blurry photos of her kids and everything they had done that day.
She’s still my friend I just don’t want to see and am not interested in photos of the school run each way and going to the park, baby classes of the little ones messing about in paint or banging a tambourine. Don’t mind seeing it once in a while but I actually just wanted to scream at her “buy a bloody diary, no one is interested in this mundanity!”
Many of us with kids have also lived this mundanity, document it for yourself but who else really cares when your 3rd dc has had a wee on the potty or when dc5 had their baby injections?!

This could be outing, but I closed my account for good after reading a gushing full page spread on how my friend's friend was so over the moon that she had been able to drive over to borrow some washing up liquid to clean the pots after Sunday Dinner... and my friend was the best friend in the whole wide world 😂

We are middle aged women FFS..

Just un follow , it really is very very simple!

🤣 so accurate

Because everything thinks they are important and a little star.
Much of what you read on fb is drivel and boring.
For some people it seems to be an addiction.

Of course it's ridiculous, but there's an easy answer - just ditch Facebook!

Came off shitbook 7 years ago, best decision I've made, mental health is up, and I was wasting hours scrolling mindless shit. Social media is poison.

We are middle aged women FFS.

Is there a way middle aged women are supposed to behave?!
Damn, did I miss another memo somewhere?!
🙄

@Rippedjeansharley ok my last few posts include -
A photo of my daughter in a World Book Day costume.
A post that shared a story from BBC news
Some photos of my parents cat.
Some photos of nature I saw in the park.
Photo of an interesting bus.