To just find Facebook so cringey?

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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.

To just find Facebook so cringey?
Facebook isn't the problem. It is you have friends on it and you don't like what they post.
Personally I love FB. However I never post personal stuff, food shots nor do I 'Vaguebook' to get 'You ok babe' comments.
I love some of the funny memes or videos my friends post. I am climbing, mountaineering, walking and cycling groups and they are great.
I am also on FB pages of record labels, record stores, favourite restaurants etc to keep up to date with what's going on. I also like FB pages of countries that I go skiing and snowboarding to keep an eye on conditions and news.

I love Instagramme and Tik Tok as well. I am planning my holiday and save reels with advice about the countries I am going to. I also follow a lot of food sites on Insta and tik tok as well as weight lifting and exercise one.
I love the comedy ones as well. I follow Adrian Bliss for the complete surealness of his humour, Coxy for misheard lyrics and Richard Frank's 'mum'

Nothing cringey about that all that.
It's up to you how you use it. If you want to have people on that you want to bitch about, carry on. However I find the social's quite useful.

There was a thread on here yesterday from the now adult child of a chronic Facebooker. Her mum had shared every aspect of her family life on Facebook with devastating consequences for her daughter's mental health. So it's not just cringey, it can be quite harmful to constantly over share.

All social media is cringy to me

@Annymania isn't Mumsnet "social media"?

I knew someone would say this! 😂 I don’t think so, I think this is more blog/forum kind of thing. I’m thinking the stereotypical usual suspects like TikTok and instagram. I don’t find mumsnet very cringy overall. Obviously sometimes 😂 aren’t we all

@Annymania the definition of Social Media according to Wikipedia....

@Annymania so I would class Mumsnet as social media.

What do you post about that’s oh so interesting OP?

@Annymania some stuff on Instagram is lovely - people's art and photography for example.
You are following the wrong people if it's all cringy stuff.

Social media in general makes me cringe. One day I’m sure we will all look back on all of this incessant overstating as a deeply weird period for humanity.

The irony…

I’m not following anybody because I don’t have instagram. But ok, we can say mumsnet is social media, one of the very few tolerable ones. I’m still against most of it though

@Annymania how do you know Instagram is "cringe" then if you don't go on it?
It like people who declare "I don't watch TV - it's all just rubbish" when there is a massive difference between David Attenborough documentaries and The Masked Singer.

I just don't tolerate it and block them
Had one either a holiday countdown that popped up every day and another with incessant pictures of her dog. Both blocked. All good.

Everyone that is going on about Social media being so cringey are being a bit up their own arses to be honest.
What is wrong with watching a TED talk on Tik Tok or watching reels to support mental health or looking at wonderful landscapes in different parts of the world.
I love seeing pictures of my family who live in Norway and videos of them doing stuff there.
I would be miss out on limited audience gigs in small venues as they normally put an announcement on their fb or insta page if I didn't have it.
As I said in an earlier post the hobbies and interest that I have pages on face book that is extremely useful.
Our community hub does most of their announcements on FB letting people know when a new drop of food has come in, when volunteers are needed to help with something etc.

Cringey you say!

I’m curious, what was interesting about the bus?

I’m picturing some sort of retro thing?

@LivingColour it was a bus that's a new experimental rechargeable one (not in service yet but was parked at the station) 🙂
It's futuristic looking 😂

I had instagram years ago (before the baby) and from what I saw it was all crap. To me. It’s my opinion. Just adverts, things to make people insecure, politics I'm not very interested in, someone’s lunch I don’t care about, it seemed like a very competitive and hostile place.

If you don't like what they post, why look at it? There's a "Block" button for a reason.

@Annymania again you must have been looking at the wrong feeds.
All I mostly see on Instagram (I actually don't go on it often because I forget it's there) is Lego models people (I have chosen to follow) have built, people's art work and photos of nature.
The only advertising is for brands I have chosen to follow (like Sylvanian Families for example).

I had instagram years ago (before the baby) and from what I saw it was all crap. To me. It’s my opinion. Just adverts, things to make people insecure, politics I'm not very interested in, someone’s lunch I don’t care about, it seemed like a very competitive and hostile place
Did you not look for anything that you was interested in or did you just dismissive as competitive and hostile. I find it a invaluable resource for work, interests and advice.
I have printed out loads of info sheets that have been really helpful for the work I do.
I love the vegetarian cooking reels and made some really nice food. Maya Leinenbach, the German vegan teen is brilliant.

I love it. I'm not a frequent poster - but if I see a magnificent magnolia in full bloom or if my son gets his drivers license or if we are abroad and there's a nice setting I will.
What I don't like is a friend who posts a few times a day numerous quotes, all about honesty and trust in relationships (guess what - she's going through a divorce), or a friend who rambles on either about her health (while saying she never posts about her health), or puts up 85 (I kid you not) pics of a walk, which was remarkably similar to the walk she did the day before. But, I just pass those by!

No, she is doing it for the likes. And attention

It's only as crap as the accounts you follow!
I follow accounts that are of interest to me. Travel. Educational stuff. If it's crap i don't follow it because... why would i? What would be the point?

I’m addicted to selling and buying on Marketplace unfortunately. Genuinely would have deleted my FB account years ago if not.