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.

This. Just don't follow them. Come off Facebook if you don't like it.

Try getting your data from bebo or geocities nowadays… tech companies are the last I would count on for longevity!

I like my facebook. It's mostly my relatives & local acquaintences sharing positive news & little mundane updates. I like having information & updates about their lives.

Yes it's too bad you can't be happy if people you know have positive or constructive news that they like to share. It's super easy to block & hide most users, though. So on facebook you can easily hide the posts you don't like. I had to tell xH that his cousin has a serious cancer diagnosis since xH only has about 10 accounts he bothers to see.

I only actively follow people who are my close family as we are well spread around the country/world. I unfollow friends who spill their daily lives onto FB. I take the views pre-FB you didn't get this minutiae so why did I need it now

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!

I have one of them. I like seeing where people are going but when they are just posting pictures of their daily dog walk that they have been doing every day for the last however long. I must admit, I do roll my eyes. I did write once ' That's not Chance's park is it' knowing fully well that's where me and mate go for a stroll and chat quite often!

I agree.

Facebook is my diary and photo album. However, I make sure that my posts are reasonably interesting to my friends and don't impinge on the privacy of others. I assume that anyone who isn't interested will just scroll on.

I don't post photos of meals or announce that I'm going to bed, or that I've just got home from work, for example.

I have friends, who I enjoy spending time with, but I find really cringy on fb and insta.

One friend of mine and her his dh post the same thing, I'm friends with both, so see the same photo/comment 4 times on fb (they both post on their stories and page) and then another 4 times on insta. Drives me mad so I now put them both on a break on fb and only follow one on insta, so I only see a post twice now (one on her story and one on her page). When someone mentions it, she simply says 'well if you don't like it, don't follow me, so I did exactly that.

For those saying “use an album”, or “use a real diary”

my dad was a photographer 🤣 he took at least 10 photos of me everyday as a child. All gone. Who has them? Evil Aunt Edna? Who knows. Probably destroyed as meaningless to whichever adult took them in for me for safekeeping while I was a fatherless 12 year old, 30 years ago

meta may close down but the data and the internet will live on. One of my favourite pictures of me that he took, while I was playing unaware, was FOUND on Facebook after an old friends little sister posted it. I’d never even seen it before.

I’m just curious but why would you feel the need to share your son passing his driving test? Why wasn’t it enough that you likely told him in person well done/proud of you.

@Rippedjeansharley why shouldn't someone share that their child has passed their driving test?
If you bump into an old friend or elderly aunt in the supermarket what do you say as a reply to "How's it going in the family lately?" (which old friends often ask each other).
Do you answer "Nothing" or do you say "Oh Joe passed his driving test last week" ?
Most people would say about the driving test - and then it would go into a down memory lane chat about back when he was in Cubs or whatever.
That's what families and friends do. They talk to each other. They share what's going on with each other. It's having a conversation.
Facebook is just an electronic version.

Because Facebook isn’t an electronic version of a conversation. Hope that helps.

Fortunately it's not obligatory. Have you tried not using it?

That’s the other thing, people could equally ask you why you care that other people post things when you could just… not look. It’s like you’re trying so hard to be pissed off that someone passed their driving test 🤣

I honestly do not mind what people post. Unless obviously someone crying out that they are abused domestically....

I'm not a massive marketplace fan but I suppose it depends what you're looking for.

you can post absolutely everything you want. If though you know you should be calling the police, call it, resolve your issue and then post as much you want.

oP your posts are becoming increasingly snide. It is actually an electronic conversation, or can be. As many people have now said, if you don't like it, stay off it. I use it just to share general good or bad things (usually in a light-hearted way) to friends and family that we rarely see but who like to know how we're getting on. I like to see their updates too. Realistically, we're all pretty busy and don't stay in touch individually but this is a way to do so.

I'll never understand why people have people on fb that they clearly don't like

@Rippedjeansharley it can be an electronic conversation - if you use it that way.
Which I often do.
So....."hope that helps" to you too 😂

I came off FB because i was living each long, painful day of various people's holidays abroad. Oh this morning I have this beautiful view..... again. 400 likes each day for the same sea view, with gushing comments. Jealous much? Absolutely. I can't go on FB because I do get jealous. I can't post things like, forgone another holiday this year because I want to invest more shares and diversify my portfolio. So really in all fairness I don't belong on FB or in most places to be fair. People have the right to post on FB. I chose to remove myself. Everyone's happy.

I'm just curious why you use it if you find it so irritating. I do not like it so do not use it. Why do you? If you do not why do you care?

I use FB just for groups I'm interested in. I cannot stand the attention seeking posts so I've unfollowed practically everybody I'm 'friends' with. It's now bearable and by far the best way to use FB.

Facebook owns every photo you post btw. Its horrendous

@grapeomelette yes I actually use it more for groups than for reading posts on my timeline.
I belong to one group which is one connected to a hobby I have - it has a world wide community and it's brilliant to see people in other countries enjoying the same hobby as myself.
We share ideas and experiences. It's actually brilliant really. I can "talk" to someone on the other side of the world and then others from different places in the world can join in.
It's great 🙂

@Busybee44 surely it must be that technically they own a copy of the photo - because I have the original?