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.

It’s a platform for Main Character Syndrome.

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 do sometimes, and I don't give a shit 😂
You all know where the unfriend button is lol
Seriously though I don't get it.
I love seeing what everyone's up to.
I only ever add people I know in RL and like though, so maybe that's the difference.

Why would they not share that?
It's family news to be proud about.
As long as said son is OK with them sharing, what's the problem?

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This. It's scary. I found it fun when I first used it, but the attention seeking by grown adults just makes me absolutely cringe. And don't get me started on kids being posted without their consent. It should be illegal.

I actually ask dd nowadays before I post any pics. SIL said she wouldn’t be asking and would post whatever she likes

No, it's not compulsory, thank goodness. Doesn't mean I don't see the damage it and other similar sites cause.

What about people who post multiple posts everyday? I have a friend who does this, lovely person but too much for me so I had too unfollow them.

Exactly .just unfollow or unfriend people or don't use it at all and let people who do like it get on with it. Those saying it should banned and illegal 🙄 a generation or two ago people tended to live closer to families, didn't go to university and then end up up on different continents to their friends and lost touch. It's brilliant that my kids have a relationship with their cousins in the States and Asia and can see their achievements, Halloween costumes, etc so on the very rare occasions they see them they aren't strangers. Everyone has their settings at the highest privacy levels and isn't posting naked in the bath toddler pics anyway. I find loads of things cringey so I don't go near them..Insta and Tiktok for instance. I think it's twatty but don't engage so fine.

Except for a craft group, and maybe the odd ‘like’ to family I rarely see, I hardly bother with it any more.

The most cringey things I used to get were from someone I hadn’t seen for many years, who used to (not ironically!) share’ posts, e.g. ‘I couldn’t believe this cloud formation - it looked just like my Nana - I know it was her telling me she’s watching over me from heaven.’

All my Facebook 'friends' are actual friends or acquaintances. I like seeing their holiday photos and thinking 'I might go there', I follow an ex-colleague's photos of her daughter who is an excellent competitive swimmer. Someone I know, a frequent traveller, used to post photos of his food in far flung places. He stopped, probably because he'd heard it was 'cringey' but had to reinstate them due to popular demand.

It's not compulsory, you can scroll past, unfollow or just delete Facebook. I find it particularly useful as a way of keeping in touch with people I don't see very often but don't want to lose touch with altogether.

I unfollow anyone who puts house renovations on. Personal preference but I don't need to moan about it since I can stop seeing it quite easily

This cracked me up

There are some right old attention seekers on FB! I usually use it for Groups for various reasons and rarely post on timeline now unless it’s something out of the ordinary. I’ll usually post one or two holiday photos (we never leave house totally unattended) and sometimes on DCs bdays. I do like seeing people’s activities, but not 50+ holiday snaps or 100 pics of your adult child on their bday - that really is attention seeking of the highest order.

Just as well people can post anything they want to on their own social media and don't care if others "get it" or not

I love ‘mum’ on insta too!
I never post on it, but follow a few famous people/comedians

What in the world

I don't mind that as such..we are all voyeurs to some extent.
I came off social media because i was wasting my life on there...and..those posts like '...if you want to say anything, don't say it behind my back...'. No name , nothing.
I mean? Surely that's irony in itself. I was fed up. If youre pissed off with someone talk with them.

Not sure what bit you don't get?

Mate just posted a pic of her hand with the hospital wrist band on it

She's sick

Why oh why

That you would update Facebook that you’re going to bed. So beyond weird

Totally cringey- can’t tolerate the attention seeking and need for validation/ adoration from others. Really sad. Can’t respect anyone who uses social media to post personal information

A guy I met who didn’t have fb gave the best reason why he didn’t have it: “because I don’t care if some cunt from the past is eating a sandwich” 🤣🤣

Someone's probably already say this, but LinkedIn is a whole other level to FB. It's highly entertaining.

Not really, some people use it to create conversations, and somewhere to interact with their friends
Social media. Clue's in the name.