Social media sayings that can fuck off and die

[AngeloMysterioso]

I’ve reached the point of feeling a totally irrational surge of rage whenever I see them which is every damn day…

“I was today years old when”

“POV”

“That feeling when”

Anything that is referred to as a “hack”.

Calling an outfit a “fit”

Admittedly only ever seen on MN but "Use your words" sounds so bloody patronising as if you're talking to a small child who's not able to express themselves clearly yet.

Hacks - what's wrong with tips - a hack is a painful cut

I also hated "feels" - makes no sense whatever

It’s a visual one that irks me, it’s clothing videos where they take every piece including bag, shoes and jewellery and wiggle it in front of them before putting it on. Plus GRWM - why? All these women in their bra and pants, can’t you get ready in private? Why does it have to be filmed?

'I think less than 5 people will take the trouble to post and share this. I think I know who they are.'

They'll know it won't be me then!

A red lip.
A long sleeve.
A high heel.

All give me toothache.

Those attempts to sound genteel by never using ‘me’. For example ‘I sent thanks from mum and I’, ‘she brought a present for DH and I’ and today ‘my husband and I’s room was not available’.

I see this a lot! My husbands and I’s children. It really annoys me too

TrickyD

Those attempts to sound genteel by never using ‘me’.

Indeed. Sadly, they just sound uneducated.
I don't know whether it dates back to people impersonating the late queen: "My husband and I etc" but she was always correct in her use. She'd have also thanked people for a gift sent "to my husband and me".

I get a bit irritated too by people using "one" possibly for the same reason. Eg "One extends one's little finger when drinking a cuppa, doncha know".
Which is obviously a brilliantly witty pastiche of an upper class accent.

Although I'm straying more to pedantry now, rather than the OP. Sorry

She'd have also thanked people for a gift sent "to my husband and me".

Sorry to be a pedant, but this is grammatically correct.

I do get toothache from the other (grammatically incorrect) examples though.

Also misuse of reflexive pronouns like:

Myself and Susan instead of my Susan and I.

Please contact ourselves instead of please contact us.

I'll see yourself next week instead of I'll see you next week.

Less something that you see on someone's own original post (eg on Facebook, Insta etc) and more often seen prefacing or ending someone's comment on social media:

'Just my opinion'. Sometimes with a little smile emoji. JUST OWN IT FFS!

You only ever see that written after the author has said something they know to be contentious, unpleasant or offensive. Yes, it's your 'opinion' - what else would it be?? It's basically shorthand for 'I know I just said something shitty but don't have a go at me, we have free speech here - or did the last time I looked - I'm entitled to my opinion even though I know I just said something shitty, don't you know that my grandad died so you could say things like that, you'd all be speaking German by now' etc, etc

@DelythBeautyQueen

She'd have also thanked people for a gift sent "to my husband and me".

Sorry to be a pedant, but this is grammatically correct.

I know.
That's why I used it as example of something the queen might have said, ie she didn't use "my husband and I" all the time, only when it was correct.

I also loathe (and mentally knock IQ points off the poster) the following:

'The boy' if someone's talking about their son (you don't see 'the girl' half as much, I'm not sure why). This is usually alongside photos of the boy and we all know his name.

Actually no, wait: 'little miss'

'Making Memories' - makes me want to turn my skin inside-out.

'No filter' - for a particularly nice photo of, eg, the weather. ALL smartphones now take gorgeous-looking photos, you do not NEED a sodding filter, it doesn't make you Ansell bloody Adams. Also, congratulations, you are somewhere there's actually some nice weather. Not jealous at all.

'Over the rainbow bridge' - my older son finds this one so offensive in the face of genuine grief when our pet died that he didn't want me to mention it on FB in case someone I knew used it. Luckily they didn't. I know it's well meant but of all the crappy platitudes....

And finally (this is by no means an exhaustive list but I'm depressing myself now) those FB people who use a long series of pointless HASHTAGS to describe an event, day, mood, whatever. Rather than just bragging outright. I mean - just own it! If you've had a beautiful day then just say 'the sea is beautiful, the picnic was sublime, the children are happy for once, I'll remember this forever, my cat is also cute' but no, we get #vitaminsea #nofilter #nomnomnom #makingmemories #growinguptoofast #furbaby

You know who you are. Just stop it. People are not searching for hashtag nomnomnom. It is disgustingly twee.

Oh this is so true about the hashtags #blessed or #feelingblessed also makes me want to launch my phone out of a window

Poorly sick.

Apart from this social medium?

I was quite surprised to see 'William and me' used by Catherine in her statement yesterday.

"It has really made the world of difference to (William and) me"

Me is correct in this context.

Why?

It's quite easy to work out which it should be: just see how the sentence sounds if you drop the other person.
So "It really has made the world of difference to William and me" would become (without the mention of William): "It really has made the world of difference to me". Entirely correct.
"William and I" would have made the sentence, without William, read: "It really has made the world of difference to I" which is obviously incorrect.

‘William and I enjoyed our day’, is correct because they are the subjects of the sentence.
However lots of people were taught always to put the ‘I’ after the ‘me’ because it is considered polite. Unfortunately they think this applies to all occasions when ‘me’ and ‘I’ appear in the same sentence.
This is the grammatical equivalent of crooking your little finger when drinking your tea. Very Hyacinth Bucket.

Yeah I haven’t ditched this one yet, to me it’s very different to Instagram/Facebook etc and you don’t see all the annoying social media sayings mentioned on this thread.

Oh my gosh, yes. I see this all the freaking time on SM and it drives me spare. 'That's the difference between you and I'. 'The podcast will be hosted by Sue and I'. 'She told my husband and I'. So many people seem to think that 'Sue and me' is wrong in every situation, even though they know perfectly well that 'the podcast will be hosted by I' would be wrong. So why then do they say 'hosted by Sue and I'? I can't understand why so many people struggle so much with this simple concept.

Conversely, you get other people who use 'myself' in situations when they could in fact just use 'Sue and I', as in 'myself and my husband went away last week'.

And it gets even worse when someone says something like, "Would you like to join Sue and I's group?" As though "I's" had ever been an actual pronoun.

Referring to other people as “human” - e.g. this amazing human.

”Making memories”

”the ick”

The Twitter / X posts that make a statement and then say “That’s it, that’s the post”.

@Gakpo

Referring to other people as “human” - e.g. this amazing human.

Also, when referring to their partner..... 'I went to the zoo today with 'this one.' Urgh! 😖

"Unalived" and "my heart is hurting". Both very American sm.