To be irritated by people who constantly share their achievements on social media?

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I’m getting increasingly frustrated with people who share every little achievement or success on social media. It feels like they’re showing off rather than sharing genuine moments. AIBU to think that this constant sharing is annoying and unnecessary?

Ps my friend puts up her son’s birthday. He has no siblings and only a friend or two. He’s thrilled with all the comments and klaxons. You should think maybe that person needs a ‘like’.

Facebook (and MN) is my only social media. I'm only "friends" with friends and family, so seeing their achievements makes me happy. I don't log in a lot but when I do, it's nice to see little moments of their day or updates about their lives. I might post some nice photos if we go away somewhere, or something funny happens.

Though DH has one friend who has us both on Facebook. Now he does brag, and to be fair he's got reason to, but he's like that IRL, too. Lovely man but absolutely no sense of social etiquette. Some of the stuff he posts makes me cringe, so I mute him as it's a constant stream of "LOOK AT ME PLEASE PLEASE LOOK AT ME!". 😂

DH sadly can't mute him because he'll just message him the same thing. So it's easier to give him a quick 👍.

Though DH has one friend who has us both on Facebook. Now he does brag, and to be fair he's got reason to, but he's like that IRL, too. Lovely man but absolutely no sense of social etiquette. Some of the stuff he posts makes me cringe, so I mute him as it's a constant stream of "LOOK AT ME PLEASE PLEASE LOOK AT ME!". 😂

Wondering if we have the same friend as I have someone just like this! One of my recent faves was when he posted about a meal he went out for, thus:

For starter I had prawns, just like the ones I had in Barcelona, for main it was steak, just like the ones I've enjoyed in South Africa, for dessert blah blah blah....

Generally, I like reading about people's travels, their good news, their achievements etc and will post about mine too, after all I'd much rather read that than someone moaning and complaining all the time. However, there are people who take it too far so I just roll my eyes and scroll on by.

Oh my god, he's exactly like this! Isnt it painful? 😂 Everything is a name drop about something he's done/someone famous he's met/somewhere fancy he's been! He recently retired very, very early and gave a full breakdown of his assets, houses he owned and where, and my toes curled! He just doesn't see that it's not the done thing, and I genuinely think he's a nice bloke...but I wish for his sake he'd stop! 😂

I dislike social media full stop and came off it years ago.
I agree with others, it’s what it’s for - attention seeking, validation, wasting your life staring at what everybody else is doing with their life and stalking.
I don’t have good opinions on social media as you can tell!
Hide the braggers if that’s all that bothers you about it.

Like others I only have people I know and like on FB so I like to hear people’s family news, especially those in other countries. One of my profoundly dyslexic sons is graduating with a Masters Degree next week - I will put that on FB as a lot of my friends would realise that this was the kids who couldn’t read age 9, I would hope their reaction will be “how great” rather than “ how annoying”.

Well done to your son! Mine is similar - has done extremely well despite dyslexia/ASD. I've posted about it and judging by the large number of likes and comments people are happy for us, not irritated!