Why do people post every single day about their holiday on Facebook?

[PassingStranger]

You know the ones who go away and give you a blow by blown account every day on what they are doing, where they are eating etc, sometimes multiple times a day.
Are friends expected to read it all and like every single post?

What happened to privacy, what happened to telling people about it when you get home?
Not against it totally, but several times a day, what's wrong with them?
They seem unable to enjoy a holiday without broadcasting every single thing. It's horrible the way FB has got to some people!!

i could have written this . Great for keeping a personal record and I have a friend who writes hilarious daily blogs on FB …fun and entertaining 😊

Its a habit. For some people the main point of an experience has become to get and post a photo. I was recently at a fairly famous location for a sunset. I was one of a minority actually facing it. The majority had their backs to it taking selfies or posing for photos with it as a back drop.

😂😂 I know lol look at me I'm having a coffee, like nobody's ever had a coffee before.

I love seeing everyone’s holiday photos. I’m so obsessed with travel I even want to see pictures of the plane.

just leaving this here 😂 Jake Lambert sums up perfectly people posting about their holidays

https://www.instagram.com/p/C9y5J0msEah/

All of you saying about advertising home is empty...
Stop having randos who mkght fob your house on FB. 🤷

I always wonder about that too. I've never commented as I find it boring when it pops up on my fb, I just move on.

But it feels like their heart really isn't in the present, on holiday, where they should be able to enjoy themselves without feeling the need to be updating constantly.

Makes no sense to me to spend hundreds or thousands for a holiday only to spend most of that time on social media!

It's different when they upload photos and videos when they get back.

I have Instagram not Facebook, but I quite like seeing holiday photos! I follow mostly accounts that I don’t know but are travel related so it’s genuinely something I enjoy seeing, gives me lots of ideas for future holidays and they’re also a lovely way to escape for a few minutes on a dreary Tuesday morning.
When I go away I might share one or two stories of a pretty town but barely anything these days. I still like to look though!
What I don’t miss is seeing 3 albums on Facebook of Janet and johns 13th trip to the same place, all blurry photos with thumbs over the lense 😂 but that’s one good reason I don’t use Facebook anymore!

Because social media is full of bragging arseholes that's all it is. It gives you a false snapshot kf life as someone the has and is lonely and has suffered from mental illness. You can get quite depressed. Reading people's post on Facebook, thinking they are having this marvellous life until a psychologist told me they are only put in the s* they want you to see and all the bad stuff most of the time. People don't put that in so it's a form of bragging, but also it's not giving a full picture, which means people get upset, hence why now I don't really use social media.

These types of comments always make me laugh. Unless you have your address on your completely public Facebook account, how would anyone know where you live in order to break into your house because they’ve seen your holiday photos?!?

And if (like most people) your Facebook account is friends only, you’d presumably trust your friends or family not to break into your house while you’re away?

Judging people from their social media behaviour is the new curtain twitching.

Who cares? Let them crack on. You don’t have to look.

I love it when a friend does that as you feel like you travelling with them...yabu

I guess some people use it like a diary and so it will come up in their memories?

@Northernlass44

Because social media is full of bragging arseholes that's all it is.

All human life is on social media.

It’s become very fashionable to say everyone who posts anything on social media is automatically lying or an arsehole. There’s threads and threads based on the idea that all couples who post pictures of themselves on Facebook are heading for divorce. There’s definitely bullshit on there but it’s not as black and white as that.

Peopl use social media for all sorts of purposes from digital scrapbooks to advertising to, yes, sometimes showing off.

But the way people rail against the way other people use the social platforms is puritanical and silly. How can you know what someone’s motives are?

To be honest I don't think it is any more weird than the old days when we used to send our friends little pieces of card with a photo and and message for them and any postal workers to read on the back.

Because they want their home to be robbed?!

In my opinion most people posting all abut their holidays not just odd pic but loads all the time abd regularly updating what they are foing like people give a shit yes are bragging self obsessed arseholes. Make a scrap book fine your phone has a camera you don't need to post every little detail if life and food on social media you don't. It's stupid and of course it's bragging just done subtly

I love seeing peoples holiday photos. Obviously I’m not super interested in 13 pics of the arrivals hall at the airport and all that guff but the lovely sunsets, monuments, nice food etc then yes please bring it on.

Some far flung relatives did a tour of the UK recently and one of them had never left their country before. She shared a selection of pictures every day with an update on what they’d done and it was genuinely lovely to see our little island through her eyes and keep up with her adventures.

The only time I did it was when we did a tour of Italy and were in a different place every two days or so.

Other than that I just put up a reel at the end.

Big difference when it's posts upon posts one card fibe saying having a nice time but this stuff now is bragging

I use my FB as a kind of photo diary for my own pleasure. My kids love looking back through photos of old holidays, Christmases etc. I don't really care who looks or likes it though I am wary of being a FB bore so if I'm wanting to post regularly I filter the posts so only I can see them and I dont keep popping up in the feed.

I actually really like looking at people's holiday photos/experiences especially if it's somewhere I've been or would like to go. One friend is quite adventurous and goes off the beaten track and does a lot of research. Her posts are really informative and funny with great photos and I always read and like them.

On the other hand there are a couple of people I've had to hide as they constantly post the same utter dross. One woman posts regular selfies of her on the train going to work. Just that. Week after week. Someone else posts weekly head and shoulder shots of each family member and herself, not doing anything interesting, no commentary just their faces. They aren't a family of lookers either. It's a bit ... odd.

@EllieQ , I just wouldn't do it myself, as much as it doesn't bother you 🤷🏼‍♀️

I absolutely trust my friends, but I don't know their partners necessarily, or who's watching as they're scrolling through.

It's the reason we're all different, all have different opinions

Who do you have on your social media?!

@Northernlass44

How many posts about a holiday would be acceptable then? Who gets to decide whether you have posted enough pictures to be “arsehole of the month”?

FB is like every other social account. Either don't use it or scroll past. It's not like anyone is forcing you too look at it all. Why on earth does it matter to anyone else if Auntie Joan is deliriously happy and over sharing about her trip to Tesco.