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!!

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Yeah and make sure you don’t tell them your working pattern either otherwise they’ll know which days your house is empty in the day!

And actually some of us have adult DC living with us do despite being on holiday our homes aren’t empty all week.

My FB settings are private so if I get burgled while I’m away and the hours my DS isn’t there, it’s a pretty small pool of people who could have done it.

Meh. I post the odd pic when on holiday, certainly not every day.
I have a friend who posts her daily walk. It's the same walk. And not just a couple nice pics of some ducks or flowers but 65. Here's this boring tree from three slightly different angles. Here's the statue that I posted yesterday and the day before and the day before. So I just scroll on by...

Probably they don't bore people everyday with everything little thing they are doing, seeing, feeling.💤

Maybe they don't post pics of themselves waiting for the aww beautiful, you look lovely babes etc etc.
It's vanity.

@PassingStranger why do you follow anyone who does that though? I don't understand. It's YOUR Facebook feed so just follow people whose feed makes you happy.

I don't get why people moan about what other people post on social media when you're under no obligation at all to look at it.

I don’t post waiting for ‘you look lovely babes’ comments. Nobody on my friends list talks like that anyway. I don’t post many pictures of myself. I post when I’m doing things I found fun or interesting which my friends might like to see and so I can remember it next year when it pops up on memories.
Anyone who doesn’t think it’s interesting can scroll past, mute me or unfriend.

If i see stuff I'm not interested in then i just scroll past.
Maybe you could do that

Probably they don't post this....
Maybe they don't post the other....
But you didn't really answer what you do post.
Just for info i am not a constant poster .
And also just for info my house is not empty when I'm on holiday

Easy if it's one or two posts, I've just snoozed a friend for 30 days as he's currently on holiday and posts his view when he gets up, his breakfast, his sunlounger, his lunch, his afternoon pub crawl, his dinner, the evening entertainment, what his girlfriend is wearing and drinking, and then the view when he goes to bed 😂 ffs

I also like photos of meals. I lived in China and it was completely normal to photo food. I don’t post them on any group forum, just send them to my ds who is also a foodie.

We're away on holiday atm. We've been posting regular photos as it's a slightly unusual type of holiday, and lots of people asked us to post photos. If people don't want to look at the pictures they can scroll on by.

If anyone decides to break in to our house then they'll have our 6ft 4 DS to contend with - he still lives at home and also works from home. Our holiday posts only refer to the 2 of us and our insurance company are well aware that 3 adults live in our house - plus our social media posts are well locked down.

On holiday and posting daily so my son can see the pics as he's with my parents (I'm not an awful parent, this is a gift holiday for a big birthday). And really if people post stuff I'm not interested in I scroll on by. If it's too much just unfollow them so their posts dont come up in your feed whilst they are away. If it makes them happy, let them be happy.

This. I just don’t get people moaning about something they can control. I have a cousin who does my head in. I mute him. I then occasionally manually check his page and like a couple of posts for the sake of harmony. I once had a friend of my sister’s comment that I post ‘all of the time’. (FWIW, I post a couple of times a week. If I’m on holiday, more often). I was just like ‘so you’re criticising me for using social media in the way it was intended to be used. I’m confused’. She never posted. It’s just so weird. I also love seeing where my friends are. An old friend moved to Australia just as I had my twins. Seeing his adventures really cheered me up when I was stuck inside breastfeeding.

So i do it for the same reasons I post any of my photos. I’ve got albums and it’s free online storage. Plus I’ve family around the world and it’s easier to share on one FB post than keep emailing/messaging people individually. They like to keep up with what we do. I treat those albums as a bit of a blog and I like the memories along with the commentary to look back on each year.

As for the insurance thing. As many have said, I’m not fb friends with total strangers. My account is set to private due to my job.

And for those not interested they can choose to scroll past. I’m not a several posts per day person though, just a summary evening post.

Also advertising to burglers ur hoyse is empty makes insurance null n void if you advertise your away on holiday and your house gets burgled

I post an album of pics when we get home. I don't tell the world my house is empty!

Maybe I’m being thick or naive but surely you’re not advertising your home as free to break into if only friends can see your posts and you have good privacy settings? What kind of people do you all have as friends?

Anyway, lots of reasons why people post a lot on Facebook- for validation due to low self esteem, insecurity, maybe deep down they worry their life isn’t interesting enough, pressure from seeing other people’s posts depicting their perfect lives, maybe some friends and family are genuinely interested and what to know what’s happening in the lives of people they might not see often. I don’t post every day on holiday and certainly not every meal like some people, but I do post a lot I guess. Each to their own. It’s not hurting anyone and can just scroll past if not interested

I do this for myself. I like it when these pictures appear on notification a year later. Just scroll or unfriend if you don’t like it. It’s their page about them. How they use it is their business not for your pleasure

So the burgers know they are still away!

I don't get this whole "people will know your house is empty".
Don't most people tell certain people that they're going on holiday? Like their boss (because they had to request time off). Your parents. Close friends.
Surely people don't just vanish for a week without telling anyone ?
And all it would take is one of those people mentioning it to the wrong person.....🤔

@Needmorelego I always used to take great care when telling the newsagent the date I wanted to cancel my papers for if I was going on holiday, as you never knew who was listening in the shop (back in the day when I bought newspapers!)

You have the whole world on your FB / insta? Not just people you know personally?

I don’t tend to post on my main page but I do add things to stories, they disappear and don’t clog up feeds. You can choose not to view stories. My family likes to see what we are doing. My social media is small and private I know everyone I am linked to it’s less than 100

That's me.

I do one big post a day with all my photos to an album and a description.

It's like a diary and a way of saving my photos.

I only have real friends and family in Facebook and most of them do the same so clearly we have similar preferences.