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Grown man posting too many selfies

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Animatic · 27/10/2024 11:53

I have recently met a man who seems quite intelligent and is good looking, very close to "full package". The only thing that makes me cringe is his habit of posting selfies on SM stories almost daily, sometimes even more than 1 a day. Normally it would be smth like photo of his face with a note saying "otw to get my coffee" or similar. The man in question is over 40 yrs old so definitely far from a 21 yrs old wannabe influencer.

AIBU thinking this is too cringe and a red flag in terms of trying to date ,etc?

OP posts:
TwistedWonder · 28/10/2024 18:51

Animatic · 28/10/2024 12:53

Posting the face or mirror selfie with "hello weekend" , "on the way to the gym","weather sucks", "getting coffee" but not photos depicting the said weather or coffee, or whatever object is referenced.

Sorry but that’s beyond cringey for a grown adult.

I know a woman who does the same - daily selfies on FB just with ‘morning world’ ‘happy Friday’ ‘coffee time’ etc and she’s 60 ffs. She’s also the biggest most self absorbed drama queen I’ve ever met in my life.

People like her and this man are just me me me me me - inflated sense of their own importance

BeachHutsAndDeckchairs · 28/10/2024 18:58

Screamingabdabz · 28/10/2024 18:46

How are you not embarrassed by the optics that say ‘me, me, me, look at me!’? That why the op is questioning it. Normal grown adults - certainly people in their 40s - don’t feel the need to point cameras at themselves all the time.

Did I say I forced anyone to look at my photo and notice me?

PeggyMitchellsCameo · 28/10/2024 19:06

Wouldn’t be for me, I am afraid.
I find all the ‘getting coffee’ stuff to be particularly naff.

Jessie1259 · 28/10/2024 21:01

I'd be thinking 'why do you think anyone wants to know you're off to get a coffee? is that really as exciting as your life gets?' I'd imagine he is extremely boring and self absorbed to think anyone is even vaguely interested - so it would be a no from me. Although I might take the piss about it first and see how he takes it - you can gauge a lot from that.

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