To find people's Holiday snaps so tedious?

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Don't get me wrong - I'm happy for people and I like to see a few key snaps of special moments and know that people are having a good time. But do we need to see every moment?

They're bad enough when people put them on Facebook but at least you can scroll past them. Or just click on a few.

A beloved family member is now retired and is doing a lot of travelling. The last few times she went somewhere, she's absolutely flooded the family group whatsapp chat with endless pictures. I counted a total of over 500 in the 10 days she was away. I'm not exaggerating. Ding ding ding ding. It's not like I could even mute the group because it's a family chat and I might miss something.

Now she's travelling round Australia for 3 weeks and she's set up a separate whatsapp group just to share her pictures. She's added everyone she knows. There are HUNDREDS of pictures, daily. Everywhere she goes, everything she sees, everything she notices on the streets, her room, her on the plane, her on a train, her in a car, and a picture of EVERY SINGLE MEAL SHE EATS!! and loads of comments from people I don't know.

I muted the group on day 1 and pop in now and then to make a comment so she doesn't think we're ignoring her.

Am I being an old misery or are holiday snaps just so boring? I love this person dearly but I do not care about every minute of her Holiday.

😂 sounds a bonkers thing to do.
why oh why would they think anyone wants to see them all, it’s very self absorbed isn’t it? at least it’s on a separate group now I suppose.

I'm sorry, I have no words of advice, but I feel your pain. A walking group member has to post stuff immediately - we can be on a vigorous hike, but then we have to stop to post a flower picture. Why can't they wait until they are at home!

This is why I left my family WA group
and Facebook. I am on Insta but I only follow art galleries and museums. Some of my friends on there post pictures of their morning cuppa every day!

Completely agree. Oh my god how tedious.

I love people’s holiday pics! But this would be too much even for me.

No that is bonkers, i love seeing holiday photos but would draw the line there, i'd mute it too.
Very happy to see scenic shots etc but hotel rooms, plane and meals etc, why???

My mum is like this, and gives you a whole pretentious running commentary. My rather blunt Aunt made me laugh once as she said to my Mum, ‘I don’t need the running commentary’ even before my mum had started! 😂

I’m happy to see scenic shots of interesting places but not endless photos of them on the beach, in the bar, by the pool etc are very boring especially if they’re at some generic Med resort.

This has just literally made me laugh out loud 😂

It has always been a thing though. I remember as a child having to watch a neighbours' slide show or flip through a photo album of them on holiday. They were definitely know as 'bores' then as they are now.

Hmm, so I actually think that the purpose of FB is create posts about what you've been doing. Holiday snaps are a big part of that.

Re WhatsApp - these chat areas seem only to cause upset. People message too often or not enough, their answers are deemed too detailed or not detailed enough. Everyone seems to fall out about them. Holiday snaps is one of the daftest of those reasons.

I unfollowed someone on Facebook, when they started posting photos of their Burger King , in the airport, before their holiday!

I generally love people's holiday photos (some friends are on a once in a lifetime trip with their kids now and I'm so happy for them, I look forward to them posting a few pics!) but that sounds far too much even for me! I'd start dropping the yawn emoji in here and there 😈

I love seeing people's holiday pictures and especially their meals.

500 in 10 days is way beyond overkill though, whatever the subject. Mute it already! No one else will be sending anything important while that deluge is ongoing.

Well, on the positive side of things, at least you're not stuck in a darkened room subject to an evening of tedious slides with a dull commentary and pauses while upside down slides are correctly re-orientated. 😬

The pouting with a cocktail or the painted toes on a beach really annoy me.

I love them on FB. It gives me travel ideas, I see new places and some people are really great photographers. Yes it is good that on FB you can take or leave them. I only like a few on WhatsApp from my very close family only! WhatsApp almost demands a response.

Of course they're tedious. They're not meant to entertain you but to make you feel envious.

I would personally post a picture of a Greggs.

Has she gone alone? Sounds like she is lonely.

YANBU though, I love seeing holiday photos but this is too much.

I just blocked someone I know on FB. Seems like it's their first trip out of their house the way he has been posting. Literally from the airport departure, plane food, blow by blow account of each thing they are doing. It's embarrassing really. Someone made a comment of you should be enjoying your trip and spending time with your family 😅.

I just posted about this. It's so embarrassingly pathetic.

Yes it’s tedious. But at least she’s now set up a separate group. Can you mute notifications on that particular group? Or ‘Archive’ it so you don’t see them. Then open it once in a while so she knows you’ve not ignored them?

No, I would lose interest after about 10 photos.

I think calling people embarrassingly pathetic is a bit harsh! What happened to live and let live?! Just scroll and ignore the Burger King shots. There are plenty of dull people in real life as well as online.

OP, I can understand the WhatsApp group annoyance though. A friend of mine made an actual blog last year and did the same - then WhatsApp messaged to check in if we’d read th updated blog posts?! What did we think? I’ve had plenty of friends make wedding blogs too and update them with their plans, then they’d message something like “have you got your password sorted? Noticed you have t logged on to the wedding blog yet and there’s lots of important info on there about the big day”. Euuuugh.

Some people seem to feel the need to widely share every tiny thing they do. No self-awareness that they are not the centre of everyone else's universe! 500 photos in 10 days is beyond overkill - are they normally so self-absorbed?
I agree she might be lonely travelling but still! When I travelled solo I posted the odd pic of something interesting, not endless pics of myself.