Anyone getting fed up of people posting about their ‘wholesome weekends’

[BluntJoker]

Keep seeing this pop up and think they sound pathetic . Am I alone in finding this annoying?

If you're the type to want to read people's SM posts in the first place, it's an odd thing to become upset about. If it's the bragging and exaggeration, then a very high proportion of posts will be doing this on every subject. If it's the latching on to a trend, well, same applies. If its the trend to see wholesome as positive, well surely that can only be a good thing?

Yet people dont have to use it, but if people say not to use it then people get told they are wrong for saying it and if people want to have issues with what people post they can, which is of course true but again it is a choice to use it or not

No idea if it is jealously but daily there seem to be posting how bad social media makes them feel on here yet do nothing about it, except feel judged of course

Who gives a shit? Really? It has zero effect on your life

That actually sounds quite fun.

The most wholesome kind of weekend is one where you have stayed off social media and LIVED YOUR OWN FUCKING LIFE. Whatever it looks like. And not bragged/shared/bored on about it to anyone else.

Speaking of which, why I am even bothering. Off to enjoy my day, warts and all.

I live in the Lake District. I vividly remember one occasion a couple of years back where I had stopped for lunch by a spot popular with the instagrammers for wild swimming. A women stripped down to her swimming costume. Got into the "infinity pool" (i.e. a bit of water), posed for a couple of seconds whilst her partner took pictures, and then got out again and got dressed.

I can't decide if that was more ridiculous or the person I saw on striding edge in flip flops.

I don't mind them posting pictures and what they have been up to. That's what social media is all about and they can post whatever they want.

It's the word 'wholesome' that makes me want to vomit and stab myself in the eye.

Agree😂

If they're telling us about a wholesome hike GenX are thinking,

''yeah, but there was a pub on the way or when you got there, or on the different route you took back right? I mean there must be a pub somewhere in this story....otherwise why are you telling me''

It’s only on TikTok that I see all this ‘wholesome’ bollocks.

‘Spend a wholesome day with me. I made overnight oats, then I did yoga, then I read 2 chapters of my self help book, then the gym, then an oat milk cappuccino…ad nauseam’.

It's hilarious how people can have such a sense of superiority and sneer at how "pathetic" someone's (completely unproblematic) social media posts are, whilst participating in the exact same social media themselves.

If it's an influencer your talking about OP then no fear, "wholesome" is just the new bollocksey buzzword around. A few years ago it was the thoroughly vomit inducing "Making Memories" and in another couple of year it'll be something else.
Just crack on and do you.

It's a bit odd to get so worked up about someone posting pictures of things they've done and enjoyed.

If it bothers you just don't look at them, surely.

I love these posts. I like seeing happy people. My friends don’t use the word wholesome but they post hiking and running, climbing, paddle boarding etc and they aren’t faking anything.
i love and post those activities too. I’m out with family and friends doing these things any chance I get. If it irritates you so much, maybe you need to ask yourself why and search yourself a little. Or just block.

But it does have an effect on our life. Not any particular post but it’s a modern addition to parenting teens to make them understand how utterly fake, and make sure they are not influenced by unobtainable standards.
They can become paralysed by the threat of social shame when they can be photographed and embarrassment spread far and wide in moments.

If you think this has no affect on a lot of people’s lives you are mistaken.

Of course we try and mitigate all this, we have to, and we aren’t doing too badly, their dad and I. Not every parent does.

It’s a poison that seeps out all over society.

I’ve never seen anything about wholesome weekends. We’re do I find this thread if I want some of it?

I was thinking that wholesome sounds good, esp with the sandwiches, then I realised I was thinking of wholemeal.

Or friend people whose idea of a good weekend involves drug-fuelled hedonism?

But hiking, camping, baking, exercise are not unobtainable?
I would be happy for my teenagers to be exposed to these kind of posts.
Definitely more so than over sexualised pop stars, influencers with size six gym bodies and faces full of fillers, influencers selling products.

Facebook 😂

The whole (wholesome) lot comes down to

“I hope you think I am better than you”

Ahhh, the youthful days of Gen X hiking weekends...
The beer, the gratitous nudity, the shagging, existential crises with a survival shelter. It was great fun until we all conceived children with each other then got divorced

No social media, just fuzzy photos to make a pharmacist blush and Munroe/ Wainwright bagging tick lists.

Utterly unwholesome, but very, very fun

Man a lot of you on here are so busy cynical.

Not everyone has your bitter view of the world

It’s all so performative - live life for yourself not the likes. Sad really.

Why would someone think that uness they had deep jealousy issues?

The are fine our teens they do stuff and go places

They don’t need stranger’s travel snaps, or weekend photos to know what to do with a bicycle.

They understand posting photos for the world is a load of egotistical bollocks.

They privately share photos of things they think their friends will like.

Because even with wholesome pursuits someone always has a better bike, a prettier sunset, a cleaner beach, a better picnic or whatever.

It sucks the joy out if just doing stuff.

Why don’t people just share things privately with people they know?

The photos are filtered the colours enhanced.

Perfect example when all of the UK saw the Northern Lights. What we saw with our eyes and what people posted on our local FB page were two completely different images. We took some lovely. accurate photos which were beautiful as they were, they were not skies full of light pink, that is what you could see through your phone camera. Which is not the same.

Edited fake photos, what is the point?