AIBU to be annoyed by these people on my local Facebook page?

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Euguughhhh - they drive me nuts. I know I could leave but the group is 50% useful stuff (we have an A-road on our morning commute that is frequently closed due to accidents and the page always knows first, that kind of thing) and 50% utter shite. Does anyone else have these kinds of people or do I just live in a bonkers place?!

1. One woman has set up her own cleaning company with her daughter (good for them - this is something I think is great). What irritates me is that, even though it's the two of them and no one else, they keep posting adverts that say people should use them because "unlike other cleaning companies", they pay their staff a "fair wage"... but they are their staff. I've never had a cleaner but my understanding is that you either go through an agency (where you pay a higher amount and the cleaner themselves get about minimum wage) and you get security that they'll find someone else if your usual cleaner is sick/holiday/maternity/whatever and they have solid insurance and that kind of thing, or you go direct to a self-employed person (you pay slightly less but the cleaner gets it all - after their costs) but there's less security (i.e. if they're sick then they're sick and won't be coming). This cleaner is trying to portray the best of both for herself... Just annoys me to try and claim some kind of moral highground when they don't have one.
2. The people who post completely irrelevant, chain-mail jokes - usually pretty sexist ones about women being unable to drive... They aren't relevant to the group (and they aren't funny) - if you can't control yourself, just share them on your personal Facebook page.
3. The people who see blatant vandalism or theft and go "oh, get a life" or "we were all young once", "I bet you ain't perfect". Like, you know, I'm a fully grown up adult and I've never once set an abandoned building on fire, egged anyone or left upturned trolleys all over a road. On top of that, as a grown fucking adult, I have the brain capacity to realise that setting things on fire and blocking emergency vehicles could do serious harm (even if that's not in the minds of those teens when they did it). On top of that, I know full well that when people my age (back when I was a teen) did anything like this, every decent adult would've obliterated them for being little shits... so, if teens are always going to do stupid things, when did adults stop doing their part of the routine?! Lo and behold, when the vandalising abandoned buildings turned into abandoning their business or when doing stupid thing turns into threatening them, they completely fail to recognise that they allowed that to progress by excusing the poor behaviour when it started.
4. Parents bitching about the local school's "ridiculous" behaviour policy where their child was sent to the isolation room for politely asking if they're allowed to breathe or for raising their hand to point out a stray puppy was on fire. Like, no, your kid can't behave and it's embarrassing that you can't see you're being lied to.
5. The people who refuse to answer questions that are asked. Things like one bloke asking if there are any recommendations for local garages and the first comment is "I don't have a car so I can't help, sorry"... like, why comment?! I once asked for recommendations for childcare - either a nursery or a childminder - and all but one comment was people saying to make sure the childminder has a DBS check. Like, ok, I'm not an idiot, that's not what I asked.
6. Non-stop incorrect legal advice at every turn - "you can't do that, it's a violation of GDPR", "tell them to press charges", "I'll go over there and make a citizens arrest". I just can't take any more of it!
7. People asking questions that are literally on Google - "does anyone know what time Tesco closes?" (not on Christmas or things where Google might not be accurate), "what's the phone number for the GP surgery?", "is it an inset day at the school today?" (cue 19847 different comments about the five potential schools that could be being asked about, none of which have an inset day and all of which have their calendars on their websites).

I just wonder if people were always like this and had different outlets (I don't really remember a time before Facebook) or are people getting weirder? Or is this just my local page and everyone is normal where you are?

I know it's gone midnight, this is slightly lighthearted...

I think we must live in the same town lol. My local page is exactly the same.

The FB for my little town is pretty good at getting prolific shoplifters caught and re-uniting people with their lost credit cards, phones, glasses and kid's teddies. But we also have many of the posts mentioned previously 🙂

The sheer volume of lost dog posts baffles me. How do you keep losing your dogs?? I’ve never once lost my dog. It has not proved difficult to not lose my dog.

Also we get people who I assume scour the streets looking for lost property so they can post about it.

This winds me up so very much! “I saw a lady collapse in the street so I administered CPR and waited with her till the ambulance came. Does anyone know if she’s okay? I’m not writing this post in any way to draw attention to my good deed or to solicit comments blowing smoke up my arse and to polish my halo, I just won’t rest until I hear that she’s alright”. Yeah right! 🙄

Also posts about potential ‘marks’ outside houses to highlight that they are ripe for burgling or dognapping. “There’s a big turd on the pavement outside my house”. “Be careful! It’s well known that Albanians have been going round shitting outside people’s houses to show their criminal friends that you’ve got a dog in the house”. Because that makes so much more sense than just texting their partners in crime to tell them that 26 Beech Grove has a dog.

Are you ok hun????

said very tongue in cheek… as this one mini sentence is the reason I left social media!!!!

There were regular posts in my local FB group about a little white dog that was wondering the streets all the time. Turned out his owner was disabled, and instead of getting a dog walker, would just open the door and let his dog out until it got brought back. Very irresponsible.

Also knew someone who lost her dog after she had a house fire. He sadly ran as far as a motorway and was hit by a truck.

Well, one of the family children had a fall out with another kid at school so there was a whole drama about that, then he decreed that adverts can only be on a certain day (unless it’s his mates or family) and any info about any local crimes must go to the local police….via him.

“Cat looks lost”

it’s a cat! It’s out for a walk/catching mice/harassing neighbours for food/doing secret cat things

although my old cat used to lay out in the garden on his side until he had a small crowd all wondering if he was dead and then snap one eye open to make everyone jump

The ones that annoy me are the ones about bad driving. 'To the driver of the Red Audi reg W4NKR who was driving far too fast in School Road you're going to cause an accident. Slow down

Never in the history of FB has anyone read a post like that and thought Jeez that's me. Omg shes right my driving is awful. But thats it im changing my ways bow. You're right Janet thank God you posted

There’s an old git on my road who always comments rude and aggressive answers to random
posts. Example, temporary traffic lights again on the A road. Took me 30 minutes to get through. So annoying. Him: get up earlier, leave home
eaelier. Ok great! Ill drop my 5 year old off at school at 7am. They can wait in the car park

Cant you just leave the group or block the people who annoy you?

Ha yes, my local one has someone posting a painting (landscapes) almost daily and then saying ‘here’s what I painted today’. But they all look AI made and no one on the group seems to realise.

Also, the posts like 'A family fleeing from <current awful country> have just moved into a house. They are all very scared and.shocked and the dad lost an arm getting his kids out. Has anyone got any old furniture to donate?'
Replies always along the lines of 'I carnt belive this. R vetruns r living on the streets n this lot walk into a council house. They shud b sent back'

‘There’s a foreign looking man in a white van driving slowly round our estate, be careful !’
Its the evri driver love

Luckily my neighbourhood doesn't have one. I still get pulled over by elderly neighbours who have got the time want to vent. Just got a Mug face I imagine.

The ones that I find the most bizarre are the “Will the person on x street who is playing really loud music please stop? Some of us have to get up for work in the morning”.

Because I’m certain the resident in question is avidly following the local Facebook page in case of complaints!

I keep seeing posts being shared including in local groups like “two foreign looking men tried to snatch my child in the park” they then go on to describe a scenario of 2 men being in the same place as this child while they play, and maybe seeing the child with their foreign eyes. With no evidence they were foreign or not.

I will never understand why these people think so many bloody non British people want to steal their kids.

It's the people on our local giveaway / wanted facebook page that give me the rage.

Every day they're giving away stuff or wanting stuff but don't say where they are. They could be 4 doors away from me, and I might be able to help, but saying what postcode or estate they're in is beyond them.

A recent trend on ours is people posting photos of a cat and asking “is this anyone’s cat? It was in my garden.

We also have a local gossip girls page. I once asking if anyone could recommend a local personal shopper as I needed a budget in the right direction after losing confidence in postpartum body. Then you just get “follow xx on instagram” = a skinny 22 year old hawking crop tops.

Ours is very much like this.

The comment about the garage and the person not having the a car so not knowing we get a lot of! I do sometimes wonder if it’s people who don’t quite understand how the page works and think they’ve been asked personally each time.

Ours is the same, it seems everyone is constantly losing their dogs. The neighbouring village had a bad accident the other week where a group of 14/15 year olds where out on stolen motorbikes, no helmets terrorising people walking going about their business, then driving then very fast the wrong way on a busy road and unfortunately one of them got hit by a car when it got dark asv they had no lights. The passenger on it passed away, lots of comments then about how the car driver should have been more careful and kids will be kids...WTF stealing motorbikes is not typical teen behaviour. Also lots of lost keys weirdly

I’m glad I’m not on Facebook anymore, this being one of a number of reasons. Thick idiots on the local groups spouting their racism and general stupidity to all and sundry.

Something happens which means the police need to be called and inevitably you get the ‘’only in (town name)’’ No, you fucking imbecile, shit happens everywhere and you need to get out more! Or, ‘’deport them!’’ Any time a crime gets committed, even though the perpetrator is a local 🤣

One particular post that always gets me that people post on their own pages is when a group of women go on a weekend away, say for a hen weekend or just a girls holiday and they always call themselves crazy and say (place name’s) not gonna know what’s hit it’’ 😂😂 cringe!

Best thing I ever did was get off Facebook. Life is a lot better without having access to that.

Yep, all that.

Plus we have Phil who got a Ring doorbell for Xmas last year. And now Phil posts almost-daily pictures from his Ring doorbell of people "acting suspiciously" outside his house. Said pictures are usually just people doing completely normal things. He once posted a picture of my DH walking the dog 🤣

Plus we have Bill who posts poems. Really shit poems. And all the people who reply to Bill to praise his poetic talent. I really can't tell if they're taking the piss. I hope so, but I suspect not.

Plus Maureen who's very into 5G masts. She organised a protest about it once. Two people showed up, not including Maureen. When she was asked "Where were you Maureen?", she said she'd forgotten and went to get her eyebrows done.

It's wild. I love it.