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...

My parents live in a very small town (basically a village, but woe betide anyone who calls it that) and the local Facebook page is one of the funniest things I've ever seen. Some highlights...

• 'Fish & Chips & Psychic Night' advertised. Psychic hadn't asked the chippy if they could cater for 40 people at 8pm on a Friday (they could not). Event renamed 'Fish & Chips & Psychic Night (No Fish)'. Everyone cancels. Event renamed 'Fish & Chips & Psychic Night (Cancelled due to unforseen circumstances)' - Seriously.

• Poster claiming they had just heard two gunshots in the park and everyone should take shelter. Police called. Reply asking if it could have been their scooter backfiring. Original poster "Oh yeah probably".

• Someone selling a half-eaten takeaway.

• Curry delivered to wrong house. Family take it in and eat it. Curry house tells the family that ordered it who nicked their curry. Family names and shames "the scruffs at number 8" on FB. About eight people from both households engage in weekend-long war of words in the comments.

• Woman who posts multiple times per day, every day, asking for free stuff. An egg. De-icer. A shirt. A TV. Some paper. A lift into town. Never replies or messages anyone who responds.

Endless fun.

Yep we have one and it’s a combination of helpful, an annoyance and hilarious.
What we tend to see is

• double standards/inconsistency in rules eg they stipulate no business posts yet some seem to get through, probably the family and friends of the moderators!
• if not a subject they are interested in or care about it either doesn’t get approved, or, believe it or not, it gets laughing emojis. They think it’s a running joke the number of people who complain about dog poo on their gardens despite the fact it’s a serious problem. They don’t take it seriously, so no one else should. People post hoping to get others to share their video doorbell footage, or even just to shame the potential culprits, but because the moderators just laugh others follow suit and no one cares.
• You get endless repetitions of the same answers to questions
• If someone posts about the same subject or asks the same question as someone else already did within five years, you’re told it’s already been asked and expected to trawl back through years of posts.
• it can take so long for posts to be approved that the post becomes pointless eg ‘ anyone know what’s happened to the 47 bus it’s not showed up’. Yeah it’s not much good to me if not approved for two days.

Sounds a bit like Mumsnet AIBU tbh

I’ve unfollowed my local one now, but stayed in it so I can search for something if I need to. So many nutters and whiners in there. Also I got sick off seeing photos of dog poo - fine, it’s annoying and gross, so post about it if you must, but do we really need a visual?

Plus on every other post “set it to share hun!” You bloody can’t! How many more times?

We get regular spates of anti-dog poo posts usually accompanied by lots of angry face reactions. These are usually answered by the virtue signallers who piously tell anyone who cares to listen that they always pick up after their dogs. Yes we know dear, you posted exactly the same yesterday - we all applaud your conscientiousness. The post that I do remember and still makes me chuckle when I remember it, was someone was complaining that the dog poo had ‘gone wild’ in the back alley near her house. I was imagining it having loud parties, smoking weed, drinking all day and giving the middle finger to anyone walking past 😂

We very sadly had an actual double murder on our estate on Christmas day last year. The local FB page went into meltdown, first with all the "why are there so many police cars/ambulances?" posts, which admin very sensibly started locking because it was clear something very bad had happened, and speculation was not helping anyone. Then "why was my post closed/deleted? Omg freedom of speech!"

I know one of the admins in real life and he said there were loads of journos trying to get into the group, clearly trying to scrape some local info. Not something I'd want to deal with!

We do also get a lot of lost cats etc - this week someone posted my neighbour's cat sitting by my car, saying it looked lost. Nope, it's just chilling outside, its house is literally next door!

Or someone posts is Tesco open today (say boxing day). Someone replies yes open til 6 or whatever. Then 54 people write exactly the same under. Like the OP hasn't believed the previous 53 people 🤣

Oh god yes, and the people who post photos of dead cats or dying wildlife. Just give a description of the cat and then DM a photo if someone thinks it's theirs, we don't all need to see.

Weird. I haven’t been on my nextdoor for a little while but popped on there yday or the day before and there was also someone posting landscape paintings they’d done that day. So you either live in the same vicinity or this is common?

Another fave is the NAME AND SHAME posts about cars parked perfectly legally all taxed and MOTd because they've been parked near the house of poster for more than three days.

@nomas @whatwaswrongwiththatusername
Are you in Bolton?

Trivial I know, but the people who put laughing emojis next to comments that in no way warrant it.

"Cat run over on the road going past the coop" (😆)

"Husband's van got broken into and tools stolen, anyone see anything suspicious?" (😆)

"Found an injured pigeon in back garden, what should I do?" Reply: "Pull its head off 😆"

These are all true examples.

Who are these psychopaths that think everything's funny?

(and no, they're not using the wrong emojis, they honestly think such things are hysterically funny)

I’ve always wondered about those people who feel a need to repost about a dog that went missing 200 miles away 6 months ago. What are the chances that a) the dog is in the local area and b) that it’s still missing? Pretty low, I’d wager.

mine is all ‘my cat is missing’ (buy him a fucking tracker) or whinging about parking (just fucking walk, it’s not a big town!) or ‘dodgy bloke/van loitering’

We have one lady on ours who has to comment on EVERY POST and acts as though she’s an expert on EVERY TOPIC.

Once someone was asking about the best place to get travel vaccinations locally and her first response was “I can’t think of anywhere you would travel to these days where you would need to be vaccinated against anything”. Somebody else then listed a load of countries for where it’s strongly advised to get vaccinations for diseases such as rabies and cholera and also take anti materials and the lady’s response was “oh, I guess if you can afford it, it’s worth getting vaccinated rather than risking having to take a week off work when you come back because you’re ill.” Seriously that’s what she thought. Rabies, no problem really, just rest for a week and drink plenty of fluids!

Lol. I there, like here, have a fake I'd name and just read, laugh, inform myself < found my two current jobs there >, or put emoji

1. 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.

We have a serial commenter who does this. Teens using catapults to kill swans, door knocking on elderly residents’ doors after dark, throwing bottles over the fence onto a public pavement frequently used by mothers and young children is all just kids being kids and the complainer is clearly a kill joy Karen. He works for Fujitsu btw…

One of our local Ring Doorbell users posted a photo of a car that had driven down the street at the same time for the past few nights. Clearly suspicious & everyone be on your guard.

It was a guy who lived further down the street who was a police officer coming home at the end of his shift which ended at midnight 🤦🏻‍♀️

Just seen a group of teenagers causing some kind of criminal evidence. Got it on my ring doorbell. Want the parents to come forward before I go to the police, followed by lots of posters claiming they're only young, they're bored, leave them alone etc.

A car has just hit my wing mirror and drove off. I know who you are and if you don't come forward, I'll name and shame you. (Never seen anyone naming and shaming, so all an empty threat.)

My favourite was A couple of teens are loitering on the main road at a bus stop. They've been there at least 20 minutes now. Just want to let you know in case they're up to no good!
They're probably waiting for the bus 🤣🤣

think this might be my favourite post ever!

“Thats against GPDR…” which by the way you see quite regularly on MN, is 100% posted by somebody who has absolutely no idea what they are talking about. Or to put another way, how to show you know nothing about GPDR, without saying you know nothing about GPDR. But unintelligent people like to pretend they know something complicated.

The posts that make me laugh are the helicopter and ones.

”Hey every1. Ne1 no wot the helicopter is hovering for?” As if anyone on their sofa scrolling FB would know. 😂

Erm - I think perhaps you are overthinking everything and overacting. Are you stressed in other aspects of your life? You seriously just got annoyed over nothing. I think a break from social media would do you good.

@cryptidethose “person who” posts also make me laugh!
“To the person who angrily glared at me in the Lidl bakery aisle. Karma gonna get ya!”
We seriously had one like that once. 🙄

Very funny! 🤣