Do you post pictures of your hols on SM?

[travelmadmum23]

Just this really, do you post pics once you are home? Do you not bother?

I like to document my travels via SM and blogging but this year I am hesitant as it has caused some tension within the wider family.

Hubby says - don't bother
I say - why shouldn't we post the occasional pic (not in a braggy way or anything)

Yes you are right @OMGitsnotgood. I just feel there is a lot of envy and division these days, so I send my holiday pix only to my close family. I also don't post pix of my DC or DH online anyway because they don't like it.

The books posts do draw a lot of interesting reccos, though.

I also find it a really helpful and useful way for getting travel recommendations from friends.

I like seeing my friends enjoying life, and it inspires me to take trips of my own (as most of my and my friends' trips are hobby/sports related). It doesn't have to be expensive or flashy - even a camping weekend or a day out is nice to see and share with friends.

Anyone who thinks that sharing photos of a trip is bragging can fuck off. They obviously aren't my friend so I'll happily delete them from my social media.

(Obviously I don't go overboard - a few highlights of enjoyable days are all that's needed and I certainly don't post photos of what I'm eating and drinking - why would anyone be interested in that?).

Just a small selection like 6 photos. Some of my friends post over 100 for each holiday!

I am interested in what division it caused in your family group, OP, because I have also had experience of that.

Same!

To those who say its cringey / bragging / pathetic etc.... Why are you even on social media if you hate the idea of people sharing photos of what they've been up to? Seriously - what's the point?

I totally understand not wanting to be on SM and not engaging with it. I'm on very little SM myself.

I also understand enjoying SM, sharing things and getting pleasure from seeing what others have shared.

But I have no idea why someone would be on SM purely for the purpose of bitching and sneering about the fact that the people they have 'friended' (who they obviously don't like, so they can't actually be friends!) have posted some holiday snaps.

What small, nasty lives such people must lead. And yet they say the people posting photos are the pathetic ones?

No. I find it pathetic when others do.

How do you get from someone showing something nice they've done / something they have enjoyed, to it 'being pathetic' ?

Don't you like seeing your friends doing something nice ?
Why not ?

Why are you on social media, if you don't want to see your friends and family enjoying a day out, a party, or, in this case, a holiday ?

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Yes, a few, and I like seeing others' photos. It's nice to see what your friends and acquaintances are up to, even if they're people you wouldn't necessarily message regularly.

I do wonder though, if people think posting holiday photos is bragging, what do they post to social media? Because surely anything you post that's nice is a brag, in that case?

I wouldn’t, I will send close friends/family pics, but never post on social media, why on earth would anyone be remotely interested on where I have been on holiday!

Never

I don't either. I just use it to wish people Happy Birthday.

Yes. I post pics of days out, holidays, birthdays, random stuff. I don't go on holiday every year, and not abroad, just cheap caravan holidays or camping, so I'm not sure what's to brag about. Days out are usually walks or bike rides.

I love to see friends holiday pics, kids pics, pets pics etc. That's why I'm friends with them, because I like them and am interested in their lives.

If my friends have been on fantastic holidays abroad I don't think them posting holidays is bragging or cringe.

I usually post at the end of the day, so I'm not on social media all day posting.

I do and I love seeing my friends and family’s holiday pictures too. One of my favourite things on SM.

I feel dirty about wanting to post my holiday pics - ashamed that I want to brag. Yet when I look at other people’s holiday photos, it’s never my first though that they are bragging. I just enjoy seeing their pictures and being updated on their lives.

I like to see a couple of decent interesting snaps but a whole badly composed photo dump. I don't see it as bragging generally but with some people it is. I am really not a fan of the 'I'm eating dinner' pics. Not interesting and usually bragging that they are out somewhere.

No, as the last few holidays were expensive ones we took loans out for (Eurodisney twice and also Italy) and I know a lot of people who couldn’t afford them and I’d say secretly some of my family are judging us as we’ve had money troubles in the past. I have sent a few pics to dedicated people on WhatsApp though

Yes, and I love seeing friends’ holiday photos too. Anyone who finds them (or any of my other posts) unpalatable is obviously welcome to unfollow/unfriend me.

I do, I don't think it's bragging and I love to see what my friends have been up to (tho not many post). When I posted pics of my holiday loads of people specifically said to me 'I loved seeing your pics'. Presumably if they found it braggy they would have kept quiet. There's a right load of crap on social media, the only bits I enjoy are seeing what friends are doing, that's what it should be for!
I also do it partly for my own benefit because I love looking at the 'on this day' memories.

This is so sad. If a friend of mine had previously had money troubles and was now able to afford nice holidays, I'd think "Good for them!"

If there are people in your life who would judge you for going out and enjoying life now that you're able to, ditch them.

I really enjoy seeing photos of peoples’ travels. An ex-colleague posted his pictures at the New Orleans Jazz Festival last week. A place I’d love to visit. So it was so nice to see him having fun there, in his retirement.

I normally post a few pictures of our holiday and say what the highlights were. Normally at the airport or Eurotunnel terminal on the way home.

I feel a little nervous about advertising I’m on holiday for two weeks, in case a friend breaks into our house to steal our legendary cat.

Yes, I wait till we’re home then have a good sort out and just put the best ones up. Not with the DC in, just places, I love taking landscape type photos, those are mainly what I post when I’m at home too, beautiful places can be found everywhere, I am in various local photo groups.

I love seeing other people's holiday photos too, so inspiring and I love looking at photos of beautiful places and hearing how much they’ve enjoyed themselves. It is nothing like the 70s slide show where you were forced to sit through the whole thing, you can very easily choose not to look. If anyone is so miserable that they cringe or think it’s pathetic they are welcome to unfollow.

No, I don’t put any photos on SM.

Yes I do, simply because it's the easiest way for me to save my photos in one place, and I've got older relatives who enjoy seeing nice photos of the seaside.

I couldn't give a shiny shit what anyone else thinks of my photos but tbh I only have close friends and family on fb anyway.