The worst cases of oversharing you’ve seen on social media (lighthearted)

[Anon778833]

In my case a friend of mine took a picture of a bunch of tissues on her bedside table and posted it onto FB with the caption ‘The sign of a good night. I’m shagged’.

Also on Facebook - guy posts a picture of his back, covers in scratches with the caption ‘no wonder she’s pregnant’

My inlaws go on holiday with friends quite often (pre-covid obvs) and when FiL 'checks in' to a bar/restaurant etc. he tags the people they are with. So, being FB friends with all those people means I see that one post 4 times. But then MiL will do a 'check in' as well, tagging everyone else. And then their friends do it too. So I get 16 posts of the same thing cluttering up my newsfeed at least twice a day throughout a fortnight holiday. I unfollowed all of them during their last holiday and its stayed that way. Very peaceful now.

This thread is brilliant, I am pissing myself!

I might have kept FB if I had any friends, acquaintances like those on this thread.

I have a friend who sadly had a late miscarriage around 19 weeks. She posts photo of the little foetus all the time. Nearly every week there is a full photo. I feel sorry for her, I had two myself. This was 8 years ago snd she still posts pictures and poems. I don’t think she should be doing this as she knows it upsets a lot of people as lots of people have complained and blocked her.

The thing that annoys me is people oversharing pictures/updates of their toddlers/young children on SM. I have a friend whose toddler got rushed to hospital seriously ill and she was posting updates throughout - I don’t understand it. Also I think these pictures etc. are around forever and I wouldn’t appreciate it if people could pull up pictures of me in the bath when I was a toddler, so I’m sure our children won’t thank us either.

Mum from school who posts pics of her kids with the caption ‘I wish they were this small’ most days. The thing is she now shows photos from a few years ago saying the same thing, when she was complaining then they weren’t young enough then.

She also puts on hugely unflattering photos of her kids with their mouths full of food. She will then post that her eldest has asked her to take them off.

My BIL/SIL are self employed. 10 years ago I suggested they use FB to advertise their businesses and they told me I didn’t know what I was talking about (marketing is part of my job). They’ve done it in lockdown but all they do is share each other’s pages on each on their private FB pages with small number of friends . They don’t want help from me though.

@Laufeythejust

I had a friend that every time we were both single we would send flirty texts to each other but it never really went much further. His ex girlfriend posted a picture on Facebook of her sucking his toe, I can’t think of him now without thinking of that picture. Flirty texts most definitely won’t ever happen again.

Just what? That's crazy behaviour right there. The toe, not the cessation of flirty texts.

Came back for the responses and wasn't disappointed 😄

Also have a couple more to add:
Friend who posts every little thing her dc does. The dc is 2 and does basically nothing but she claims they are wild... yesterday's 4 paragraph hilarious story can summarised as 'dc walked into a room then walked back out. DH said "oh hello" and guess what?! DC had walked back into the room!!'. 25 photos that one got.

The MLM hunbots sharing every piece of their day with that sickening fake positivity, dozens and dozens of posts of how #blessed they are.... which almost always abruptly end when they realise what a tit they've been 😂

Friend announced on FB when her teenage daughter lost her virginity.

@Whitchurch

Friend announced on FB when her teenage daughter lost her virginity.

Wtf? The poor girl. I've seen some over sharing of dcs 'achievements' but this takes the biscuit.

In my circle of friends, once dc become tweens/teens it's generally bad form to share anything about them on SM.

Love this thread & have to admit I love the actual oversharers sometimes, it's replaced my guilty secret of being a Jeremy Kyle Show fan. Oh how I miss it

Lots of things I cringe at mentioned except the people obsessed with selfies...lots of people do these kinda selfies below & I don't get it...

Selfies of:

• the same picture daily in the same place. Just a different outfit
• the same pic but about 10 of them at the same time
• half naked ones/ones in bed
• a caption which in no way relates to the selfie image

It's nice to share the odd pic but I find the above ways attention seeking & weird

@OwlIceCrem

I don't like the feet on a sunlounger post, or in a bath or feet... I hate feet 🤢 a nice holiday picture yes but not your feet...it's been done a million times.

I particularly don't like the over filtered pictures so no lines or wrinkles then stupid dog/cat/rabbit ears (are they 12), with the gushing comments about how gorgeous/amazing they look... barely recognise them in the picture though. Own your own true beauty

Oooh a young lad who shared that he was HIV positive.

Well, good for him. Its a long term condition and he doesn't need to feel ashamed of it.

Omg I’ve seen a few!

One girl who was in my NCT was CONSTANTLY posting about her child and “mums night out” etc and now re-shares as memories.

Another girl from school posts attention seeking posts all the time. Usually checking in at the hospital with her kids and posting pics of her kids in hospital beds (kids fine, nothing serious) for world to see. Yes of course I have sympathy if you’re taking your child to hospital for whatever reason as must be such a worry as a parent BUT does your poor kid want it plastered ALL over FB?!

@Wincarnis

Someone I know posted a pic of her Mum - dead, in a coffin

🤣 and I bet everyone was ahhhhh, you poor love, etc, instead of WTAF you sicko?!

I really really REALLY hate it when people post "heartwarming" videos of strong emotional reactions their elderly relatives have been tricked into (e.g. surprising them with digitally animated photos of a deceased spouse), or talking to them on their death beds, or sharing a joke through their dementia.

What's even worse is all the appreciative comments, as though it is not utterly disgusting to exploit people's dignity like this just for attention on social media. Ugh.

@Smellycat54

An old school friend split up with her kids father and wrote over fb about how abusive he was to her and the kids. How he assaulted them all and how her kids were so scared of their dad. Then she got back with him and had another

How can you expect people to just forget that you've said that?

People posting graphic details of their IBS issues.

People posting pictures of their sick kids online. Because we all want to be photographed and splashed over social media while we look and feel shit.

The mind boggles.

You've just reminded me. A group of people I am "friendly with" but not friends attended a group together that I also attended. We got friendly enough to add on Facebook over the course of a year and would always chat and gossip amongst the group etc. All very friendly and fun. These women have known each other from school. A couple are family and some have similar age children at school together for years etc and most live within a couple of streets of each other. V close.

After about 16months I leave the group and within a few months the entire destruction of this group is being played out on Facebook. One person had had a birthday party and invited the family member but not anyone else. They all ended up at the same place at the same time (without being aware of it at first) and it all kicked off. These 30 to 40 something women were really going at it and at each other on Facebook with long rambling posts how awful they were for excluding people etc etc. Old arguments and rumbles got dragged into it, abuse was directed at husbands, children were insulted, long kept secrets were aired, someone's husband was outed as doing something you'd not want airing, opinions they'd held about each other or their parenting /husbands all came out in great detail and the group fractured in many different ways afterwards and to this day are not friends as a whole. For some you were talking 10/20 years of friendship too!

It was quite something to behold and all played out on the theatre of Facebook. Their entire friends list, especially if they had the entire group, know intimate and excruciatingly private details of each of their lives now

[quote WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll]Check out this bloke I mentioned earlier - I've seen he actually has a Wikipedia page!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shields_(diarist)[/quote]
Wow!

Interesting that he thought discontinuing his diary would be like "turning off his life."

Humans must have a deep need to be seen in order to exist.

My Dsis constantly over shares. Everything in her life, relationships with her children's fathers. We have photos in hospital, cannulas, scars, catheter bag, stomach swollen covered in iodine. She just craves attention good or bad.

Just here for advice... I had a lipoma removed and the surgeon kindly took a photo of it for me. Shall I not put it on my instagram feed?

DH has a niece who over shares. The random food and interior design posts, we can handle. The "I've got the runs" posts, less so!

@ZednotZee

Oooh a young lad who shared that he was HIV positive.

Well, good for him. Its a long term condition and he doesn't need to feel ashamed of it.

Well said - it can be really difficult to tell people seeing that the stigma related to it still exists. People living with HIV tell others to help lessen the sense of shame that can be associated with having the virus. They might be looking for a positive reaction and some support. Some people never tell another living soul other than their HIV clinic.

The correct response is to thank them for sharing, especially if it’s a potential new relationship.

I really really REALLY hate it when people post "heartwarming" videos of strong emotional reactions their elderly relatives have been tricked into (e.g. surprising them with digitally animated photos of a deceased spouse), or talking to them on their death beds, or sharing a joke through their dementia

Agreed. I saw a video of an elderly chap who was given a cushion with a photo of his late wife on it. His initial joy soon turned to strong grief emotions and it felt voyeuristic to carry on watching him. These videos should be shared with close family and friends only, or better still not video at all and just live the moment while you're in it.

I also dislike those videos where couples have had twins but told family and friends they were having one baby, or in some cases not even told anyone they were pregnant and presenting a baby. I know that's their perogative but to share a video of loved ones 'reactions' is cruel. The whole ruse is simply to get the video!

I've told my dc not to video me when they tell me they're pregnant or whatever. I don't want to feel like I have to 'act' a certain way or have my reaction plastered everywhere.

@Mamanyt

This is going to sound trivial to some of you, but...photos of beautiful young children standing in front of their homes with house numbers clearly visible, and the city and state (in US) as public information. It seems to me to be an invitation to pedophiles.

Same thing at a different level with posting photos of yourself on vacation doing wonderful things with notes like, "I can't believe we have to go home next week!" Invitation to thieves to come and empty your house out!

Yep, a friend of mine was burgled after posting on FB that he was abroad for the weekend. His insurance wouldn't pay a thing as he hadn't taken all the necessary measures to protect his property.

I've only had one, her toddler did a poo on the window sill, complete with photo

Someone I know is in a new relationship, he is in his 30’s and his partner is older. We have to hear about Daddy and Cub all the time, worst was a picture of Daddy in speedos with what a lucky cub he is! Also any snogging photos from anyone, one person you could even see the tongue action. I could almost understand 13 year olds but 40/50 year olds

On a serious note someone I know lost a baby quite late in the pregnancy. She posted a lot of pictures of him on fb. I understand this could be an expression of grief but it was very upsetting and possibly very triggering for some people to see they unexpectedly while scrolling Facebook. I think some things need to be kept private.