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’

A close friend’s husband who posts intimate details of his frequent operations. That’s bad enough but he shared recently that he’d had his ‘bum hole now stitched up good and tight.’

In defence of people posting smear tests and Covid vaccines, people in public health education encourage this type of sharing precisely because it means you see it as a normal activity that everyone is doing - part of fighting back against misinformation and conspiracy theories.

And in defence of mundane diaries. From a historical perspective, there's all sorts of things we don't know about the past because ideas considered too boring to record so the odd boring diary can be amazingly valuable. I think I draw the line at 10minute updates though - at what point do you start recording that you have been recording that you were recording your day....

I am also mightily glad that I don't know anyone who shares poo/vomit/naked photos!

I saw someone post a selfie of them, their wife and newborn baby. She had had a c section and looked awful-broken even-only half awake and very obviously in pain. I was thinking how much I would murder him when I started to feel 'myself'

A shit filled potty, tagging the child’s dad in the photo. 💩

A girl I was at school with regularly posts about the digestive symptoms she gets from ulcerative colitis, in graphic details

Then followed up by grim pics of food made for her by her boyfriend. This huge plates of processed crap, with captions about how he cares for her and makes her favourite meals.

Then followed a day or 2 later by another post about how she is shitting through the eye of a needle and back in hospital. I'm pretty sure every but her can see the two are connected.

Then a few years ago, she started posting that the boyfriend was abusive, had given her PTSD, and was posting 'challenges' people could do to raise awareness of PTSD. They were things like doing 100 push ups a day for a month - no idea at all what that was supposed to do for PTSD.
But she would then post really shitty messages about how none of her friends were doing the challenges and therefore didn't care about her, and she would remember that next time someone needed her support or help.

Then surprise, surprise, she gets back with the bloke and goes back to posting pics of the pig swill meals he makes for her with no more mention of the PTSD that was supposedly debilitating her just days earlier

I just remembered another from one of my DMum's friends who found out her DH at the time had been full on living another life with another woman - he even had another house which she went and stalked (literally hiding in the bushes, you can't make it up) and took loads of pictures of which went on Facebook with him tagged...pretty sure she'd have tagged the other woman if she had her as a friend

And in the months that followed EVERYTHING was displayed on Facebook - the confrontation, the process of divorce, her journey of losing weight and making herself look "glamorous", meeting a new boyfriend, said boyfriend moving in, loads of slushy posts/posts referring to hot sex and other kinky adventures...all interspersed with the required "what a b X was" and "can't hold me down love"

Is it weird that part of me regrets unfriending her?

Might be the people you know, I never see stuff like that.

Im in some parenting groups though and theres often funny posts about pregnancy related things like the lady recently who had to bend over and show her heamaroid to the doctor at A&E because they where 'worried about its colour'.

My friends list though is pretty normal, most over share things are the people who insist on posting about medical issues no one cares about, like yes Karen you have an infected toenail but its not that serious no I wont 'pray for you' stop acting like your dying lol.

My friend's girlfriend (who admittedly is young and very hot) posts selfies of herself looking pensive in her bra with captions such as "thinking about doing the hoovering".

I don't get it.

Call me paranoid but I don’t advertise where my kids are to weirdos

Why do you have weirdos as your friends on FB though?

I feel a lot of you have missed the point entirely. You choose who you add on SM and you choose who you look at. So endless rants about having to see things and people you hate on SM....YOU chose to friend them, YOU choose to read the updates, YOU choose your audience and your viewing.
If you don't like what you see and you are afraid of weirdos seeing your pics, it's nobodies fault but your own.

I 'take a 30 day break' from my scottish friends when it comes to elections and they go on and on about independence and Nicola Sturgeon. It bores the crap out of me. I just don't care that much about peoples policical views.

@Barney60

Food pics, yawn bloody yawn, i do not want to see or understand why anyone posts breakfast/lunch/what having for evening meal WHY??

Dont get anyone posting private business either?

Actually have a mate that does this. He was nearly 30atone and posting his meals really helped him stay accountable and lose most of that so I can’t really judge people sharing daily food updates like that. Yes he would share his binges and being open with us all that he did that really did help him to heal and remove the shame he had around food and eating

You don’t know what’s going on behind the scenes.

Keeping that record (FB is easy for that) can be super helpful for those either end of the spectrum. Trying to gain and eat better and also trying to lose weight.

Granted it’s not everyone but worth being mindful of.

I have a Facebook friend who every year without fail says "Happy one-night stand anniversary to my hubby... the night we conceived our first born".

The kid must be about 11 now. I'm sure he doesn't really want to know about that. It makes me shudder every single time she does it.

Someone I work with sppears to be a raging hypochondriac, every weekend there's cryptic little messages about her awful pain and how the dr doesn't care. Now it looks like she does have something wrong with her and she's turned the opposite way and bats off suggestions to get seen . She also had an epic slagging match on FB with her DD and DDs husband.
I have another workmate who's annoying me atm posting photos of her teen DD who obviously doesn't want to be put on her FB page anymore. There's blurred photos of her running away or putting her hand to try to cover the lens. Her mum is posting these and "lmfao at the grumpy tween"

@1forAll74

Mine is not lurid or anything, but there is a woman in my village,who posts on the community FB pages, about 4 times a week, with photo's of the sky. .with captions of,"wonderful sky today folks. " Very threatening sky today,so many low dark clouds, " perfect sky yesterday.. " cloudy and raining today. She seems to think that we don't see the same sky that she can see, in our small village.

Oh god, I post photos of the sky. Mainly sunsets, but occasionally of interesting looking clouds 😬

I just hate the click bait statuses people post, with a whole load of you ok hun questions and the op just saying I'll pm you hun. Grr!

Anyway, I had a nice late brunch of pate on toast 😋

My cousin posts almost daily pictures of her pole dancing. It's great she found an exercise she loves but she posts pictures and videos of herself dressed in essentially pants, kinky boots and a boob tube, bent over, wriggling around and then captions it with a peach emoji (not envy). If not that, then her attempts a life drawing (she's not bad tbf), but I don't go on SM to look at half naked/naked people. I've had to mute her, it put's me right off my tea.

Friday evening on Didsbury chat on Facebook when a teacher decided to tell everyone that a chil was starving in school and the headteacher had told the teacher not to feed the child so social services could see how much weight the child had lost! Talk about breaking every safeguarding rule in the book!

Not particularly oversharing, but a FOAF was warning yesterday not to approach some scarlet wasp things that, from what I remember, are toxic enough to kill a cow.
Since they are native to South America I don’t think I am going to be troubled by them in west Norfolk

FOF on my FB - her DH was decorating their bathroom, and posting photos on FB comparing grey and white grout, asking his wife which one she preferred. She was home at the time. Just shout her to the bathroom?!

Another one - woman I know with two sons, and the second one was obviously her favourite. As evidenced by her post of a photo of the 2nd boy saying "my world." Then in the comments "and Son1 too!"

I get that parents can have favourites, but it shouldn't be so obvious to people who barely know you!!

Topless photos after the gym/shower/mowing the lawn. I'm not sure I've ever seen a photo of him fully clothed.

And every single one was tagged like this: #hotgaymanhasrunnearly50miles, #hotgaymanmowingthelawn, #hotgaymanissqueakyclean, #hotgaymanlovesespresso.

I don't know if anybody has ever found his pictures via those hashtags. I don't think I'm really the target audience. He isn't that hot either.

'Hot, gay man has run nearly 50 miles'

That is so funny 🤣🤣🤣

My old window cleaner used to like a chat...I got chapter and verse about his rectal abcess
Tbf he was a nice enough bloke, cheap and cleaned all my windows and sills great, so I didn't mind really

Endless hashtags. I know a few people that follow up a post/photo with endless #hashtags.

#makingmemories is the worst

Friend of a friend, also colleague from many years ago. She is shockingly bad with money, despite having a well paid job. She's managed to reach her late 40s living in a area where it is still affordable to buy a house, and having a good income, yet still rents. She was also declared bankrupt in her 30s.
Every other post is her whinging about being broke, but then she posts pictures of her brand new Audi, or her £500 pair of boots, or her Vampire's Wife dress.
The latest drama is that her landlord is selling her house, and evicting her with a fortnights notice. She ignores any sensible advice, saying that wouldn't work for her, and drops large hints about anyone being able to put her up for a while. I feel sorry for her, as there are obviously some sort of compulsive spending issues going on there, but her social media is an absolute car crash of "look at my new £2000 handbag" and "help, I can't afford my rent this month". Sadly, with the latest drama, even the most tolerant of her friends seem to be losing patience with her.

What do people actually want to see on Facebook?

Because from what I’m reading it shouldn’t be accomplishments unless they are REALLY massive, shouldn’t be the mundanities of life, definitely not pictures of yourself that you like in case someone else thinks they’re cringe, not pics of your kid in case they grow up and get upset about having a photo of themselves shared, not food because who gives a fuck....

Mine is normally for sharing articles about women’s rights. Occasionally an cute memory of a kid.

Then when pregnant from when it was announced to birth, posted 48 times on Facebook about being pregnant in some form. Be it photos, announcements of feeling sick, cravings, it was relentless. I had a friend who did this. It was constant.

Then when the baby was born he had some serious issues and was rushed to SCBU. I mentioned it to a mutual friend and turned out she, and a huge number of her other friends, had hidden all her posts as they were getting tedious so consequently no-one knew.