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

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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’

@NeverSurrender so far I’ve found out about five friends/relatives dying through SM. Facebook seems like the new way to notify people. I find it very upsetting. What’s wrong with picking up a phone? Have also had someone announce they have terminal cancer over FB. I understood why they did it ( felt like they couldn’t go through multiple phone calls explaining the same thing to a large friendship group) but still felt it was an odd choice and obviously a huge shock to see it as that mornings status update. I guess everyone handles things differently. The new age of social media...

There's someone I follow on Instagram, we're both a fan of the same boy band, but almost everything she posts is to do with them. It could be collages, a dream she's had about them, how nervous she is about travelling to see them, loads of stuff. She even writes (terrible) fan fiction where she's created this whole alter ego for herself where she's married to one of the band. If she comments on a post one of them has made and they like it, she takes screenshots and posts them with #grateful. It's actually ridiculous but somehow I can't bring myself to unfollow.....

[quote Smellycat54]**@SemiFeralDalek I have plenty of compassion. I understand the reasons for doing it. But to me it's a highly sensitive, personal thing. I would perhaps want to share those photos with friends and family if they asked to see them. Not unsuspecting people on Facebook who I'm not close to or haven't seen in years.

People agreed earlier that sharing a picture of a dead relative in a coffin was wrong. So how is this different.

Each to their own but I don't think I lack in compassion when I say I don't expect to see corpses on my timeline [/quote]

That is a good point about posting other dead relatives. But at the same time it's not like taking a picture of a miscarriage and clots, it's literally her 2nd trimester baby who was born early.

As @SemiFeralDalek said, if it's traumatic for others, imagine ever it's like for her. The picture is presumably taken in a posed, hospital environment not a casket (which would be very distasteful to post).

I have lots of FB friends who always 'check in' at A&E or the walk in clinic. Cue a list of concerned friends saying 'you ok hun?' and 'what's up hun?' She then replies 'pmd you hun'. Surely if she has pmd them they can already see it, so why tell them she's done it?

I have a relative that comments on every bloody post she sees. Even the viral ones along the lines of '10 places to see before you die.' sort of thing.
She then invariably gets into a bunfight with some randoms who are clearly trolls. It's like she feels that she has to reply to every post she gets on her feed.

She's also terrible for replying to local FB groups with spectacularly unhelpful advice. For example:
'Can anyone in the local area recommend a plasterer?'
Relative: 'Have you tried Google?'

another one...

'Does anyone know where I can get my car serviced reasonably?'

Relative: ' I don't drive but there's a lovely butchers on Fruitcake Drive.'
She's bonkers.

K I'm Gona admit to one I posted myself. about 10 years ago when I was 25 I had a new BF I thought was so hot. I don't know why I did this but I posted on his page:

"Can't wait for you to come home and I'll sit on your face"

OH MY GOD. I still cringe thinking about it. I have no idea why i did this. Also, my brother saw it argh getting heart palpitations just thinking about it.
I don't have FB any more!!!

I'm all for social media being stuff that makes you happy, a picture you like or just something nice happening. But the attention-seeking stuff gets my dander right up.

This includes the friend who posted a full frontal picture of her muff on SM, because she thinks we need to talk about pubic hair more.

WHY?

@GrannyWeatherwaxsHatpin

I'm all for social media being stuff that makes you happy, a picture you like or just something nice happening. But the attention-seeking stuff gets my dander right up.

This includes the friend who posted a full frontal picture of her muff on SM, because she thinks we need to talk about pubic hair more.

WHY?

Your friend is an absolute pube 😂😂

@ChocolateChipMuffin2016

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.

Yes! I’ve got a couple of friends who do “pole dancing for fitness”. I’m sure it’s great exercise but posting photos of yourself hanging round a pole is just showing off.

FWIW I also feel the same about strava-run brags etc

Nothing as bad as some of these!

Mainly people who have found out their other half has cheated and they plaster what they’ve done in their status, naming the guy and sometimes the woman he’s been cheating with etc.

I’m always baffled by those angry ‘he/she has cheated’ posts. Like if my OH had cheated on me, I’d feel humiliated enough, without sharing it with my entire Facebook network!

I have a Facebook friend who not only posts pictures of every dinner but also shares memories of past dinners!!

@Chocolatebiscuitcollection

All the instagrammers who pimp out their children for likes/cash. I saw one recently, came up unasked for on my FB feed: a Dad chatting to his little son on the potty. All the comments underneath "Aww how adorable" "Great Dad" "Cute little guy". I felt like the only person in the world who couldn't not see how awful this was. Not lighthearted.

Oh god yes, totally relate. There's an instagrammer who has a zillion followers for her son bossbabybrody - a 5 yr old. She's really upping the ante and he increasingly dances in a highly sexualised manner. She claims he's a happy kid but all I see is that he is living his life being filmed and being obsessed with performing to camera. And not a single voice of descent. All "aww, how adorable" etc etc. Shocking/depressing. And worse, I'm not a follower, but every now and then I have to check to reinforce my disbelief! Complicit!

Someone I know posts every day pictures of her sweaty face and updates of her visit to the gym, later on photos of her meals (some of them look like a dogs dinner) so why bother?

Also lots of photos of her younger Daughter and videos but nothing much of her older Daughter, blatant favouritism.

It’s just all seems to much and perhaps needy.

[quote Poorlykitten]@NeverSurrender so far I’ve found out about five friends/relatives dying through SM. Facebook seems like the new way to notify people. I find it very upsetting. What’s wrong with picking up a phone? Have also had someone announce they have terminal cancer over FB. I understood why they did it ( felt like they couldn’t go through multiple phone calls explaining the same thing to a large friendship group) but still felt it was an odd choice and obviously a huge shock to see it as that mornings status update. I guess everyone handles things differently. The new age of social media...[/quote]
This is a really judgy post. Why do you think anyone in this situation would want to ring and give you the news personally? Presumably if you were very close you would already know; if not then it's a perfectly reasonable way to share the news. If you think someone sad life event is TMI you've probably got too many social media friends.

A friend who is VERY VERY political constantly slates amazon as the sole route of all poverty and inequailties and people should be ashamed supporting such a corrupt organisation

She popped up on local FB group asking if anyone had seen her amazon parcel thats been delivered to wrong address .

Twats trick i know but copied one of her post/rants and put probperly heard you were slagging them off lol . she didn't find it funny

People who are seemingly always ill and have to post about it. I'm not talking about long term, chronic illness but those who are always at death's door from a cold, headache, the shits etc. They'd probably feel less ill if they stopped dwelling on it and posting about how 'I've never felt so ill in my life' after having a bit of a snotty nose!

Oh and the 'I'm so fat and disgusting and here's a photo of me looking amazing in my underwear to prove it' posts.
And the undersharers - 'I've had enough/I can't take it any more' type posts so that everyone asks if you're ok (hun) so you tell them you'll pm them (babe). Attention seeking lot 😂

Anyone who 'checks in' at a hospital, with no further detail. Waiting for all the 'are you ok?' 'what's happened?' comments. Sad.

A friend always posts happy birthday and happy anniversary to his wife, who doesn't have a Facebook account.....bit odd. A couple of times one of his friends as responded saying "didn't think wife'sname was on FB mate" lol. He's a lovely bloke in every other way though so I don't unfriend him. Some of the stuff I read here would definitely lead to unfriending by me.

My in laws do the "checked in at K and C hospital" thing which is annoying and occasionally worrying. Either say what's wrong or (preferably) say nothing.

A friend of a friends mum tagged every family member in a check in post with the caption 'Bill tried to kill himself again, waiting to be seen ' The worst was a year later when she shared the memory of the event!

Oh and one friend posts up her latest Hey Gousto dinner frequently. I unfollowed her. It just makes me realize that I actually know how to cook, and you should really learn. Wonder if she's getting paid by them....

Ewwwwww🤢🤢🤢

DD says her cousin has been sharing post sex bed photos on insta since she was 16

One of the school mums keeps posting photos of her and her new boyfriend side by side in bed, clearly naked under the duvet. I don't need to see that and then see her in the playground the next day!

Also one of my friends keeps posting every little detail of her very frequent break ups with her boyfriend. They break up at least once a month and are never getting back together again.

I can empathise with many of these posts & its made me think that I need to leave FB, but it is useful for some of the groups I’m in.
The posts that used to wind me up good & proper, were by my DS’s father who used to visit DS once in a blue moon, take him for tea & post pics on FB with ‘with my boy...’ captions, which were an invite for all his deluded mates to write ‘top dad’ ‘chip off the ol’ block’ ‘he’s so handsome like his dad’ ‘such a good daddy’ ‘your boy is lucky to have you’ 🤮 The reality was far from that, but it made it look convincing that he was the doting & devoted dad! It made me cynical about any FB post.