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

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Anon778833 · 10/05/2021 16:58

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’

Grin
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Lightswitchesoffatnight · 10/05/2021 22:31

My friend posted a photo of her child’s potty and her dog, with the words “Dog just ate Johnny’s poo”.

KillerFlamingo · 10/05/2021 22:31

Urgh, the boudoir shoots! Please stop, they should be for a private audience only!
Even if you have a nice body, they just look ridiculous. (And the last friend who posted her "sexy shoot" pics, I was cringing so bad for her Blush)

Another friend films her HIIT workout every damn morning and posts it on Facebook Confused (I assume she still does, I snoozed her)

AdriannaP · 10/05/2021 22:32

@Runway Performance love! Haha I love it!

I always think the more gushing the post, the worst the relationship must be. Never felt the need to do a gushing post about my DP or Dc. Also they are not on social media 🤣

Talkwhilstyouwalk · 10/05/2021 22:33

Naked, uncensored photos of their children in the bath. I mean seriously.....how stupid can you be....anyone could see them. I really hate it when people don't protect their child or their child's dignity. Can't stand pics of babies covered in poo either, it's so unfair on the poor child.

kleew1 · 10/05/2021 22:34

Me. After I had my DD and basically getting my tit out wherever and talking about breast feeding a lot. Not in a high and mighty way but just non details details.

Always remember DP talking to work friend and wife who came to visit and I had to go breast feed. Oversharing convo and looking back I now want to die for them having to politely nod.

SGChome20 · 10/05/2021 22:34

I hate the Facebook memory ones! I didn’t care for your post the first time around, I certainly don’t care 3 years later!!

treehearts · 10/05/2021 22:34

@TillyTopper it's true 😂 my French FIL loves telling stories from his youth involving suppositories up the bum 😂 luckily, he's not into Social media.

1AngelicFruitCake · 10/05/2021 22:36

The most unnecessary posts:
I feel sick, I’m bored, I’ve had a smear, I was up twice in the night (all examples from this week) then re-posted as Facebook memories over next few years 🤔 so each day consists of a new post, plus lots of remembered memories

MrsDoctorDear · 10/05/2021 22:36

The sleeping ones! Ha ha total plum lying there taking 50 shots with their eyes closed to get one 'realistic' one. The shame of it.

Laufeythejust · 10/05/2021 22:37

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.

Rejoiningperson · 10/05/2021 22:39

When I was with my Ex and we had a child together. His Ex Wife posted a picture of herself trying on the wedding dress she’d got married to him in, in her living room. Just why?!

CovoidOfAllHumanity · 10/05/2021 22:40

Facebook memory of a smear test Confused you really would have thought some things were better forgotten

wotchhha · 10/05/2021 22:41

A friend had posted a photo of her daughter in an ambulance on the way to hospital with the caption “not how I was expecting to spend Friday night”- no clue given as to the severity of the illness/injury.

Why would you even think to get your phone out? I called an ambulance for my dc, I was so worried it just wouldn't even cross my mind.

AbstractHeart · 10/05/2021 22:42

Increasingly incoherent rants over several days, followed by friends posting RIP messages Sad

CovoidOfAllHumanity · 10/05/2021 22:48

My other BIL (not the dog shit guy) is fond of soppy posts about his wife which tbh are nearly as cringe inducing

A nice picture of his wife but accompanied by captions like
'Ah isn't she gorgeous?'
'Still the most beautiful girl in the world'
'I am such a lucky guy'

It makes you feel a bit voyeuristic
I mean does he really want all his mates to reply and say that yes she is hot and they'd be happy to oblige if he was ever feeling in a sharing mood??

Plus I know that the reality is not a complete bed of roses (nothing awful, just a normal marriage where you occasionally get on each other tits)

Shehasadiamondinthesky · 10/05/2021 22:53

I over share pics of my cat but that's what Facebook is for.....isn't it?

BrownEyedGirl80 · 10/05/2021 22:53

I only have people on my Facebook that I know reasonably well.Sounds like I'm missing out having random with their drama on!

theluckiest · 10/05/2021 22:53

I know someone who runs her own business. She thinks it's OK to slag off customers on FB who've annoyed her...'really busy today. Managed to get customer booked in...they turned up late. Really fucks me off when people do this. grrrrr!!'...sort of thing.

It's SO unprofessional!! OK it's her personal FB page not the business page but I know she has customers as friends. Silly woman.

I also have a FB friend that takes 100+ photos of her weekend exploits. Trouble is, they were boring before lockdown but she's continued documenting walks round the same park every week.

And her pictures are truly dreadful. Out of focus and incredibly dull. Not sure if she realises that you can delete digital photos!!

Me and DH now play 'Let's find the most fantastically boring picture.' I won last week with a pic of an out-of-focus bin. 😆

Anon778833 · 10/05/2021 22:55

@Shehasadiamondinthesky

I over share pics of my cat but that's what Facebook is for.....isn't it?
Oh yes. Cats are the best. I can never see enough.
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TeamNegan · 10/05/2021 22:57

Someone on mine posted a picture of her child’s poo in her gloved hand saying that she’d had to fish it out of the toilet. Just why?!

Barney60 · 10/05/2021 22:59

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?

Anon778833 · 10/05/2021 22:59

[quote AdriannaP]@Runway Performance love! Haha I love it!

I always think the more gushing the post, the worst the relationship must be. Never felt the need to do a gushing post about my DP or Dc. Also they are not on social media 🤣[/quote]
Yep ‘I can’t believe I have such a wonderful wife’

1 month later he cheated on her with a hooker. True story.

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FrenchBoule · 10/05/2021 23:01

Off to A&E - picture of teen’s elbows and knees as he’s fallen off the bike on tarmac

Picture of vomit at the back of the pick up truck to prove how shitfaced she was when her DH picked her up

Bragging what fantastic anal sex she’s had with her hubba.

Stupid and attention seeking

FrenchBoule · 10/05/2021 23:04

Awww, how lovely her doggie is and how well he managed to gut the mouse on her new carpet (bloody innards of mouse all strewn over the carpet)

Doggie bum sledging on the sofa- the same sofa she tried to sell on fb from “pet free home”

igotdemons · 10/05/2021 23:10

I have a friend who has turned to MLM whilst being furloughed. It’s a skincare brand and although she’s only been using it for a short time, keeps posting ‘before’ and ‘after’ pictures of her face, claiming that she now looks younger since using their ‘fantastic products’! I can’t tell the difference between the pictures as her skin looks the same in both and we all know that it takes months rather than a couple of weeks to get the full effect of new skincare! 😳🙄

I have another friend who completely over shares to the point where she will dedicate a status update to someone she doesn’t know who pissed her off on a thread somewhere else on Facebook! 😳 Today she’s been slagging her DSis and DMum off, ‘due their behaviour’ when she last saw them and blatantly admitting that she was abusive to her DMum on the telephone, including ‘swearing at her’! 😮 What she doesn’t seem to realise is her behaviour on FB is no better than the behaviour she is accusing her relatives of! She does this a lot though, plays the victim etc. and then laps up peoples sympathetic comments to keep the drama going. I really don’t know why I’m friends with her! 🤦🏻‍♀️