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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’

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Pet8 · 10/05/2021 23:10

I have 3 RL friends who I'm seriously considering never meeting up with again. They are all competition with who is the sickest:
Daily Headaches/ toothaches/ earaches/ bellyaches
The checking in at GP/ hospital: going to get blood pressure done; blood test; covid jab; 'I've been put on iron tablets, painkillers, laxatives'. These are all people who are 50+.
Oh all T2 diabetic too and post photos of cakes then wonder why their blood sugar is through the roof.

MamaWeasel · 10/05/2021 23:11

Don't get me started on the mlm (body shop at home) ......she's a lovely girl but there are limits. I don't need to see selfies of her in the bath plugging whatever special offer is on today. Angry

LiveatCityHall · 10/05/2021 23:11

@squashyhat

One of my FB friends is an extreme (as in follow-him-around-the-country) Marti Pellow fan. He posts something on his FB page and she replies like it's a personal chat. I can't count the number of selfies she's posted with him. So cringe.
I have a friend who is like this with Tim Minchen. I've now unfollowed her (for other reasons) but its so cringe worthy. Every post he puts on FB is shared by her, selfies, Facebook memories of selfies and when she last saw him. Its relentless!!
QueenPaw · 10/05/2021 23:11

@SugarbabyMilly I set up a page for my cat. Now if I don't post on it, I get messages asking when the cat will be back on FB Hmm
"Hang on, he's charging his iPad"

Wincarnis · 10/05/2021 23:13

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

igotdemons · 10/05/2021 23:14

@1AngelicFruitCake

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
You’ve just reminded me of a FB friend I’ve got that does the same! Posts that she’s still awake at 2am and can’t sleep (trying putting your phone down then!), endless posts about how she’s done 5 loads of washing today, mopped the bathroom floor etc. It’s endless drivel of a nature nobody is interested in and then she wonders why no one interacts with her except her DMum! 🙄
GreenTeaPingPong · 10/05/2021 23:15

@JustMarriedAndLovingIt

I saw someone announce that they had genital warts and tag not one but two people they thought they may have caught it from 😬😬😂😂
Shock Shock Shock I mean it's bad enough announcing that, but publicly tagging people?!!
Talkwhilstyouwalk · 10/05/2021 23:20

@Wincarnis

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

Think this one wins!

Hardbackwriter · 10/05/2021 23:20

Someone I went to school with posted on Facebook thanking her mum for her lovely gift of new bedding, including a picture of her bed which revealed that her and her husband have a series of 'sexy' photos of them naked hanging above their bed Confused. I imagine her mum was the last person who wanted to see that (I was a close second)

Talkwhilstyouwalk · 10/05/2021 23:22

Anything that follows with #blessed

Msfoxy17 · 10/05/2021 23:22

I know someone who's forever posting pics of her dinners with a little "#foodporn" at the end. Makes me cringe so much I had to snooze her indefinitely.
It's not foodporn it's just another bloody meal...

Pet8 · 10/05/2021 23:22

I have a neighbour also. She has about 4 or 5 kids. She's fought with her ex boyfriend on several occasions for everyone to see. She absolutely battered another neighbour in front of the whole street. She was accusing the other girl of stealing her bag of cocaine. Ripped the girl's hair extensions out, karate kicked her in the face.
She walks around in a scabby, bleachy bathrobe all day. Her house permanently has a board over a different smashed window or broken furniture stacked outside.
Last year I stumbled on her Facebook page. She is a "fashun modle" and "singa". There were numerous beach shots in bikinis and beauty pageants with sashes and crowns.
We couldn't stop laughing.
Even now when I see her tangled, knotty hair and that dirty bathrobe I wonder did I imagine that fb profile? Shock

Catforaheadrest · 10/05/2021 23:23

I have a few who over share constantly about health. Hardly unusual or worth mentioning, but a PP has reminded me of the thing that makes my teeth itch... repeatedly posting about going for a “lumber puncher”. 😬
It’s happened so many times, I really really thought they would have got the right name by now!

MaraScottie · 10/05/2021 23:24

I have a friend who has a parenting/lifestyle Insta account and there's nothing dramatic that she shares in particular, it's just the insane volume of it! I literally know everything about her life, I mean, it's insane really.

I know what her bedroom looks like
Her entire home and decor
Her kids, what they do, what they play with
Where she goes on holidays and all her previous holidays
What she reads and watches on tv
What plants she has in her house
How she met her husband
All the exercise and walks they do, usually updated daily
What she does for work
What her medical history is, in detail
What she cooks and eats with her family
Her days out and trips and walks in the park
All visits to local cafes and restaurants are tagged
I've seen her wedding photos, her holiday photos, her baby scan photos
I've seen charity events she's done
I could go on ... literally everything she does, eats, buys or does is updated or shared in some way.

Does anyone else not think this amount of oversharing on a public forum is weird! I feel uncomfortable knowing this much about her tbh, I don't know that much about my own sister ffs.

Talkwhilstyouwalk · 10/05/2021 23:28

Another good one.....

Any recommendations for a good cleaner?

Seen this quite a few times. Translates as 'Get me, I can afford a cleaner.'

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 10/05/2021 23:28

One girl I know posts every 5 minutes with status updates that have included, most notably, a selfie of her meditating with her eyes closed (very prettily, of course).

I'm sure I remember reading ages ago about some sadsack from a long time ago who dedicated his life to writing a diary - only he didn't summarise the most interesting events of the day in a couple of sentences, he added a new entry every 10 minutes or so. Quite often, all he had was "Passed a good, firm stool and approximately a pint and a quarter of urine". I think he thought he was genuinely adding valuably to the world's information mine 'for the ages'. Sad, really, as he probably wanted to leave a priceless memoir for his loved ones to remember him by, but I bet, as soon as he died, they said "Euw, that's minging!" and chucked it straight into the fire Thank goodness this was long before FB existed. Ironically, people like this rarely have time to do anything exciting, as they're using up all their time cataloguing the boring, rubbish things.

However, this is far from a new thing, just because FB is now the preferred medium. Surely it's nothing more than a more modern (and frequent) twist on the classic Janet & Roy letters?! They have a whole year's fascinating activities to draw from, yet still only apparently have an ingrowing toenail 'incident' or particularly good carvery lunch to regale you with.

It's a surreal yet beautiful image, though, to think of all these wild French parties characterised by dreamers chilling and partaking in casual illegal suppository use. Crack is just a name for the drug itself, not how you're meant to take it Grin

Xmasbaby11 · 10/05/2021 23:31

A school parent often posts around how bored / tired / rough she's feeling, together with photos of her looking dog rough. Also close up photos of her rashes / infections / latest tattoos. Just grim!

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 10/05/2021 23:31

Any recommendations for a good cleaner?

"Cillit Bang - or Toilet Duck, if you're feeling particularly flush (hohoho)!"

LoisWilkersonslastnerve · 10/05/2021 23:31

I have someone who posts an update almost hourly, the most mundane thingsConfused
Start work at 8am today....
Hmm tea break
Leaving the office now
A photo of her dinner
A goodnight post....

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 10/05/2021 23:35

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

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Shields_(diarist)

ketchuponpizza · 10/05/2021 23:43

@JustMarriedAndLovingIt

I saw someone announce that they had genital warts and tag not one but two people they thought they may have caught it from 😬😬😂😂
A-MAZE-ING
LoisWilkersonslastnerve · 10/05/2021 23:44

That is actually oddly fascinating! If you're going to bore us to death, at least give it 100%Grin

ZednotZee · 10/05/2021 23:47

Not FB friends of mine but FOF with a public profile no less;
Shared photos of herself standing next to her sister's corpse with her other siblings gathered around the open coffin in the Chapel of rest. The poor dead woman's face was obscured with this emoji 😪

I was quite literally agog!

Nats1984 · 10/05/2021 23:55

Oh. I think maybe I over share a little . I get excited about things that happen with my kids and I have an illness which means if I’ve had a good day , the house looks great and the dinner looks good and I have achieved something with my degree. To be honest though, it comes more from a place of ‘letting the family know you’re hanging in there’ and a personal sense of achievement saved for posterity. I hope it comes across like that . Also my babies are cute and my art is kinda cool given the regular shitstorm of my health and actual daily suffering that is my life 🤷🏼‍♀️

Mamanyt · 10/05/2021 23:55

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!

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