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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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Nats1984 · 11/05/2021 00:03

Yes! This. Call me paranoid but I don’t advertise where my kids are to weirdos and I share my holiday snaps once we’re home, otherwise you may as well write a cheque to the local junky burglar and save yourself a new window frame.

Toddlerteaplease · 11/05/2021 00:07

A friend of mine posts about her day in minute detail. Drives me up the wall. I really felt I'd missed a trick in not announcing that I'd cleaned my glasses though. I have an iced her and it's such a relief!

Rejoiningperson · 11/05/2021 00:10

A relation posts regular ‘Share this and Jesus will pray for you’ with images of Jesus.

I have several married friends who ‘talk’ to each on FB, with ‘cute’ little ‘hey honey, fancy this cafe tomorrow?’ Just talk to each other FFS you are in the same house!

babbaloushka · 11/05/2021 00:12

A woman I know who has a very low key local craft business involving offcuts from her husbands work and is CONSTANTLY updating about the weather, how busy she is, her trip to the post office, how she's run off her feet etc.

Like, you can't be that busy because you're posting it all on bloody FaceAche!

babbaloushka · 11/05/2021 00:13

@Nats1984

Yes! This. Call me paranoid but I don’t advertise where my kids are to weirdos and I share my holiday snaps once we’re home, otherwise you may as well write a cheque to the local junky burglar and save yourself a new window frame.
Absolutely, the kids lives are on full blast online, would be so easy to track them down or use all the uncensored images for disturbing reasons. The kids also can't understand or consent to the stuff being posted when they're so young, it just seems unfair.
sadeyedladyofthelowlandsea · 11/05/2021 00:14

I admit to being entirely caught up in the ongoing drama of a FOF who posts EVERYTHING to facebook. In the last six months, she has posted at least three times a day. It started with her DH having some kind of breakdown, which she kindly shared with the entire world 'Thinking of Lee in hospital, me & DC love you so much, you'll get through this' A bit much, but ok.
A month later... she's walked out on DH and their 4 DC. She's staying in a hotel with another man. They've moved to another hotel, 'because some people found out where we were' Well, yeah. You checked in on facebook.
A week later, she & new man have a house together. And every bloody hour she was posting photos about the cup of tea he'd made her, the bin they'd bought together, how he'd put up a shower curtain, the dinner they'd had.
Two months later 'Miss my babies so much. Can't believe it's been two months. Katsu chicken for dinner!'
3 months later 'Still not seen my babies. But New Man made me these crumpets nom nom nom'
Interspersed with vaguebook 'can't believe how some people judge me' 'on way to a&e' 'u ok hun?' crap.

babbaloushka · 11/05/2021 00:16

One from today is "Second pub of the week- business of course, not pleasure" with a picture of her mardy looking husband. No one gives a shit!

She also publicly punishes her son by posting pictures of his messy room and uncleaned bathroom (shit in the toilet, visible condom wrappers in the bin). Feel so sorry for the poor kid, he hardly speaks to them since he's left home.

SemperIdem · 11/05/2021 00:17

On Facebook - “X didn’t get the GSCE’s I hoped she would but I’m still proud”. Tagged said child in the post too. The flagrant disregard for her child’s feelings haunts me.

babbaloushka · 11/05/2021 00:18

The FB life events on one of my friends page says "Lost weight- 2014" which always makes me laugh. It's one of the first things that shows up on her page.

RhubarbTea · 11/05/2021 00:21

@ZednotZee

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!

Okay, this wins everything.
Anon778833 · 11/05/2021 00:25

@SemperIdem

On Facebook - “X didn’t get the GSCE’s I hoped she would but I’m still proud”. Tagged said child in the post too. The flagrant disregard for her child’s feelings haunts me.
Oh that’s just horrid Sad
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Nats1984 · 11/05/2021 00:25

I actually share all the time, but I take ‘arty’ shots of their hands painting the canvas or them running off along the beach (dressed) . The actual full ‘aren’t I gorgeous’ birthday photos and more intimate stuff like playing in a river in their shorts are locked to family only. It’s not difficult . I share nothing I think they’d disapprove of, my oldest gets to curate anything with her in , which is funny really given the world is treated to hourly updates of her nail and hair appointments and her current mood Grin

SonicStars · 11/05/2021 00:36

I was going to say an acquaintance posting a video of her attempts to bury her placenta in her back garden but actually I think that was just the right level of sharing. It was hilarious.

Anon778833 · 11/05/2021 00:54

[quote Pinkypink]@SugarbabyMilly thank you for starting this. It has classics written all over it and made me howl.[/quote]
Me too! I haven’t laughed so much since before the pandemic 🤣🤣

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TheUnexpectedPickle · 11/05/2021 01:00

A woman I went to school with photojournaled the birth of her second child.
30 odd pics taken from her perspective, legs akimbo.
Baby in midwidwifes hands
Baby on her chest
Dad cutting cord
Placenta coming
Getting stitches
Placenta being examined
I've seen more of her privates than my own!!

Littleroundsponge · 11/05/2021 01:04

Wow, that's rough 🤢

Someone on my my Facebook posted a photo of their toddlers poo in a potty Hmm

Littleroundsponge · 11/05/2021 01:06

Wow, that's rough 🤢

Someone on my Facebook posted a photo of their toddlers poo in the potty Confused

NoLeafClover · 11/05/2021 01:23

DH's brother and his wife 'checked in' at 'the baby making station' on FB once. That gave me the bleurgh when I saw it. Guess what, while people will be very happy if and when you announce a pregnancy, they really don't need to be informed every time you have sex with the intention of conceiving. So fecking weird.

I've also seen a lot of performative grief lately. For example, someone from our town dies. Cue posts from people who met them once or twice talking about their utter devastation, how they'll never get over it. Sorry, you once had a drink with them 15 years ago, this isn't your loss. Stop piggybacking on it for attention.

ReggaetonLente · 11/05/2021 01:24

I had an FB acquaintance who found out her partner and father of her newborn was active on fab swingers and posted all the screenshots of his 'reviews'. He had basically been meeting up with middle aged couples in our hometown and shagging the wife in front of the husband. He had also posted pics of himself in her knickers, which she also duly put up for us all to see.

Anyway she deleted it after a few hours and she's not pregnant again. New start i guess? Confused

earthyfire · 11/05/2021 01:24

Bloody hell, I thought people had finally outgrown over sharing on FB.

PyongyangKipperbang · 11/05/2021 01:54

I guess I only haveve two people who do this.

One is someone who I know from where I used to work. Every so often we get a rant about how "people" get so drunk that they change personality and become to horrible and abusive. "People" being her partner. He is a complete twat when he is pissed, smashed up their house Xmas 2019 including their new TV etc...and she is still with him years later.

I was in an abusive relationship myself and know how hard it is to leave but no way would have posted about it on SM!

And my cousin. Shares absolutely everything and despite being one of many grandchildren to our grandparents, has taken ownership of everything they ever did. Claimed his medals, makes a huge fuss of anything military and implies she is the only grandchild. She has never even been in the military, despite being more than fit and able to when she was younger. She is whats known as a Walter Mitty in military circles and has actually lost friends both in and out of the family as a result of her fantasies....seriously you would think she won the fucking war single handed....

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PyongyangKipperbang · 11/05/2021 02:32

I think we have a winner ^^^^^^

1forAll74 · 11/05/2021 02:40

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.

ARoseByAnyOtherNameIsStillAs · 11/05/2021 02:41

I have a couple of FB friends that post about there business success selling various mlm things such as u not unique... b shit prize draws please buy a raffle ticket to win crap, scented candles etc...they flood fb so I unfollow

A couple of others who constantly tag their partners that they live with and message back and forward Hmm odd just talk to each other