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’

[PugInTheHouse]

I have seen a family member post publically about their partners cheating then within a few weeks they are posting to say that anyone who says anything bad about their partner can just unfriend them and that they are the love of their life (this was more than once for one of the people). Its pathetic. They are the same people who constantly post attention seeking statuses about falling out with people and posting to say that they want privacy when their baby is born until they say it fine, then moan that no one visits.

The worst one was a friend posting that their husband was 'looking for love on a dating website'. They were friends with his daughters on FB also so they saw it and she had only just discovered it so hadn't even told her husband she knew.

I just can't understand posting that sort of thing on there but then again if my DH did something like that maybe I would be tempted!

[Roussette]

I am agog at all of these.

Probably because I have tightest privacy settings, I rarely post anything much, I limit who can see what, and I have few friends! (Just a few rellies from far away and some random ex work people and close family)

[Joonio]

@floofycroissant

One old school contact gave us a blow by blow account of finding her husband cheating, subsequent divorce, the UTTER HEARTBREAK... and then hawking her story to Take A Break. The 2 page magazine spread made for a lovely profile cover 😂

A friend of mine married a man who came to fit furniture in her flat. They got married within weeks of meeting. He went back home to collect his belongings and she never saw him again. Sold the story for £200 to a similar magazine so the whole town could see what an idiot she was.

[KitNCaboodle]

I’m not talking about that. I’m talking about posting pictures of stillborn children.

[Crankley]

Reading this thread is horrifying and reminds me why I use no social media at all. I know some say MN is social media and I can see some of the self obsession that is undoubtedly evident on SM but is curtailed on here for obvious reasons.

I'm not surprised there are seemingly so many with mental health problems. What happened to people just living their life? Why do they feel the need to experience it and then relive it by vomitting up thousands of words and photographs on SM every minute of the day? How can their self obsession be so extreme that they believe you want to see them in their underwear or doing whatever boring crap they are doing day in and out?

Am currently lying in a hospital bed and brain is a bit fuzzy so apologise if my comments don't make sense but really think these people have an illness.

[Roussette]

@Crankley

Your post makes total sense and I agree with yu 100%

Hope your stay in hospital is short and comfortable.

[Selkie1961]

It's not the norm though! My fb friends never share their shags or their children's poos. Thankfully.

Like a pp though, I did go to school with a woman who was an aggressive bully at school but later reinvented herself as an agoraphobic, too fragile to have a job, or go to the shops. She posted a lot of strange posts. I had a sense it was all for attention and that she couldn't be that fragile/strange. She committed suicide. I did not see that coming at all. I was very shocked.

[Selkie1961]

@Roussette

One of my friends posted after a parents' evening at her daughter's secondary school " My face is literally aching from smiling at all the wonderful comments about our amazing daughter...."

Who are these people?! 🤣

Oh that's funny! Shameless. It's always the most averagely academic children whose parents do this, cringingly.

A friend of mine whose dc are at a gaelscoil put up ''so, I think daughter's doing well in first class, the meeting was conducted through Irish, yay, so I'm only going by the expression on the teacher's face obviously, but I know when teachers have cross faces''. I laughed at that.

[SonicStars]

But why bother doing that when you don't mind your friends list seeing them?

If friends don't want to look at the huge albums they don't have to and you'll get people like me who actually do sit and flick through. I prefer a non curated view.

The alternative is going through all of the photos to decide which ones you want to share and which you don't, then uploading them as two separate albums with separate permissions.

[HebeMumsnet]

Morning, everyone. We've had several nominations for this thread to be put in Classics so we're going to move it there now.

[Anon778833]

😲 the first ever thread I started in 17 years of mumsnet that made classics!

[Roussette]

CONGRATULATIONS!

💐🌷🌺

[ItsCokeFFS]

@SugarbabyMilly

😲 the first ever thread I started in 17 years of mumsnet that made classics!

Lovely!

Are you going to do a FB post about it

[Anon778833]

@ItsCokeFFS 🤣🤣🤣

[ItsCokeFFS]

@SugarbabyMilly

I can only see three plain squares after your comment so I'm not sure if I have pissed you off or not

[SallySycamore]

@longtompot

I think you can tick a box, or remove the tick, so it's not shown on your timeline. Quite often I want to transfer a photo from my phone to my iPad, they aren't compatible, so I put it on fb with the setting changed to private, then I can add the photo to my iPad or phone and then delete the pic on fb. You just have to remember to change your privacy settings, something I often forget to do otherwise future posts aren't seen by others.

Why don't you try sending it to yourself in Facebook messenger? The way you do it sounds a bit of a faff!

[longtompot]

@SallySycamore I think I have tried that but can't send things to myself. I'll try again, but I suspect this is why I do it this way. It doesn't take ages to do, just seems to when it's written down 😊

[Anon778833]

[quote ItsCokeFFS]@SugarbabyMilly

I can only see three plain squares after your comment so I'm not sure if I have pissed you off or not [/quote]
Not at all - I was laughing

[PurpleSapphire]

Some years ago I met a guy through a friend of a friend on social media. We'd chatted privately for a few months and finally went on a date. He was checking his phone literally every few minutes and typing, it was really starting to get on my nerves. I excused myself to the loo and checked my social media, there it was, a massive conversation on his wall about how our date was going, with updates for all his friends and our mutual friends to see!

I'd understand it more if we were teenagers but we were in our 30's! I didn't see him again and he got quite arsy about it, he couldn't see what he'd done wrong

[knightinshiningwhatever]

Someone on my feed has had a liver transplant but is in hospital constantly (obviously she's just had a transplant) she posts constantly about how awful her life is and how she's exhausted. She took a photo of herself 'asleep' and you could see her arm in the mirror taking the photo but also she's not allowed visitors because of covid so clearly she's the one taking selfies with her eyes closed!!

[MotherOfGodWeeFella]

I find that really sad. It must be a frightening and lonely experience to go through with visitor restrictions in place.

[Sunnidayz]

Friend posting toddler vomit pics.

Other friend's 20-something DS posting photos of him snogging his most current new girlfriend, complete with cheesy captions.

[BlueLobelia]

I have a new contender. Daughter of an ex- colleague (we are loosely involved in the same volunteer community group hence why she is on my fb as well) posting a full length selfie of her in her bra and knickers saying she wanted to her surprise 'my man' for his birthday.

She has circa 1500 facebook friends. She tagged said 'man' which I think means it comes up on his fb feed as well?

Surely by the time you are in your mid 30's as she is you sort of - well- get a bit of a grip on yourself?

[BlueLobelia]

• no pun intended.

[Somersetlady]

I have seen this a few times AFTER they have been caught having and affair and they remain together🤷‍♀️