Spin-off: Attention Whores (are we allowed to say whores still?)

Weight loss/gym show offs. I started posting on Instagram when I did weight watchers because I feel like it's different than Facebook and more acceptable to post my weight loss journey there and as a result I found a great support network. If I had posted every workout and weekly weigh in on Facebook I probably would have annoyed the crap out of my friends.

@elphaba no offense to anyone who is Vegan, but my one vegan "friend" on social media post the most unappetizing pictures of cooked food. She post a salad or bowl of fruit (its fruit and veggies) it looks great. She cooks something and it looks horrible. She's like "#Vegan muffins" and they looked like meatloaf. I was like ugh.

I've unfollowed so many people, but the one I haven't is my SIL (brother's wife). I don't want to miss out on pics of my nieces and nephews, but she's a combo gym showoff/meal showoff when the meals don't even look that great ("healthy lunch for a busy mama!" type status, and it's a basic salad. She also wants to get into modeling so there are a lot of selfies and requests to like her facebook page for that. She ALSO sells alkaline water so there's posts about how she's so healthy because of her speshul water and how much she enjoys being an "entrepreneur from home". She's basically a combo of so many of these things, ugh.

DH unfollowed her when she was making random workout videos that were basically just her dancing in the living room with one of their kids in a baby carrier. They were embarrassingly awful.

Yeah. .. totally over food posting people and selfie narcissists.

Ugh I'm friends with someone like this on Facebook. I don't want to go into detail because I wouldn't be surprised if she was lurking on here, but it's fucking obnoxious and she just got engaged recently so it's only going to get worse.

ETA: her posts don't show up on my newsfeed because she's not just obnoxious about this so I unfollowed her a while ago, but when I found out she got engaged I had to look because I knew it would be bad

Sort of related: FH's ex wanted to friend me on FB. When I asked him what the hell for (we live 3K miles apart), she said it was so I could see pictures of the kids. Nope, not buying it. Tag him or the kid that has his own FB and they'll show up on my feed, or FH can just show me. She wanted to friend me because if drives her crazy that my privacy settings are so strict the only thing she can see is my name. Nosey bitch! My FB posts are pretty boring to begin with - mostly about baseball related activities.

Or I also don't like the showing hurt animals....unless its a recovery story. Or the PETA/PETA like videos of animal abuse. I think I shared one once - and regretted it. So sad.....

My least favorite are the people who try to sell you something (Itwraps, Herbalife, Rodan&Fields, Beachbody, etc.) and post alllll the time! I understand that they run their business through social media. I don't mind posts that seem genuine. But when they are posting before/afters that you know are stock pictures and not actually their results or someone they know, or posting these long statuses with tons of emojis (if you've seen one of them you know what I'm talking about) is super annoying

New moms who don't realize that I could be eating while scanning FB. I don't want to hear about how your baby is sick and shit/threw up all over you. I don't care what their poop looks like, how many days it's been since they pooped, etc.

And then when I say they're over sharing the dismissive "when you have kids you'll be the same way"... Uh... No because I'll remember how disgusted I was with all your postings...

Ok we get it,

The one that has me the most upset lately is a relative of mine (I'm going to try to avoid too many details). She has 4 boys and just had a baby girl. She keeps posting pic after pic of this baby and going on and on about how wonderful she is. Bad enough on its own, but the thing for me is that she *never* did that with the boys. I mean she posts pics, sure. Pretty often actually. But like she had a newborn photo shoot done with this one where the baby was posed in costumes (I think she was a ballerina at one point and a flower maybe). And both she and her mom keep posting things about how awesome it is to finally have a grandDAUGHTER (they added the capital letters, not me). They just are super duper making it unmistakably clear that she is the favorite and they only kept going in order to get a girl (they've even said they wanted to stop sooner but wanted a girl, complain about how much so many kids cost, etc). I'm not sure how aware of it the boys are now (oldest is maybe 9, not sure) but I feel like as they get older if this continues it will be really sad for them and even if it stops stuff on the internet is forever. I'd hate for those boys to someday figure out how much more fuss was made over their sister than them.

Definitely the selfies! And too many pics of food from such and such hipster place. I have enjoyed FB so much more since I have tailored things more. I have made groups so that I get to really be selective with who I am sharing my own posts with. I have unfollowed people that post things that I don't really want or need to see and have selected "see posts first" on certain people that I enjoy. I actually enjoy baby and kid updates from people I'm close to like my sisters and close girl friends. Oh and I make sure to shut off notifications when I comment on someone's post if I don't want to know everyone else's responses.

I think at this point I'm unfollowing more people than I'm following.

I'm glad my dog pictures are acceptable.

I confess in high school I was a vague poster. I have timehop and all my status are so Whiney and I'm like wtf was that even about.

Hangs head in shame.

I really hate passive aggressive posts but really want to post them all the time. Instead I'll just bitch it out in my head.

Ugh. The workout ones.

This one girl. Every run, videos of herself doing at home workouts.

LIVE FEEDS of her workouts/crying in the car.

Screen shots of her 5:00am alarm.

Pictures of shakeology.

Progress Photos of her in her underwear.

I'd delete her, but it's a train wreck I can't stop watching.

ETA: oh, and the new trend of always posting your timehop. Something big, we get it.

But everyday is obnoxious.

I don't get the live stuff seems stupid. Most stuff isn't as interesting as social media makes it seems, it never more apparent than a live feed. One person did one for their bike ride I was like that was the most uneventful bike ride ever. Some ppl also only like to get likes back. I know a girl who post variations of the same weekend selfie throughout the week & get hundreds of likes. But All she does all day is scroll social media.

I blocked a former co-worker friend who posted too much religious/political stuff. She's very bigoted and I just got sick of seeing it. I also dislike the drama queens who post teasers and want everybody to ask what's wrong. Don't be coy--if you want people to know, tell us; otherwise don't mention it!

ETA: added words

OriginalLaura, I just had to chuckle at your "in high school" comment. Let's just say, when I was in high school personal computers were barely a household item, much less FB & Timehop existing.

The daily selfie pictures at the gym. Like ok, got it, you work out. So do I, but I do not have to post it every time I go to the gym.

The other thing that I hate seeing posted are pictures and videos of animals that have been abused. I know they are trying to raise awareness but being an animal lover, I have a really hard time seeing it. It's just really upsetting to me, so I scroll over it as fast as possible.