My sister overshares on Facebook and it's driving me nuts

[Anonymous]

How is it embarrassment by association, unless you are 12?>

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is this oversharing?

Nobody cares to know what place your 9yearold daughter placed at weekend "tournaments" you paid $50 to enter or see 10 pics of 9yearold girls in swim gear next to a pool every single weekend. Once in a great while is fine.

The posts with her son just make me roll my eyes - but when people make comments like, "OMG he's going to be so successful" and "He is so charming" it is cringeworthy. It's not an accurate reflection of him at all.

It's mostly desperate and attention-seeking- or as my daughter would say "thirsty." Tacky and teases out she has no life.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is this oversharing?

Nobody cares to know what place your 9yearold daughter placed at weekend "tournaments" you paid $50 to enter or see 10 pics of 9yearold girls in swim gear next to a pool every single weekend. Once in a great while is fine.

The posts with her son just make me roll my eyes - but when people make comments like, "OMG he's going to be so successful" and "He is so charming" it is cringeworthy. It's not an accurate reflection of him at all.

It's mostly desperate and attention-seeking- or as my daughter would say "thirsty." Tacky and teases out she has no life.

Don't speak for everyone. She may well have friends who do care about her and her family, even if you don't.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Maybe this is what she does to keep her sanity.

I don't post dirty laundry on my fb.

I'm not saying she should air out dirty laundry - I just want her to put the iPhone down more and maybe pick up a book. Maybe actually make your teen consistently volunteer instead of going overboard with the 1hr he spent at a soup kitchen. Things like that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe this is what she does to keep her sanity.

I don't post dirty laundry on my fb.

I'm not saying she should air out dirty laundry - I just want her to put the iPhone down more and maybe pick up a book. Maybe actually make your teen consistently volunteer instead of going overboard with the 1hr he spent at a soup kitchen. Things like that.

OP, focus on your own life. Get some hobbies and interests that do not include your sister or nephew. Or get off of social media entirely, because this is what most people do.

[Anonymous]

FB is her photo album. You asked to view it. Don't look if you don't like it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unfollow.

Doesn't remove the issue - merely hides it from me.[/quot


It's not your issue. Trust me, others know she's blowing sunshine up their butts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe this is what she does to keep her sanity.

I don't post dirty laundry on my fb.

I'm not saying she should air out dirty laundry - I just want her to put the iPhone down more and maybe pick up a book. Maybe actually make your teen consistently volunteer instead of going overboard with the 1hr he spent at a soup kitchen. Things like that.

Jesus Christ. Can I ask what you are doing on DCUM, when you should be reading Burkhardt's The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy? with your intellectual salon?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its only embarassing to you because its your sister. Trust me--when I look at the over-sharers in my newsfeed, all I do is roll my eyes. I don't immediately cast aspersions on their entire family.

+1

Why would you be embarassed? No one else thinks this is about you, so don't make it about you. Hide her posts if they bug you so much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe this is what she does to keep her sanity.

I don't post dirty laundry on my fb.

I'm not saying she should air out dirty laundry - I just want her to put the iPhone down more and maybe pick up a book. Maybe actually make your teen consistently volunteer instead of going overboard with the 1hr he spent at a soup kitchen. Things like that.

Jesus Christ. Can I ask what you are doing on DCUM, when you should be reading Burkhardt's The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy? with your intellectual salon?

Don't be so obtuse. Posting on an anonymous message board isn't comparable to posting tacky attention-seeking narratives to your facebook every other day.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Maybe this is what she does to keep her sanity.

I don't post dirty laundry on my fb.

I'm not saying she should air out dirty laundry - I just want her to put the iPhone down more and maybe pick up a book. Maybe actually make your teen consistently volunteer instead of going overboard with the 1hr he spent at a soup kitchen. Things like that.

Jesus Christ. Can I ask what you are doing on DCUM, when you should be reading Burkhardt's The Civilization of the Renaissance in Italy? with your intellectual salon?

Don't be so obtuse. Posting on an anonymous message board isn't comparable to posting tacky attention-seeking narratives to your facebook every other day.

Everyone on Facebook is doing the same thing. I just don't get (1) how this affects you in any way; (2) how you are embarrassed; (3) how this is attention-seeking behavior. Have you heard of social media before?

[Anonymous]

You sound very immature OP, almost on an adolescent level, as if you feel that everything is about you and embarrasses you personally. No one is thinking about you when they see your niece in a swim meet! FFS.

[Anonymous]

Maybe think about changing your thinking and try to understand why she is doing it. My sister has always done the same thing - posted multiple FB posts every day as though her life is perfect when I knew it was not. I always found it extremely irritating. However, now that her husband has left, she is going through a divorced,and her life is so difficult in many ways, she continues to post as though her life is just ideal. I now view it as perhaps a defense mechanism to help her get through all the hard stuff, and maybe her posts help remind her what is good in her life. An online gratitude journal, if you will.

[Anonymous]

This is not something you can control, so you should just let it go. You will feel tons better if you don't let things like this bother you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Unfollow.

Doesn't remove the issue - merely hides it from me.

It's not your issue.