Social media humblebragging

[Anonymous]

"My run this morning wasn't pretty. Slow and hot. But it's always great to go for 13 miles. My favorite distance!"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"My run this morning wasn't pretty. Slow and hot. But it's always great to go for 13 miles. My favorite distance!"

UGH, these are the worst. I hate the daily check-in post at the gym, or how long you ran or how many calories you burned, or a pic of you in your yoga pose EVERY SINGLE DAY. Honestly, it's great that you are working out, but nobody else cares.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:"My run this morning wasn't pretty. Slow and hot. But it's always great to go for 13 miles. My favorite distance!"

UGH, these are the worst. I hate the daily check-in post at the gym, or how long you ran or how many calories you burned, or a pic of you in your yoga pose EVERY SINGLE DAY. Honestly, it's great that you are working out, but nobody else cares.

I'm the person who posted this. I'm also a runner. But I roll my eyes every time I see my running friends (or frenemies, as the case may be) posting stuff like this.

One of my partners saw something like "I didn't train properly, ate bad food, didn't get good sleep, but still brought in a PR!" Brag, brag, brag...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I agree with op. I understand if every now and then a possession is unintentionally included in a photo, but I know a girl who does the whole 'accidentally on purpose' thing a little to much for me to not think she's just showing off. Everything she does is a strategic move to show off/brag. She lives out her entire life story via fb, nothing is private or sacred. Fb is her reality show

I know someone like this. She posts like 50 times a day. I barely post 50 times a year. I find it odd. I'm not interested in what she is posting but rather what would cause someone to post that much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I agree with op. I understand if every now and then a possession is unintentionally included in a photo, but I know a girl who does the whole 'accidentally on purpose' thing a little to much for me to not think she's just showing off. Everything she does is a strategic move to show off/brag. She lives out her entire life story via fb, nothing is private or sacred. Fb is her reality show

I know someone like this. She posts like 50 times a day. I barely post 50 times a year. I find it odd. I'm not interested in what she is posting but rather what would cause someone to post that much?

PP, And this in a nutshell is why I continue to read her post; not because I buy into her bullshit, but because I am intrigued by the psychology behind it. What the hell makes a person brag like this and why isn't braggadocio considered a mental illness? She is my most favorite case study! She's almost 40, so way to old for the total lack of self awareness. Intriguing I tell you!

[Anonymous]

I just checked facebook this morning and I'm shocked that seemingly every family we know took the kids to Europe this week after school got out. Holy moly, I guess we need to up our game.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about someone posting about their bank account being hacked and posting the crazy amount of $$ that was taken?

And then as a response to one of the comments, posting a pic of her wine glass on the counter in front of her LV purse?

Humble bragging is so obvious. At least one of the comments to this post was somebody asking "humble brag?".

These are technically termed "ancillary brag". Because no one is attempting to be humble while posting.

This is a humble brag!

https://twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/228131138210770944

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about someone posting about their bank account being hacked and posting the crazy amount of $$ that was taken?

And then as a response to one of the comments, posting a pic of her wine glass on the counter in front of her LV purse?

Humble bragging is so obvious. At least one of the comments to this post was somebody asking "humble brag?".

These are technically termed "ancillary brag". Because no one is attempting to be humble while posting.

This is a humble brag!

https://twitter.com/AriFleischer/status/228131138210770944

The replies to that tweet are hilarious

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Douchyness of epic proportion

[Anonymous]

Is it a humble brag to say you are not on FB?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We got a Christmas card a few years ago with about nine numbered pictures in the front. The back had the 'legend':
#1: skiing in vail!
#2: celebrating john's promotion to VP
#3: larlo winning MVP
#4: family cruise to the Mediterranean

Uh.....stfu.

Vail is right on the interstate and kind of fake.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We got a Christmas card a few years ago with about nine numbered pictures in the front. The back had the 'legend':
#1: skiing in vail!
#2: celebrating john's promotion to VP
#3: larlo winning MVP
#4: family cruise to the Mediterranean

Uh.....stfu.

Vail is right on the interstate and kind of fake.

Are you the kind of person who goes skiing for the town, or for the mountain?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I'm sure I've taken pictures of my toddler in front of our car and posted it to social media. She's not draped on the hood or touching the hood ornament, the car just happens to be there. Is that really a humblebrag? Should we take pictures at the city dump?

Just pose her nicely next to the toilet, like us Poors do with our kids. All my DD's photos are of her standing next to the toilet. But we're classy Poors, so the seat is always down.

Admit it, you're just humble bragging about the toilet.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"My run this morning wasn't pretty. Slow and hot. But it's always great to go for 13 miles. My favorite distance!"

Now THIS is humblebragging at its finest.

[Anonymous]

Not new at all.