My SIL is insufferable on FB
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Anonymous
| I guess I'm just venting bc there is nothing I can really do about it. My SIL is an awesome and very fun person. I am so glad she is a part of our family. But for some reason, she is the.worst on social media. She's currently bragging about having to get a second passport for her five year old because he's so international and they travel so much...stuff like that. Also tons of humblebragging. My other SIL actually took me aside once and asked if my SIL was "really like that" in person bc it is so obnoxious! My SIL had a humble start and has done very well for herself, maybe that is why she behaves like this? I don't know - anyway, just curious if other people have experienced a lovely person in real life who is insufferable on social media. |
Anonymous
| It's a new money thing. She doesn't know it's obnoxious. Give her a pass. |
Anonymous
| Unfollow her. Problem solved. You won't have to see her posts but you'll still be friends, she'll never know, and you'll never have to complain again. Win for everyone! |
Anonymous
| Funny you mention "humble start". I know a braggart who really came from nothing, and is piggybacking off of her second husband. She brags incessantly. I wonder if it is insecurity or what? |
Anonymous
| She's trying to be witty, but she's not clever enough and it becomes a himbue brag. |
Anonymous
My brother is a doctor, but she is also successful in her own right...she is in sales, in a very tough sector, and she went from pounding the pavement to a cushy job at a great company. |
Anonymous
| Surely it's insecurity, but it goes beyond being "new money." I know lots of people with very little money that act similarly, and a couple old money who constantly brag about how good they look, how other people hit on them, etc. |
Anonymous
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What makes her different than other people on FB. Look, I sympathize, but 90% of my relatives who are on FB annoy me.
I have the pretentious relative I have the oversharer I have the Meme of the Day Queen I have the politiki -- one from the Left and one from the Right I have the "I'm just here to update my photo log with 79 photos of the kids' day at the Park." I have the "It's sooo obvious you are not on my special and select list of close friends." |
Anonymous
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You said there's nothing you can do but there is. Unfollow her. It's really obnoxious behavior, and I will validate you on that. People on my friend list do the same thing and while
You can't change them you absolutely can choose not to see it. Don't clutter your mind and life with things you can't change. |
Anonymous
| So unfollow. |
Anonymous
| I have a friend I really like as a person but on Facebook she's an insufferable HerbalLife poster. She literally takes pictures of herself buying stuff at Target with comments like, "Thank God for my lil side biz!" #newfridgemagnets |
Anonymous
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This is like if an adult complained that he hates eating red jelly beans: don't eat red jelly beans, then!
Unfollow her, OP. Duh. Then say a prayer of Thanksgiving for your cush life that THIS is what you have to whine about. |
Anonymous
| I can live with brags, humble or otherwise. It's the trying too hard to be witty, self-deprecating, etc that bugs me. How much time do people spend trying to come up with some of these dumb posts? |
Anonymous
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Well my SIL is insufferable on FB and in person!
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Anonymous
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There's this feature facebook has called "scrolling on by" - that's what you do when you don't like a post.
IRL ignoring a person's conversation is harder, but on FB? Easy peasy. |