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[quote=Anonymous]You know what really impacts how I view your social media posts of your vacation? How you behave and treat me in real life.

If someone who is generally kind and respectful IRL posts vacation photos, even if they post a billion photos of every trip or include braggy captions, I don’t care one way or another. I have a friend who is seriously one of the kindest people I’ve ever met and she recently moved abroad and is using the opportunity to travel extensively. She posts A LOT. I am not always in the mood to look but I have no resentment or criticism. I am really happy for her and it’s like I feel she’s earned the right to brag because I know if it was me traveling, she’d be kind and interested too.

On the other hand, I had a friend/colleague a few years back who posted in the same way and I’d wind up hate-looking at the photos and rolling my eyes every time she’s brag about the “Michelin starred” restaurants or the private beaches or whatever. The difference was not her social media behavior but her IRL behavior— she was a huge jerk to me, just extremely superior and competitive about everything. I don’t follow her anymore because I realized I don’t like her, we aren’t friends, and that’s why I found her social media posts annoying.

If people seem annoyed by your vacation posts on Instagram, it’s probably just that they don’t like you.[/quote]

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