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Anonymous wrote:Why do parents feel compelled to post on social media about their HS kids “living their best lives” and other similar bullshit and posting a million pictures of their kids’ friend groups? It screams “look how popular my kid is!” So obnoxious.

Maybe their kids are incredibly popular? Nothing wrong with bragging about that. The only people who might find it objectionable have loser kids.

I just snorted at my desk.

This really is it though OP. This is how people think and feel so at least this person said it out loud.

To be clear, I think this is insane and these people are in fact permanent sorority girls as a PP so eloquently stated. Just know what you're dealing with and unfollow.

Anonymous wrote:Social media is insanely unhealthy and addicting.

You should consider dropping it from your life completely.

Addictive. Not "addicting."

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Anonymous wrote:How can you be mad at parents spending time with their kids? Like it or don't and move along. I actually like seeing pics of my friends and their family. I don't understand how you can feel so negatively about it, unless you're suffering from FOMO.

That’s not at all what I’ve described. I’m talking about a whole friend group going in spring break together with their mothers and their mothers posting 20 pictures of it.

And what, exactly, is your problem with this? You don't make any sense. Why would this bother you? Your thought process about this seems dysfunctional and weird.

Anonymous wrote:Why do parents feel compelled to post on social media about their HS kids “living their best lives” and other similar bullshit and posting a million pictures of their kids’ friend groups? It screams “look how popular my kid is!” So obnoxious.

Maybe their kids are incredibly popular? Nothing wrong with bragging about that. The only people who might find it objectionable have loser kids.

Posting a lot about your personal life on IG is insanely cringey at this point. I quit FB once it became cringey there and only about 15 low-EQ people of hundreds of friends were doing it.

Feeling the need in 2025 to do this feels VERY low EQ. If you are doing this, people notice. SM has morphed into more of a TT model of content from strangers. People who have not picked up on this feel out of touch...and if this is on FB, I don't even know what to say. It's giving deranged Boomer.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How can you be mad at parents spending time with their kids? Like it or don't and move along. I actually like seeing pics of my friends and their family. I don't understand how you can feel so negatively about it, unless you're suffering from FOMO.

That’s not at all what I’ve described. I’m talking about a whole friend group going in spring break together with their mothers and their mothers posting 20 pictures of it.

That’s the mom sharing her joy to be so close with her daughter!!

You’re wildly insecure OP

LOL. I'm definitely not wildly insecure. I just think these parents are cringey as hell. You are probably one of them.

One of my friends posts all the time about her two college kids - pics of them visiting and also pics of the kids out with their friends. Also posts when they do well on exams and stuff like that. She posts every day about someone … and also does “day 1 at fraternity moms weekend” with pics, “day 2….”
I really want to tell her it’s strange as I hear others jest about it behind her back.

I think social media isn’t for you if this gets under your skin. That said, I do find things like the mentioned big group mothers and daughters matching outfit vacation thing to be an ick but I’m just not going to be friends with permanent sorority girls in real life. I also don’t post about parties knowing some of my friends weren’t invited. Big overlap in these people. But I really enjoy seeing people’s prom and hoco pics. It’s a too brief moment in time and I’m happy for them. And they’re events open invite to all who attend the school. But I do empathize with people whose kids don’t have a friend group.

You haven’t seen my SIL’s posts! Each of her 5DC gets a photo retrospective on his or her birthday. Add in sports awards, every minor honor or the latest, “Kyleigh is running for Larlo McLarlosen Middle School student government president!”

Her older DC begged her to stop blogging so she did but used to blog BITD about all above. Included baby pictures and I think that’s when her DC got embarrassed.

Anonymous wrote:I have a friend from HS who posts pictures of his HS daughters with their boyfriends. It's super cringe. It's like he wants to brag that his daughters are hot or something.

Social media as a whole is so cringe! It’s awful and only getting worse. Really only one answer:

Drop social completely.

I have a friend from HS who posts pictures of his HS daughters with their boyfriends. It's super cringe. It's like he wants to brag that his daughters are hot or something.

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Anonymous wrote:You mean like HoCo and Prom? Otherwise I have not seen this. Ever.

+1

I rarely see kid-focused posts with teens. Maybe a prom, HoCo, or annual first day of school pic. Occasionally something about a milestone birthday or getting their drivers license. Maybe a sports achievement (Larlo’s basketball team won the conference championship or whatever). Random social events etc? no.

This. I know families with teens and ES kids and the parents will post everything the moms do together and much that the ES kids do together. But they're kind enough to leave their teens out of it the majority of the time, except pictures of the teens at an accomplishment together.

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Anonymous wrote:How can you be mad at parents spending time with their kids? Like it or don't and move along. I actually like seeing pics of my friends and their family. I don't understand how you can feel so negatively about it, unless you're suffering from FOMO.

That’s not at all what I’ve described. I’m talking about a whole friend group going in spring break together with their mothers and their mothers posting 20 pictures of it.

That’s the mom sharing her joy to be so close with her daughter!!

You’re wildly insecure OP

Social media is insanely unhealthy and addicting.

You should consider dropping it from your life completely.

Anonymous wrote:You mean like HoCo and Prom? Otherwise I have not seen this. Ever.

I also have not seen this, however I realize there are so many cringy parents out there. Luckily I am not friends with them! OP, I would stop following them ha.