Patronising facebook "check-ins" in and around ED

[Louisa]

I am absolutely sick to the back teeth of all this facebook "check in" milarchy. Losers with time on their hands telling the world where they are shopping eating or taking a number two! Who gives a f@&k? Some of the most patronising ones are the posh indy restaurants. Get a friggin life and stop showing off and patronising your friends/family/work colleagues. You look like an idiot! Rant over.

Louisa.

[newboots]

Shouldn't you be posting this on your Facebook timeline? You might want to change milarchy to malarkey.

[Louisa]

I don't use facebook for this very reason! It's a bizarre concept. Making online friendships and sharing your daily activities with these strangers over a social media outlet. My husband uses this and left it on earlier and I noticed all these "check-ins" many of them from family members and friends of ours in places around the area going back as far as October 2012! Ridiculous. Some people are so sad. I don't care if you read this either Jane, there I've said it!

Louisa.

[numbers]

10/10

Well done!

You got a rant in about FB check-ins with a tenuous link to East Dulwich. Which 'posh, indy' restaurants are you referring to anyway? You do realise that not all friendships will be 'online' ones so its not necessarily a case of sharing your daily activities with strangers. Let's take 'Jane' as an example...

[Louisa]

As much as I want to divulge the restaurant names it will give it away if I do - plus it's unfair on those businesses. Let's just say they are on LL, recent and aimed at blow-ins. I understand they're not all strangers, but I often imagine people like my husband who sees the good in everyone stupidly gets fooled into seeing and "liking" these "check-in" statuses further inflating the ego of the attention seeking "friends" even more. Just because you choose to eat in this reataurant and rub it in my face doesn't make you any better than me. It's overpriced crap anyway so good luck to you for wasting your bloody money in there. I'm furious.

Louisa.

[Countrlass22]

We not interested rant on face book

[Louisa]

If you're not interested don't comment? Nice and simple. Some people.

Louisa.

[numbers]

Ah, I see. Those blow-ins flaunting their wealth whilst out and about on the Lane on a Saturday eve. How dare they?

I expect the poor fools are wasting their money on what can only be described as glorified CoT or overpriced burgers.

Have a large glass of ros?. Am sure that Iceland have some excellent deals on Blossom Hill at the moment!

[Louisa]

I'm already two bottles down numbers, a fine few bottles of Sauvignon from the co-op that was on offer. Some people make me so angry and once I've had a drink I just can't contain myself. I'll regret this tomorrow but oh well. If only it were just posh burgers or fancy tapas. It's much much more extravegant than that and this person knows damn well what pushes my buttons. Well let me tell you Mrs, I'm rather happy and cosy sat at home in my onesie eating milk tray and sipping on a nice white. You enjoy your poached quails eggs on focaccia! B#%ch!

Louisa.

[*Bob*]

Louisa Wrote:

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.. but I often imagine people like my husband who sees the good in everyone stupidly gets fooled

Is this him?

[Otta]

I love FB, but on the "check in" thing I'm with you Lou.

[womanofdulwich]

Isn't it just a good opportunity to broadcast your absence so someone can come and burgle your house while you are out having a nice time??

[numbers]

There are some nauseating ones. I've tried to erase from my mind a check-in that popped up in my timeline recently, 'jacuzzi at home with hubby & bubbly'. On Valentine's Day.

Complete with photo of said bath & (dare I say it), rather tasteless champagne flutes.

[Mick Mac]

The clue is in the name. I'm here and this is what I look like = FB. This is what I'm doing was sure to follow to keep it developing.

Stop sending me FB friend requests Louisa.

[Loz]

Use the "FB Purity" firefox/chrome/safari plugin. You can filter out lots of facebook 'features' you don't care about.

http://www.fbpurity.com/

[MrBen]

My biggest regret is not being one of the few who steadfastly refused to have a FB account. I can't properly delete the sucker and now my personal details, photos and personal family network are digitally embedded in NSA annals forever. It's the biggest privacy to live away since man began walking the earth.

[KalamityKel]

Im still lost on the "patronising" bit... :s

[miga]

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[Robert Poste's Child]

When did drinking wine become a non-middle thing? Shouldn't it be cans of Tennants or two-litre bottles of cider?

[Frankito]

I fully expect 'Jane' to be doing some serious ass-whippin' today; I wonder if she will be checking-in that update....

*louisa, horrified, wakens up and does the EDF walk of shame...

[*Bob*]

MrBen Wrote:

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> My biggest regret is not being one of the few who

> steadfastly refused to have a FB account. I can't

> properly delete the sucker and now my personal

> details, photos and personal family network are

> digitally embedded in NSA annals forever.

I know what you mean. I too was foolish. I put that picture of me wearing a silly hat and my check-in at Budgens directly into the hands of a foreign security force - and now I must live with the consequences.

Is that a van with a revolving roofrack outside my house?

[TheArtfulDogger]

Dearest Louisa, I am mostly confused, in one post you state

"I am absolutely sick to the back teeth of all this facebook "check in" milarchy."

Yet a very short while later you post

Louisa Wrote:

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> I don't use facebook for this very reason! It's a

> bizarre concept. Making online friendships and

> sharing your daily activities with these strangers

> over a social media outlet. My husband uses this

> and left it on earlier and I noticed all these

> "check-ins"

So you don't use facebook, therefore it doesn't impact on your daily life but you aren't averse to snooping on your husbands use of facebook like a jealous stalker checking up on his social life which then makes your blood boil. Best leave alone so that you don't get annoyed by something that doesn't affect you.

If I may can I provide these words of wisdom to Mr Louisa "Run before she starts boiling the pet bunny" :-(

[Louisa]

Frankito I must admit after a shower and a look back at yet another night of drinking myself to the kebab shop at gone 2 in the morning, I realise that over emphasis on a specific friend is possibly a step too far. She does read my forum updates but she wouldn't know how to post (fingers crossed). Jane I won't apologise, but you can come over for a cheeky bottle of Pinot this afternoon.

ArtfulDodger Mr Louisa is fully equipped to deal with my spouts of alcohol fuelled jealousy, on occasion. I don't make a regular habit of checking his facebook but it was in front of me on the laptop, and foolishly I decided to read a certain friends status knowing full well she would be trying to rub my nose in it. But it's just banter, no harm done, she can share my bottle if it helps. And as for Mr Louisa, he can see me naked tanning in the garden come June im sure that's better than apology ;-)

Louisa.

[*Bob*]

I think we all know there's no-one called Jane.

Desist with these fabrications.

[Louisa]

*Bob* for goodness sakes get back in the cellar I keep telling you not to rattle my cage on a hangover sunday.

Louisa.