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Daughter in law from hell, mini videos on Facebook…

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Witzend Sun 02-Aug-26 11:59:41

I seem to be bombarded with them lately, and I’m afraid to say I find them weirdly compulsive. They always feature a very well groomed, evidently intelligent older woman, whose invariably very glam, devil-DiL is bent on turning her out of her own house, and whose handsome but utterly pathetic husband stands by and says nothing, except perhaps, ‘Mom, please don’t make this harder…’.

Of course the older woman ends up on top, having given them 30 days to find somewhere else to live…’

I don’t understand the point of them though - they aren’t some drawn-out prequel to a spiel trying to persuade you to buy something!

I only usually use FB for a charity craft group I belong to, so it’s a bit perturbing to find myself partially hooked by such tripe!

JenniRen Sun 02-Aug-26 12:17:02

I usually hide them, most of them are AI.
Occasionally I've got caught and thought what a waste of my time!

Elegran Sun 02-Aug-26 12:29:43

They are like watching a particularly highly-coloured soap opera.
I suspect the purpose of them is to get you to click on the "read more" button to get the denouement where the mother-in-law, sister-in-law, or spiteful work colleague get their come-uppance, and the author of the page gets their fraction of a penny/cent per click from Google/Facebook's monetising scheme.

Elegran Sun 02-Aug-26 12:30:43

If you look at one and click, you get bombarded with more.

25Avalon Sun 02-Aug-26 13:02:55

Switch to WhatsApp to communicate with charity group and scrap FB.