Blatant showing off starting to get really tiresome/distasteful

Well said Doodledog

If a friend of mine is delighted with something, I would always show enthusiasm and enjoy his or her pleasure in whatever it is, even if I don't care personally. I know nothing of cars, but manage to ask about the colour or features when someone gets a new one, or send a congratulatory text when my son's football team wins (on the rare occasions that the fact has come to my attention ).

I'm not particularly bothered about extravagant holidays, but again, wouldn't ignore, block or otherwise snub someone who was revelling in one if she was a friend or relative. It takes a second to click 'like' and maybe a minute to post a line or two saying how lovely it all looks. What does it cost to be generous of spirit?

Ignore it or block their posts.

A friend of mine is like that. I simply say "That's nice". She's the one who makes herself look silly, not me.

Facebook fascinates me - there are people who document their lives in great detail - why do they think everyone needs to know!?

Germanshepherdsmum

I’m glad I’m not on FB!

I agree with the above my private life is just that.
I really don't understand why people become so upset about someone who has retired posting about their wonderful travels good luck to them.
People can get so jealous of others that they have to cover it up by saying things like it is crass, bragging, distasteful and more. I hate people who see other peoples good fortune as bragging.

I use social media for business and only post under my business name. There isnt even a photo of me there. If my family were bragging on social media about their wonderful holidays or lifestyle I would be completely unaware of it. My grandmother always used to say "What the eye does not see the heart does not grieve over".

Sometimes if someone is feeling low for whatever reason, it can make them feel worse to see others appearing to be doing or having all the things they would like to do or have. That's what is always said about young people and Social Media - they see airbrushed photos of friends looking great, and look at themselves and feel inadequate. Then they grow up and have children, and everyone else's baby is shown clean and smiley, reaching milestones way ahead of time, and they feel bad about their own parenting as their (perfectly normal and lovely) baby seems behind. Other people's husbands are shown taking their wives to fancy restaurants, buying jewellery, and later their children all get 'top' jobs and 'excellent' grades in exams.

What they don't see is all the times other people argue with their husbands, their babies having tantrums and their teenagers being truculent little grots. Nobody takes photos of that, do they?

It was the same when we had albums. Social Media just pushes other people's lives into our faces more, but we still just get edited highlights.

Don’t read it. Or if it really bothers you, ask them to put you on their “friends except” list. That way they can enjoy themselves without you even knowing about it.

Me too, Mr. S. is but I can't think of anything I'd rather do less GSM.

I’m glad I’m not on FB!

Don't read but if you must, don't comment.

Perhaps they scrimped and saved, are enjoying themselves.

Really, delete them, or don't read if they so upset you!

Luckily I don’t notice this on FB my friends don’t really brag they might show pictures when they re on holiday , but so do I
Flip past them if they annoy or upset you

Wherever you are seeing all this bragging, just stop looking.

I think social media bragging has replaced those awful 'round Robin' Christmas letters we used to get in cards from some!

Just ignore them.

There is always another side to this type of bragging. Once a friend of mine went on holiday with all her family, there were pics galore on FB, and insta with the hashtags blessed, family, wonderful holiday etc.

When she came back I said looks like you had a wonderful holiday and she said no, it was awful, we kept having arguments the kids drove us mad and the place wasn’t that nice.

Basically, she lied about everything! 🤷‍♀️

People amaze you, don’t they? Why would anyone keep doing something that really annoys or upsets them and then broadcast that fact on a public forum 🤦🏼‍♀️

Jaxjacky

Just block them on your social media.

Quite..

You don’t have to read them!

Just block them on your social media.

Aveline

I really don't see other people's posts as bragging. Should we all pretend to lead uneventful lives just so that others feel OK? Chips on shoulders on display here?

Agree.

If your relative had always been boastful - then it is what it is and just ignore it.

However, presumably they’ve saved hard for this retirement and these trips and want to show how they’re enjoying them?

As for the kids struggling, it may be that once this travelling bug has settled down, the kids might benefit. You don’t really know all the circumstances.

My landlord used to be like that. Back in the early 1970s, we were four student nurses struggling to get by financially and the landlord used to pop in to pick up his mail (just one or two plain brown envelopes that couldn't be delivered to his home for some reason ). Often he would tell us things like how he had treated his wifey and two daughters to a slap up meal, what they ate and how much it had cost. Then he would say "Only the best for my girlies". He also used to ask us to guess how much he'd paid for his new watch or hand made shoes or whatever.
No doubt he would have loved social medea.