Some people just need to write in a private journal.

I don't get the need to put everything "out there". Does it make them feel important? Do they want responses and attention? Do they really think people care? It's just weird to me.

I'm not sure why it is anyone else's business what you post on your own facebook page. A lot of people use facebook to document their journey the way others write blogs. Nothing wrong with that. And why would her male family members care that she posts about breastfeeding? Also, her posts about breastfeeding and motherhood may help other new moms who struggle or maybe she'll get advice that she otherwise wouldn't have had. A lot of people also have distant family members as friends who DO want or appreciate the daily updates.

If people feel comfortable sharing, that's their business and their right. Your right is to not view content you find displeasing. Her male family members have that same right.

Unfollow or block her content from your feed. She isn't doing anything wrong by posting it, and you aren't doing anything wrong by blocking it.

People write all sorts of stuff on Facebook. There’s someone in my list that is just constantly writing about stuff I don’t want to see. So I just unfollowed them. They have the right to post and I the right to unfollow.

It’s an interesting world we live in now a days.

I honestly do not understand why people want to put it ALL out there in public. And I mean AAAAAAALLLL of it. Every embarrassing moment, every personal tidbit. Especially when future employers can and WILL google you. You can keep a diary online without posting it for public consumption. My private life is exactly that: PRIVATE. I find the overshare weird.

Some people use Facebook like a daily diary. I am following my friends cancer journey on Facebook. It helps him and it keeps all of us up to date. She could be just doing daily post.

I have it... I don't use it much... to keep in touch with family members, really, and most of it is done through the chat.

A lot of people use FB for personal validation. I would bet that your new mom "friend" is feeling pretty lonely and posts to get "likes" and "comments' that make her feel like she has friends or that she's getting attention.

I have a love-hate relationship with FB. I use it to keep in touch with a very small number of people who I actually care about, but have a lot of other dead weight on my account that I could really do without. I think about deactivating my account nearly every time I log on and have a couple of times.

It's so weird and fake to me, everyone presenting their perfect lives that are not really perfect. Before she and DH were divorced, BM posted all of this stuff on social media about what a happy and perfect family they all were...meanwhile, IRL it was a completely different story.

DH posts all kinds of photos of his kids when he has them, because he feels as though people think he's not a good father because he never sees them and he wants people to know all that he does. That said, my parents (yes, the step-grandparents) enjoy seeing videos and pictures of his kids since they live so far away, so it's serving a purpose for them, I suppose.

Sometimes, I feel really gross after learning all these personal things about people I barely know. For example, I have several "friends" from high school (who were not really my friends IRL) who have posted all about their divorces or someone else posted her engagement photos and then never actually got married. So strange to me that so many people want to put all that stuff out there.

You're a millennial. You don't use instagram, Snapchat, or Twitter. You rarely log into Facebook AND you're not "super technically inclined"?

You're not a millennial - you're a unicorn.

Seriously, though. I get it. Sort of. I feel it serves a purpose for each person differently. Just unfollow.

I don't understand people that post things like "I love my child/grandchild with my last breath to the stars and back and can't breath until I see them today. I haven't seen my loves since yesterday. The reason my life is on earth is to live for my most beautiful, amazing, awesome child/grandchild" and on and on.

I love my children/grandchildren dearly, but I do have a life and I can breath. I just don't get it. It's like these mothers that cry and carry on when Junior or Sissy go to 5th grade on the first day of school.

I do not really see her increase in appetite due to breast feeding her baby being too intimate information to share with anyone really. It is in the same realm in my mind as saying she has taken up running so her appetite has increased. Now if she were to say that she had contracted worms and so her appetite had increased that gets into yuck territory for me, but it is still a health issue so maybe...?

For me the ones I unfollow are those that use excessive cuss words and those that post all their personal drama.

Some people like to share things in an open forum environment. Thankfully you can hide her posts and you don't have to feel upset any more.

I recently "unfollowed" a fellow coworker due to excessive selfie-taking. Like I'm talking 2-4 a day with annoying captions like "I look cute today". Clearly it's a cry for validation/attention and I'm too busy having a life and a career to fall all over her and her fragile ego.

I used to only post happy things. Pictures of our trips or family get togethers. Yes, bad things happen but I didn't see the point in announcing the bad.
Then I was accused of making my life look better than it was and only bragging about my great life. SMH, I thought I was posting happiness and it turns out I'm bragging?

I like to follow old friends who've moved away or we've drifted apart. I also have a friend dying of cancer and I follow his progress.

DH hates FB. He used to hate it when I posted anything about our lives or pictures of us happy. Back in the beginning it would trigger BM and she'd start calling and yelling at him about whatever.

Now I don't really care what BM or anyone else thinks. Well, I do care what DH thinks but he's better now too.
I post what makes me happy and what I want to share. I make comments on things that affect me and scroll past things that don't.