Why do we join these bloody facebook groups?!?

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As above really. Why do we do it? They make me so angry but I still look at them...in the last 10minutes I've seen a 2 year old advertised as '100% bombproof, 12.5 hands high (yes really 12.5) it has just had new shoes on and is ride and drive' there was a video of the poor thing on a cart going along the road and pictures of a child of around 5 on its back (without a saddle or hat ect)

I also saw a cheeky little cow mouthing off to another user because she asked if the post was for the girl to buy or sell (it wasn't very clear)

A pointless post I know but argh they make me so angry at times! But why can't I press the delete button?! 😡😡
 
I feel your pain!! I once gave in to the temptation to join such a group, and the amount of unmitigated nonsense, dangerous rubbish and down right ignorance of some people is just beyond belief and quite scary. I know everyone has to learn and we all started somewhere, but it terrifies me to think that there are people out there who may be actually following some of the "advice" given.
 
I love the overuse and incorrect use of question marks, it just confuses the issue

'Looking for a 13hh skewbald???????'

Ok are you looking for one? asking me if I am looking for one? I'm so confused right now...........
 
Saves a fortune on vets bills though, If your horse is ill just post and other users will advise. Advise often involves tea bags or turmeric......
 
Yes!! All so true! Oh dear...it does play on my mind though and I worry about the poor horses/ponies that get picked up for next to nothing by people who are clueless but worse than that don't even try to be around knowledgeable people to help them. 😔
 
Hilarious one an hour or so ago. Girl advertising that she is looking for a summer project to take on whilst off school over summer. Something she can take to local shows and competitions/fun rides and enjoy herself on....can make tiny contribution.
 
These groups are like scabs - we know that we shouldn't scratch at them, but we do ... ;)
 
I once pointed out to a Facebook group user that advertising to sell loads of bute "second hand" was illegal. I got absolutely torn apart. Apparently I was in the wrong for being so mean, and it was "doing no harm".
Unfortunately Facebook agreed that there was nothing wrong with it. Idiots.
 
I am one of the few people NOT on face book.

I do miss out on some 'networking' obviously and there are some groups I would like to be part of. But I just can't be bothered with the whole thing (was on it years ago, but shut it down) and to be honest I do feel it has become the be all and end all for a lot of youngsters especially. To post pictures of their perfect lives and 'like' everything.

Call me old fashioned, but I prefer real people, real conversations. Really can you actually call 439 people your 'friends' truly?

I am still on the early side of thirties, but no, I don't like a lot of it.

Ps. This forum is my guilty pleasure!
 
GemG said:
I am one of the few people NOT on face book.

I do miss out on some 'networking' obviously and there are some groups I would like to be part of. But I just can't be bothered with the whole thing (was on it years ago, but shut it down) and to be honest I do feel it has become the be all and end all for a lot of youngsters especially. To post pictures of their perfect lives and 'like' everything.

Call me old fashioned, but I prefer real people, real conversations. Really can you actually call 439 people your 'friends' truly?

I am still on the early side of thirties, but no, I don't like a lot of it.

Ps. This forum is my guilty pleasure!
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I'm not on it either (aged 50). I don't even own a computer. The ONLY good thing I can see about Facebook is the rapid transfer of information if someone or something has gone missing. Apart from that, well its like those magazines (aimed at women, sigh) with articles about the various soap characters, my husband got my daughter pregnant, you know what I mean. I cannot believe that people actually pay hard cash to buy such tripe, let alone read it (well, look at the pictures anyway). I wouldn't wipe my backside with it.
 
Sometimes people I meet will say, are you on Facebook? Then I apologetically say, 'no', 'sorry'. Why do I have to apologise? But the reality is that fb is the norm. It is quick, instant and in a lot of ways great.

It's the whole posting pics of yourself and folk 'liking' it that I find very self obsessed. I don't mean to inadvertently insult 80 per cent of the population, but there you go.

Laughed at the ladies magazines thing. See the trash you get given to read at the hairdressers!! I should take my own copy of h and h, or something that actually means something, not the car crash trash mags that are obviously extremely popular. Feeding women's insecuries whilst preaching to banish your fears and wrinkles and have the best year ever... Beach body... Etc ....

I'm obviously different to the majority and thank goodness for that.

Gosh, that was a rant.
 
I'm on the committee of my riding club and we use facebook a lot to publicise our events and inform our members of things so it does have a use. We don't allow advertising on our facebook page (other than clinics or shows members may be interested in) partly as we don't want to be so inundated with rubbish that the important messages get missed and partly as we don't want to have to be refereeing things that get out of hand.

I am a member of quite a few groups in my area - again to post info about competitions etc and I really have to bite my tongue. If I started commenting, I don't think I'd stop.

I've often thought about setting up a profile on there specifically to tell people a few home truths! There was one girl on there who could only have been about 16/17. She trying to sell a very badly put together stallion for about 6 months. He started at £3k and in the end she was trying to give him away. I found out later she'd had him PTS as she could sell him - despite people telling her time and time again to get him gelded as this would improve his chances of finding a home. Within a few days of stopping posting about him she was looking for another who lasted about 3 weeks before being advertised for sale as she had arthritis and couldn't jump what she wanted her to jump. The next one was for her boyfriend to learn on and was then being sold after a month becasue they'd split up. The whole thing just keeps going on and on. She must be on the 7th or 8th one now. I had thought she'd stopped but apparently she's just moved out of the area. She's back on there this week though advertising a yearling filly as it's currently in her garden as she has nowhere to keep her!
 
I'm on FB but don't join many horsey groups-have joined and left a couple though, including the turmeric one and a barefoot one. I am on some duck/poultry ones and they are bad enough when it comes to entitled, clueless numpties.
 
GemG said:
It's the whole posting pics of yourself and folk 'liking' it that I find very self obsessed.
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Agree with you there, its incredible how self centred some people are, no I do not want to see seventeen pictures of you posed as selfies but aimed downwards so looking down your top!

A couple of days ago I read an exchange on a group that made the people sound like they were feral, swear words and threats flying about, its just incredible how seriously people take things. I dread to think how many more phonecalls the police get nowadays because of Facebook fallouts!
 
What really gets my goat is the sheer amount of incorrect grammar / spelling. It really winds me up.

I have to slap my fingers to stop myself from correcting everything.
 
Lauren_abigail said:
What really gets my goat is the sheer amount of incorrect grammar / spelling. It really winds me up.

I have to slap my fingers to stop myself from correcting everything.
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You can't do that, you'll be a 'hater' if you do

I saw a brilliant quote:

People can be taught how to HATE and people can be taught how to SPELL but apparently it's one or the other
 
I'm a member of several of these groups (blushes) purely because you occasionally come across something you might actually need.
What has made me gasp recently is the trend of posting photos of weeds, tree's, bushes etc and asking what it is, is it poisonous and so on.
I'm not against people asking for advise but what shocked me are the posts with common weeds like Docks, Ragwort, giant hemlock, surely every one should have a basic knowledge of these?
 
EKW said:
One poppedup on my feed the other day

Wanted free or on loan
12hh pony for my cousins to learn to ride on as their mum can't affo
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Random! It didn't post the rest of the post!

Mum couldn't afford to send them to riding school. The girl will look after the pony on the 2-3 days a week she goes up to the yard and she will teach the kids how to ride. She is 15yo and has ridden for 4 years. Owner must pay livery fees. Must come with tack, be between 8&12yo, capable of jumping and be delivered.

So who will be looking after the pony on the days she doesn't go to the yard? And more to the point is she living in cloud cuckoo land thinking that someone is going to pay to keep their pony on a different yard for a 15yo to faff about with?!?
 
The most recent one, which wasn't even that bad, but I did have to comment on, was someone with a horse with abscesses under it's throat. Everyone was saying sarcoids, but I was like
'er, google Strangles, every image looks identical to this...' I've seen about a thousand sarcoids in my life and I've yet to see one present like that... Perhaps it was a tooth abscess, but in the guttural pouch and lymph nodes under the jaw????

I just hope they did get a vet out instead of putting turmeric and toothpaste on it which seemed to be the leading advice........


(head/desk)
 
Just spotted one offering a stallion for covering for £60 a go (really, £60). I'm really not exaggerating when I say it looks like a cross between a llama and a giraffe, and all these people are commenting how "stunning" he is.
 
Great one from today
I need some advice.... my horse has saddle sores this is the first ever time in his life he has had one. His saddle & harness fits like a glove.

Clearly they don't fit any more
 
Glad to see this is a nationwide issue! A classic from my regional forum, for sale:

"NEED GONE ASAP" referring to a tin of hoof oil...for £5.

WTF?!
 
Silmarillion said:
I once pointed out to a Facebook group user that advertising to sell loads of bute "second hand" was illegal. I got absolutely torn apart. Apparently I was in the wrong for being so mean, and it was "doing no harm".
Unfortunately Facebook agreed that there was nothing wrong with it. Idiots.
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I did the same on a local group where someone was selling a job lot of Gastroguard with the vet's prescription sticker very much on show in the picture.
I got torn a new bottom by the seller for daring to point out it was illegal to sell POM and that whilst she might not be too concerned about any wrong doing, her vet might not be all that happy about it!
 
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