FB advice: Brag but do it right

Well, you aren't alone. As it turns out, just about everyone seems to have had enough of the holiday braggies on their feed. Here's why...
It was expected to be one of the hottest travel trends of 2015, according to a study conducted by travel experts back in 2014, and holiday braggies sure have lived up to those expectations.Why wait to show off your tan after returning from a beach holiday , when you can instantly post photos of yourself enjoying the sun, sand and sea.and brag some about your holiday? But most braggie photos are now leaving others more bored than jealous. As holiday updates flood our Facebook timelines, Lucknowites tell us why the trend needs some tweaking to become more bearable this summer.
Place it right
So you went to a fabulous holiday destination, and you clicked glamourous pics of yourself.But here's what you need to remember before posting those photos on your social networking account: it's about the destination you're in, not just you.As Charu Samarth, IT professional-tur ned-entrepreneur puts it, “You're going to look the same wherever you are, so if you're on a holiday and are posting pics from there, there should be something of the location in the background. Otherwise, what's the point?“ Viraj Mohan, businessman, couldn't agree more. “I'm all for posting pics of holidays to fancy places. In fact, I don't grudge it if my friends or family post holiday braggies. Travelling is great...The more you travel, the more cultures you see, the more enriched you are. But clicking bad selfies on holidays is just bad style,“ he says, “I'd really like to see the Stonehenge, and compare the Niagara Falls from the US and Canadian sides or any of the places you've been to, in the pics, and not just you."
One too many
“I actually love going through photos of my FB friends on holiday," says Sakshi Singh, an executive in a corporate, “But I can't stand when someone posts 100 photos of the same kind. We all have digital cameras, so we can click as many shots of the same thing as we want, but we've got to screen those photos before we upload all of them!"
The bottomline: Keep the numbers of your holiday braggies under check. But there's more, says Aviral Jain, 20-something-old entrepreneur. “Even if someone has to post 100 photos of their holiday , I just wish they would do it at one go, so they appear on your feed only once and if you want to ignore it, you can. But when people post 5 or 10 pics from their vacation every few minutes, it keeps popping up on your feed all day , and it's irritating," he says.
Tag and brag
Of course, holiday braggies never were meant to please others, least of all people who've had to stay put at home even when others are vacationing. But you can't make it worse for them by tagging them in your holiday photos when they weren't even there with you. Yes, that happens. As Jitin Rakesh (name changed), businessman, shares, “Call it a blessing or media settings on my account, but posts from distant relatives and not-so-close friends do not appear in my feed. It's always a pleasure to follow the exploits of close friends and family through their travel updates. The problem arises when one fine morning you realise some random person has tagged you along with 35 others in some holiday or worse honeymoon pics..."
And why would someone do that, you wonder? Of course, to garner more `likes'! “Or so that you just don't miss that photo," adds Shamona Farhat Khan, homemaker, “I mean, why would you tag me in your photo at a car wash in LA?!"
Don't like holiday braggies?
Don't view them
Sangita Jaiswal, homemaker and bibliophile, however, says whether someone wants to post 90 inane pics of their holiday or none, shouldn't bother anyone. “Everyone likes to brag, if it's not about their holiday, it will be about their writing or art or whatever else they do. So I don't judge anyone for posting holiday braggies," she says in earnest, adding, “I'm sure people will outgrow the childish practice of posting innumerable photos of the same kind, even if they're all good, when they realise it wearies people. Till then, you just always skip a post about someone's holiday if you don't want to view it."
A point reiterated by Viraj. “There are so many privacy controls you can use on Facebook to screen posts. If you don't want to see someone's photos, you don't need to."
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