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catherine
10-3-20, 5:43pm
...pictures of their glass of wine?


(Just a fun thread to ask what compels people to post certain things. All rhetorical questions. No answers to the questions are required.)
happystuff
10-3-20, 6:39pm
Maybe they don't have kids or pets? Or maybe they do!!

I have no idea, but I think it ranks right up there with the many folks who post photos of their filled plates before they eat.
Teacher Terry
10-3-20, 7:01pm
Yes I find both pictures of drinks and food stupid.
razz
10-3-20, 7:48pm
Well, when I try a new recipe that is different, I will email a photo to family members who will email photos of their trials and successes. FB makes no sense to me but could it be a form of similar sharing?
Jane v2.0
10-3-20, 10:25pm
I don't get the lovingly curated booze photos, but drinks are so expensive now it's like having a record of wretched excess. :D
Some of the more exotic mixed drinks do look good to me, I admit. But not that good.
Tradd
10-3-20, 10:47pm
Well, I’d prefer that to political posts.
rosarugosa
10-4-20, 6:15am
Well, I’d prefer that to political posts.

Definitely - I'll drink to that! Occasionally I'll post a picture if DH creates fancy cocktails for us or we discover a new beverage.

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sweetana3
10-4-20, 7:19am
A friend is doing a food/drink tour of New Orleans right now. Four meals a day with small plates and sharing. She posts the meals and drinks and menus for those of us who cannot or will not travel. The couple is in the food business and we are learning a lot.

But seeing how much a few others drink (because of all their posts) is sometimes disconcerting when I realize they are drinking and driving.
iris lilies
10-4-20, 7:59am
Pictures of meals at interesting restaurants would be ok with me. I appreciate the pictures of menu items tied to Yelp reviews.

But honestly, I only have a handful of FB friends and I turn off their feed anyway. My feed is full of flowers and bulldogs from those organizations.
Jane v2.0
10-4-20, 10:43am
Mine is full of cats and politics--from the sublime to the ridiculous. :~)
jp1
10-7-20, 6:14pm
Looking through the last 4 years of pics I've posted on facebook there were 6 or 7 photos of drinks, mostly from when we were on vacation, and about an equal number of food pics, also from when we were on vacation. By far the most pics I have posted were pics of our two cats.

Right now with covid my friends' food and drink pics are all about showing off what they have made for themselves, which is mostly a new thing (one friend in particular was a chef in his prior life so he's been making fantastic looking meals practically every night of the week for months). Before covid it was lots of pics of food and drinks in fancy restaurants/bars.