Reels on Facebook

If you’re on Facebook, you’ve probably scrolled and have seen a string of Reels for viewing.

A lot of them are confusing because you have no idea what you’re supposed to be looking at.

Many are of babies / toddlers eating a new food for the first time, learning to walk, crying, and a million other things children at that age do. Note to parents: you may think your kid is cute and is the only kid on the planet that has ever made a face while trying new foods, but I assure you that Adam and Eve’s kids did the same thing.

And if I see one more video of a gender reveal, I may petition Congress to sterilize every female in this country. Whoever came up with this idea should be tarred and feathered.

Ok, admittedly I’m older than dirt. When I was bearing children over fifty years ago, the only thing I did to advertise my pregnancy, other than a protruding belly, was a shirt I wore that said Under Construction with an arrow pointing down to my stomach.

My mother thought that was in poor taste.

Let’s make this even more interesting. My mother’s generation didn’t have pictures of pregnant women. The pregnant women, in a family photo, stood in the back behind other people so as not to show anyone that they actually had sex and got pregnant.

Ok, back to the Reels on Facebook.

There’s TON of Reels showing viewers how to ‘reset’ their house. That means that they do the dishes, throw in a load of wash, wipe down the counters, mop the floors, pick up toys, fold blankets, take a few gulps of water / wine /coffee in between these tasks, and then they present a tidy house to the viewer.

Really? This is not newsworthy. Since I was five, including today, I made my bed every morning. When we’re done eating I do the dishes. When it’s Tuesday the floors get mopped, the rugs get vacuumed, and the furniture gets dusted. The bathroom gets cleaned daily.

I don’t need to ‘reset’ my house every Sunday night. Never did. Not even while working full time, raising kids, cooking meals from scratch at least five nights a week, took the kids to their activities, coached little league, and put on the best performances for Christmas and birthday’s that I could afford.

The women in these reels act like they just invented cleaning a house. How did this get to be headline news?

If you stop making ‘how-to’ reels, editing them, and posting them to Facebook, you just might have more free time to do things that don’t annoy the rest of us.