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Too many selfies, ranting about politics and Liking your own profile picture have been named among the top 25 social media sins, according to research.

A poll of 2,000 phone-mad Brits also found four in ten get wound up by cryptic, attention-seeking status updates designed to elicit sympathy from friends and family.

It also emerged Brits commit more than four social sins per week, and half reckon that trolling someone online is the worst thing you can do.

The study was conducted by online casino Casumo.com, whose spokesman Greg Tatton-Brown said: New technology, including smartphones, have given us a lot of great gifts.

They mean were never far from information, or being able to contact loved ones as well as games and other entertainment.

However, as theyve become ubiquitous certain behaviours around them, and social media in particular, have proven to really wind many of us up.

A quarter of irritated respondents said posting too many pictures of your kids is a definite social media 'no-no'.

And one fifth get cheesed off by people who constantly post social media updates about their food including unappetising looking pictures.

However, one in five admitted posting a picture of their dinner plate on social media in the past, according to the research carried out by OnePoll.

And one in ten have posted multiple pictures of their pet onto social networking sites like Facebook or Twitter.

And four in ten have unfollowed or unfriended someone for simply being too annoying on social media.

A further 27 per cent have muted them so they dont need to see their posts, without the awkwardness of an 'unfriending'.

A quarter even reckon its happened to THEM, with over half getting upset, saying they didnt realise they were irritating their peers.

Facebook has been condemned as the worst social media platform for annoying behaviour in its users, picking up six times more votes than its nearest rival, Twitter.

Fifteen per cent of respondents have even unfollowed their PARTNER on social media because of their annoying online personas.

Four in ten said they go on regular social media detoxes because the online world has become just too annoying to be a part of.

Casumo.coms Greg Tatton-Brown said: Although our survey was definitely light-hearted and aimed to find some of the funnier habits of social media users, we found that many people do get genuinely peeved by things they find online.

We believe that everything should be as fun as possible, and so if social media is proving to annoy you, take a short break and reflect on what makes it great.

And you can always come off it entirely theres no law that says we must be connected 24 hours a day, after all.

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Top 25 social media sins have been revealed - but how many do you actually commit? - Mirror.co.uk