Are you 'friends' with your parents on Facebook?

[Melittlebee]

I've temporarily deactivated my Facebook account because my parents make me cringe with their overly gushing comments. They aren't loving people in real life but on Facebook they profess to be the worlds greatest!

We don't have a good relationship for various reasons.

I'm on maternity leave and I actually miss being on Facebook as it's a good way of keeping on touch with people since being a mummy. (I literally only have friends on there and not hundreds of people)

I'd like to reactivate my account but block my parents!! Is this too awful to do?

My adult children are friends with me, their choice, I didn’t ask them. I mostly post pictures of my dogs and on the rare occasion I post pictures of the children (family weddings etc) I check first and show them the picture first.

We are, but I don't follow her as her political posts wind me up too much, and I do limit what she sees of mine.

When teenage DD went on social media she blocked my mum's accounts at the outset and tells her she's not on any!

I won't allow my mother to have a Facebook 😂😂 she asked me to make her one and I said if she wanted to have one she'd need to learn how to use it herself.
My dad has a profile that he uses to keep up with old army colleagues, I've never added him.

Oh and my step dad isn't allowed one due to his job.

Particularly weird to be “friends” with your parents
In what way do you mean? Weird that they are connected to you on Fb , because that what being friends means in this context , so perfectly normal or bring friends with your parents- literally, which isn't weird, its again perfectly normal for many families when you are all adults.

My kids added me and Dp to their fb. It's a handy information source both for fun and keeping updated. I usually share with them information I've seen about ticket releases, latest sport news in the niche sport we follow, Ds normally posts pictures from our town from 100 years ago from some page he follows.

Of course! My mum is my best friend. It would be strange if I didn't have her as a Facebook friend.

My parents are dead but I have an aunt and uncle on there, plus my ex in laws.
Dd17 and I have each other on there.

I divide my Facebook groups so I have family friends and acquaintances and one group can't see another. Otherwise id go mad. My son flatly refuses to have me on his Facebook at all.

Yes. But my mum doesn't actually know how to work it and rarely goes on and my dad is more into Twitter He just likes the odd photo I put up. They are divorced though so no gushing from them (and I don't think they're friends with each other anyway). I'm in my 30s and they're in their 50s.

My MIL on the other hand. Cringe. I cannot post anything without her commenting on it, and she constantly shares all the crap "if you care about X you'll share this" and the "share this post if you love your children/miss your mum/love your grandchildren". It drives me up the wall. I've unfollowed her, she'd be really hurt if I unfriended her. She's not cringey or annoying in real life so I've no idea why she is so on SM!

I am with my DM & FIL. I've set FIL to limited profile and I unfollowed him as he rarely makes an effort to see us so I don't want him seeing anything to do with us or DS to make him lazier when it comes to making any effort. DM on the other hand is very loving publicly on posts, but I just scroll past.

Just stop following them (you don't have to block them) and restrict the posts they see.

Yes with both, and my MIL, plus several other family members of varying ages. But they all post 'normal' kind of posts and aren't actually overly active online as it is.
I do have some family members on restricted so they only see certain posts of mine. And a couple of younger family friends I am friends with but don't follow - can't be doing with the constant stream of teenage posts that they particularly put on every two minutes.

I've not only got parents but also the girlfriends of my sons, their parents and in the case of the older son, his girlfriends grandparents.

I know plenty of people who are friends with their parents on Facebook and that's fine.

I don't want mine going through old uni pics where I was doing something stupid or clad wearing only Asda bags

Yes I am. They arent too bad. Occasionally say something a bit annoying but they are okay with social media really.
My father in law however winds me up no end. He left my husbands mum when my husband was 4 and ran off with a much younger women to Korea. Apparently he was also quite violent to my MIL and thought my husband had learning issues and wanted nothing to do with him. Hes has very little input in anyone's actual upbringing...
But its constant comments under pictureslike 'I'm so proud of my wonderful son' and he also writes out soppy poems about the grandchildren. It boils my piss.
I did once block him but he went nuts about it publicly 'what did I do to be cut out from my wonderful families life, I have shed so many tears and thought about what I could do to show them my love' etc etc etc
I couldn't take the drama so I just unblocked him and I just try my best to ignore it all...