...and childish to...

[bottleofbeer]

Stick my bottom lip out, cross my arms and not wish my cousin a happy birthday on FB? I have a party planned for my son's birthday this week, it's a big party in a function suite and despite constantly being on FB he's not bothered to RSVP the event and ignored messages outright asking him if he's coming as I need numbers for catering? No family issues, we get on fine but this utter ignorance is making me silently seethe and want to do the equivalent of flicking the V's and telling him to shove his birthday up his arse .

:o YANBU (I have a SIL a bit like this) uninvite him and don't mention his birthday :) hope your son has a fab party

Haha! urgh it jst pisses me off so much though. Literally half a minte of your time to let someone know. I've always been to any occasion they've invited me to because I wouldn't let family down without good reason, and even then I'd tell them!

Meh.

How about a phone call?

Well I hope you don't make up a party bag for him!

I don't always reply to events I'm invited to on FB.

It's FB, not real life!

Some people FB invite the world and her husband so don't even take FB invites all that seriously.

That's like saying it's ok to not RSVP to an invite that dropped through the letterbox, and invite is an invite whatever the medium surely? If you've got notifications turned off you may not even realise you have one, hence the actual message asking outright. Phonecall, FB, invite in the post? what's the difference and how does it make it less rude to completely ignore somebody asking you so they have catering numbers? for every person that doesn't show up I've as good as thrown money away.

There's a difference between some random group you're in sending constant invites to XZY and a family member inviting you to their child's significant age birthday party though.

Definitely no party bag for him :)