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to be slightly amused at friend's family row unfolding on facebook?

43 replies

wannaBe · 11/12/2008 17:44

So friend's status on facebook this morning read that she was bitterly disappointed at missing her planned day out yesterday. After several comments asking what happened she commented that her parents were supposed to babysit and that they had let her down at the last minute and actually she was fuming about it.

Clearly she seems to have forgotten the fact her mother is on her facebook because a few minutes later a comment popped up from her mother saying "Thanks for that, and actually that's not what happened at all, but if that's what you want people to believe then go ahead."

Now maybe it's mean but I am sniggering slightly at the fact that people live their lives so openly on facebook and that she has clearly not considered the consequences of posting her personal irritations so publically for even her mother to see.

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Libra1975 · 11/12/2008 18:50

My mum said to me the other day after I had told her about some photos my cousin had put up "ohh you will have to teach me how to use facebook so I can see the photos".
That will be a no.

However no friends of mine have had arguments via facebook yet, we must all be quite dull.

Libra1975 · 11/12/2008 18:50

My mum said to me the other day after I had told her about some photos my cousin had put up "ohh you will have to teach me how to use facebook so I can see the photos".
That will be a no.

However no friends of mine have had arguments via facebook yet, we must all be quite dull.

ElectraInExcelsis · 11/12/2008 18:51

Once, a friend made a comment about my boob job on facebook and I kindly asked her to remove it because my parents still don't know about it!

I am amazed at what people will share - countless photos of themselves on the loo drunk and in other compromising situations! Some people seem to live out their whole lives on there and I find that rather strange.

Libra1975 · 11/12/2008 19:00

Really? Haven't they noticed? *curiosity killed the cat.

Libra1975 · 11/12/2008 19:00

I think if I had a boob job and my parents didn't notice at least something different about me I'd want my money back.

ElectraInExcelsis · 11/12/2008 19:56

LOL Libra. Well I'm not sure how they haven't noticed either tbh. Thing is, though I lost them pretty spectacularly after I finished feeding dd2 and when I noticed that I had them done, but only back to the size they were before. However, there is no denying that they look rounder. I think they would never be able to believe I went under the knife for a cosmetic procedure and that is why they haven't thought of it.

Actually I remember walking somewhere with my mum after I had just had it done and my boob jarred and I said 'ouch'. My mum looked at me and said 'I know what's going on here!'(and I momentarily panicked) and then she said 'You haven't eaten anything today'

fortyplus · 11/12/2008 20:23

Someone had already got to my 'cocksucking' friend and this was her excuse!

This was, naturally, accidental. One of [HER 18yo SON'S] idiot friends sent it to me and I was trying to see what the bloody hell it was! I have since left it.

The only kind of cocks I like to suck are chicken legs!

fortyplus · 11/12/2008 20:24

Which does lead me to think what sort of weird 18yo would send his friend's mum an invitation to join the group?!

Hulababy · 11/12/2008 20:37

I read all about my cousin's daughter's unplanned pregancy,t he fact that biyf diserted, then them making up, then ossibly not makign up, then him facing up to the resposponsiblity - oh and her not being happy about it, her being completely unhappy, then it sinking in and being happy, etc. I havn;t seen said girl for well over a year but know all sorts now inc the fact thaat she is about to have a baby boy.

SalLikesEggnogUnderMistletoe · 11/12/2008 20:43

I used to like facebook, mainly as a tool to look at friends' photos. The fact that more and more people are having public fights on there (or discussing their sex lives - ewwww) is really turning me off.

Oh, and no, YANBU - clearly they are asking for it

FrostytheSurfmum · 11/12/2008 20:44

Hula, have you been drinking? I've never seen you make a mistake ever! . I'm not your secret stalker, honestly, but you very often respond in the same way I would.

CuddlyUnderTheMistletoe · 11/12/2008 20:49

I have a facebook account and rules regarding what I do on there...basically nothing that I would not be happy for all my neighbours and their friends to discuss. Another good rule is to post nothing you would not be happy for a future employer to see. Sound advice but not very entertaining for the rest of us!

But I have seen some 'stuff' on there too. A single male friend of mine has announces his cyber sex weekend fest...these are things I don't need to know about

CuddlyUnderTheMistletoe · 11/12/2008 20:51

Announced. I think I was getting excited

SalLikesEggnogUnderMistletoe · 11/12/2008 20:53

Also remember that your friends might change. I had someone who reported to me once add me as a friend a couple of months after she'd posted that she was annoyed at her manager but that they would beg her to stay! She was a long term temp, and I didn't appoint her again after her travels.

kalo12 · 11/12/2008 20:55

did anyone see the man who invented facebook on tv the other week? he was a total nerd charmless twenty something. now he's a multi millionnaire cos of all these fb suckers. its for children

superfrenchie1 · 11/12/2008 21:16

i am friends with my mum on FB (she only has one friend... me... she joined to see some of my pictures... i can't very well delete her from my friends now, can I?) and also some of the people I work with... plus all of dp's family... and i am constantly on the verge of writing a status moaning about dp OR my family OR my job! Luckily have always remembered in time... so far! i walk around thinking in sentences starting "Superfrenchie is..."

and yes FB is crap but also addictive and quite a good way of staying in touch with people...

Hulababy · 11/12/2008 21:18

LOL Frosty - I have had a drink, but very little honest. Just typing at a funny angle on the laptop whilst also uploading the CD collection onto iTunes. So not good. Have noticed how bad my typing is on a couple fo threads though, so moved laptop round a bit.

I felt a bit like I was reading Cod's posts rather than my own, lol!

wannaBe · 11/12/2008 21:23

well the comments from her mother have mysteriously disappeared, so i suspect she was suitable embarrassed.

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