To think this is well rank?

[chegirlwithbellson]

Know I am not but what the hell.

Just been on to Facebook. Nephew and his girlfriend announced their newly single statuses (what is the plural for status? Stati?) a week or so ago. I thought at the time . They are not teenagers, they are in their twenties and have a child plus she has kids from previous relationship.

But then I am a lot older than them and prepared to believe that this sort of thing is acceptable amoungst the youngsters of today (yeah whatever).

Now its gone to a new level of rankness. Status from him 'DNA DNA DNA she is not mine'.
Then messages flying back and forth about this. All visable to any friends and family members who wish to read this nastiness.

Another rank dimension is that this part of the family are DS's birth family and his birth mum is joining in gleefully with lots of 'LOL shes mine' and other comments that show she hasnt changed a great deal.

Isnt this just foul and depressing? His girlfriend is not awful, she is not bad but it seems that people just dont seem to think about what they are doing on FB.

So tempted to tell them to leave it alone but cannot bear the backlash I would get from birth mother just before Christmas. She has been pretty quite lately and dont want to stir it up TBH.

At least in the old days we knew this went on but we didnt have to bloody see it!

it never fails to amaze me the things people put on their status'

Me neither but this is taking things to a whole new level of classlessness.

They sound like they should be on Jeremy Kile!
[fshock}

That is beyond tacky

Yes, it is rank but stay out of it!!

It's chavtastic in the extreme!
But the best you can do (given your sensible reluctance to stir things up further) is to send out for snacks while you draw up a chair and watch the drama play out.

At first I thought you were writing about my cousin and his GF. They have just changed their status's to single, but they are still living together and have a 11 month old DS. Looking at convos between various people, it looks like they are waiting until xmas then going to decide then. All this for everyone to see.

Anyway, your bit about putting anything on. my cousin (from above) put something awful about his "fucking GF, who the fuck does she think she is, fucking stupid bitch" as his FB status before. As I know he had been violent before, I rang my nan to tell her, who then told his mum. He doesn't know it came from me (not that I give a damn) and his own sister also told their mum. Their mum obviously had a word with him about it and now he has deleted me and won't go to my nans if I am there etc. It pathetic family politics that really piss me off, but I sometimes wonder why we have these people on our FB friends. I wanted to delete him before, but thought there may be 'backlash' also.

Delete them, then you won't be tempted to do anything. BTW I am tempted to message cousin and tell him that I can still see his profile and he should change his privacy settings if he doesn't want me to read what he has put, but I won't.

How awful!

Very Jeremy Kyle

Put them on "hide".

Very rank - but somehow rather thrilling in it's rankness

I'm so glad we didn't have FB (or indeed computers) when I was a teenager. It really seems like anything goes in public view nowadays

The only reason I have them on my FB is 1.so I can see pictures of my great neice (mum is not too bad) and they sometimes post pics of DS's half sibling on there and

1. so i can keep half an eye on what birth mother is up to.

Otherwise they would be off for sure.

You can hide them from your feed so you don't see their updates etc, but can still wander over and look at their page when the mood suits.

Think its called Katieandreitis - its an illness where the patient seems to think that everyone wants to know every aspect of their "private" life.

LOL Tubby, that sounds about right.

Ta Morloth. I think that is a good idea.

I still think I am going to get a call from Jeremy Vile one day. I suspect b.mum has already tried to get on the show.

Would be funny if it wasnt so bloody tragic.