My mother's on Facebook!!! AARRRGGGHHH!!!!!!!!!

[Rhythm]

I couldn't turn down the 'friend request' i got from her yesterday... but honestly, she and i couldn't have less in common if we went out of our way to do so.

I'm hoping that she'll get annoyed/offended enough with the things that my friends and i post that she'll just go away.

[KeepItReal]

1. So it's official: Everyone *and* their mama is on Facebook

;-)

[Rhythm]

2. .

:rofl:

[yvr girl]

3. I'm not

and I don't think my mama is either.

[Rhythm]

5. Well then, you're missing the rest of the Lounge!

We have a couple of DU groups on Facebook as well.

[SammyWinstonJack]

39. I am not and I doubt my long lost mama is either.

Or maybe she is and I might find her. I don't care too though.

[Rhythm]

4. At least i can be relativly assured that she'll never show up here...

I think her head would explode in the virtual proximity of so many OMG LIB'RALS!!!

[stuntcat]

6. lol me too

She has 3 friends :blush:

She's not that different from me, except her age and relative corniness :p She just wants to see what I'm up to maybe. It's weird though, I bet my friends are like "WHY is her mom on here?"

[Rhythm]

7. In the case of mine, she's a fundie, Freeper-type...

The head-butting between us has been legendary.

The only thing i will give her a little credit for is that she hasn't shunned me because i'm queer.
Heck, i think she likes Lyric better than she ever did my ex-husband. *L*

[stuntcat]

9. oh, awful!

I bet she does like looking at your Facebook though! She's gotta have a little wisdom buried in her someplace for understanding you being yourself :hug:

[Rhythm]

11. I've been quietly encouraging my friends to leave wild comments on my wall...

just hoping she'll get annoyed with it enough to just leave me alone.

I have a couple of good friends from here who have volunteered to be particularly objectionable, should the need arise. *L*

[rcrush]

8. I would have denied the friend request.

Or just deleted my facebook page cause that is just not worth it.

[Rhythm]

10. I accepted it because at some point, i have to make an appearance at the old home place...

I have little or nothing in common with most of my relatives, except my grandmother (mom's mom), but her health is failing.

I would never, ever delete my profile... i've reconnected with too many old friends that way in the last year, but there are more that i'm still trying to find.

[leftyclimber]

12. I'm lucky my grandmother is still alive.

My mom avoids the internet like the plague to keep from getting the nutty emails my nana forwards (I, OTOH, am not so fortunate). Racist diatribes about my wonderful aunt from Mexico and how she's a terrible, lazy mother because she's Mexican (she's a great mom and a wonderful person, but God help Nana, she's BROWN....), that kind of stuff.

I have a Facebook account and hardly use it, but I'd feel really weird if my mom tried to friend me. She's not entirely freepy (that's my dad's job), but she's got some pretty odd ideas about how the world works....

[Rhythm]

14. This caught me out of the blue... i mean, my mom's not a Luddite, but

It took her a long, LONG time to get the hang of e-mail.

Weirdly, she 'friended' me first, before even thinking about adding my younger brother.

I should send her to MySpace, and give her links to a couple of my half-sibs (dad's kids from his 2nd-of-3 marriages), so she'll get distracted looking at pics of her long-lost grandkids or something. *L*

[leftyclimber]

17. That's my other saving grace.

My brother has (a)procreated and (b) moved back to our hometown. She's way too distracted by the offspring to explore the intertubes.....

Sounds like your mom friending you would be like my Nana friending me. Ack.

[Rhythm]

20. My mom qualifies for a charter membership in the FFFH

Fundie Freaks From Hell.

:hug:

[leftyclimber]

22. Ah, yes.

Cut from the same bolt, I'm sure.

:hug:

[GOPisEvil]

13. Oh, God, I think I'd shit twice and die if my mom showed up on Facebook.

Not that she would, but if she ever did, I would NOT be happy. There are just some things a mother shouldn't know. Even at 40, the boy is scared of mommy. :P

[flvegan]

15. Seconded. To the nth power.

[Dr. Strange]

38. Your mother was on my Facebook.

What are things I regularly tell Trebek...with an extra syllable "book" added to the end?
Ahahahahahahaha!

[Rhythm]

16. I was scared of mine as a kid (long story for another day)

But now, it's just clashes of ideology and politics and religion and so on...

And i'm 500 miles away, and have been at least that for the past 10 years.

[GOPisEvil]

18. We're actually somewhat close.

But there are some things that I would just rather not explain, from the mundane to the, um, not so mundane. :D

At least we don't fight about politics or religion.

[ghostsofgiants]

19. Mine too.

I have her on my Limited Profile list, haha.

[Rhythm]

21. What is this 'limited profile' of which you speak, and how have i missed this?

:shrug:

[ghostsofgiants]

30. Settings -> Privacy -> Profile

I think you can set it up from there somehow. I forget exactly how.

[KitchenWitch]

23. Anything in particular you want me to post?

:evilgrin:

[Rhythm]

24. I can't think of anything premeditated, KW... but i'm sure that between you and Oedi

She won't last long... *L*

This is why i love my friends so very, very much.

[KitchenWitch]

26. Let me and Oedi tag team her!

:P

[Rhythm]

27. Throw Mctatas into the mix, and she'll have to be re-baptized or something...

Y'all are all bad... which is good in my world.

[Debi]

32. Wait..I want in on this! n/t

[Rhythm]

35. Of course! The more, the scarier!

:hi:

[last_texas_dem]

25. My mother *and* my (85 year old) grandmother are on Facebook

I'm not, though... It's kind of funny that my grandma is more up on what the "kids these days" are into to than I am! haha

[ThomCat]

28. My brother and sister are on Facebook

but we don't speak, so they're not "friends" of mine. But I don't have any privacy restrictions on my page, and I've already learned that my sister snoops my page periodically and snips and snipes to family about anything she doesn't like.

:shrug:

Family is a birth defect, but it's one you can mostly out-grow and leave behind. I try not to worry about it.

[FloridaJudy]

29. I would *really* freak out

Seeing as how my mother's been dead for ten years. Not that she'd do it anyway: she was a computer phobe.

If anyone's going to contact me from beyond the grave via Facebook, it would have to be my father. Not only did he love playing with computers (and this was thirty years ago), but the temptation for him to check out the dirty jokes would be irresistible.

[Debi]

31. My Grandmother is on Facebook!

So are my mom and dad. :wow:

I love it everytime my dad says 'Oh, I don't know how to do that, I just get on to look at the pictures you kids post' and I get to respond, "Well, Grandma just joined the Mafai, but whatever you're probably too old to understand that stuff". (Grandma is 91)!

[whistler162]

33. At least you didn't send her a friend request and have it

turned down!

Of course the therapy bills will probably be the same either way.

[wickerwoman]

34. Facebook should really let you categorize people better

and then filter what each group can see. I have family, co-workers, real friends and obligatory reciprocal "friends" who I don't really want to see that much. Also complete strangers who add me as friends as a joke (like everyone who has the same name as me has added me as a friend). I'm a completely different person with each of these groups. I added a lot of business associates because I'm too lazy to keep track of their contact information any other way but I really don't want them seeing how much I goof off with online games or what kinds of movies I like. So I stopped posting anything individualized and just use Facebook as a kind of online address book that other people update for me.

[malta blue]

36. my mom is too.

Just block her from things if you want, but don't turn her down.

[gblady]

37. my sons...

when I joined facebook with some friends...
I asked my guys by email if we could be friends...
because I did not want to embarass them...
they both said don't be silly, you don't need to ask...
we get along really well though and are pretty close.
I suppose that makes a difference.

I do like to take a peek now and then on their wall
to see what they are up to...
not too many surprises!