Facebook SNAFU's

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Philosopher B.

Nice stuff. Especially liked 'Following in Mom's Footsteps'.
 
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I'm gonna set everything to the highest privacy setting ever. And then remove my Facebook account. And then burn my computer.
 
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Deschain

If my parents could grasp the concept of the URL bar and tabs, then I might have something to worry about.
 
My aunts, uncles, cousins, and parents are all on my Facebook. Maybe I've just got a good family, but nothing I do or say in real life, I feel, could really make things strange.

I'm more concerned about the people who show up in my feed and I can't remember ever meeting them ... ever. It's fine for the few Halforums people I've gotten around to adding, but when I can't figure out how I'm connected to a person I get confused.
 
My family is on my facebook too. I don't ever type anything embarrassing so its cool.

However, the same family also follows the husband....and he makes very strange posts.

My favorite was something like...:

"Currently on my nightstand there is a baby bottle, a bottle of lube, condoms and a 1970's Flash Action figure. I think my life is in a strange place."

The responses were..interesting.
 
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Wasabi Poptart

I'm friends with my mom and a few of my cousins on FB. If I lived near them I probably wouldn't bother.
 
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Chazwozel

My aunts, uncles, cousins, and parents are all on my Facebook. Maybe I've just got a good family, but nothing I do or say in real life, I feel, could really make things strange.

I'm more concerned about the people who show up in my feed and I can't remember ever meeting them ... ever. It's fine for the few Halforums people I've gotten around to adding, but when I can't figure out how I'm connected to a person I get confused.

I get along with my family too, it's just I act a certain way around my parents, aunts, uncles I guess. I dunno. I like to keep family stuff separate from my social stuff for some reason.
 
I get along with my family too, it's just I act a certain way around my parents, aunts, uncles I guess. I dunno. I like to keep family stuff separate from my social stuff for some reason.
Right, and that makes sense. I guess the only way I act differently between people is that I don't curse so much in front of people who take offense (like my mother), or make dirty jokes around people who don't like it. That said, even the people I censor myself around know that I both laugh at and make dick jokes, or that I do occasionally swear like a sailor. Which I guess is why I can get away being facebook friends with my mother.
 
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Philosopher B.

I'm not on Facebook, but I'd never friend my parents in a gazillion years. Would definitely have my siblings on there, though.

Edit: Except TwoBit, he kind of sucks. :p
 
I'm Facebook friends with my brother, but would never friend my parents. There's just some stuff you don't want them to know.
 
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RocketGirl

Am I the only one who considers it weird to be facebook friends with your parents/aunts/uncles, kinda strange?
Naw, it's a little weird. Fortunately, I have only one family member on board--my cousin Adam--but even so...I can empathize with it feeling like parental supervision has gone 24/7 even after one hits age thirty-mumble. :)

And, heh..."You spelled congratulations wrong." Pure comedy gold! :)
 
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Soliloquy

The trouble is, when your parents decide they want to use facebook, and they send you a friend request, you can't exactly deny them.
 
My entire goddamn family has facebook. My GRANDMOTHER has one.

I don't go on facebook nearly as much anymore.
 
The trouble is, when your parents decide they want to use facebook, and they send you a friend request, you can't exactly deny them.
Well, my mom understood that I didn't want her as a facebook friend (and thus her facebook account died, but still). It's my italian family who doesn't seem to understand I like (most of) them to be a country away.
 
"Sorry mom, I don't know why your friend request didn't go through. Computers, you know? They do weird stuff..."


*denies her request again*

I might feel bad lying to my mother, but it's the little lies that spare our relationship.
 
Actually, If you look for my real name on facebook, you'll find I have two accounts. Now, all I need is a plan to get the family I don't want on facebook to befriend this puppet account.

I still don't know how, so he lingers, with no friends.

I think I'll make me a friend of him, and say I'm in a relationship with myself. Wich is pretty accurate.
 
I don't really use facebook to post anything personal, mostly use it specifically to keep in touch with my family since I don't live near ANY of them and I really don't have any interest in calling each and every one of them constantly.
 

Cajungal

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I have a ridiculous amount of "friends" because most of them are leftovers from when it was a just a student website. I just looking for anyone I'd went to school with, talked to a lot of them, and then kind of forgot they were there. I never bothered to clean it up, either... but I should. I blocked so many people from my front page after it got congested with stuff like: "GOINGGG OUTTT TONITE W/ MYYY BOYYFRREIIIIIIIND!!11! LUV YA BABE LOL!!!!!!!" and other things I generally just don't need to hear every Friday afternoon.
 
I'm facebook friends with my father and sister. I don't post much of a personal nature on there, so there's little to worry about. Considering the circumstances in our lives that kept my sister and I apart, Facebook has been great in helping us build our relationship. But, man, that girl has a mouth on her...and I thought *I* was bad.
 

ElJuski

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I have a ridiculous amount of "friends" because most of them are leftovers from when it was a just a student website. I just looking for anyone I'd went to school with, talked to a lot of them, and then kind of forgot they were there. I never bothered to clean it up, either... but I should. I blocked so many people from my front page after it got congested with stuff like: "GOINGGG OUTTT TONITE W/ MYYY BOYYFRREIIIIIIIND!!11! LUV YA BABE LOL!!!!!!!" and other things I generally just don't need to hear every Friday afternoon.
What DO you need to hear on facebook?

Though yes, I have cleaned out my facebook friends from time to time with annoying people as well :p
 
I clean up facebook friends every once in a while. A couple try to re-add me. I always wonder what goes through their mind if they get removed or rejected.

"What ho, this rejection has really set my monocle slightly off kilter. Indeed, now I can hardly enjoy my collection of Dickens. Now, Allen seems a fellow of good will, and surely if he had known just what kind of an angle he caused my monocle to take, he would not have so flippantly rejected my request. I will attempt to add him again, allowing him to correct his grievous error."
 
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Ezeran

I clean up facebook friends every once in a while. A couple try to re-add me. I always wonder what goes through their mind if they get removed or rejected.

"What ho, this rejection has really set my monocle slightly off kilter. Indeed, now I can hardly enjoy my collection of Dickens. Now, Allen seems a fellow of good will, and surely if he had known just what kind of an angle he caused my monocle to take, he would not have so flippantly rejected my request. I will attempt to add him again, allowing him to correct his grievous error."
Oh man I need a monocle and a top hat.

Possibly as pipe that creates bubbles as well
 
Yeah, the first time I got a facebook friend request from a guy I regularly arrest was the only excuse I needed to forever delete my account.
 
Yeah, the first time I got a facebook friend request from a guy I regularly arrest was the only excuse I needed to forever delete my account.
That's why I never write my whole name on the arrest forms. *grins* Or on ANY police documentation, for that matter. If I had my druthers, I'd remove my first name from my ID card, too. Mind you, no-one ever asks to see police ID.

Oh, wait...
 
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