Fakebook
Okay, before I start my rant I'm just going to admit that I am one of those stupid SMs that accepted a friend request from BM. My reasoning was something along the lines of "keep your friends close, but your enemies closer". I keep her hidden from my feed, but sometimes when I am feeling masochistic, I check in on her page. Here are some pieces of bullshit I discovered last night:
- oldest SD does travel volleyball. BM has been ONCE. when she doesn't go, my DH sends her pics and videos of the game. BM then posts those pics/videos saying things like "so proud of my SD!". NOT, "I wasn't at this game but look at how good she is"
- the travel volleyball is in other states sometimes (we live in the northeast) and so to get to a game at noon, you sometimes have to leave at 5 AM. DH does this 99% of the time. again the ONE time BM went, huge post about how she loves SD so much she got up early to drive her. Well let's throw a parade! It's called being a parent, jack-ass
It took every ounce of restraint I had last night not to post in the comments "oh you were at the game?" for the pictures she posted where I knew she wasn't and "yes, DH gets up at 5 all the time to drive, sorry you had to do it once"
ESPECIALLY since yesterday she decided AGAIN that younger SD was "too sick" to go to school and then dropped her off at my house at 9 AM. This woman doesn't even work, decides to buy SD's bullshit "illness" and then doesn't even deal with the consequences of her being home.
Grrrrr...
Now, before I get attacked about getting what I asked for by being connected to her on FB let me just clarify that I am not asking for advice. I'm am simply venting here so I don't completely unleash inappropriately elsewhere.
Feel free to share any Fakebook stories you have too because misery loves company.
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I'm friends with the skids on
I'm friends with the skids on FB but not with BM. Unfortunately she tags them in almost all of her pics so I get to see her crap anyway. I have seriously considered dropping the skids, but DH likes that I'm FB friends with them. Ugh. I could block her I guess, just haven't yet. Maybe I will right now--just seeing her name roll across my feed can turn my mood.
Just because she wasn't at
Just because she wasn't at the game doesn't she isn't proud of her daughter. What in the world does one have to do with the other??? :? :?
Based on the blogs posted about parents attending SKs'games, your husband is just as bad as BM. According to many posters here, neither one of them is doing this sports thing "right". Mom isn't attending enough, and your husband is attending to many. So they both suck.LOL
I'm friends with the skids on
I'm friends with the skids on FB and occasionally look at BMs public page.
SD(26) is in Europe right now. She's turned her phone off because of the cost to use it there. She did however send a FB private message to us and another one to BM telling us shed made it safe and sound.
BM didn't think it was her! She thought SD had been kidnapped and someone was faking her FB message. sheesh!
She posted on SDs page that she needed to talk to her, that she was very worried and if anyone saw this have SD call her (on the phone so she'd know it was really SD). SD was very embarrassed, it was day one of a 2 month trip!
This is a pretty radical
This is a pretty radical idea, and one which most Facebook users would never consider.
Get off of FB!
My SO and I have never been on it. I have a pseudonym account I just set up so I can see the basics (including my workplace's page) but otherwise I don't play this "social" game. I'm seeing all these repercussions - like BM and Skids - and every one sharing too much, fixating on responses they get, etc. For those with narcissistic tendencies, it's like heroin. I seriously think it's a disease on society.
I have a childhood friend who I only talk to via phone. She spend quite some time telling me about all the drama she had with people on FB, especially political rants, and it actually ended some long-term friendships she had. She readily acknowledges that these friends would never confront others in person with their opinions or rants, but social media allows them to do so.
I told her I am always a phone call away - and I prefer my relationships one-on-one. I wish more people would go back to those basics ... and stop feeding the Facebook monster. After all, all that info you are "sharing" now belongs to a company, which ultimately is all about making money. I don't want my life to be nothing more than an advertising opportunity. Thus, count me out.