August 3rd, 2007
Here’s the scenario.
My DAD just asked me to be a FRIEND on FACEBOOK!
Facebook has the keys to my entire online life.
A life that he doesn’t know about!
A life I don’t want him to know about.
Now tell me, oh so knowledgeable internets.
How the FUCK! do I reject my own father on FACEBOOK without hurting his feelings!?
Oh for the love of all things Holy!
I just envision Sunday dinner.
“Sam, didn’t you get my request on Facebook? How come you haven’t added me yet?”
*shakes head*
I need a motherfuckin’ drink.
Yikes! Totally tough call there. And thank God I’ll never have the same decision to make, my mother couldn’t even TURN ON a pc let alone figure out Facebook and my father’s already knows all my shizz cus I can feel him evil-eye’n me from up above. I AM freaking out about the thought of my mother in law wanting to join my group…
So…are you gonna?
August 3rd, 2007 at 3:39 pm
*snort* You’re fucked.
Dave’s mom requested his friendship on Facebook. He called her and freaked out on her: “Ma! What the hell are you doing on Facebook? That’s where Internet Stalkers and Pedophiles hang out!”
She deleted her account. Think it’d work for your Pa?
August 3rd, 2007 at 4:02 pm
I like mamatulip’s advice. Works for me.
Of course, by brain cells are totally melted in this heat wave, so wth do I know.
On my facebook account, I’ve marked everything private and removed all traces of any other website or blog, and twitter too. Might help, might not.
August 3rd, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Hahaha tulip. He knows computers a little too well being that he’s a programmer.
He’s probably found me already. *waves* Hi Dad!
As for erasing everything, well, that’s just not fun. Might as well get rid of facebook all together. *pout* C’mon J. I think the heat’s really getting to you! LOL
August 3rd, 2007 at 5:08 pm
Dude- somethings not right about that.
I can’t figure out Facebook, does that make me lame?
August 3rd, 2007 at 5:13 pm
i would die. my parents are SO not allowed on facebook.
August 3rd, 2007 at 5:20 pm
Umm, tell him he’s got the wrong girl? So what if she looks like you and has your name and lives in the same city. It’s NOT you. Nuh uh.
Sorry, I got nuthin’.
Good luck.
August 3rd, 2007 at 5:33 pm
Eeek. I say reject him and tell him that it none of his business what you do on Facebook. And then give him lots of kisses!
August 3rd, 2007 at 9:27 pm
Oh man, I feel ya on this one. My dad found my blog when it was in a previous form and I was just mortified. I had a 100 things on there and he commented on it. ACK! Of course, he died and… well, that solved that and now I feel like a jerk but hey… don’t let that influence your decision. Haha.
It’s a tough one. I say just ignore it and if he asks say, “Well, Dad, I didn’t think you could handle all the porn I have on there so I thought I would spare you.” Just mention the words “hairy”, “Large” and :pierced” and he’ll probably run away screaming.
August 3rd, 2007 at 9:40 pm
The truth. Tell him the unvarnished truth.
Tell him that as a parent he really doesn’t want to know the intimate details of his life. Tell him that it’s nothing you’d be embarrassed about with your girlfriends, but with dad? Uh, no way.
Tell him there are some things that a father just shouldn’t know about a daughter. And tell him that there are some things that he shouldn’t WANT to know!
Tell him it’s the one place you can have all to yourself and you want to keep it that way. Then tell him how much you love and adore him.
Tell him it would be like he was reading your diary and it would just make you uncomfortable. The truth is always better.
August 4th, 2007 at 1:30 am
sorry, that should have read:
“he really doesn’t want to know the intimate details of YOUR life.”
Duh.
August 4th, 2007 at 1:31 am
Make up a another account and let him be your friend on that one!
August 4th, 2007 at 9:00 am
Well damn…
They do have an option to do a limited profile. Meaning, you can accept him as a friend but he only has access to a limited section… and I think you can choose what he can and can’t see.
Just a thought
August 4th, 2007 at 9:41 am
Well, if y’all are gonna get all serious advice giving….naw, can’t do it.
You should tell him you write fanfic porn over there, involving Dumbledore, Snape, and Flitwick in the Weasley’s car, who’s having an affair with Sirius’s motorbike. All while the little kiddies are sexing it up in the castle, like the profs aren’t listening in.
What? That’s scare the piss out of anyone. *shudders* And I wrote fanfic for years, though no porn.
August 4th, 2007 at 1:35 pm
I think I’d just tell him that you don’t ever check your Facebook anymore and can’t remember your password or some crap like that. OR tell him about your sordid little internet life. Its not like you’ve got anything to terrible on here from what I’ve read!
Good luck!
August 4th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
O.M.G.!
Im SO glad my parents dont have a computer……
August 4th, 2007 at 8:03 pm
Telling my dad I write porn is right up there with him coming to my blog. Ain’t gonna happen. LOL
And, O.M.G. Laura, I know. So jealous right now! Hahaha!
August 4th, 2007 at 8:27 pm
Sorry, Sam but that’s fucking hysterical!
August 4th, 2007 at 11:11 pm
*laugh* That was my point. Imagine the looks on your dad’s face. It’s scare the crap out of him. Or course, he might want to have you committed, but it’d be a nice vacation.
August 5th, 2007 at 12:28 pm
Well, I’m glad I have the keys to your life LOL.
That is a problem eh.
I have my nephew on my friend list and I will add anybody because really ~ I don’t put anything too “xrated” up there hahahah. Or tell secrets.
But I don’t want all the people on my facebook - on my blog. And only the ones I feel are real friends IRL on my facebook from the blogs. KWIM.
August 5th, 2007 at 9:12 pm
Can you have a dummy account there? Or simply say you don’t have an account????
August 5th, 2007 at 11:18 pm
I banned my mom from my blog. She was reading it every day. It’s a public blog, so I felt like I couldn’t stop her. She freaked out about something I wrote on there, in a totally over the top manner. I think she was waiting for some deep secrets to be revealed or something. I felt like my mom shouldn’t read my blog, which is perhaps wrong of me but I didn’t want to have to censor myself for my family. They all freaked out individually about stuff I wrote over the first year, so I stopped talking about them altogether.
So, I said I’d prefer she stop reading. I don’t know if she honored that request, but she has not admitted to reading it.
I think parents need to give adult children their space. What the heck is your Dad doing on Facebook?!
This is a tough call, but I’d say sorry Dad I need my space. Ha ha…MySpace. Is it that bad? If it is, is that wise? On the internet?!
I feel for you!
Good luck,
Margot
August 6th, 2007 at 11:44 am