I won’t call you after sex, but will you be my facebook friend?
Don’t you just love facebook? It’s like the “worlds collide” episode of Seinfeld – your mom, your college roommate, your boss, and your ex are all jam-packed into the same little space, with everyone’s smiling face plastered on there for all to see. When I post about how I stayed up way too late last night, everyone reads it. When I slap up some photos of a drunken night out with the girls, everyone sees them. And when my mom and my ex both comment on the same post… well… there’s a really awkward moment where I want to hide under a rock and die.
New Year’s Lips and I are now facebook friends. I purposefully didn’t “friend” anyone I had ever dated or slept with to avoid those little embarrassing moments. But this morning I got a friend request from NYL with a nice little message attached, and I couldn’t help but accept. It was too cute! Who am I to refuse such a request? So I clicked “confirm” (or whatever that button says), and instantly my worlds collided. And I felt that awkward brick sink down into my stomach. And all of a sudden facebook got really weird. (Ok, it was weird before, but now it’s REALLY weird.) I mean, should I be worried about this, or am I totally overreacting?
NYL and my mom haven’t officially collided on FB just yet, but can you imagine? Ahhhhh!Â
And BTW, where’s the button on facebook that says “Now that we’re friends, wanna fuck?” : )
(And how do I block my mom from finding out that I pressed that button?)
Edited to add: Grad school update – I think I just got an unofficial email from a professor that I would LOVE to work with at a university that I would LOVE to attend. I also think I am hyperventilating. And shaking. And screaming. Holy shit. HOLY SHIT!!!
You need to learn about privacy settings on fb and make groups and set levels on what they can see.
I have 3 levels, Parents (which is my mom and any friends parents (how the heck they got on there i don’t know) They can’t see any photos tagged of me and if I upload drunk photos of me I limit who can see them. They also never see my status updates or wall posts by my friends. I told mom this when we became fb friends. She doesn’t mind.
A coworkers are pretty much similar to the ‘parents’ levels. But i just have them in two separate groups.
And then i have another group which is for school friends. They can only see all the awesome make them jealous stuff!
January 20th, 2010 at 5:22 amOzgirl´s last blog ..Fw: I have learnt my lesson
[Hyperventilates with DD over grad school. Offers her a paper bag.]
That’s awesome lady. I remember how I felt when I started getting signs that I was going to be able to go where I wanted to and its a great feeling.
As for the FB worlds colliding, that’s all you…
January 20th, 2010 at 11:16 amOzgirl – Yeah, I know people who do this, but it just seems like soooooo much effort. Screw that! I’m 100% myself on FB, take it or leave it. I know who’s on my friend list and adjust my posts accordingly. It’s just weird that everyone is on there, all jumbled together!
Chris – Thanks! I’m super excited about the whole thing. The waiting is killing me, though. I want those damn acceptance letters already!!!
January 20th, 2010 at 8:52 pmCONGRATS!
January 22nd, 2010 at 10:55 amFunny, I found myself in a similar Facebook scenario this week. Here’s hoping we navigate it well!!
January 22nd, 2010 at 8:02 pmM.S. – Thanks! It was exciting. : )
Fionna – Good luck with that. FB is so weird!
January 24th, 2010 at 3:38 pmThe Dateable Dork´s last blog ..Speaking of hooking up through facebook…