I am better friends with a few of the ladies on here than I am with some friends IRL. Then I get sad because they live far away and I know I'll probably never get to hang out with them. Le sigh.
FFFC: I probably wouldn't personally friend someone off here unless I got really close to them through the boards or via PM. It's not a matter of not trusting that you are who you say you are, I just get annoyed at myself for adding people that I don't know in "real" life. I get a weird satisfaction out of purging people from college off my friends list because I don't live up there anymore and haven't talked to them in years.
I totally get that satisfaction too. I go through and I'm like wait, they don't need to know I have a baby.
Some of you come up in my "people you may know" on FB and I am always all "should I friend them?" and then figure I shouldn't. I'm so awkward...as proven by my post above!
That would only happen if you were in the FB group, right? I seriously have no idea what anyone's real name is, but I've never had to worry because no one ever friend requests me anymore it seems. I have one FB bump friend from G's BMB but she isn't even on the bump anymore.
I'm on the FB group and I would chime in at first when it was new. But, then I just got lazy and quit I guess. Now, stuff pops up in my feed and I feel weird commenting because I know that a lot of those girls don't participate on TB at all, so they'd be all "who's this chick?"
My logic is as follows. Cereal is a commonly accepted breakfast, and Cookie Crisp is a well - known cereal. Therefore, cookie dough is a perfectly reasonable breakfast.
I am now convinced everyone is pm'ing each other and becoming FB friends and I won't get picked for kickball. And I didn't even smoke any pot, that's my normal paranoid self thinking.
Someone should make a FB group for everyone who is still posts on J13, instead of the current one for the people who left and we don't know who they are.
Please don't everybody leave and go to Facebook ... I really like that the June board has stayed relatively active (compared with a lot of the BMBs), and as much as I love most of you, the super crazy Facebook drama that went down on Parenting a while back has re-solidified in my mind that there are some crazy-ass people who go to great lengths to appear normal for ages before doing some messed up stuff. So that's my long-winded way of saying that I'd love to be Facebook friends with a lot of you - but I'd get worried that there would be some crazy that would slip through the cracks.
I'm not 100% as to what the whole situation was, but as far as I could figure out, there was a girl on the board who was facebook friends with a bunch of other members. She participated in GTGs and seemed totally normal. Over the course of months she set about causing weird drama by pitting friends against one another, and doing things like sharing people's private information that they'd posted in some facebook groups with other facebook groups. Basically a super creep. The subsequent explosion over there was pretty epic.
Buuuuut like I said, I'm not 100% on any of this, that's just what I picked up via lurking.
Btw anyone who just became FB friends with me I have a way too active mother and grandfather (94!) that are post and tag happy so I am a frequent target of their actions. And I feel bad untagging myself when grandpa mixes up grand kids (like he just did, so the Filipino baby is not mine)
Ok when I get to a computer I'm gonna get some new Facebook friends.
I have two thoughts on the private Facebook group thing: - I agree with @musicalsilver and worry about crazy people who seem normal. But you don't have to friend everyone in the group so you can still keep some info private. - I worry about lurkers and stalkers on the bump. There are lots of people out there reading what we write that I'm sure never participate.
Oh ladies don't leave out board for fb!!! It's so much cooler here
I'm a freak about privacy and therefore haven't attempted any fb friends from here. I so often want to post a pic of my lo here but then get nervous about it and delete. It's weird because I'm on the other side of the world so not much anyone could do to me.
@calikat80 My almost 87 year old grandma tries to do Facebook. She's gotten better at posting, but she always signs her posts. "Cute pic. Love grandma." It's so funny, it's cute.
I'm all for my wonderful bump friends adding me on fb! I'm always a little nervous about sending out requests cause I don't wanna come off as a creeper.
@kelseypie whats the name? Is it on FB? I dont have FB.
Murphy James. I got a lot of suggestions to use James Murphy, if I had to do it...but I just fucking love the name Murphy! Even if it wasn't my grandpa's name, I'd still like it.
I LOVE this name. I named my cat Murphy because I didn't think I'd ever have a kid and totally dig it with the James for the middle name. Do eeet.
I hardly every post on here because of my schedule but I totally lurk and would be FB friends with any of you ladies. I'm Instagram friends with a few of you from way back and love seeing all the pictures of the babies. If Awkward were a country, I'd be the president.
My mom just called and asked who all my new friends on FB were.
#awkward
I am totally waiting for my husband to question me about it. And there is a 50% chance he'll start getting more pissy about posting pics of the boys because of it since he is privacy paranoid. Seriously none of you better be middle aged men in your parents basement!
I've been away on vacay but reading this thread makes me realize again how great our group is!! I don't post often but would miss you all if the bmb went away. Hugs!
Re: FFFC
I am better friends with a few of the ladies on here than I am with some friends IRL. Then I get sad because they live far away and I know I'll probably never get to hang out with them. Le sigh.
I've got 1 bumpie on my fb. I'm OK with that.
DS born 6/2013
DS born 6/2013
I have two thoughts on the private Facebook group thing:
- I agree with @musicalsilver and worry about crazy people who seem normal. But you don't have to friend everyone in the group so you can still keep some info private.
- I worry about lurkers and stalkers on the bump. There are lots of people out there reading what we write that I'm sure never participate.
I'm a freak about privacy and therefore haven't attempted any fb friends from here. I so often want to post a pic of my lo here but then get nervous about it and delete. It's weird because I'm on the other side of the world so not much anyone could do to me.
I hardly every post on here because of my schedule but I totally lurk and would be FB friends with any of you ladies. I'm Instagram friends with a few of you from way back and love seeing all the pictures of the babies. If Awkward were a country, I'd be the president.