My friend’s mom is on Facebook
posted in Blogging Rants, Mom Rants |Now that I’ve downloaded the Facebook application to my Blackberry, I now get all friend requests (all 1 of them a week) as quickly as technology makes possible. Typically I look at my friend requests remotely and then check them out more thoroughly on the site. It’s not like I’m that popular or that I get so many requests, but I like to see people’s faces, or friends we have in common before I connect with them.
After all there are those nudie photos of me on my profile picture. KIDDING.
So when I opened up my Facebook notification today and saw my latest friend request, I did a double take. Could it be? Could it really be that my friend’s MOM just friended me on Facebook?
I laughed for about a second when my brother and sister-in-law friended me in the span of a week. They are in their 40s and have tween-age children, so I figured if anyone from their family was on the site, it was my nieces.  But after my 30-second chuckle, I realized that they, like my young self, probably have a lot of friends online.
But my friend’s mom? Of course I can’t see who she’s friends with until I confirm her request, but I can’t decide if I really want to let into my Facebook a mom I’ve known for 20 years.  Who saw me with bad 80s hair and will now get a peek into my married life. To deny her would offend her, but to friend her may force me into Facebook hiding.
Ah, the dilemmas of the technology age. What would you guys do?













