“Oh boy,” thought Emily in New York, when she saw this mini-drama unfold on her newsfeed. “I can’t even imagine; if my dad found out that I was engaged via Facebook, there would be hell to pay.” (Luckily, she says, “my dad has no idea how to use Facebook, or as he calls it, ‘the Face Space.’”)
Meanwhile, writes our submitter in Austin, “I knew my brother and sister-in-law were debating another baby, and I was quite aggravated to think this is how I was going to find out.” But instead…
related: Why you really shouldn’t be facebook friends with your parents
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#1
Shance-a-lot
Facebook will be sitting closer to the bride and groom at the head table than daddy, apparently.
Dec 14, 2009 at 12:00 pm rating: 20
#2
Act
I don’t get the big deal with the first one. Maybe they just got engaged and were really excited (crazy, I know), so they put it up on Facebook? It’d only been two hours… it’s not like it was a week and they didn’t know. I think the parents need to calm down and be happy for their kid.
Unless like, the parents hate this fiancee or something. o.o;;
Dec 14, 2009 at 12:04 pm rating: 12
#3
MAMARILLA2
How we love Facebook, the new home of the social faux pas.
Dec 14, 2009 at 12:21 pm rating: 12
#4
Carlo
Hey, fatty, I saw you at Jason’s Deli. What, you’re not pregnant? Man, you’re putting on the LBs!
Dec 14, 2009 at 12:23 pm rating: 21
#5
Mo®
So who’s the father? Jared or the creepy Burger King?
Dec 14, 2009 at 12:28 pm rating: 9
#6
billso
Heh! It’s weird how people think that no one but their friends will read their updates…
Dec 14, 2009 at 12:28 pm rating: 5
#7
Angela
I have a good friend that found out via Facebook that her 17 yr. old son was engaged and was making her a grandmother. On Thanksgiving day.
Dec 14, 2009 at 12:29 pm rating: 22
#8
anglophile
I wonderr why J repeated her comment, only to add som emistakes?
Dec 14, 2009 at 12:40 pm rating: 15
#9
G
Nothing wrong with telling Facebook about important stuff before you tell your parents. When my OH and I got engaged (back in the stone age) we told our local friends before we told our families; we wanted to tell family in person, so we waited. Another family member just did something similar with a pregnancy.
Anybody taking offense at that is just looking for excuses to be offended.
Dec 14, 2009 at 1:14 pm rating: 8
#10
aaa
There’s a reason why the rule is to not mention a woman’s (possible) pregnancy unless she tells you or you see the baby crowning. Etiquette fail is funny. When it happens to somebody else.
Dec 14, 2009 at 1:17 pm rating: 38
#11
pony girl
The next update will be
Kerri and Jeremiah will be paying for their own wedding.
Dec 14, 2009 at 1:27 pm rating: 25
#12
felix
“FaceSpace” is the social network in Ben Elton’s book “Blind Faith”.
Dec 14, 2009 at 1:29 pm rating: 2
#13
adam
I don’t have anything constructive to add.
Dec 14, 2009 at 1:39 pm rating: 3
#14
TippingCows
Stupid woman. Sit-ups will only build muscle under all that lard. How about some cardio – and lay off the bon-bons, biznitch!
Dec 14, 2009 at 2:12 pm rating: 5
#15
Mike
Serves her right for her unnecessary FB updates. Who cares that you’re picking up a crib??
Dec 14, 2009 at 2:29 pm rating: 19
#16
eve
I think the second facebook poster had it coming, writing an update that’s so vague.
Dec 14, 2009 at 3:33 pm rating: 10
#17
jinx
I hate when fat people act like you’re supposed to pretend they’re skinny. That and most fatties have no idea how to dress and tend to look even fatter than they should. Don’t surprised if you’re a fat ass and announce on FB you’re buying a crib people will assume you got knocked up again.
Dec 14, 2009 at 5:22 pm rating: 5
#18
jetjackson
Situps!? M obviously doesn’t know the 1 tip of a flat belly to cut down 1 kilo of belly every week by simply using this 1 wierd old tip.
Dec 14, 2009 at 5:29 pm rating: 11
#19
Escape Goat
“—— and M just picked up a new crib – this just feels weird” … to have to rest my ass in a crib because it won’t fit in my bed anymore.
Dec 14, 2009 at 7:07 pm rating: 0
#20
Palomon
Sit ups? So the baby will be ripped?
Dec 14, 2009 at 7:36 pm rating: 1
#21
Palomon
Daughter: …is pregnant and engaged
Mother: Nice way to tell your parents.
Father: BTW; you’re adopted.
Dec 14, 2009 at 8:33 pm rating: 10
#22
Silence
Why, golly. It’s awfully convenient that everybody in the second one referred to other people by their first initial, never their name, thus eliminating the need for PAN editing!
I CALL FAKE, GOOD SIR! PISTOLS AT DAWN!
Dec 14, 2009 at 11:30 pm rating: 3
#23
Geek Goddess
I never consider debating babies. You can never win that arguement.
Dec 15, 2009 at 12:37 am rating: 3
#24
Geek Goddess
AAARRRRGGGGGGHHHHH@!!!!!!!!
Fine!
It’s a gigglebrax fail AGAIN!
Are you happy now that I’ve admitted it?
*seriously considers stepping away from the keyboard, without, in fact, actually stepping away from the keyboard*
Okay. I can do this. I know how this works.
Dec 15, 2009 at 1:04 am rating: 3
#25
moody
Ralph is just pissed because Jeremiah didn’t send him the traditional facebook request for his daughter’s hand in marriage.
Dec 15, 2009 at 10:56 am rating: 7
#26
Sirius¤
Sirius likes this.
Dec 15, 2009 at 11:27 am rating: 3
#27
Jessica
And this is why my FH and I made sure to call our immediate family BEFORE updating our FB statuses.
Dec 18, 2009 at 7:15 pm rating: 0
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