While returning a long-lost battery charger, Kaitlin’s Dad echoes the sentiments of parents with adult children everywhere.
Meanwhile, Sarah in Greenville, S.C. shows the downside of giving in to parents’ nagging for unfettered access.
related: why you should not be facebook friends with your parents
Tags: CAPS LOCK · Facebook · Moms & Dads · San Francisco · signed with love · South Carolina
As always, Facebook users are keepin’ it classy.
related: Tant pis, mon amie
extra credit: STFU, Marrieds
Tags: California · Facebook · frenemies · mean girls · most popular notes of 2009 · sad face · smiley · weddings and bridezillas
…because there’s no measure of self-worth more important than the public acknowledgment that you were, in fact, born.
![[Mark:] Thank you to everyone that wished me a happy birthday. I had a great time an I wish everyone could have been there. Thanks again. [Jennifer:] I didnt wish you a happy birthday because our friendship has dwindled into nothingness and I am angry with you about it... but I hope it was good](https://farm3.static.flickr.com/2475/3585715391_e3f4b11960.jpg "[Mark:] Thank you to everyone that wished me a happy birthday. I had a great time an I wish everyone could have been there. Thanks again. [Jennifer:] I didnt wish you a happy birthday because our friendship has dwindled into nothingness and I am angry with you about it... but I hope it was good")
related: But…but…I didn’t forget!
Tags: birthday · Facebook · frenemies
“A few days after changing my status to single,” writes Meg in Red Deer, Alberta, “Facebook proves to be the creep I always knew it was.”
(Jordon is the ex-boyfriend.)
related: Reason #784 why you should never list your relationship status in your Facebook profile
Tags: breakup · Canada · Facebook
I’m having a hard time deciding who in this group of geniuses most deserves a smack in the head first. To make it easier, I’m going to tell myself that Krystal is using some new kind of ironic dialect of homophone-swapping slang. And Jennalyn…well, her name is Jennalyn, and therefore I think it’s safe to assume she’s gotten the short end of the stick so far in life, so she gets a pass. But the other three?
P.S. Notice the date! (tear)
related: Reason #784 why you should never list your relationship status in your facebook profile
Tags: breakup · ex drama · Facebook · kids today · oh no you didn't
Our anonymous submitter was mildly amused when he noticed this little hypothetical how-to pop up in his Facebook feed. But the real kicker, he realized, is that the one person tagged in the note happens to be (ouch) the notewriter’s current roommate.
Adds our submitter: “To my surprise, the girl never commented on it, but I’m sure she got the message — she was called out!”
related: Some dating advice
Tags: Facebook · frenemies · roommates · sex sex sex · spelling and grammar police
Writes Halley in Idaho: “Yeahhh, that’s my mom and my grandpa right there. (This is what happens when old people join Facebook.)”
related: Busted by Facebook
extra credit: Facebook embroidery 
Tags: birthday · Facebook · Idaho · Moms & Dads · most popular notes of 2009 · old folks
Facebook‘s new “I like this” feature doesn’t allow you to give “thumbs down” to your friends’ status updates or posted links — a boon to both the supportive, snap-cup-loving, kindergarten-teacher-types on your friends list and the die-hard passive-aggressives on your frenemies list!
The even bigger “ouch”?
related: Reason #784 why you should never list your relationship status in your facebook-profile
extra credit: STFU, Marrieds
Tags: breakup · Facebook · frenemies
See, kids: this is what happens when you live in the awkward part of the Venn diagram where “Facebook friends” and “real friends” don’t overlap.
related: making time for the important things in life…like facebook apps
extra credit: bank intern busted by facebook [valleywag]
Tags: Facebook · frenemies · most popular notes of 2009
Writes our anonymous submitter: “This girl invited every single one of her friends on Facebook into a ‘forum’ to plan for her birthday celebrations…six months in advance.”
The kicker? within a few hours, our submitter says, almost everyone had already RSVP’d.
Tags: birthday · crazypants · Facebook · most popular notes of 2009
