Oh Facebook (PR)

brij2006 · December 2013

So I get onto Facebook this afternoon to find a pregnancy announcement from my best friend from high school. Usually these announcements don't bother me. I just put "Congratulations" and move on. But I click on the comments to add my congrats, and the first comment is from her ex-boyfriend that she broke up with a couple of months ago. It says, "Is it mine?" Her response was, "I don't know whose it is, and it doesn't matter."

Oh boy. I clicked the comments shut, and haven't looked back. Nor have I added my congrats. Maybe I'll just send her a text instead so I don't have to watch the conversation unravel. Why must people think it's appropriate to put these questions on Facebook? They dated for over a year too. So it isn't like it was a one night stand or something.

I'm thinking some wine is in order for tonight.

islandmonkey8 · December 2013

I wouldn't comment either. That's rough to read. I'm sorry.

Uptowngirl2009 · December 2013

Oh wow. Sorry you had to see that! I can't believe someone would have that kind of conversation on FB!

brij2006 · December 2013

H keeps telling me that he can't wait to get off work and check Facebook, because he wants to watch the comments unravel. Hopefully at some point this will be a conversation they have off of Facebook, but I wouldn't be surprised if it continues on there.

poppies717 · December 2013

Wow. I'm sorry you had to see that. I never comment on PR announcements because I don't want to be notified that 50 more people have posted their congratulations. I just click "Like" (usually) and move on. I'm not sure I could click the button in your case. I hope your week gets better!

islandmonkey8 · December 2013

poppies717 said:

Wow. I'm sorry you had to see that. I never comment on PR announcements because I don't want to be notified that 50 more people have posted their congratulations. I just click "Like" (usually) and move on. I'm not sure I could click the button in your case. I hope your week gets better!

This is brilliant! I actually usually will go to their page to congratulate them without posting on the post itself to avoid the notifications but liking it is so much easier! I can't believe I never thought of just doing that.

sparklingdiamond · December 2013

Wow I am sorry you had to see that :-(

lb1117 · December 2013

Oh man! I'm really sorry you had to see that

callitcompulsive · December 2013

smh

mrshall1027 · December 2013

Wow, that's pretty ridiculous! Sorry you had to see that.

cinderin · December 2013

Bummer for that kiddo. :-(

amandaf6383 · December 2013

Yikes.

sgautschi · December 2013

Oh boy...yeah I wouldn't have commented either. Sorry you had to see that today.

nfp147 · December 2013

Wow. At first I thought maybe they were pissing around with "I don't know who the father is", but it doesn't seem that way. Wow.

lilliesandvino · December 2013

Could you suggest she call Maury to see if things can get sorted out?

brij2006 · December 2013

@lilliesandvino I gave in and read through the comments. Supposably they broke up a few months ago, but have been seeing each other since. AKA, F buddies. But another guy spoke up on the comments, and said the math matches up to when he was seeing her. Then she commented that she will call them both.

Oh my.

LuckyAngel07 · December 2013

Just another example of people having zero filter on FB. No one needs to know that stuff!

I'm sorry you had to see that. I'd have clicked right away from that too.

Aimothy · December 2013

Oh dear Lord. What's her name so when she's on Maury in a couple of months, I can say " I know her!"

lilliesandvino · December 2013

Haha that's so awesome. It's train wrecks like this that almost make me wish I had Facebook.

Seriously though, I dare you to post a link to Muary's site or to an at-home DNA test. Double dare, in fact.

ETA: weird autocorrect

LittleLady77 · December 2013

Wow. Just wow @-)

brij2006 · December 2013

Hahahaha oh how I would love to post something like that. I bit my tongue and sent her a text saying congratulations. She said that she just found out a couple of weeks ago, and had no idea she was pregnant. Then she said she's 21 weeks. Which would put her due date around the beginning of April, not May.

And now I'm realizing that I just way over analyzed that. Maybe knowing a lot about getting pregnant isn't such a good thing.

LittleLady77 · December 2013

If she's 21 weeks now then she got knocked up in July, was she with her X then? If so, then it really should be his, right? What a way to find out you're going to have a child!

FutureMrsWright2012 · December 2013

Oy vay! Gotta love the internet!

DangerMuffin23 · December 2013

Um, ugh, and ewwwwww, and wow. Way too much personal info put into the facebook cosmos today.

Sewilson33 · December 2013

That's an awkward PG announcement! Sorry you had to read that first thing this morning.

nightmare_of_beauty · December 2013

On Sunday my SIL posted on FB complaining that BIL hasn't been helping with the kids and hasn't changed a diaper since baby came home 2 weeks ago. Last night, she post a picture of BIL holding baby and niece, all of them asleep and tags it "such a good daddy!" Yeah, I'm judging.

PandPMeant2B · December 2013

Ugh, just because you have the ability to share things with the whole universe doesn't mean you should! Sorry you had to deal with that.

brij2006 · December 2013

@littlelady77 She was with her ex then. I'm almost wondering if she's trying to play it off like she's due at a different date because she doesn't want to admit that it is her ex's kid. It wouldn't surprise me.

LittleLady77 · December 2013

Yikes! I'm so sorry you have to deal with that nonsense.

barefootbluejean204 · December 2013

Unbelievable!! I feel sorry for the child who may one day look back and read those comments!! Can't understand why they would even remotely think that would be appropriate for everyone to read online.

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