My Mother Has a Facebook Account

For awhile it seemed like every day I wake up to a new friend request from someone even more disturbing than the previous day.

-Weird Cousins I never talk to.

-Strange friends of the family I only speak to because I don't want to seem rude

-Aunts who are wayy out of the age range of facebook.

Then one morning I woke up with a friend request from Maria Gonzales. [fyi, that's my mothers name] Yep, my mother has a facebook account. I believe it was a Sunday morning which means I was pretty smashed from the night before. It also meant that I had over slept and was running late for my nieces basketball game. I did a quick once over of my phone before hopping out of bed to rush to get dressed and I seen a had a few missed texts and a few fb alerts. That's normal in the a.m. so I threw on some clothes and headed out with my sister to make it to the game somewhat on time. After settling in the passenger seat I began to check the messages and alerts in my phone and that's when I stumbled across the friend request that ended my life. I immediately denied the friend request and proceeded to block my own mother from my facebook account. Now I know it may seem a little extreme to block her, but my mother is nosey. Also I didn't want her to see that I didn't accept the request. She's borderline computer illiterate but she's learning [fml] so the whole being blocked thing isn't something she knows about and hopefully it'll stay that way. Though it doesn't help bc I have a lot of family on fb [who doesn't] and she's friends with all of them . She can't directly see what I post...but I'm sure she can hear about it.

I wish I didn't have to go to the extreme of banishing my mother from my facebook account but she can't seem to understand that I'm not a kid anymore. I often get drunk and post crazy status updates like many people my age and the last thing I need is her commenting on them. I have a cousin who posts the most outrageous shit on his fb and what's even worse is the comments under them from his mother telling him that he shouldn't be posting stuff like that on the internet. Not cool at all.

Since I'm on the subject of facebook I gotta admit that I hate people who take facebook SO seriously. I mean yeah facebook is a place where real people reconnect or connect for the first time and a lot of stuff you do on there everyone can see. I get it. I also understand that internet bullying is a serious thing and there have been many kids who have taken their lives over facebook. Though I personally believe that facebook is just...facebook. I could have a million and seven people laughing at me or yelling at me for something I posted on facebook and I honestly wouldn't give two shits because the shit that ends up on my facebook wall is just that...shit. I don't have the slightest filter in my brain when it comes to my status updates on facebook and I love it. I'll say whatever I want whenever I want. Though I have to say that I'm not like mean or disrespectful to other people, I'm just random. If I'm drunk and I have the "most amazing" thought while laying in bed while the entire room won't stop spinning...I'll post it to facebook. If I think my schools Chicken Burritos are the best thing that has ever happened in my life...I'll post it to facebook. If I have had a bad day and all I want to do is go have a few shots, even though I'm only 19...I'll post it to facebook. Why? Because ITS JUST FACEBOOK.

I know shit can get serious on there and people can get in trouble when they post off the wall illegal shit, but if facebook is used correctly (as in, as a means of ENTERTAINMENT) no one will get hurt.

...and that's just my opinion.

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