Post by gretchenindisguise on Apr 18, 2014 21:59:52 GMT -5
Yes. And I get equally annoyed when they don't keep me informed of their life events too. If they just hopped on board they wouldn't have to send as many emails/texts.
Post by VeryViolet on Apr 18, 2014 22:00:25 GMT -5
I have one friend like this. The problem is she is very polite, kind and thoughtful and does put forth the effort outside of social media. So I am definitely the ass. She called me on the phone the other day. I thought someone was dead why else wouldn't she text?! Nope she just wanted to say hi and catch up.
Post by W.T.Faulkner on Apr 18, 2014 22:02:13 GMT -5
Not friends, but family members.
Thankfully, my family is such a pack of gossipy bitches (21 aunts and uncles, 33 first cousins....all in the same town) that everyone knows my news almost immediately.
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"I was thinking about getting off on demand, but it sounds like I should be glad that I didn't"
Post by missmaddie on Apr 18, 2014 22:09:35 GMT -5
My pretentious SB and SIL. Oh, you want to see pictures and feel left out and whine when we don't MAIL them to you? Fuck off. Even my dad checks things out via my mom's FB.
On second thought, I am quite glad these particular people are not on FB. This is just the beginning of their need to be special snowflakes.
If they are truly a friend, it's not that hard to text, "I'm pregnant," or "I had a baby."
I must be a demanding friend because if we are legit friends, I expect a text anyways before you tell everyone else on FB
Well, good friends still get personal attention. Obviously.
Oh. Well fuck this person then. You guys are clearly not that close and she's expecting too much. She totally wants to skinsuit you and it's not mutual.
My SIL refuses to get on FB so she expects me to text her pictures. No - not because I'm too busy just because I think her expectations are ridiculous.
I have the opposite problem. I keep tabs on FB but I do not catch EVERY SINGLE POST. I once had a friend rage at me because I did not send her a sympathy message after her cat died. I did not know her cat had died. I don't need a personal message about your life events, but if I am required to respond them, then yes, I need a personal message! Don't make me feel like an asshole for missing your single post about your dying cat three days ago!!
It was a great day when SIL put her foot down and said that if grandma (both her mom and my mom) wanted to see pics of the grandkids on a more consistent basis, they needed to get on Facebook. My mom made an account, friended only her kids and their spousesand it has made life easier.
I have a friend who not only is against social media but also refuses to get a cell phone.
so not only does she not see news but no texts either. Yet she wants to sit and yap on the land line for hours at a time. No one has time for THAT!
Is she pro typewriter/mimeograph?
LOL. Get this....she has 4 computers in her house yet no cell phone. And she is a 38 yr old HS math teacher. Her coworkers hate the fact she has no cell phone but she just rolls her eyes at them.
No FB for DH or me, but like the others without FB I wouldn't expect special notification.
I did finally get a cell phone a couple of years ago when I was taking our young son on a 5-day trip without DH. Figured it was a good idea. I do use it, and I know how to text.
ETA: I don't even know how my friends knew when we had the baby. I sure as heck wasn't up for calling people after having a baby. I didn't feel like everybody needed to know in those first days/weeks anyway, to be honest. I was an emotional wreck from the meds I had needed in delivery and heck no was I going to bawl, leak and nurse in front of everybody. I think I called some close friends like 2 or 3 weeks later, LOL. They were nice to wait it out.