Facebook Foolishness

[PineappleMama]

WHAT... one can hope.

Ranch that's a point. I imagine my mom and sis would be pretty dern peeved if they found the topics I've started regarding their drama. Not that all of it isn't 100% true, it is, but the fact that I had the nerve to remember ...when they rewrite it in their heads and expect everyone to just go with their version without ever actually discussing it... not to mention write down the facts so that others might see them for what they are... nope, wouldn't care for that at all.

Of course, I probably wouldn't like it if my faults were broadcast either, and there are plenty to choose from, but I like to THINK that if it was HONEST that I wouldn't get too upset... I'm not a lover of criticism, but often criticism helps a person grow so I hope I'd view it that way if the opportunity presented itself.

Course, suppose I could be brave and start a "What Do You Think Of Piney" topic (here or FB)... but you know, I think I'm chicken.

 

[ranchhand]

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See, that's the thang. If ya don't show your arse nobody can tell ya how big it is!


(you're just fine dear, but your family is a trainwreck, just like mine!)

 

[PineappleMama]

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Oh I think I'ma have to post that as my FB status... it's PERFECT.

And I second that ()'d emotion... I may be certifiable, but they are certiFIED and that makes all the difference.

 

[PortageGirl]

It's just a good idea to be cautious, but it's hard to explain that to kids. I keep most of my stuff pretty bland but do like to keep up with friends and family who are too distant to visit via facebook, it's a lot of fun!

I understand that some companies worry about employees dating, but most are perfectly willing to look the other way as long as people are discrete... these two don't sound very discrete. For one thing, if there's a break up and Billy-Bob and Mary-Sue start fighting among themselves, that sort of thing tends to spread to their friends and other coworkers too. Beyond that, I mean, if you work at a company that has that rule clearly in place, and if you're silly enough to break the rules, then foolish enough to flaunt it, you're obviously too unintelligent to work for the company.

The internet is not private, and once something is ON the internet, it's ALWAYS out there. Post a picture, and you'll find that picture 10 years after you remove it from the place you posted it. Who doesn't get that?

Also as has been mentioned, the FBI as well as other local, state, and federal police, sheriffs and who knows what all else are always searching on the internet for signs of all kinds of idjits out there and they're catching them all the time. Put it on the internet in any way, shape, or form and you put it out there for the world to see.

 

[cparian]

I have never posted anything significant on facebook & am surprised at some of the things people put out there for everyone to see. However, the connections on there and the "friends of friends" can be used for good too. Two of my dogs ran off together this summer because the electric fence malfuntioned. My son had taken them for a hike before that & said he got home with them about 4PM. I noticed they were gone at 5:30 when I went out to feed them. So I immediately got in my car & started driving around looking for them & had my stepson drive around in the woods on the quad to find them. I stopped at several houses around the vicinity & told people they were missing & gave out my phone number. This was a friday & we looked until 9PM when it got dark. I had this gut feeling they were okay.

The next morning was Saturday so I got up & put tons of fliers out to kill time until the SPCA opened at 10AM. I then went & checked the pound for them & filed a missing dog report. Drove around some more looking. Got home about 1PM & checked craigs list lost & found. Started thinking about what else I could possibly do.

I live in a large highly populated suburb of Cincinnati, however it is a local joke that everyone on this side of town knows everyone & thier business. So I though why not post it on facebook about them missing? At 2:30PM I put it in my status what kind of dogs they were, where they went missing, pictures of them & how to contact me. My facebook friends from this side of town all copied & pasted this to their status too. Then some of their friends who weren't my facebook friends did it as well. It worked! I knew where my dogs were by 4:00PM that same day! Here's how it panned out, and this is hard to follow: A friend of one of my facebook friends had copied my post to her status, a friend of hers had been working at UDF that day & a guy who comes in everyday for coffee mentioned to her someone had found 2 dobermans the day before & stopped by his house to ask if he knew whose they were, they were facebook friends too, so she contacted him as soon as she saw the post & asked him where the guy that found them lived. She then contacted her friend who contacted my facebook friend who immediatly called me with the info.

It turns out someone about 2 miles from me found them at 5PM the same day they went missing. So luckily they were only actually running around free for about 1 hour.

Not a scary facebook story but it is scary how fast that all worked & how people I didn't even know got my information out there so fast.

 

[PineappleMama]

Eh... FIL has a story about intra office dating... or rather both being hired and neither telling him they used to live together. It was NOT pretty. It's been at least 20 years and he's STILL talking about it.

If your job was supposed to be fun they wouldn't call it WORK.

 

[Ema]

Jut a little while ago (canadian thanksgiving) my friends Dh posted that he was less than happy that they didn't have a turkey so they could provide a good thanksgiving dinner for their 5 children. After a whole bunch of people posted telling them its not a real thanksgiving without a turkey or a ham, a family member asked them if it was due to money they didn't have one and the response was that they were flat broke because the Dh had spent almost 2 months in intensive care (I was already aware of the hospital stay because I cared for their children while he was ill) but I thought they were ok because they had received the medical travel grant from the gov. anyhow a couple days earlier I had picked up 3 turkeys from the grocery store like I do every thanksgiving, one for each one of the big holidays coming up. so I packed up one of the 50 dollar turkeys with all the trimmings and brought it to her house, she said thank you and he gave me a big hug. I felt really good until 2 days later when she posted on FB all the pics of the 3 new horses she had just bought for $1000 a piece plus the $800 for the trailering. I came to find out she had traveled out of town with her family the day after thanksgiving to pay for the horses and to make sure the horses got into the trailer properly. I felt like a total dummy. That week they also purchased a new vehicle :-/

now I buy the turkeys on thanksgiving weekend because Dh gets laid off every winter and money is super tight around Xmas, and this way it ensures I already have them and I don't have to try to budget to purchase a turkey for new years. I asked her how the thanksgiving meal was on FB and she said it was great. nothing else. My Dh was not impressed with her and from what I can tell from other people on her friends list that posted comments on her pics neither were they.

I am not sure what she was thinking!!

 

[PineappleMama]

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I Got Mine?

If they really gave a fig about Thanksgiving like they were trying to sound like then they'd have tucked away a little of that ... what $3800.00 to go towards it. Which leads this cynical Piney to think that the reason they posted that whine was to try and get someone else to pay for it so they didn't have to. But, again I'm cynical that way. Too much experience with users in my family I suppose.

I don't think I'd have been able to resist posting on their horse bragging post "So how did you like that $50+ meal I provided to you out of our meager overwinter budget?" So their other friends could get a really good idea of just what they were doing and wouldn't fall for it when they post in December about how they can't afford a turkey or presents for their kids.

 

[Ema]

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I Got Mine?

If they really gave a fig about Thanksgiving like they were trying to sound like then they'd have tucked away a little of that ... what $3800.00 to go towards it. Which leads this cynical Piney to think that the reason they posted that whine was to try and get someone else to pay for it so they didn't have to. But, again I'm cynical that way. Too much experience with users in my family I suppose.

I don't think I'd have been able to resist posting on their horse bragging post "So how did you like that $50+ meal I provided to you out of our meager overwinter budget?" So their other friends could get a really good idea of just what they were doing and wouldn't fall for it when they post in December about how they can't afford a turkey or presents for their kids.

I and my Dh completely agree with you...its how we felt afterwards....

we agreed to never ever do any such thing for them again. I am a very giving person, but this was like a slap in the face.

ohh and about Xmas they already told everyone they purchased their 10 yr old DD a lap top and their 8 yr. old DS a game console, and an Ipod Nano for their 3yr. old DD and I can't remember what they bought their older sons but I am sure its equally extravagant and not at all age appropriate.

 

[PineappleMama]

Exactly. Luckily for you it was only a friend and not family... LOT harder to say no then.

I do hope you posted somewhere on your or their FB about your donation though... so that if they do try and pull another one of these little stunts (Christmas, New Years, Kid's B-days) no one else will be wiping the egg off their face the next day... that's a really crappy feeling and one no true friend would ever set someone the like/care about up for. Hehe... maybe mention "if I was going to donate to this family again it'd be only giving TOYS... without receipts" So the KIDS they're using to sucker people are the (only) ones who benefit??

Sorry... I just loathe users... can get a wee bit worked up about it.

Edit... HOLY CRAP... and these people had the NERVE to claim they were broke?!!?

Oh yeah, I would be broadcasting loud and clear just what I thought about THEM and their scamming folks who really ARE broke!