I don’t want my mother on my facebook. I’ve said this before, and I’ve said it again. But today, in honor of Mother’s Day, I would assume, Facebook rolled out a new familial bond-building feature: families. I don’t know what Facebook thinks this is going to lead to, but for now, I’d have to stick with not much.
It doesn’t make a great deal of sense, the way they’ve implemented it. My family shows up under my basic information, which I don’t see as being that important, honestly. My brother is not as vital to who I am as my girlfriend. Sorry, Ben, that’s just how it is. Now the relationship status makes good sense. It could, concievably, change fairly often, and it makes for good gossip. In 10 years or so, after I’ve left highschool, and my friends start to get married for real (we’ll come back to this), it’ll be nice to see if any of the highschool couples actually end up getting hitched. But Ben’s always going to be my brother. Randy Malamud is always going to be my father, as Wendy Simonds will alwaye be my mother. There’s no reason for that to be with the rest of my chronically changing information. Consistency-wise, it doesn’t make sense.
Personally, what I’d like to see is a new Family section, possibly with a nice, visualized tree. (Now ain’t that original!) At least, if they’re going to go down this family path for serious. They could also go about adding cousins, uncles, aunts, there’s a lot more to my family than parents and siblings.
One last concern of mine, that I told you I’d bring back up, is what’s happened with marriages. Those darned kids, mockin’ the holy institution of marriage! That’s, right, blog-readers, people are listing themselves as “married” on Facebook without actually being in a serious relationship! What blasphemy! To be honest, I couldn’t care less, but my stepmom’s quite disappointed to have found out that her and my father’s facebook marriage might not be taken seriously. I can’t wait for friends to start claiming other friends as brothers and, in time, children.
I’ve still yet to see if Facebook would let me list my girlfriend as a sister. If not, I’m sure there are a great deal of families out there ready to raise a shit-storm.
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I don’t want my mother on my facebook. I’ve said this before, and I’ve said it again. But today, in honor of Mother’s Day, I would assume, Facebook rolled out a new familial bond-building feature: families. I don’t know what Facebook thinks this is going to lead to, but for now, I’d have to stick with not much.
It doesn’t make a great deal of sense, the way they’ve implemented it. My family shows up under my basic information, which I don’t see as being that important, honestly. My brother is not as vital to who I am as my girlfriend. Sorry, Ben, that’s just how it is. Now the relationship status makes good sense. It could, concievably, change fairly often, and it makes for good gossip. In 10 years or so, after I’ve left highschool, and my friends start to get married for real (we’ll come back to this), it’ll be nice to see if any of the highschool couples actually end up getting hitched. But Ben’s always going to be my brother. Randy Malamud is always going to be my father, as Wendy Simonds will alwaye be my mother. There’s no reason for that to be with the rest of my chronically changing information. Consistency-wise, it doesn’t make sense.
Personally, what I’d like to see is a new Family section, possibly with a nice, visualized tree. (Now ain’t that original!) At least, if they’re going to go down this family path for serious. They could also go about adding cousins, uncles, aunts, there’s a lot more to my family than parents and siblings.
One last concern of mine, that I told you I’d bring back up, is what’s happened with marriages. Those darned kids, mockin’ the holy institution of marriage! That’s, right, blog-readers, people are listing themselves as “married” on Facebook without actually being in a serious relationship! What blasphemy! To be honest, I couldn’t care less, but my stepmom’s quite disappointed to have found out that her and my father’s facebook marriage might not be taken seriously. I can’t wait for friends to start claiming other friends as brothers and, in time, children.
I’ve still yet to see if Facebook would let me list my girlfriend as a sister. If not, I’m sure there are a great deal of families out there ready to raise a shit-storm.
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