FFF (facebook friends forever)

Thud!

Did you feel that? That was me coming back down to earth after an awesome vacation back in the US.

I won’t go on about it too much. It was lots of fun. It was great to see my friends and family. Christmas was lovely. Blah blah blah.

Sob!

Ok, just one little thing about it and then I have to go cry into my bowl of soup while I’m wrapped up in my Edward Cullen fleece blanket because it’s so cold and damp here and also, why isn’t Gossip Girl on anymore?

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We gave my mom the best Christmas gift she’s probably ever had.

For the last couple of years, my sisters and I avoided being friends with anyone in our parents’ generation, including our parents. Facebook is not for parents, I’d say. Or at least, it didn’t used to be. Now everyone and their mother is on there and it’s getting harder to ignore the friend requests, especially when you don’t really have a good reason to.

It’s not that we had anything to hide. It was the principle of it and we were going to stick to it, dammit. But then my friend had the gall to “friend” my mother which led to another friend–after seeing it in her newsfeed–saying, “Your mom’s on facebook? I’ll friend her!”

Noooooo!

After awhile, it just seemed futile to resist. I also started to think a Facebook friendship might help our situation. My mom might feel a bit more connected to us if she could see photos and all the inane places Scott checks me into.

So, after a family powwow, we all decided to give our mom the gift of Facebook friendship.

She actually burst into tears.

If you’re stuck on a gift in the future, I highly recommend this. (It’s also kind of fun to come up with the terms and conditions even though my mom violated #5 not even 24 hours later.)

If you’re still debating adding your parents on Facebook, you can also use this handy flowchart to help with the decision. (I used it and I ended on “friend ‘em” so that’s a relief.)

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