Mama Nooooooo!!!!!

I did not want to make my first blog of a new year to be negative, but momma done pushed me there. So, my mom joined facebook. My first question to her was why? She said someone from church sent her an email to join and she did so since this church member moved away, this would be a good way to keep in touch and see pics of the kids who are probably going through that awkward funny looking pre-teen stage. Last time I spoke to her, her only friends were her sister and this church member (the same sister, my aunt, that I did not accept when she requested my friendship). I told her that her account on facebook should be church driven ONLY! Now, this may come off as mean, but the internet is not a nice place and my mom can be rather gullable. I would hate for her to add a "friend" who is really a perv or someone with a virus because she added them thinking "Hmm, maybe I went to school, church or worked with this person". Now the next thing you know, someone done hacked into my mothers computer and stealing her 401k! If you're on facebook, you know that there are things out there that you need to be extra careful with. Now, im on facebook basically all day. I know what to look for. My mom doesn’t. This scares me. Oh don’t worry, we're having a serious talk when I get home.



You know how when you're a kid and your parents have issues whether its financial or arguing about something completely random, but your parents try not to do that in front of you. Now, nothing on my page is THAT bad, but some things she just doesn't need to see. My mom already thinks I'm border line crazy…if she just read my status updates sometimes, she would really worry. I'm such a random person I think it would blow her mind. She doesn’t need to see all my pictures. Maybe I don’t want her to know what I do on weekends or when im on vacay! Does she know to a certain exent? YEs! I am my fathers child! She knows I "drank" with the best of them…but that doesn’t mean she needs to see that. It may not seem like a big deal but it is to me. The same way celebrities want their privacy from the paps, I want it from my mom. She just doesn’t need to know EVERYTHING!

But that’s not it. It's also a privacy thing. Now I know what you smart asses are thinking: "What in the hell is private about facebook?" Nothing given the fact that there are 200 plus people with access to my picture, status updates and my personal religious and politcal views with 150 really being people I don’t know and would probably try to act like I didn’t see them if I did cross paths with them at Walmart. BUT regardless, it's my social life. Most of you who know me, know that I'm rather personal. I may talk a little, but I offer very little information. For example, I have friends on facebook who I see or talk to everyday! Those are the peoples page I write on or visit the least! Why? Because if I need talk to them or wish them a happy bday, I can walk over to their desk or drive or fly to their house. I don’t need facebook to keep in touch with these people. As my mom doesn’t need it for me. She can call and visit me any time she wants…and she knows that. Facebook is for those people who you're cool with and want to remain in touch with so when you get married or have a kid, you can reflect on how cool yall once were and send them invites so they can buy you stuff. But you don’t wanna be on the phone with them or hanging out with them all the time.

And please, let the record show that I love my mom more than life itself, so kick rocks if you dare judge me!