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[snopes]

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[Auntie Witch]

My MIL is on Facebook.

Heaven help me.

[imjustasteph]

Originally Posted by Auntie Witch

My MIL is on Facebook.

Heaven help me.

Oh yeah? Mine is my 'friend' (and again I beg for the day that social networking allows us to identify 'mere acquaintances' apart from 'friends'), silently lurking and waiting for me to answer a gay marriage poll so she can tell me how wrong I am. Her daughter, my sister-in-law, has already unfriended and blocked me. I'm waiting to see how long it takes to send the MIL the same way.....

[Auntie Witch]

Do we share a MIL?

Of course, my MIL already knows how I feel about things like that. The summer she found out is the summer I went from "can do no wrong" to "do you want to rethink that?"

[imjustasteph]

Auntie Witch, I doub t we do, but you're welcome to mine if you want her.



(I still think in a proper world we'd get to choose our SO's and in-laws separately.)

[Barbara]

Originally Posted by Auntie Witch

My MIL is on Facebook.

Heaven help me.

You're appealing to the wrong direction.

[Heroic Muse]

Originally Posted by imjustasteph

Oh yeah? Mine is my 'friend' (and again I beg for the day that social networking allows us to identify 'mere acquaintances' apart from 'friends'), silently lurking and waiting for me to answer a gay marriage poll so she can tell me how wrong I am. Her daughter, my sister-in-law, has already unfriended and blocked me. I'm waiting to see how long it takes to send the MIL the same way.....

Use your privacy settings. You can stop your MIL from seeing most of what you post or from commenting on it.

[imjustasteph]

Originally Posted by Heroic Muse

Use your privacy settings. You can stop your MIL from seeing most of what you post or from commenting on it.

Even if she's my 'friend'? I didn't think you could if you friended someone....I'm still new to FB though, and figuring it all out.

Since we hadn't talked, until quite recently, in about three years (since she tossed us out of the place we were renting from her) I don't want to do anything like unfriending, I'm trying to make it possible for the kids to know her, whether I want to or not.

I might joke about her unfriending me, and she might eventually do it for real, but I sure don't want to take deliberate steps to cause a new rift myself.

[Ducky]

yes you can prevent certain people from seeing much of not all of what you have on your profile and what you comment on. I haven't really played with that aspect so don't know how you can set it for just one person (I know how for EVERYBODY lol) or if you need to set them up in groups (like Family, Friends, People from Hell, Annoying Mother in Law....) in order to block certain users from seeing things.

I know from one of my apps you can separate people you "accept as friends" for the purpose of the game (that's one thing I will never ever do) into one group and set that group to a privacy level of "Do not allow to view".

[TallGeekyGirl]

I was out on my porch last night turning off the Halloween decorations. I'd spent most of the evening watching scary movies, and as impressionable as I am, I was a bit spooked to start with. Suddenly, there was an explosion of dead leaves and something terrible rose up before me! I got a glimpse of the hideous monster that was about to eat my face and ... it was a Siamese cat, which darted away at top speed.

You know how, in horror movies, someone will go looking for her lost friends and suddenly a cat will jump out in a cheap scare by the film makers?

TVTropes calls that a Cat Scare, and it usually prompts the appearance of the real monster/slasher killer/alien/whatever.

Well, it apparently happens in real life, too! Luckily for me, the kitty, obviously every bit as startled as I was, didn't prompt the appearance of the real monster that was obviously waiting just around the corner...

[AnglRdr]

Originally Posted by TallGeekyGirl

Well, it apparently happens in real life, too! Luckily for me, the kitty, obviously every bit as startled as I was, didn't prompt the appearance of the real monster that was obviously waiting just around the corner...

Li'l's band motto this year is "The problem with real life is there is no danger music."

I believe your experience proved that motto as Truth!

[Lachrymose]

I love the new default post icon.

[Zorro]

I'm watching "Jesus Camp". It's very interesting, in a train wreck kind of way. I'm entertained to know that I apparently go to a "dead church", too.

[TallGeekyGirl]

Originally Posted by Lachrymose

I love the new default post icon.

So do the squirrels!

om nom nom!

(I wonder what that little tableau will look like when the default icon changes? What will the little squirrel be nomming then? )

[Lachrymose]

Originally Posted by TallGeekyGirl

(I wonder what that little tableau will look like when the default icon changes? What will the little squirrel be nomming then? )

Turkey, probably.

[FrogFeathers]

Originally Posted by TallGeekyGirl

I was out on my porch last night turning off the Halloween decorations. I'd spent most of the evening watching scary movies, and as impressionable as I am, I was a bit spooked to start with. Suddenly, there was an explosion of dead leaves and something terrible rose up before me! I got a glimpse of the hideous monster that was about to eat my face and ... it was a Siamese cat, which darted away at top speed.

You know how, in horror movies, someone will go looking for her lost friends and suddenly a cat will jump out in a cheap scare by the film makers?

TVTropes calls that a Cat Scare, and it usually prompts the appearance of the real monster/slasher killer/alien/whatever.

Well, it apparently happens in real life, too! Luckily for me, the kitty, obviously every bit as startled as I was, didn't prompt the appearance of the real monster that was obviously waiting just around the corner...

I did the same type of thing, without anything popping up. I hadn't even watched horror movies. I was just standing on my wooden deck, in the pre-dawn darkness, waiting on Gypsy... staring into the darkened trees that separate our yard from the golf course and started thinking about zombies and if I'd be able to make it back into the house before zombies reached me. I had a whole scenario in my head for fast-moving "Dawn of the Dead" zombies and slow-moving "Shaun of the Dead" zombies. I was spooked for days.

Now that its cold, I'm using the logic that its too cold for zombies to move and be deadly.


In other news, I decided that when I turned 40, I'd stop dying my hair. I've been 40 for two weeks and my roots are showing and it is driving me nuts. I may give up and just go back to dying my hair. Maybe I'll stop dying my hair when I'm 60.

[Gibbie]

Why stop dying your hair? I don't intend on going gray, I'm just going to be more red. A little old redheaded lady when I'm 90.

Gibbie

[Zorro]

I'm undecided as to wether I'll dye my hair when the time comes. On the one hand, it'd be a good excuse for me to go red, like I've been wanting to do for years and simply haven't had the guts to. OTOH, it's way too much maintenance for me to have go every however many weeks and touch up the roots!

The day is coming sooner rather than later, though. I've been finding an occasional silver hair from time to time...just few enough that I can pluck them out!

I'm trying to do some Christmas shopping online, since I can't leave the house to do it this afternoon. I've gotten all three nieces done, and am now trying to figure out something for my aunt and uncle. I took them to a concert as part of their present last week, but I want to get them something else to open on Christmas day.

[Heroic Muse]

Originally Posted by imjustasteph

Even if she's my 'friend'? I didn't think you could if you friended someone....I'm still new to FB though, and figuring it all out.

Since we hadn't talked, until quite recently, in about three years (since she tossed us out of the place we were renting from her) I don't want to do anything like unfriending, I'm trying to make it possible for the kids to know her, whether I want to or not.

I might joke about her unfriending me, and she might eventually do it for real, but I sure don't want to take deliberate steps to cause a new rift myself.

Yep. You go to Privacy Settings and set each setting to Custom. There will be a space where you can type in the name of a friend or friend list that you do not want to see that part of your profile. They don't get any kind of notification saying they've been blocked; they just don't see things you have blocked them from. For example, if they can not see status updates your name will come up without a status underneath it.

After setting your privacy settings, you can type the person's name into a box at the top to see a preview of how the profile will look when they access it.

[Moon]

For those of you with a Cost Plus Imports store, they have yummy things like UKian Cadbury chocolate, Marmite and Vegemite, and different teas and biscuits and things that I didn't know they had. Yay! OTOH, I wonder how long some of that stuff has been sitting on the shelf.

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Frank Warren, of PostSecret, is coming to Tempe on 7th December!! He's even going to be at a bookstore right by my house- I go there all the time! I called and got my ticket right away. I was the first one to call them. I am really really excited to meet him.

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I have two friends who had birthdays this past week, so Mr Moon and I went to a lovely joint birthday party last night. There were yummy fajitas and good conversation. And diving off the roof into the pool (not me, though).

-Moon