Why Being Friends With Family On Social Media Gets Awkward
“Why wasn’t I invited?”
Some of the family generally doesn’t know what’s good for them, and that it’s actually for the best that they not be made aware of everything going on in all the other branches of the family. You quickly learn this when a second cousin messages you upset because he saw a photo you posted of your other cousin’s small, intimate wedding ceremony…which they just so happened to not be invited to. Everybody was perfectly happy before all of this data sharing started to happen on social media. Now you’re playing mediator between two angry cousins. Then there’s the one aunt who sees you had her ex-husband (who you knew and loved for two decades before their divorce) over for coffee when he was in town. Now she’s accusing you of being disloyal to her.
