Worst Thing You Found Out about on Facebook

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  • Mia_RagazzaTosta
    Mia_RagazzaTosta Posts: 4,885 Member
    Facebook is the devil's den. Lol

    Facebook doesn't hold a candle to this place if we're talking devil's den.
  • eddiesmith1
    eddiesmith1 Posts: 1,550 Member
    Deaths generally, I found out a long time friend died when I was away in Europe and i missed the funeral (felt like i made the wake though because everyone sent me images and updates)
    I worked with a lot of music people over the years so frequently here about deaths of friends via media if we've been out of touch, other times i'll get a phone call before it breaks (that happened with Ron and Scott Asheton's deaths) .
  • kewpiecyster
    kewpiecyster Posts: 154 Member
    I love Facebook, as most of my family is spread all over. I have connections with family in Alabama, Colorado, California, Nevada and Florida.

    I only had drama when I friended my biological cousin. We grew up together - even though her bio mom and my bio dad were deadbeat brother and sister. We were raised by better people and we remained friends. When I friended her, many of my sperm donor's family members tried to connect with me. My cousin had reconciled with the bio family, so they now all had a connection to me. The problem with this is that I have NO want to be connected with anyone from that family except for her.

    I gently let those who were trying to connect with me how I felt and denied their requests. No problems since then.
  • Crimson_Fire
    Crimson_Fire Posts: 2,504 Member
    Does it mean I'm a super boring person if I've never had any drama associated with Facebook?
  • randomtai
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    How racist my boyfriend's family is. :grumble:
  • _Tink_
    _Tink_ Posts: 3,845 Member
    I found out that my cousin and his wife had a baby - a year after the fact. No one in my family even mentioned that she was pregnant. I also found out about my sister's messy divorce on Facebook. I sent her a message of support asking if she was doing okay and she refused to tell me anything, but continued to post all the dirty details on Facebook for the rest of the world to read about. Family is awesome. :huh:
  • BigBellyGoAway
    BigBellyGoAway Posts: 781 Member
    I don't spend much time on FB, but I did find out that many of the people I'm "friends" with bore me more than I though they did. :laugh:
  • ldnmaggie
    ldnmaggie Posts: 222 Member
    That my nan died, my cousin wrote a status about it! Hellllllooooooooooooooooooooooooo?!?!

    And that a friends baby died a few days after xmas...
  • sarainiowa
    sarainiowa Posts: 287 Member
    I found out my sister had cancer via Facebook. Apparently, someone thought "everyone knew".

    We found out his niece was having a baby before anyone was suppose to know. .... (so it's posted on Facebook??)

    Learned a lot of deaths on Facebook. Learned some people have more mental health issues then they even know (lol). I've learned anything can and will happen on Facebook, so not much shocks me anymore.
  • UsedToBeHusky
    UsedToBeHusky Posts: 15,228 Member
    I learned that a close friend from high school had died from uterine cancer. I'd been looking for her for years. I had found her brother, but when I asked about her, he didn't respond.

    I hate it because I would have liked to have reconnected with her before she died. It was a very difficult funeral for me.
  • apedeb09
    apedeb09 Posts: 805 Member
    Deaths (one was a really good friend of mine, others are people I knew in HS or somewhere else. Always sad)... I also found out my husband's EX best friend was put in prison for child abuse. Nearly killed his 4 month old. Thank god the baby recovered but he will have life long disabilities from it.

    Hmm, that's about the worst of it I think.
  • ekz13
    ekz13 Posts: 725 Member
    I found out (and continue to find out) that I have no need to talk to my extended family as they are a bunch of shallow, vain, narcissistic, oversharing, passive aggressive attention *kitten* that feel the need to SHARE EVERYTHING…I’d take them off but the cannon fodder is too good to pass up for later use.

    I don't use my name on it anyway.. figured if someone wanted to find me i'm public enough they could've "found" me easily enough between my college, military, voting records, etc... don't need them to pop up 20 years later talking about "oh hey friend..blah blah blah..." you obviously didn't look that hard.. :grumble:
  • MrsG31
    MrsG31 Posts: 364 Member
    Deactivated my account an have never looked back. :)

    2 weeks for me and life is a hell of a lot better without it :)

    I have considered doing that so many times but just can't seem to bring myself to do it. My friend list is probably a little over 100 and consists mainly of family, mine and my husbands. We both have family (aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins) that are spread out all over the country. If it wasn't for FB we wouldn't keep in touch as much as we do. And Grandma is always commenting on pics of her grandkids about how much she loves FB so she see all her grandkids (and great grand kids) that live far away. I can't take that away from Grandma, lol! I think the only people left in the family that are not on FB are my in-laws.....although my MIL sister's are really trying to get her to join. I change certain people to acquaintances and really try to be strict about my friend list. And once in awhile I do a cut.

    The worst news we found through FB? Probably when an aunt died suddenly from a brain aneurysm.
  • MrsG31
    MrsG31 Posts: 364 Member
    I found my mom saying things about me other peoples pages. About how horrible I am as a daughter and mother. She even went on a public page, viewed by over 500k people, and said something negative about me under a comment I had made. I learned about that when I started getting messages from strangers saying, OMG...is that your mom? I feel for you, my mom is a ***** too. :frown:

    Oh gawd.....how awful! ((((hugs))))
  • MrsG31
    MrsG31 Posts: 364 Member
    My family has a private group page on Facebook, so when news needs to be shared that is considered serious, it's ok that we share it via Facebook.

    That is a GREAT idea!!
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    Facebook is the devil's den. Lol

    Facebook doesn't hold a candle to this place if we're talking devil's den.

    So true!
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  • mank32
    mank32 Posts: 1,323 Member
    Does it mean I'm a super boring person if I've never had any drama associated with Facebook?

    Aww, we can start that club together. :flowerforyou:
    i only use FB as a photo album of my art and to share pithy quotes. i barely look at anyone else's pages.
  • MrsG31
    MrsG31 Posts: 364 Member
    That my mom hadn't made it thru the night after surgery. I live in another state and whoever was supposed to call me (no one would fess up) didn't. Talk about sucking! It's been almost 2 years and I'm still really mad about it

    I would be too, you have every right to be. Giving you a virtual hug! ((hug))
  • rfw24
    rfw24 Posts: 443 Member
    I found out that my wife was a liar and was cheating on me. It was bad then but I am a happier person now! : )
  • crazyminxx
    crazyminxx Posts: 13 Member
    I so relate to this. I found out via face book that my grandmother had months to live - turned out to be weeks.
    I also found out my (now ex) husband was cheating - his girlfriend would leave posts on his wall for the world to see - such class!
    WTF is wrong with people! is everyone devoid of empathy for others?!
  • jkwolly
    jkwolly Posts: 3,049 Member
    I found out my eldest son impregnated that woman he married and that she lost the baby. Several months later, I found out he (we're going on the assumption it was him, at this point) did it again. She is due in July sometime. He still hasn't told me. *shrug*

    Best part? This is the FIRST grandchild out of three sons. Not sure this was how I envisioned it...but then I also envisioned him marrying an actual HUMAN BEING. :huh:

    Maybe ^ this is why you found out through FB rather than him calling you or coming over to tell you in person. It's clear that you are not in support of the relationship and he probably didn't want to upset you.

    Thought the same thing. "That woman he married"... don't you mean "daughter-in-law"? Delightful.
    I was thinking the same thing, but then I thought, "We don't know the back story."

    She certainly doesn't sound like a pleasant MIL, but then I've seen new wives treat really wonderful in-laws like dirt and not allow their husbands any contact and the husbands go along with it. My fiance's ex-wife is like that. I've been with him nine years, so I know it is not the in-laws who are the problem.
    Still waiting for a response on this...
  • pseudomuffin
    pseudomuffin Posts: 1,058 Member
    Wow. With my immediate family, no one posts about things like that until we know the entire family knows about it first.

    This, I try to be respectful and give news some time to spread via traditional means through the family before posting about it on facebook.
  • smantha32
    smantha32 Posts: 6,990 Member


    I have lots of cousins that I love dearly who live far away, and some friends on the other side of the planet. Facebook is my way of keeping in touch with them. Piss on the drama. *shrugs*

    Facebook is the way I connected with two cousins who I haven't seen since we were small children.
  • Cudleigh
    Cudleigh Posts: 188 Member
    Sometimes I wonder if people forget that Facebook is a public thing.

    I've found out that:
    My roommate's boyfriend was cheating on her with two other girls.
    Someone had sex in my bed when I was away.
    My ex got some chick pregnant while we were dating.
  • rml_16
    rml_16 Posts: 16,414 Member
    I found out my husband was cheating with ex wife. Facebook sucks.
    Yeah!

    Without Facebook, you could be blissfully unaware that your husband was cheating.
  • WendyTerry420
    WendyTerry420 Posts: 13,274 Member
    I found out my husband was cheating with ex wife. Facebook sucks.
    Yeah!

    Without Facebook, you could be blissfully unaware that your husband was cheating.

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    On that note, a woman I'm friends with was chatting with a man on FB, and her husband forbid her to use FB anymore for fear that she would cheat. So, yeah, FB makes you aware of things, so cheating is because of FB, so FB is the debbil. And for some couples, casual conversation is cheating. Totally.
  • Mello_Rello
    Mello_Rello Posts: 421 Member
    So I get on Facebook this morning to look something up for a friend. I learned that my mom is having a heart cath done today. I have 2 sisters and one posted it to facebook. Not a single person told me.

    A couple years ago, I learned my aunt had a massive stroke via Facebook.

    I live an hour from my family and check in with them about every other day. So my question is this. What's the worst thing you found out about on Facebook?


    Woooowwww...REALLY? I'm sorry, and I don't mean to offend you, but that's pretty lame of your family to for one, feel it necessary to post personal family business online, and two, leave you out of the loop and NOT CALL you to let you know what's going on with your mom, and three, assume that everyone checks FB regularly so eventually you would find out...which you did, but it's just inappropriate to me.

    I hate HATE social media now. It has become the downfall of communication these days. Instead of picking up the phone to converse with friends/family, we post pics and whatnots online for all the see. We think we're building relationships, when really we're killing them. Quality time together or conversing is the only way to truly build a relationship. And the crap we feel is necessary to post..."I'm on the crapper", "Just had sex, WINNING", "Feeling like killing myself today", noooooo, not appropriate. Wish we could go back to the old days when making a phone call wasn't so old fashioned.
  • erikasmith2013
    erikasmith2013 Posts: 104
    Worst Thing.... I had lost touch maybe a month or so with one of my bff and one night she came to mind so I called her. No answer... I check her FB page and I started to see all these RIP messages and it got me up on the bed, so I keep looking and find out that she had taken Her life bc of her relationship. I was devastated. I will NEVER forget how it all felt like an out of body experience. I think about her every week as I drive by her old apartment. Although I wasn't able to attend her funeral, I did get in touch with her sisters and they invited me to her 1 year memorial... Saddest thing ever! She was so WELL put together I still struggle with it.

    :sad:
  • Diesel_Girl
    Diesel_Girl Posts: 39
    The ending of Season 4 of the Walking Dead. I have missed all of the last half of the season due to no cable and have done my best to avoid anyone that might give it away. I guess I missed one...

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