I have a FB page and only have about 50-60 friends. I obviously don't "friend" a lot of people. Recently, I added an 18 year old young lady who used to be a friend of my daughter's. This girl was adopted as a baby; she knows her birth mother but doesn't really have a relationship with her. Her adoptive Mom died when she was about 9 years old. Her Dad remarried, then divorced, so she lost her step-Mom. I've known her since she was in pre-school and I like her a lot. As strange as it may sound, it appears that I'm the one constant female in her life. The first time she sent me a message on FB, she asked if she could call me Ma or Mom or Momma (etc), and of course I told her yes.
Now the problem: it seems as if every time I am on my FB page she starts a conversation with me. I could count on both hands the number of times I've had conversations with friends in the last 2 1/2 years; it's obviously not something I do very often. It's not that I mind talking to her, but we truly have very little in common. I usually end up making an excuse to tell her why I can't just sit and talk to her, and I absolutely hate doing that.
I'm not a FB whiz, but I'm assuming that when you're there the little green dot behind your name lets other people know you're around. Is there anyway to block that little dot ( yeah, I know how stupid that sounds
) I would simply like to be on my page, posting to other people, without a "hey, wassup Ma?" popping up constantly. Strangely, I check the list down the right side of my FB page for names of friends who are online, and I rarely come across her name. How is she doing that?!
I hope I don't sound as awful as I think I do; I don't want to hurt her feelings, but I also don't need to talk to her half a dozen times a day. (until last week, I hadn't seen her in months, so it's not as if we were super close to start with).
Now the problem: it seems as if every time I am on my FB page she starts a conversation with me. I could count on both hands the number of times I've had conversations with friends in the last 2 1/2 years; it's obviously not something I do very often. It's not that I mind talking to her, but we truly have very little in common. I usually end up making an excuse to tell her why I can't just sit and talk to her, and I absolutely hate doing that.
I'm not a FB whiz, but I'm assuming that when you're there the little green dot behind your name lets other people know you're around. Is there anyway to block that little dot ( yeah, I know how stupid that sounds
I hope I don't sound as awful as I think I do; I don't want to hurt her feelings, but I also don't need to talk to her half a dozen times a day. (until last week, I hadn't seen her in months, so it's not as if we were super close to start with).
