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04 May 2010

Modern relationship notes. My nephew and his girlfriend just broke up.→[More:]

Part of the spectacular denouement was an argument over which of them spent more time on Farmville.

That is all.

post by: dhartung at: 19:47 | 17 comments

Ha, I like that the subject of the argument was not that the time on Farmville and not with each other, but who did it more.

posted by rmless2 04 May | 19:59

Heh, was it a contest? "I'm on Farmville more!!!!" "STFU, I am!!! Who do you think is clicking on those pigs, night after night???"

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 04 May | 20:05

hah.

"I'll take the beets!"
"No way! I planted them on your farm! I take the beets!"
"Yeah! but I voted for your tomatoes!"
*[boy] razes [girl]'s fields*
*[girl] sets fire to [boy]'s granary*

disclaimer: I have no idea of how Farmville works.

posted by qvantamon 04 May | 20:18

I really like the phrase "girl sets fire to boy's granary". That is all.

posted by richat 04 May | 20:25

You know those couples that have conjoined email addresses?

jerryandteena@aol.com

I'm still waiting for one of those to end in bloodshed. You just wait.

posted by BoringPostcards 04 May | 20:36

Sometimes I think that my husband might divorce me over the time that I spend online, period. He is just not an internet person.

posted by gaspode 04 May | 21:01

(don't worry, I don't really think he will divorce me. Just get grumpy occasionally).

posted by gaspode 04 May | 21:02

It's probably better to have at least one person who isn't totally addicted. We're a two-addict household. Although I'll admit that I'm worse.

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 04 May | 21:28

Just moments ago, nephew changed his status to "in a relationship", though apparently she isn't on FB.

I predict some de-friending by the gf's relatives shortly.

posted by dhartung 04 May | 22:39

Mr. init is baffled by my affinity for being online. "Why don't you just *call* or *email* people? Online people? You don't even know them!"

Of course, people he has met at meetups then become friends. :-)

posted by initapplette 04 May | 23:14

I HATE conjoined email addresses. I don't know for sure who is addressing me so I just delete and don't reply.

posted by arse_hat 04 May | 23:37

I know two 70-odd-year-old lesbians who live in Australia who have a conjoined email address - reneeandrenata@... and every single time I see an email from them I think of this.*

*which was a massive hit in the UK in 1982, stayed at No. 1 in the charts for weeks.

posted by Senyar 05 May | 01:05

Senyar, that song, words fail me.

posted by Ardiril 05 May | 01:41

Yea, the conjoined email thing is weird. I can't imagine sharing an inbox with my wife and I'm sure that the idea is even more horrifying for her. Not that we keep any secrets, we know each other's passwords but someone else going in and messing with your folder organization would be crazy-making.

posted by octothorpe 05 May | 06:10

I predict some de-friending by the gf's relatives shortly.

A friend from high school and his girlfriend broke up a few weeks ago. I'm friends with both on Facebook. I feel a little weird still being her "friend"= she's not my friend, she was just my friend because she was his girlfriend. I hope they will get back together just so I don't have to deal with this pain any longer.

Plus I think they were meant to be :'-(

posted by ThePinkSuperhero 05 May | 09:57

Daughter's FB page, and her ex's, are both invisible to be beyond the cover page. This is a good thing. I would be too tempted to partake in a bit of ~~Kremlin~~Facebookology to an excessive degree.

posted by danf 05 May | 11:08

One of the ways I determined that my new relationship was actually a "real" relationship was when we decided to change our FB statuses. But I thought it would be best for me to email my mom/dad/sis first because the first two aren't on FB, and he had to go tell his mom because she reads his FB (and his sister already knew) and so it actually got me thinking longer and more critically about whether or not I actually wanted to date him and so...

Yeah, Facebook'd.

posted by TrishaLynn 05 May | 16:26

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