Call 'em out on it! I have a range of FB friends and it's pretty common for someone to say something offensive/insensitive. I try to use these opportunities to open dialogue. You might be surprised at how confronting these situations on FB can make you more bold in confronting similar situations in public.

Like.

This.

I've been dealing with a lot of this lately because I've gone on a few interviews and people ask about them but then seem sad. I try not to bring it up with my student teaching buddies but if they ask...

Maybe I used the wrong terminology. I'm meaning to say that I "went off on her" cursing and all...

I knew what you meant.

kik :p

Mother's day makes me feel awkward.

It does me too for different reasons.

I was just coming to this thread to post that. *hugs*

This is why from the day my mom joined Facebook, her permissions on my account are nil.

Mother's Day makes me feel awkward, too - it's the one Sunday that I will not go to church.

An erstwhile GC member (who is pretty liberal) and one of my older sorority sisters who is a tad to the right of John Birch got into it one day. Don't know who all remembers that but it was rather amusing. This older sister is the only one who has ever said anything that I've had to delete on my wall, and I've done it several times. She's very...I suppose "strident" is the word. I'm sure she would pitch a bitch if I deleted her though (I have no problem imagining that she keeps a spreadsheet full of her FB friends) so I just hide her in my feed.

I went to church last night forgetting about Mother's Day being today. So I'm feeling awkward when all of the moms stand up, but then I almost lost it when the pastor was praying for the moms and said a prayer for those women who have been trying to become a mom but cant for whatever reason and are struggling with sadness & frustration.

I stay off facebook on Mother's Day.

I feel awkward when people bring up uncomfortable things in public, and since I'm in college where people still think its okay to be consistently wasted, it happens pretty often. For example, my sorority is rather large and while I love all my sisters, there are a number of them that I either do not know well, or am friendly with but not really that close to. One of the latter used to have a gigantic crush on the guy I happen to be seeing, and since I'm not really close with her, I had no idea until he and I had already got together. She comes up to me EVERY time she sees me out, and goes into a loooong speech about how she used to like him. I honestly don't know what she wants me to say..."okay, you can have him"? Mostly I keep quiet about him and don't flaunt him in front of her, but I didn't know until after I started seeing him and its beginning to drive me nuts! /rant

I'm a person who is terrible with names, great at recognizing faces, but I couldn't place them in so many cases if my life depended on it. I can't tell you how many times someone will start a conversation as if they know me really well and I can't figure out how they know me so I'll just go with it but feel very awkward. Sometimes I am completely sure I have never seen the person before...perhaps I look like someone else? This happens to me really often, and I'm not sure why. I'm not even much of a drinker, so that can't be it!

Also, I am just five feet tall and a pretty tiny person...lets just say I can fit into the larger sizes of children's clothing. However, it makes me REALLY uncomfortable when people comment on it...I've had people try to pick me up, pat me on the head, yell OMG YOU'RE SOOOOOO CUTE AND LITTLE and it really freaks me out. For the record, I usually like being little, but people can get really weird about it and act like I'm some sort of doll.

This is what I'm going to be saying on Father's day. Mother's day made me remember that.
"Limited profile" is now spell "m-o-m." ;)

Indeed. I can't picture my parents signing up for Facebook accounts, but my MIL has asked us more than once about FB. The only thing stopping her from signing up is that you have to provide your date of birth. (Come on. It's not like you have to provide your real DOB.) But if she does ever sign up - well, I'll have to friend her or she won't stop whining - but she will go in her own little security group that will be on total lockdown - no status updates, no gaming posts, no photos or videos, nada.

Mother's Day sometimes makes me feel awkward too. People tend to ASSume I'm a mom. Last night, I was at a temple fundraiser, and one of the coordinators announced, "Happy Mother's Day to all the ladies here." AFAIK, I'm the only adult female congregant without children. Does that mean I'm not a lady? :( But I held my tongue and took the announcement in the spirit it was intended - all the other women who were present are mothers.

Mothers includes furry children too, as I was reminded by a friend who called me and told me Happy Mother's Day. And once a mom, always a mom. :)

Exactly why I don't like Mother's Day!

What makes me feel awkward is being so upset with the one thing that made me so happy that I no longer want to even be involved with it. It sucks to be so excited about something to the point of feeling major disappointment when something that might appear to be small/ minute feels like a real slap in the face. When you go back through the last few years and try to erase something that you absolutely loved out of your life (or seemingly so) because it seems to be one thing after another that hurts your feelings, it's a horrible feeling. Maybe I'm better off just fading into the background. :(

As reflected in your signature? Don't feel obligated to answer, I'm just nosy and following your lead.

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Count me in for people who feel awkward when people fight in front of them, especially couples and parents and children. I'm not always a model son, but I'll be damned if someone catches me yelling at/arguing with to my parents.

When one of your sisters has a facebook status about getting her body bikini ready and another sister's boyfriend likes it...

When your neighbor breaks up with his longtime girlfriend, and you go over to his house to chat, and she stops by...

We really REALLY liked this chick, but neighbor and her just had soem issues that he couldn't work through. I felt so weird yesterday when I saw her, I wanted to say "Hey how's it going?" But I knew things were going BAD, so I didn't, so instead I jst said "Hi!" and gathered my kids and left.

when going through the drive-thru
 

when asked if I want ketchup I sometimes say "yes" even if I'm not sure, sort of a just-in-case yes. Of course, then I feel obligated to use one, even if I don't really want to...

...but if they don't ask me, and put like 19 ketchup packets in the bag, I can easily leave every one of them in there unused if I don't want any.

I wonder if the boyfriend got the talk from his gf?

You know what's freakin' awkward? Having to tell your ex-boyfriend's family that you broke up because he was too much of a chicken to do so. Hello, you have another girlfriend listed on facebook... don't you think that they were going to start asking questions soon?

The writing for Secret Life makes me feel awkward.

What high schooler says "oral sex" like twenty times in a conversation? And haven't these kids heard of con-dams?

BLAH BLAH BLAH SEX SEX BLAH SEX ORAL SEX BLAH BLAH CRAZY SEX BLAH BLAH

I feel bad for sister #1, but damn I am laughing so hard right now. That is such a sitcom-y moment.

als463...<hugs> and I got your back!!

33girl, thanks. You have no idea how much that really means to me. I really appreciate it. I've always got your back, too.

I posted a FB status and a friend's ex-bf (very recently EXed) posted "See now you're then kinda woman I wanna marry!"

I was like......:confused:......*shuffle shuffle*.....doesheknowshecanseethis???

[QUOTE=DrPhil;2054585]I feel awkward that some of you feel awkward about the things that make you feel awkward. C'mon, TonyB06, awkward over packets of ketchup? ;)

Yep, generally speaking, I keep the perps, the annoying and the arrogant/self-absorbed out of my circle. ...sooo, when it comes to awkward, ketchup packets is pretty much all I got.

Awkward when someone tweets a sexual comment about their ex that is blatantly about your current significant other...

I feel awkward when I am the only "new" person in the room.

ie. That party you are a guest to and everyone there is either family or has known each other since 4th grade. You just can't follow all those stories. "OMG remember Susie Q?" Five hours later ""OMG my dad did this." "Wowwie! That is soooo your dad!!!'"

When I'm flattered. Which has been happening with alarming frequency. I fear it may go to my head.

But mostly I don't know how to respond. And this is welcome flattery.

This doesn't make me awkward so much as suspicious. One compliment is great but if someone tells me my smile is pretty, I say "Thank you," and then they say it 3 more times, I wonder what they want.

Yeah if this were anyone but the people involved I'd be more creeped/suspicious. These are potential/actual romantic partners and I've gotten past the, "you're kidding right?" stage and am hovering somewhere between the, "you're slightly crazy" and "wow, maybe I am kind of awesome" stages.

It's a really nice feeling, I just haven't gotten my feet under me about it.

Speaking of awkward moments....

I went out with friends this weekend and awkwardness ensued.

D: So CG, how come you never come with us to our cabin trips?
K: Because she's never invited.
D: Oh.....:(
Me: *stands between them wishing I were somewhere else*

I feel awkward when people sing near/to me.

If I'm in a car with someone and they start singing, I get super uncomfortable.. Same with fraternity serenades.

I just don't know how to react... I don't like to STARE at people, but if someone is in front of me singing, I assume I'm supposed to...
I don't know.

"Stranger Than Fiction" is one of my all time favorite movies but I usually skip the "Whole Wide World" scene. For a second, Maggie Gylenhall(??) has this look on her face like "There is a man on my couch singing and I don't know what I'm supposed to do" and that's how I feel any time someone is singing in front of me.

You mean just singing along to the radio? They're singing because they like the song and it makes them feel happy. Don't let it stress you out. They're not expecting you to clap or give a Simon Cowell critique.

-chronic singer-in-car ;)

Yes, singing along to the radio.
It especially irks me when I like the song and they sing over it.
I want to tell them "stfu and leave it up to the professionals" [but that's not nice so I don't haha]
I just feel like I am then supposed to compliment them or something...

-chronic singer-in-car-WHEN-ALONE-but-never-NEVER-in-front-of-people :)

Me too. I rock out, especially when I'm by myself. I smile and wave to the strangers in the cars next to me who stare :D