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So, I don't have a Facebook profile. I don't want a Facebook profile. There's a reason I'm not in touch with a lot of people from high school / college / family members. I don't want to set up a page where acquaintances can check up on me and then pretend like they're good friends when I happen to see them. My SO, however, wastes countless hours on these social networking sites, which I don't have a problem with, so long as she leaves me out of it. Here's where my problem comes in, she "friends" a bunch of my friends and family members, and then when we have a disagreement or she's mad at me she uses the site as a public forum to ridicule me. My sister mentioned something about it to me yesterday, where my SO pretty much called me a bad father because I didn't want to go to a "costume party" with our little boy that she sprung on me at the last minute and neglected to mention was a church function. I go to church for two reasons: weddings and funerals, and either happened to be mine, I'd request a different venue.

I'm not really sure what I should do about this, but one thing I am certainly going to do is demand that she leaves me out of her online bullshit.

I know I'm not the only one. A few weeks ago a friend of mine's dog got run over. He was pretty tore up about and was not at all happy when people he hadn't spoken to in years that had never even seen his dog were calling up to express their condolences and seemed to know an awful lot about his personal life and what he'd been up to, including people from whom he has purposely estranged himself. Turn out some of these people are his wife's "friends" on Facebook and she was writing stuff about him in her status updates. He was livid and I don't blame him.

Has anyone else here had their privacy violated by other people's social networking pages? How do you feel about that?

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