facebook fumble recovery

Okay, background first: I used to teach martial arts to kids (and adults, but the kids are the important element of this story). I don’t anymore, but when I joined facebook, a couple students at the school where I used to work sent friend requests, so I accepted.

So far, so good.

One of these people posts with some regularity. And though I rarely see him in person, his mother sometimes comes into my current place of employment, and we are still on friendly, first-name terms.

And here’s the fumble.

Last week, this mom stopped in, and I was trying to make pleasant conversation, so I said, “It’s been nice to follow your son’s posts on facebook.” (This is usually a safe thing to say, right? Was I totally off track with that?) And she says, “Oh? What’s he posting?”

DANGER WILL ROBINSON! RED ALERT!

Even I, as clueless about facebook etiquette as I am, knew this was a dangerous question. I mean, I assume that she’s perfectly capable of checking herself, and I’ve never seen anything even remotely non-mom-friendly, but I was still feeling the heat. After some quick thinking, I said, “It sounds like he’s really busy with school.”

SAFE! She agreed that this was, indeed, the case. I wanted to give myself a high five. Fumble recovery achieved.

Mirrored from The Marci Rating System.