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- Joined
- Mar 27, 2015
- Location
- Mishawaka, IN
Hello everyone. I have had what I would call a somewhat surprising experience when posting pictures of Q I've made on Facebook. I had to stop posting it because certain people from both sides of my family (my immediate relatives and my wife's immediate relatives) tend to get genuinely offended when they see that I've cooked Q and they weren't invited to enjoy it with us. Now, I guess I can understand people seeing those pics and guests in the background and thinking "I wish I had been invited." However, in my estimation, we only have guests about 20% of the time when I cook Q. The rest of the time, it's only for the 4 of us in my house.
The problem is, these people don't stop at "I wish I had been invited." They are actually bothered enough to post comments along the lines of "Why don't you ever invite me over to eat with you? I see that you have other guests there, so why is it never my family?" My mother-in-law goes so far as to ask my wife what I'm cooking when she calls on Saturdays. I've asked my wife not to share any more information than she has to. I'm not out to hurt people. I give a lot of food away. I intentionally buy more meat than my family can eat, for the sole intent of giving some away every time I cook. What I am out to do is enjoy a guilt free Saturday of relaxing near some Heavenly aromas as I await the finish of whatever is in my Humphrey's.
Since this has happened more than once, my initial reaction was to stop posting on Facebook. But it continued to the point that I deactivated Facebook altogether. I really haven't missed it, and the relief I feel at having a restored sense of privacy has been well worth kissing FB goodbye.
I am curious as to whether anyone else has had a similar experience?
The problem is, these people don't stop at "I wish I had been invited." They are actually bothered enough to post comments along the lines of "Why don't you ever invite me over to eat with you? I see that you have other guests there, so why is it never my family?" My mother-in-law goes so far as to ask my wife what I'm cooking when she calls on Saturdays. I've asked my wife not to share any more information than she has to. I'm not out to hurt people. I give a lot of food away. I intentionally buy more meat than my family can eat, for the sole intent of giving some away every time I cook. What I am out to do is enjoy a guilt free Saturday of relaxing near some Heavenly aromas as I await the finish of whatever is in my Humphrey's.
Since this has happened more than once, my initial reaction was to stop posting on Facebook. But it continued to the point that I deactivated Facebook altogether. I really haven't missed it, and the relief I feel at having a restored sense of privacy has been well worth kissing FB goodbye.
I am curious as to whether anyone else has had a similar experience?