Bless Her Heart – My Mother-In-Law & Her Facebook

Yeah. You know this is good.

And I DO have permission to write about this… because my mother-in-law is awesome and like the son that she raised, she knows funny. And she know this is funny. And she is willing to let me make fun of her because that’s the way we roll in this family.

So, last Thanksgiving I set my MIL up on the FB, and my SIL. I. Am. A. Virus.

I digress.

It didn’t take long for her to get sucked in begin enjoying all the fun that is Facebook. I was proud to let my wee fawn of social media traverse the terrain and find her own berries. *crosses eyes*

Fast forward to a couple of weeks ago. My MIL (a former pastor’s wife) said to my husband and me, Hey guys? I have a question for you. All the ads on my Facebook are for lesbian-realted stuff. Can you help me? Is there a way to get different ads?

I looked at Paul, he looked at me, we looked at we.

Um… Maybe we should take a peek…

Did I mention my MIL was a pastor’s wife? My FIL passed away, golly, 2 years ago tomorrow. He was a precious, precious man. I miss him.

Not only was she a pastor’s wife for 30-some-ott-years, but a Southern Baptist preacher’s wife. The woman is practically next-to-kin of Mary. You know THE Mary… *wink* AND she grew up in Oklahoma.

So, yeah… DEFINITELY when she said she was getting all lesbian ads on her FB page, little red flags nearly choked us out. Did you know our info and some of our wall content is what forms the type of ads we see on our Facebook pages? Those ads are tailored to us… dictated by the informations WE give FB about ourselves, Hey Facebook! Here are the details of my relationship status and gender preference self…

You wanna know what my cute, conservative little MIL did to earn such attention for the FB ad deciders?

I took a picture. I wish I had viewed in on my computer becuase I would have take a screen shot, but here it is from my iPhone:

Original photo has been altered to protect the innocent… the painfully innocent…

We questioned my MIL. WHHHHYYYYY did you say you are interested in men AND women?

As cute as Thumper, and with 3… nay, 4 bats of her sweet conservative lashes she replied, I have friends that are women and men!

We had to have a family meeting. We discussed: Ann/Mom. You can’t mark your relationship status as “single” and… and… O.K. When they ask “Intersted In”, they are asking ‘”WHOareyouinterestedin*winkwink*?”

My MIL, Ooooooooooooooh. *blush* {gigglegiggle}

And straight away we nixed the “relationship status” as well as the “interested in” feature. And immediately she started getting ads for Bibles and such

The lesson for us all? Let’s play with our info pages and see what kind of person FB thinks we are!

Kidding. Kind of.

The lesson here is… be choosy. Somebody is always watching… even with our permissions set as tight as can be (BTW, have you checked lately to make sure your moblile pics are posting as “public” or “friends only”?)… someone is always watching. *quiver*

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