Face(palm)book

About a year ago I set up a Facebook account and quickely forgot about it until I recently when I received messages from a few people I went to (elementary and) High School with back home. It was fun connecting with old pals I've not seen in decades, seeing pictures of their fugly kids and hearing about all of the miseries they have experienced over the years. The guys got fat, the chicks got really fat (many were unrecognizable) although a few seem to have preserved well enough and have good marriages and cute kids.

I don't log into Facebook very often and certainly not on a daily basis because I don't have enough interest in people I've not seen in eons to care enough that "Mindy is tired after a long day on her knees at work", "Sam is having a cold beer and rubbing one out while watching nursing home porn" and/or 'Claire is excited about a new super sized meep plug-

And Twitter is even worse... blah blah blah... 'standing in line... stuck in traffic... taking a meep....-

So... a few weeks ago I was telling my sister (on the phone) I had found many of our old gang from High School on Facebook.... and suggested she check it out. The next day I get a friends request. "Ahhh meep, meep it... whyinthehell would I want to be friends with my sister on Facebook when I can barely tolerate her in real life?"

Anywho...I checked into Facebook yesterday and found a message from my toothless sister (and btw she really is toothless) informing me that our mothers brother (also known as Uncle in a few scarce regions of the deep south) had passed away from cancer earlier in the morning. I don't recall anyone ever telling me that Mom's bro had cancer... okay... he did and now he is ded! But a meeping Facebook notification???????? Is there a particular activity or "request" on Facebook for death notifications like passing a cyber drink or a quiz "Can you guess which member of your family just died?"

If anyone cares, I'm now going to sit and pull lint and other unidentifiable meep outta my belly meepon and then I'm going to give my meep a good scratchin' and then I'm going to clean the pipe and reload...