My mom won’t add me on Facebook.
I know; it’s usually the other way around. All my friends have complained when their parents got Facebook, and how they went months before finally accepting their friendship requests.
But I didn’t even know that my mom had a Facebook account until I saw her name pop up on one of my cousin’s profiles. And then I saw her profile on a few other cousins’ profiles. And then lastly, my three brothers.
So, I feel like I’m 10 again, and my mom is picking favorites. My mother added all her children on Facebook except me.
I didn’t want to, but I sent her a friendship request. And I logged into Facebook every day to see if she accepted my request. Two days went by. Then five. Then after a week without receiving a notification saying I was friends with my mother, I texted her.
“Why won’t you add me on Facebook?”
And my mother said the most hurtful thing she has ever said to me in my 23 years.
“I don’t want to be your Facebook friend,” she said.





