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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are excited that 'Jane' will be attending Radford in the fall vs We are excited that "Jane" will be attending Princeton in the fall??[/quote]

Why do people need to apologize about their child going to Princeton? My child will not be going to Princeton, but I can still be happy for those that got the school they wanted - Princeton or otherwise. Our neighbor's child is going to Yale. Very happy about it.[/quote]

Why are you "very happy" that your neighbor's kid is going to Yale?  I'll tell you why -- because that kind of stuff is very important to you.  That's how you measure people.  Odd.[/quote]

Do you have any actual friends?  You don’t seem to understand how friendships work, on even a most basic level.  [/quote]

I actually have many.  And I manage to keep them by not bragging about my kids on social media.[/quote]

I can understand that, but isn't that the point of FB to provide the going ons of you and your family?[/quote]

I have never in my life posted a single picture of any of my considerably accomplished kids announcing an accomplishment.  I could fill social media up with them if I wanted to.

My social media posts are dogs, babies, and unflattering and self-deprecating pics of myself.  That's all anybody really needs to see to know the "goings on" of me and my family.[/quote]
To be fair, going off to college isn't just an accomplishment, but a life milestone.  [b]It's up there with getting married or having a child[/b] or becoming empty nesters or retiring.  Sharing milestones is generally fine, even if there are those who are struggling with infertility or can't afford to retire.  Just share in a kind way.[/quote]

Heading off to college is hardly the "mile stone" that getting married or having child is.  You cannot be serious.  [/quote]

You are so weirdly argumentative. A piece of information that ends up on someone’s wedding announcement or obituary is by definition a life milestone. Where you went to college is such a thing. And especially snce most parents of 18 year olds haven’t experienced some of those other milestones for their children yet, it is absolutely a milestone to celebrate and be proud of.[/quote]

A significant life event?   Ok, maybe -- I grant you that.  But "up there with getting married or having a baby?"  THOSE are milestones.  Anybody who equates going to college with getting married or having a baby has a screw loose -- unless they plan on staying in school forever.[/quote]

As I said, you are being weirdly argumentative. I didn’t make the comparison initially, but since you acknowledge that it is a significant life event, why quibble about whether it is “up there”?[/quote]

Because it clearly ISN'T up there, and therein lies the problem.  Somebody who thinks that was has a problem.[/quote]

So now you’re debating which significant life events rise to the level of being Facebook-post worthy, and which do not? LOL[/quote]

You're obtuse.  I'm not arguing that at all.  I'm simply calling out the idiocy of a poster's generic assertion that the three are the same in significance.  It's laughable.  Or, rather, telling. [/quote]

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