Anonymous wrote:I am surprised that a lot of people think the FB post is typical. When I was growing up, there was a clear boundary between parents and children and the two were never friends. Now, it seems that everyone is BFFs with their kids. I don't know if that is a good or a bad thing. I can see pros and cons on both sides of the issue.

Before facebook posts, parents were leaving these kinds of messages on their kids voicemails, before that it was the answering machine, before that it was letters.

My mother is very much my mother, not my BFF, and we're "friends" on facebook. It's wonderful because now, rather than having to sit down at her table for 3 hours while she shows me pictures she took of rocks on her latest vacation, she just shares the album on facebook, I can comment how great the photos are, and we can spend our time together actually talking rather than me going "Mhmm, yep, that's a pretty rock. That's soooooome rock, Ma!"

I am surprised that a lot of people think the FB post is typical. When I was growing up, there was a clear boundary between parents and children and the two were never friends. Now, it seems that everyone is BFFs with their kids. I don't know if that is a good or a bad thing. I can see pros and cons on both sides of the issue.

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Anonymous wrote:This is news to me. I thought it meant watch TV and relax. I'm totally living under a rock.

or you are already married, because when you are married Netflix and Chill means Netflix and then wake your spouse up and drag him to bed, or put a little blankie over her while she sleeps on the couch ...

Yep, this is what it means in my house (41 years old).

Since at least two years ago? Look it up in Urban dictionary.

Anonymous wrote:This is news to me. I thought it meant watch TV and relax. I'm totally living under a rock.

or you are already married, because when you are married Netflix and Chill means Netflix and then wake your spouse up and drag him to bed, or put a little blankie over her while she sleeps on the couch ...

Of course it doesn't, OP. Stop worrying about about hidden meanings.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup. And I had no idea. Until I posted this on my adult daughter's Facebook page -

Hope you had a good day at work, sweetie. Tonight you and Jeff should just relax and enjoy the quiet. A perfect night for Netflix and chill. Love you bunches!

You can imagine the comments.....

The oops aside, I'm struggling why you would post something like that on someone's public page? Isn't that message better delivered privately?

Because I am an uncool 50 year old mom and grandmom. I don't know all the unwritten Facebook rules. I don't even pretend to.

I would be mortified if my mom wrote something like this on my Facebook wall. And not just the Netflix and chill part. Is this common for parents to do now?

I think parents have been mortifying their teen and adult children for a millennia.

+1. Since the dawn of time...

+1. Uncool mom you're doing just fine. Telling your daughter you care, making sure Facebook friends know you care, mangling incredibly inane slang, getting educated on said slang by a younger generation, and giving everyone a great laugh.

That was really sweet. Thank you! I will admit that the pp's comment stung a bit.

Oh, just ignore that person. He/she would be "mortified" by a parent writing a friendly comment on Facebook? Give me a break.

Also, I'm 33 and thought "Netflix and chill" meant watching Netflix and chilling! Had no clue it was a hook-up term.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup. And I had no idea. Until I posted this on my adult daughter's Facebook page -

Hope you had a good day at work, sweetie. Tonight you and Jeff should just relax and enjoy the quiet. A perfect night for Netflix and chill. Love you bunches!

You can imagine the comments.....

The oops aside, I'm struggling why you would post something like that on someone's public page? Isn't that message better delivered privately?

Because I am an uncool 50 year old mom and grandmom. I don't know all the unwritten Facebook rules. I don't even pretend to.

I would be mortified if my mom wrote something like this on my Facebook wall. And not just the Netflix and chill part. Is this common for parents to do now?

I've started limiting what my in laws can see on Facebook for this reason.

Doh. Didn't work. I'm surprised. Here is the link:

https://goo.gl/images/AjF7Ht

This thread. Ha ha. I have viewed it multiple times, and every time I think of this:

Anonymous wrote:My high school aged cousin was visiting my family from out of town and after I picked up burgers one evening, she wrote "Five Guys tonight" on her Facebook wall.

A sweet and loving family member who is not from the area and has never heard of the restaurant responded "I'm really worried."

OP, I'm sure you gave all your daughter's friends a similar laugh.

I'm crying!!! Hysterical.

My high school aged cousin was visiting my family from out of town and after I picked up burgers one evening, she wrote "Five Guys tonight" on her Facebook wall.

A sweet and loving family member who is not from the area and has never heard of the restaurant responded "I'm really worried."

OP, I'm sure you gave all your daughter's friends a similar laugh.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup. And I had no idea. Until I posted this on my adult daughter's Facebook page -

Hope you had a good day at work, sweetie. Tonight you and Jeff should just relax and enjoy the quiet. A perfect night for Netflix and chill. Love you bunches!

You can imagine the comments.....

The oops aside, I'm struggling why you would post something like that on someone's public page? Isn't that message better delivered privately?

Because I am an uncool 50 year old mom and grandmom. I don't know all the unwritten Facebook rules. I don't even pretend to.

I would be mortified if my mom wrote something like this on my Facebook wall. And not just the Netflix and chill part. Is this common for parents to do now?

I think parents have been mortifying their teen and adult children for a millennia.

+1. Since the dawn of time...

+1. Uncool mom you're doing just fine. Telling your daughter you care, making sure Facebook friends know you care, mangling incredibly inane slang, getting educated on said slang by a younger generation, and giving everyone a great laugh.

That was really sweet. Thank you! I will admit that the pp's comment stung a bit.

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Anonymous wrote:Yup. And I had no idea. Until I posted this on my adult daughter's Facebook page -

Hope you had a good day at work, sweetie. Tonight you and Jeff should just relax and enjoy the quiet. A perfect night for Netflix and chill. Love you bunches!

You can imagine the comments.....

The oops aside, I'm struggling why you would post something like that on someone's public page? Isn't that message better delivered privately?

Because I am an uncool 50 year old mom and grandmom. I don't know all the unwritten Facebook rules. I don't even pretend to.

I would be mortified if my mom wrote something like this on my Facebook wall. And not just the Netflix and chill part. Is this common for parents to do now?

I think parents have been mortifying their teen and adult children for a millennia.

+1. Since the dawn of time...

+1. Uncool mom you're doing just fine. Telling your daughter you care, making sure Facebook friends know you care, mangling incredibly inane slang, getting educated on said slang by a younger generation, and giving everyone a great laugh.