I’m at my parents on Sunday for Super Bowl when a random topic comes up in conversation. The daughter of my Mom’s best friend is mentioned, along with the guy she is currently dating. She isn’t someone I’ve ever been close with, but I do have her as a friend on Facebook, since she is someone I actually know. Earlier in the week I had seen that she had posted a gallery of family vacation photos of a trip to Cuba or somewhere similar, I know it was at least warmer then Ontario. Then a couple days later I see that her relationship status had changed from “in a relationship” to “single”. Now if you’ve used Facebook long enough you’ve probably seen this play out a million times over. People change their relationship status and online drama ensues. It’s like a sub-plot to regular everyday Facebooking, knowing the relationship status of random acquaintances.

Well when the topic of my Mom’s best friend’s daughter and her boyfriend comes up and I offer up this random bit of information that I saw that she had apparently broken up with said boyfriend. This almost instantly throws my Mom into overdrive. Apparently said boyfriend is rather well liked by my Mom’s friend and would be devastated by the news that they had broken up. My Mom immediately wants to get on the phone and crank the rumour mill into top gear. My Sister and Dad put her off from getting onto the phone while I used my iPhone to make sure that my information was in fact correct. As it turns out she had changed her status on Monday, then on 6 days later, on Sunday changed her status from “single” to “in a relationship”. At this point we can peel my Mom off the ceiling and go on with the rest of our night. I’m sure either way my Mom’s friend will hear about this, then there will be an ensuing conversation about it with the daughter, all tracing back to me as the source. All because I innocently mentioned something I read on Facebook.

Moral of the story, sometimes a little information about something is too much information.