Facebook politics question

[shootingstar]

If your phone account allows it and she has provided you a phone number, phone her.

Otherwise, it doesn't sound like worth the effort for very sudden meanness after several yrs. of no contact.

Sometimes the past is best left...as the past. And that includes friends with whom you've lost touch for several years. (presumably if both of you still close and good pals, you would still be in touch regardless of whether Facebook technology even existed. Or even the Internet for that matter.)

[Flur]

+1 on phoning her if you can.

But regardless, it's YOUR wall she wrote on. If she wrote something on your living room wall in your house and you didn't want it there, you'd take it off, right? If you don't like what she wrote on your wall you can delete it. Your feelings are more important than hers in this case.

[NbyNW]

It sounds like your relationship with your parents has evolved in the many years that you have not been in touch with this friend. I think it would probably be okay to gently bring her up to speed, in whatever way you feel comfortable.

[kermit]

It sounds like she went back to her immature days as a teenager. Its amazing the way friends grow up or don't grow up. Slamming someones parents is no way to get back into touch. I'm sorry that happened. Perhaps she was just trying to be funny, but it was insensative. Two ways to deal with it. Let her know she was out-of-line or ignore her. Whatever feels better for you. You have been out of touch way to long to let it bother you. If thats her first comments after so long then she probably is not going to become a close friend again. Just my 2 cents.

[Biciclista]

delete it!
and then remind her of the good things your mom is done.

[ASammy1]

I agree w/ Biciclista. Ignore and delete her comment but remind her of how generous your mom was when her mother was sick, but do it in a way that's not saying, IN YOUR FACE MEAN GIRL!

[indysteel]

This is one of the many reasons that I'm not on Facebook.

But that aside, I would delete it and tell her why. I would caution against inferring what her intent was or "accusing" her of anything. The truth is you don't know why she wrote what she wrote. It may have been malicious or just thoughtless. Instead, just tell her that, true as the statement may have been, it hurt your feelings and that out of both concern for your parents' feelings and your own, you took the message down. If that ends any further "friendship" via Facebook or otherwise, then so be it. Life's too short.

[Biciclista]

A couple of years ago, a woman sent me some very harsh and inflammatory (creepy) political BS and when i told her it was BS, she sicced her big brother on me. So I wrote her off.
Well, to my surprise she "friended" me on facebook. I wrote to her, suggesting that perhaps she made a mistake or did she forget all that she said.
It took a while, but she finally figured out how to unfriend me. snort.