Cmon

My best buddy’s daughter, couple years out of college, just got her first movie credit. She was on the production crew for “The Social Dilemma,” a documentary about the deleterious effects of BookFace, Pinstagram, Tweeter and the like. Net-net, I’m not sure this invention has made us better people or a better society. Maybe we’re as nasty as we’ve always been — now we just have an audience for it.
 
Heatherg21 said:
Sadly this was a huge issue yesterday on a USNA FB page. Parents have been at each other's throats regarding visiting the yard. The academy has politely said, if you aren't essential don't come on the yard. When the no Thanksgiving email came out to mids, parents immediately started planning visits. It was a nasty, attacking, accusatory thread. It made me sad.

Our son left June 29 and we mentally prepared to not see him until Christmas, if then. It isn't what I want, but it is what it is. I am likely leaving that particular page, it is just too much vitriol.
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so Facebook? Check. Just missing Russian bots. Sorry about that, but as a platform, it's doomed.
 
AROTC-dad said:
DS, an Army Armor 2LT, is shipping out soon to the Middle East, very possibly to a combat zone.

No family visits beforehand, due to quarantine rules.

It is just the way it is now. :(
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I feel your pain! My son was in the Middle East when Covid broke out and his return home was delayed for 3 months. Those last three months were a killer for me. Facetime does help, sort of.
 
justdoit19 said:
The big “parent page” (and that is in quotes bc there are sponsors, spouses, BGO’s, photographers, retired, etc...beyond current USNA parents) is full of judgemental know it all’s, who are not afraid to share, or demand that you agree with, their knowledge from YEARS ago. It’s awful. And it’s the same players most times. I honestly cannot believe how people with their names and faces feel comfortable saying the things they do! Not even anonymously.

The topic of coming to Annapolis, or surrounding area, to see you mid on town liberty is the latest divide. It’s funny, bc many that are against it, are seeing their Mids on town liberty. Or visiting them on the yard. Or through the gate. Or delivering food.

COVID is such a divisive issue. And ‘parents’ are NASTY on that page!! Unbelievable. Worst I have ever seen in my short few years of membership.
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Sorry to hear this! USAFA parent horning in! The key is to have really good mods that will shut things down and set the tone - no guessing about Covid and other very anxiety driving posts, and stopping things that get out of control. I'm surprised people think it's ok to post the way they do - eventually things can get back to mids/cadets....some parent will cross the line and blab parents page gossip to their mid/Cadets....it's not that big a world....and one day, someone is going to be someone else's boss......just sayin!! Better to not overshare, ask redundant questions (like, the answer was 3 posts down, or better yet, stop asking we don't have the answer but when we do, the official people will post it!) and other SA-negative and nonproductive posts. And in general, most posts I say to myself, Um...the answer is your Cadet should be finding that out!!
 
justdoit19 said:
The class parent pages are great.
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That’s what I occasionally read. I didn’t know the other existed.

When I went to it for the first time - I see discussions about bad thanksgiving threads but didn’t actually see those threads.
 
A1Janitor said:
That’s what I occasionally read. I didn’t know the other existed.

When I went to it for the first time - I see discussions about bad thanksgiving threads but didn’t actually see those threads.
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You aren't missing anything except yucky tone, accusations, and judgy parents. Rarely there is a positive post. I tend to avoid that particular page and stick to the other pretty mellow one, and our company and class page. Much more supportive and informative. And if parents have a mid that shares with them, the parents need to not share what their mid divulged. That's 101.
 
I still belong to the big parent page. Sometimes I wonder why... @justdoit19 is spot on right... Too many non-parents being way over-the-top judgmental and argumentative. It's bad enough when parents do it. I generally lay off of that page and when I do read thru it, I try to make some popcorn first and attempt to enjoy the show. I did leave my Mid's class year parent group during his plebe summer. Drove me nuts. Too many helicopter parents and I thought there was way too much personal info being given out by parents of Mids other than their own. Didn't care for it.

It's almost ironic that this forum is completely anonymous (almost), and yet for the most part discussions are just fine. A few arguments here-and-there, but that is not the norm. Kudos to the moderators for that.
 
justdoit19 said:
The big “parent page” (and that is in quotes bc there are sponsors, spouses, BGO’s, photographers, retired, etc...beyond current USNA parents) is full of judgemental know it all’s, who are not afraid to share, or demand that you agree with, their knowledge from YEARS ago. It’s awful. And it’s the same players most times. I honestly cannot believe how people with their names and faces feel comfortable saying the things they do! Not even anonymously.

The topic of coming to Annapolis, or surrounding area, to see you mid on town liberty is the latest divide. It’s funny, bc many that are against it, are seeing their Mids on town liberty. Or visiting them on the yard. Or through the gate. Or delivering food.

COVID is such a divisive issue. And ‘parents’ are NASTY on that page!! Unbelievable. Worst I have ever seen in my short few years of membership.
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That page is precisely why the BLB 2020 page was started years ago during the class of 2020's plebe summer. Parents of subsequent classes have created their own BLB pages.
 
Sandydesert said:
That page is precisely why the BLB 2020 page was started years ago during the class of 2020's plebe summer. Parents of subsequent classes have created their own BLB pages.
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The BLB page is the one I left. I'm each year's page has its own personality, but I didn't care for mine.
 
That is sad to hear but unfortunately so true. The “I’m more important than everyone else” type people are everywhere. I remember at my daughter’s I-Day, my husband and I just shaking our heads at all the parents camped out trying to get a glimpse or sighting of their plebe. Fast forward to later that day, hubby and I were headed to the Mid store. I looked up and saw my daughter in formation and said, “Hey there’s Ashley”. Imagine my husband who is NOT demonstrative at all start waving like mad. Then he realizes what he is doing when I look at him horrified and say “What are you DOING?” He looked at his arm like it wasn’t part of him and quickly pulled it down. I glanced at daughter and she was cracking up. So out of character. So sometimes it gets the best of you. But showing up when asked not to? That would be a hard no. What is wrong with some of these people?
 
Navy09mom said:
That is sad to hear but unfortunately so true. The “I’m more important than everyone else” type people are everywhere. I remember at my daughter’s I-Day, my husband and I just shaking our heads at all the parents camped out trying to get a glimpse or sighting of their plebe. Fast forward to later that day, hubby and I were headed to the Mid store. I looked up and saw my daughter in formation and said, “Hey there’s Ashley”. Imagine my husband who is NOT demonstrative at all start waving like mad. Then he realizes what he is doing when I look at him horrified and say “What are you DOING?” He looked at his arm like it wasn’t part of him and quickly pulled it down. I glanced at daughter and she was cracking up. So out of character. So sometimes it gets the best of you. But showing up when asked not to? That would be a hard no. What is wrong with some of these people?
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LOL I was waiting for my son to come out the door for the ceremony. They all started walking in and my daughter found him, took pics and videos. And then my son came out four minutes later.

My son looks like 200 other midshipmen in his class. I stopped looking for my son in pictures.
 
A1Janitor said:
LOL I was waiting for my son to come out the door for the ceremony. They all started walking in and my daughter found him, took pics and videos. And then my son came out four minutes later.

My son looks like 200 other midshipmen in his class. I stopped looking for my son in pictures.
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So funny. I had a similar experience the following year when daughter was doing a summer tour from San Diego to Hawaii. We thought “ooh, lets’ go to Hawaii and meet her ship”. (Any reason to go to Hawaii). They let us on the pier and there we were, a lei in hand, my two young boys and my mom all watching this beautiful ship sail in with all of the sailors standing in their whites. We thought we saw her and were waving and she was waving back. So exciting. Then my phone rang. it was my daughter saying “Who are you waving to?” We said, “You!” She was like yeah, that’s not me. LOL Oh well. Had I been able to see this particular officer come off the ship, SHE would have gotten the lei.
 
StPaulDad said:
When our fourth kid was born I sent out an image of a picture frame from Amazon that had a baby in it. Newborns all look the same (unless particularly ugly) and the fact is more important than the details.
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I also have 4 kids and definitely understand. 🤣🤣🤣
He's the one who ended up at WP, so I think things turned out ok for him. But he definitely didn't get all the coddling that the oldest got.
 
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