Facebook and a tosser

Before I start this, there are a couple of facts to establish. One is that Facebook exposes your every move to the world (if not directly, someone knows someone who read something on so-and-so’s Facebook page, blah, blah, blah. Insert Chinese whispers).  The other is that my ex is a knob. A tosser. A waste of space.  He’s definitely those things; that’s why he’s an ex and not a current. If he were a slug (which is a reasonably accurate description), I’d have him buried in a salt mine.
 
I don’t use Facebook really. We’re discouraged to use social networking sites at work because there is a big likelihood that the young people we work with would find it – private life and work life crossing over is not good and is often inappropriate. I do have a Facebook page, but I only have about three friends and I never use it anyway. So by and large, stuff that appears on Facebook passes me by – and you know what, I don’t feel any the worse for it.
 
Long time readers may remember that my ex has a niece who is gay, but that he doesn’t know she is gay. Ex is homophobic in an “it’s ok as long as I’m not affected and don’t have to talk to them” kind of way. Tosser. Knob. The niece, Greta, is also my friend and the one I shall be going on holiday with (once the dates are sorted out; I have to run exams on the dates that are best for her and so this is more of a challenge than it should be).
 
So… Greta has a Facebook page and has many of her extended family on it, including ex. Greta had listed her relationship status as “complicated” because of the complications of her about-to-fail relationship with her partner. Recently, her partner decided to move on and so Greta changed that status to “single” – which is technically more accurate as well as simpler, because she can now avoid having every contact on there asking how and what is complicated.
 
Getting there! Ex saw this changed status on her page and messaged her on her wall with,
 
“What do you mean, you’re single? Now you tell me! Now I’m married and moved so far away!” (spelling, punctuation and grammar corrections inserted by me).
 
Excuse me, but it was his NIECE that he wrote this to. His sister’s daughter, for God’s sake. And he wrote it for the entire Facebook world to see! I’m pretty sure it was only his warped idea of giving her a compliment and nothing more, but still… doesn’t this just emphasise what a complete and utter tosser he is? However, I do like the irony of him writing that to someone who is gay AND related to him. He just has no idea! Unwashed knob.

Greta phoned to tell me.  I’m so glad she did; it meant we could have a good belly laugh on a very mundane day and she also asked me what she could say in reply.  That was simple.  "Fuck off!"