How do I tell someone she needs a Face Book Intervention?

[Lynn C]

My older sister has 3 children. The oldest being 10 and the youngest only 1 1/2 years old.
My sister is constantly on Face Book. It is quite disturbing when I log on and see all her posts that she has put up through out the entire day.

She will go on other’s pages to see what they have up for pictures and who they talk to and then she will talk about it as though she is completely involved in their lives even if she hasn’t physically seen or spoken to these people in years.

She has also started fights with people when looking at photos and seeing people hang around with each other if she thinks they shouldn’t…she doesn’t see anything wrong with her actions. I have even blocked her from my Face Book. How on earth do I get her to see she needs to focus more on her family and less on the Face Book world?

 

[Jan Stolz]

Tell her outright. If she refuses to believe you, she'll get the message the day her husband leaves and takes the kids with him.

 

[Stevejavson]

When people start ignoring her because of all her excessive spam, she'll start to lose steam.

 

[colie!]

looks like you need a "yahoo answers" intervention.

tell her to get a life, take up drinking.

 

[Macrocompassion]

She obviously has needs which are not being answered in the more usual ways during conversation. Perhaps it is too hard for her to express her real feelings or perhaps she does not get the chance to do so with her family.

You don't mention her husband. Perhaps he is not the most ideal person to engage in this kind of conversation, although it should be a part of his role. From what you ask it is likely that for your sister Face Book is the most satisfying thing to have happened to her, and in this case it would be best not to interfere.

Are the children getting sufficient attention? perhaps this is really what you are complaining about. But here we answer questions, not field complaints.