You can pick your friends...

...but you can't pick your relatives.

It's funny, that saying rang true before, but now, with social networking sites like Facebook, you can pick your relatives. You can pick if you want to communicate with them or not outside of family functions. I never really thought about this until a conversation with some people from high school tonight about relatives deleting you as friends. It's not like it's someone that you're not going to see again. It's someone who is going to have to look at you at Easter dinner or at their child's birthday parties. What makes you think that it's acceptable behavior to just delete a family member when it's someone that you're still going to have to deal with in your life. It's not like you can just walk away from them.