Facebook Flap

I read today about an Atlanta football player who assaulted his wife, after she stabbed him in the leg with a pen, following a disagreement about the player’s choice in Facebook friends. The title is “Falcons Player Quinn Ajinnaka Arrested in Facebook Flap.”  Facebook Flap?  So many time something is attributed to Facebook, when really this is more a case of Crazy-Acting Couple Flap.

The article mentions athletic draftees being spied on by potential teams and players forced to leave groups that are deemed controversial. A couple of months ago, I wrote about my new and my ex-boyfriend.  An old friend of both of them took offense with my post. He found it to be “inappropriate” for me to write about them. I told him that writing about relationships was part of my job and the relationship that I was most likely to write about was my own. I was as friendly and respectful as possible – I wanted to be “breezy” about it. 

He de-friended me.  I was not sorry to see him go, as I had talked myself into being open-minded about this guy after something that happened when we were teenagers anyway. I’m of the opinion that he is an ass, but my boyfriend has been friends with him for many, many years, so I know that I’ll have to spend time with him at some point in the future.  I don’t want my boyfriend to be affected by our silliness.

Would this be considered a Facebook Flap, as well?