By now, y'all know that here at Shiny, we love us some Facebook. (Well, everyone but me. I'm a die-hard Myspacer.) However, I wonder how much we'd all still love it if our parents were on Facebook - or Myspace, pick your poison. New York Time's writer Michelle Slatalla has a 16-year-old daughter who, like most teenagers, is on Facebook. To try and "be cool" and keep up with her daughter's goings-on, she signed up for Facebook, as well. Now, whatever that says about her parenting skills, or her relationship with her daughter is really none of my business. However, I have no idea how I'd feel if my parents were to sign up on a social networking site that I used.
Have any of your family members discovered your blog, or your profile on a social networking sites like Myspace or Facebook? Or how would you feel if your parents were to find it?
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My mom has seen (and apparently sometimes like to peek at) my Myspace page. She also knows about my livejournal b/c I made it specifically for when I went to Italy, so I could more easily keep in contact with people. It seemed sort of silly, when I got back, to switch back to the old one, so I've stayed with the new one. If I have anything I don't want my mom to know, I make the post friends-only and that seems to work all right.
But yes, it is a little strange.
I'd be uncomfortable if my parents signed up for Facebook or found my profile. To be honest, I'd rather that my parents went through me if they wanted to find out about my friends.
I don't mind them reading my games blog, though, not that they would understand most of what I'm writing about.
My dad uses facebook and its cringe central. Hes got about five friends on it, and two of them are my sisters.
Once in after a night out i changed my status to some drunken rabble, and in the morning i had a 'wall post' from him asking me how i felt today. just keep out of it dad!
Someone needs to tell him that facebook is not for peoples dads, stop trying to be a teen, you're 54 years old and you're tragic.
My dad found out about my newest piercing via my facebook page.
One of the guys at his work had been researching student opinion of his brand on facebook and found me. And there was a picture of me with a bar through the back of my neck.
Woops.
My mom has me on facebook. It's fine to me. I would be hurt and upset if she went looking for my blogs, but to me, her being on facebook is no issue. I leave comments on her wall telling her I love her, or just silly things. My mom is.. to put it lightly.. computer challenged and I think by including her in what I do, it makes her feel better about her lack of computer knowledge.
my mum's just joined Facebook and I'm her friend. My parents also regularly read my blog. Which is why I don't swear very much or show nude photos of myself. Oh wait, *that's* not why... ;)
My mom has a facebook account - and has me as a friend on it - but I don't mind because I can set it so that she can only see my limited profile, which is basically just pictures of me and where I went to school.
My mum's job involves finding innovative ways to use computers and internet sites in education, so for work purposes she has a profile on almost every Web 2.0 site out there. She's on sites I hadn't even heard of until she mentioned having a profile on them and she's certainly on all the sites I'm on. I guess I've gotten used to the idea of her internet presence being greater than mine, although it still depresses me.
A mom here. I have a Facebook account. I have 26 (adult women) friends and run several groups and have a lot of fun with it. I strongly encouraged my 15 year old daughter to join because I knew her friends have accounts and I knew she would enjoy the equestrian groups. It's fun to send her messages and grafitti-- but right from the start I told her I would not post on her board or tag her in my photo albums. If she wants photos of herself she can take them from my account and post them on hers. I think boundaries are very important and I respect her privacy. As the population ages and today's college grads (the original Facebook cohort) become parents, the era of web-ignorant parents is going to come to an end. There is not true privacy on the Web anyway and personal details about ques tionable behavior revealed on sites like Facebook and Myspace is beginning to bite people in the ass -- I make sure my daughter understands that once that information is on the Web, it is there forever and that she needs to be very careful about it. Personally, I don't care if she gets drunk and has a hangover when she goes to college, but I do care about her personal and career prospects.