“Oh Crap. My Parents Joined Facebook.” is a new Tumblr blog for people trying to cope with their parents who have joined Facebook.
So, you finally caved. You’ve accepted a friend request from your Mom, Dad, crazy Aunt Ida, and your college roommate’s newly divorced mother. Well here’s your chance to get back at them for taking away your public privacy.
Of course there are many situations where the parents are on Facebook and not their kids. Personally I’m all for people being more connected. This blog just brings up the point that some people are terrified of the parents being on the same social network.
What do you guys think? Would you want to see your parents on Facebook? I’m all for it.
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image via “Oh Crap. My Parents Joined Facebook.”
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Hahahahha, that’s a cool post. I’m just lucky that my parents will enver ever join Facebook and I know that for a fact :P
I think that if my parent’s joined FB, they would be the type to install every app known to FB-kind and send me a billion requests to be their vampire/pirate/ninja/zombie/etc because they would think it were funny, like the billion funny-must-read FWD’ed spam emails they send me already
I (barely) survived my parents being on Flickr:
http://flickr.com/photos/barelyfitz/41580266/
There are so many people on Facebook now (from work, etc.) that I pretty much self-censor already, which is good and bad I guess (won’t post something I’ll later regret being out there).
i’m old enough to be on both sides of this — i have teenage kids on facebook, and 60-something parents, too! i actually probably censor myself more because of my kids than my parents…
I’ll leave facebook to the kids (not that mine would be seen anywhere near it!) as long as they stay away from my blog. ;^)
I actually have a crazy Aunt Ida, and my mom is on FB. She also looks in my medicine cabinet and asks embarrassing questions about its contents. Auuugggggghhhhhhh!!!!!!!
If my mom was on facebook, it would mean she finally learned how to use a computer.
Which is a good thing.
My 13 year old son is on FB. We have a “totally transparent” computer use rule in our house, so he knows that we can look at whatever he does online at any time regardless. On occasion, he’s used 4 letter words in his online updates… the punishment is that we change his status to something embarrassing, or add comments that let him know that big daddy and big mommy are watching. It’s amazing what a well-placed Mylie Cyrus reference will do to iffy behavior…
My hope is that social networking sites actually teach youth how to behave in public again…
My mom doesn’t want to hear some of the things I say on FB. She already has an FB account, actually, but my sister and I have agreed not to friend her for her own protection.
How silly people are – Facebook has great privacy filters. Most of the people on my Facebook list don’t even get to see my status updates, including my sister and her daughters.
ROTFLMAO at Terry’s comment… brilliant!
I too loved Terry’s comment… as someone with no kids, it’s nice to see someone trying to make their kids be better people without being a stick in the mud. Kudos!