it dosnt bother me at all I suck at buying phone credit so having all my family a message away is amazing I have neverr seen them post on my stuff I assume they do what I do to stuff I dont care for ignore it
Parents on Facebook
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Being facebook friends with my mother (and my dad before he died) helps me from putting up a lot of stupid stuff. It is a neat test: Am I comfortable having my mom reading this thing I am about to post? If not then I probably should not post it on the internet for the entire world to see (or find 20 years from now)
Pretty much all of my family is on facebook. I think it's great. I can keep in touch with people while I'm in uni/on the other side of the atlantic and it makes organising things a lot better. I don't often post anything untoward on my profile and even if I was tagged in something I'd probably just have the piss taken out of me by my family at the worst.
You're forgetting the other half of this situation: when your parents are xenophobic, racist, homophobic, greedy, selfish, hatefull assholes and you've spent the last decade and a half trying to keep them out of your personal life as a result. Fortunately, my parents can't be bothered to learn anything computer-related. They still run Windows 95, no joke. It's the last one they understood.Flatfrog said:
I do, however, have an aunt who faked her own death in 2007 and then added me last November. That got super awkward, because we all still thought she was dead.
Eh my mother and sister are on my Facebook and doesn't bother me. For one I don't really use it much except as a messenger program on my phone as windows messenger was killed and I refuse to use Skype and 2nd my family isn't a controlling or judging group and my mother has quite an open mind. She's made it clear that as long as I'm happy with what I'm doing then she's happy. Also helps that she knows I'm sensible and won't do something stupid. Also I'm 27 so tough luck if she doesn't like something
I have a lot of family on facebook (including both my parents). It's all good. No one cares about my horrible sense of humour or my foul mouth (since that's how I am IRL anyway).
I'm in my twenties though. If I was on facebook when I was a teenager I'd probably have blocked most of my family.
I'm in my twenties though. If I was on facebook when I was a teenager I'd probably have blocked most of my family.
Truth is, pretty much everyone I knew joined Facebook long before I did.
I didn't see the appeal. My mom didn't either for a while until she heard of people reuniting with old friends. Being from another state, she found the appealing. As soon as she did track down many friends from her school years, she was in.
For me, I didn't join up until I got suspended from college due to shitty grades. I wanted to keep in touch with the friends I made specifically in my anime club. Now I stay for the games and for following all my fave authors.
Anyway, there's no issue with me. You have no idea how many friend requests are just sitting around doing nothing.
Do have some family on my friends list. We don't do a whole lot of communicating though.
I didn't see the appeal. My mom didn't either for a while until she heard of people reuniting with old friends. Being from another state, she found the appealing. As soon as she did track down many friends from her school years, she was in.
For me, I didn't join up until I got suspended from college due to shitty grades. I wanted to keep in touch with the friends I made specifically in my anime club. Now I stay for the games and for following all my fave authors.
Anyway, there's no issue with me. You have no idea how many friend requests are just sitting around doing nothing.
Do have some family on my friends list. We don't do a whole lot of communicating though.
My whole family is on Facebook, but my mom probably uses it a bit more than I do. I'm close to my parents but live halfway across the country, and my sister lives just as far away in the opposite direction, so we post a lot of pictures there to keep up with each other and share what we're doing.
I never post dumb shit on Facebook, so it's not really a problem for me. No, actually most of what I post is incredibly dumb shit, but it's not offensively dumb to anyone. I like to find pictures of horrible tattoos and claim that they're mine, to see how many of my cousins/aunts will believe me and stuff.
I never post dumb shit on Facebook, so it's not really a problem for me. No, actually most of what I post is incredibly dumb shit, but it's not offensively dumb to anyone. I like to find pictures of horrible tattoos and claim that they're mine, to see how many of my cousins/aunts will believe me and stuff.
Oh it's not that I'm ashamed of it, it's just for their own good. I have friends that are bi, gay, furry, and everything else under the sun. And it would scar her for life if she saw some of the shit they get into.Flatfrog said:
Both of my parents are on Facebook, and I'm friends with them too. I never posted much to begin with, so it doesn't affect me too terribly. My dad doesn't really use it, and it's not even under his real name, so it's not so apparent (pun unintended, but welcomed) that he is my dad to most people. I'm pretty sure my mom's face shows up on my Facebook page more than my own face, because she always tags me in everything. Whenever we go to the movies, the does a check-in and tags everyone. At the airport? Same thing. Concert? Yep. Dinner? Yeah. The list goes on and on. It doesn't bother me too much since it's been going on for so long. The only thing that gets on my nerves is just how often I've had to explain how to do random things on FB to my mom because she's a but technologically challenged and considers me a better computer expert than my dad (who has a degree in computer science) for some reason.
My bigger problem is with my extended family on FB, truth be told. They have a bad habit of making deceased relatives their profile pictures, commenting your friend's post on your wall as if they're writing a post on your wall instead, sharing the most obnoxious hyper-religious content you can find, not to mention all those FB game posts and updates. They're even more tech-challenged than my mom, and know nothing of proper "how not to look like an ass on Facebook" etiquette. It also leaves me in an awkward position, because many of them are from a very conservative part of the US, and while I know that they are kinda racist, I have no idea how homophobic they are. I always wonder if my 'likes' show up in their feed, so it always makes me antsy to even just "like" some post that's related to gay rights at all. (I also find myself too paranoid to 'like' anything related to my own sexuality because I'd rather not be approached about that topic based on something like that).
My bigger problem is with my extended family on FB, truth be told. They have a bad habit of making deceased relatives their profile pictures, commenting your friend's post on your wall as if they're writing a post on your wall instead, sharing the most obnoxious hyper-religious content you can find, not to mention all those FB game posts and updates. They're even more tech-challenged than my mom, and know nothing of proper "how not to look like an ass on Facebook" etiquette. It also leaves me in an awkward position, because many of them are from a very conservative part of the US, and while I know that they are kinda racist, I have no idea how homophobic they are. I always wonder if my 'likes' show up in their feed, so it always makes me antsy to even just "like" some post that's related to gay rights at all. (I also find myself too paranoid to 'like' anything related to my own sexuality because I'd rather not be approached about that topic based on something like that).
Both of my parents are on Facebook, and I'm "friends" with both of them. We're close, and now that I live on the other side of the country, it helps us stay in touch.
But what has always confused me is *why* people post such private things on Facebook (although your case is slightly different since you're protecting your parents from other people's revelations rather than your own, so maybe they don't feel such things are particularly private).JaceArveduin said:
Putting something on Facebook, to me, is a public declaration. It doesn't matter how private my settings are, if it's on a page where other people can see it, it's information I don't mind sharing.
And that is why I still do not have a facebook account. If I can't use it to talk,normally with my friends then why would I use social media in the first place?Flatfrog said:
People have suggested that I use it to keep track of various events, but at the same time I dislike the idea of my parents reading which lesbian BDSM-clubs I go to when they have not even accepted me as a girl in the first place.
I am annoyed at events and organisations that only use facebook for giving out information, at times it is just not discrete enough.
Most of the time my family is too intimidated to interact with me online. Something to do with being shy and borderline mute in real life while being intelligent and slightly aggressive behind a computer screen. But hey, it gives me a free pass to make jokes at them for posting the facebook equivalent of chain letters believing them to actually grant them free money or some shit.
I'm rather shameless when it comes to what I post on there.
I'm rather shameless when it comes to what I post on there.
You could make a secret account from your family using an alias/screen name? Giving out real-life details isn't required and if you're discreet no one in your family should be able to find it.Angelowl said:
Both of my parents are on Facebook. One of them posts on my page more often than I do with photos of outings or what not and ruins half of my posts with the adult sense of humour (read as: not funny) and the other one posts scarcely with the same bullshit they pull in real life, trying to put me down because they have a superiority complex.
Luckily my parents don't really care much for facebook, they don't really see the point of it and also think it's a great invasion of privacy. They also think along the same lines as me: It's boring as hell. How some people stay on it all day everyday I will never know or understand. My brother has an account but we don't have eachother added anymore, it just seems too weird for us both. I do have my uncle added though. Thankfully I make a status about once a year and don't update pictures very often.
My mom is one of those people addicted to facebook. I don't mind her commenting on my posts, she's witty and funny (and embarrassing, but that's what parents are about.) The only thing that annoys me is she posts everything on there. I didn't join facebook to plaster my life online, I did it to share things and stay in touch with friends. My mom posts more details about my life than I do so I never have to worry about her stalking me or finding out things. Though there isn't much she disapproves of so I don't have to hide.