Your mom is facing your books

[LooK iTz Jinjo]

My mum couldn't figure out how to use facebook. Dad doesn't care. Yet at the same time, before I moved out, I used to periodically have my mother storm into my room and start screaming at me because one of her misguided "tech savvy" friends saw me like a page (I don't know how I don't have any of them) with the words fuck or **** in it and that these MUST be my status updates. But this was always coming from the woman who thought that leaving the modem and Xbox switched on for extended periods of time could result in us being hacked and our identities stolen.

 

[MetaKnight19]

I'm not a frequent poster on Facebook and when I do it's not what you'd call interesting.

My last post was 'did Evil Dead really need upscaling for Blu-Ray? No. Is it still fun to watch? Hell yes'

 

[Custard_Angel]

She can go right ahead to her hearts content...

I have no personal information on there, don't upload any photos (or pose for any) and barely look at it.

 

[smartengine]

Google+ groups would solve this wouldn't it? Parents get to be a friend but they don't get to see what you don't share with your family group. That is assuming that I have understood how groups work.

now if only I could somehow get an invite...

OT:

I don't really use facebook, I have it but don't really use it. For me the main purpose is that everyone is there all the time and I can chat with them when I need them, kinda like what MSN used to be. Anyways most of the people I'd like to be contacted by have Skype. My parents probably don't even know I have facebook.

And if my parents were watching, I'd probably go underground, just because I find stalking creepy. Which reminds me I need to check my twitter - the best way to stalk people... I wonder what Notch had for breakfast...

 

[fulano]

I'm so glad I'm an adult.

This is gonna sound condescending, but here goes: if there's something you feel like you should keep your parents from finding out, and they are not crazy people, then you are being a silly, silly child.

Why? B/c social networking sites are the last place in the world for that kind of content. You have to be a dummy if you think even for a second that whatever you are putting up there is not being tracked by some third party or another, be it an advertising film, the government, or Facebook itself.

If you are above thirteen, the minimum age you are allowed to have a Facebok ccount, then you have no excuse to not be aware of this. It's as smart as taking dick pictures and sending them over to someone's cellphone.

Assuming you know what said people don't want their parents to see. I'm 20 myself, no longer a child either but I still won't add my mother to my Facebook account. Why? Because I know her. I know how she is, I know she'll try to mingle with my friends, keep commenting on 'Oh that girl is cute, you should talk to her!', I know she'll keep whining about me using English on my Facebook page,

I know she'll just be a pain in the ass and I just don't feel like letting that happen. Hence, she ain't going to be added on my Facebook. Same counts for my dad.

I can completely understand that but I thought the OP was asking about them knowing what you do in there and not they socializing with your friends. Big difference. If you feel like compartmentalizing your social life, then that's fine, but unless you are a dummy, I doubt you are using Facebook to keep your parents from finding out about the 75 virgins you sacrificed to lord Baal yesterday or about any kind of serious, serious personal problem.

But to each their own. My feelings remain the same.

 

[Aiedail256]

I don't have any personally identifiable information anywhere online, so no matter how skilled they were they wouldn't be able to!

 

[DirgeNovak]

I friended my mom on Facebook (we don't live together so it's the best way to keep in touch), so of course she reads it. That said, she doesn't speak English and all my other friends do, so there's a very easy way to make sure she doesn't read what I don't want her to read...

 

[Nightmare-Child]

I am an adult. I don't really care. She can read my facebook at her own risk.

 

[sageoftruth]

Nah. I usually forward my parents links to some particularly amusing forum discussions. I keep my behavior pretty clean, so they have nothing to worry about.

 

[aba1]

I only have facebook so people wont ask me to get it. I use it prolly once a month to reply to sombody if they go out of there way to directly message me. I really just prefer email or msn much more reliableand you dont have to have a browser running either which is nice.

 

[aba1]

Just got done taking 2 dicks at once. Time for the absinthe and meth break."

fun times for all lmao

 

[Mark Flanagan]

Eh, Just don't add 'em or if your worried about them seeing something just omit them from the people that can see the post in the privacy settings.

 

[Fetzenfisch]

my mother once asked me how to get the cd out of the computer. the risk is pretty low. But my aunt once complained to her about my spooky profile picture

<---exhibit A

i laughed

i technically wouldnt care if they figured out how to "spy" on my FB. Why should i. nothing to hide there.they know me and i am too lazy to pretend to be different in their presence.

they dont have a reason to use Facebook anyway and the only chance they could see what i do there is if they add my brothers to see what i reply to their posts. They still couldnt see anything else as long as i wouldnt add them. And why in the name of the seven hells should i add my parents? i see them all the time, there is no need for online shenanigans

 

[Mr. Eff_v1legacy]

I have both my parents, uncles, and my grandma as friends. I do not change my habits at all.

 

[PureChaos]

i'm friends with my mum on facebook and i don't care that she can see all the photos

 

[ChaoticLegion]

I most certainly would not change any on-liabits for the benefit of my parents if they were watching. If they don't like what they see of my on-line presence, then by all means they can stop watching.

 

[staika]

If my mom was facing my books she'd be looking at an empty wall.

Oh wait were talking about facebook, yeah my mom has a facebook and so does my dad and I know for a fact that they creep on it because half the time they leave comments on my statuses or like my pictures or something like that. but it doesn't bother me because I have nothing to hide from them because they already know everything.

 

[funguy2121]

A recent survey seems to confirm the worst fears of today's youth: your mom is probably trying to read your facebook. And if she can't figure out how to do it, she probably wishes she could.

The survey of 2,000 British parents, carried out by OnePoll, found that 55% of respondents use social media to track their kids' online activities, with a further 5% admitting that, if they knew how to do the same thing, they would.

Source: http://techland.time.com/2011/07/18/more-than-50-of-parents-use-facebook-to-spy-on-their-kids/?hpt=hp_t2

I don't use the book of faces myself, but I met one young lady of asian descent that keeps a secret account under a pseudonym specifically to hide her activities from her parents. I thought she was exaggerating.
My question is, would you change your online habits if you knew your parents were watching?

Not too long ago, my Mom called out to me from her room. She was on her Facebook toy-I mean iPad, and she had spotted a tagged photo of my sister smoking. My sister is 32 years old. I gently reminded my mother of this. The funny thing is, I've found, without looking, recent photos of her drinking, and a couple of years ago drinking literally almost killed her. She had severe liver failure and almost left us. But apparently the smoking is a big deal.

A few days later, one of a series of fake radio ads put on by the local university ran. This one was along the lines of "Do you have a relative who's addicted to Facebook?" When the commercial posed the question, "Do they get in a tizzy over finding pictures of their adult children smoking cigarettes," I nearly had to pull off the road. And this wasn't even a funny joke, but contextually, it was hilarious.

Yes, Escapists, your mother is trying to access your facebook. ESPECIALLY if you're a teen. In other news, human kind has harnessed the power of the atom.

Since OP doesn't put his face in a book, I'll cut him some slack. It is incredibly easy to control who can see what on your facebook. There are limitations, but if you know what you're doing it's not hard. But if you're a 13 year old girl drinking with some twenty six year olds, you don't have much right to cry privacy.

In other news: I finally got around to seeing the movie. Badass. Jesse Eisenberg isn't just another Michael Cera. He may just turn out to be the next big character actor (though I think Sam Rockwell may have beat him to the punch). The score by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails with...someone I've never heard of wasn't the best post-industrial slightly rock-tinged minimalist score I've heard, but it was very good, especially within the context of the movie, much like Hans Zimmer's more recent work. And it was exceptionally strange to hear Nine Inch Nails doing an industrial remix of a very well known classical number. I'll be getting this on DVD soon.