And DaveVader isn't crying about anything. He's being mr helpful, by highlighting a reason why Tuned#F_A_F has nothing to worry about, if Tuned#F_A_F is infact the type of fb user described in the op
My mom only uses Facebook for farmville and country life, she could can less about the social networking part of it
The whole point of the groups is so you can not offend people with rejecting them but without giving out all the 'bad' stuff. I have both my parents, uncle, cousins and even my minister on facebook. They won't see everything posted but also can lead to some interesting and amusing posts. Chris
I refuse to add my mum to my friends list... I don't want to know what she's doing! lol Added my aunt and cousins though I really don't care if they see photos of me smashed and browse through my friends list... doesn't bother me at all
I only signed up out of curiosity and discovered my parents and all my ex-girlfriends are on their, I confirmed their friend requests but I don't use the thing. I would rather a real friend than an fb friend that's posting that they've just mowed the lawn or something ?? Oh and on the end of everything you have to have a "lol", because it's just so hilarious. Wtf do I care, i'm not interested in how boring your life is, lol.
My Mum dont want to be on Facebook, she say if she want to talk to someone she just have to take Telephone, and she dont want to know the life of stranger that she don't care. God Bless the holy woman !
I find it useful to be able to talk to friends that I only see a few times a year and live across the continent from me.....
I find it interesting how the opinions here seem to fall into 2 categories. One is the "my parents are a normal part of my life and are included in everything"; the other being "my parents are excluded from a large portion of my life and shouldn't know what I'm up to". I'm curious how those attitudes relate to age groups. Fwiw, if it's on Facebook, it's in the public domain. You can group all you want, and adjust privacy anyway you like. You should consider this when posting. If you are posting things you don't want your parents to see, you should ask yourself if you want potential employers or a grant review board to see it. It is being used by many people as an open source for background information on people. And you'd be amazed what comes up, the internet has a long memory. And, yes, my mom is on FB. She is friends with me, my wife, all my ex-gfs, old mates from HS and uni, and my sister. I think she's even friends with one of my old Chefs. It's easier for her to read my updates and know what's up in my daily life then constantly calling me. This way she able to call once a week and chat, with out me having to recount everything. We talk more about important stuff rather then the minutia of life.
I'm a 20-something student type and I fall into the 'my parents are cool and I don't care how much they know about my life' category. The push-the-evil-parents-away thing is usually limited to early adolescence, 14-17ish, when you're realising you're a warm-blooded human but can't handle the fact that your parents are too. Disdain for facebook itself, however, is a universal and unlimited trait shared by people of all ages, and rightly so. Because it's annoying and mostly useless.
I use it to talk to this guy and my other friends without Steam or Skype. My boss and a lot of my coworkers are all friends on FB. I'm not cool enough to get invited. But seriously, social networks are not always a bad thing when it comes to things such as potential employers checking out backgrounds. The use of a social network for, well, networking is unparalleled. It can be a great way to strengthen ties with key people, or to reach out and meet others who may be useful or important in your career. It can be quite the professional tool. Not really towards you or your mom, but it's got me thinking... a lot of people here complain about how pointless things like Twitter and Facebook are, and how you don't care about random people's lives, myself included (not a Twitter fan, it's as if Facebook was stripped down to statuses alone). Yet aren't we all gathered here to read each other's thoughts, opinions, and details of our lives? This very thread is all of us essentially making one giant comment stream on one person's "status". Just found it funny. And for the record, I won't add my mom because is an extreme socialite and will never shut up. It's not that I mind if she sees the things I say, it's that she'll "like" and comment on every. Single. One.
I have a friend who blocked me from posting comments cause his mother inlaw kept falling for my jokes
lol if my parents saw who i talked to on FB theyd be all 'who is that person? they dont like around here' or 'why do you talk to so many girls? do you like them or something?' and the usual nosy questions. yesterday i went over to where my sister is staying and she invited her friend and we all watched a movie. i told my mom i was leaving, but not where i was going. she had a tough time with me not telling her. when i got home she asked me so many questions. it was crazy. i dont know what she suspected, but it sure is funny to keep her guessing. so if she had FB, i wouldnt be able to hide as much stuff from her, which would suck. lol my best friend neighbor who i grew up spending pretty much every day with, was on my friend list when i first got facebook. up until recently i thought he deleted his account or something. until i saw he was on my sisters friends list and he is quite active on FB. i guess im not cool enough to be FB friends with someone who used to be my best friend??
