<p>GFYTts e%$#@U GF!&T&^T&!*^&!&!&!!!</p>
<p>I have never lived a more awkward moment than tonight when my mom joined Facebook and requested to add me as a friend. I take it as a major breach of my privacy and there is no way I can accept her invitation. What would be the best way to ask her to leave Facebook without making her feel bad? I'm afraid she'll start searching for and trying to add my friends making it extremely awkward for them also.</p>
<p>ouch all I have to say is have you tried talking to her about it in person? Is she the type of person who would understand if you explained calmly that you feel that this would be an invasion of your privacy etc? If she is great, if not, then that's tough. Sorry that is my only advice...</p>
<p>Calmly explain it to her. Parents are (normally) reasonable. Also, find out why she joined.</p>
<p>My mom joined (but didn't add me) because she wanted to see if she could see my profile. My brother was the one who warned me as he also has a facebook and she was trying to find his as well. She did the same thing with myspace. I just had a conversation with her and asked her why she would join if not to try to find my brother, my cousins, and I. While I have absolutely nothing to hide, I let her know that it upset me and that in most cases I tell her most things, and that anything I did not want her to know would NOT be on facebook for the world to see.</p>
<p>She was very calm about it. Try to talk to your mom and explain why it upsets you.</p>
<p>thats total bs man. go to her and tell her in a nice and considerate way that you are not 5 anymore</p>
<p>WOW, awkward. if she's the chill type of parent, explain to her that you want to keep your social life and your family life seperate. </p>
<p>if she's a paranoid controlling parent, tell her you never use facebook anymore (even if you're addicted like i am) and tell her you didn't friend her back because you're never on</p>
<p>Oh chill. It never occured to you that your mom COULD join facebook, just like your aunts and uncles and teachers and employers can? Just don't accept her friend request and if she asks about it, tell her you're being very careful about utilizing the privacy features of facebook.</p>
<p>just block her and say its an invasion of privacy....i ran into this with my youtube account and it was baaaad</p>
<p>just make ur privacy setting super tight, and allow her only to see your limited profile, make ur limited profile really secure</p>
<p>two of my friend's mom's have facebook, and i'm friends with both of them. i guess that would be all 4 of them. whatever.</p>
<p>one is a grad student at my school, her daughter also in college. they're facebook friends also. the other mom is someone i worked with at my high school for four years with, running the scoreboard every night at home games and neither of us missed a game, so we're pretty tight i guess. her daughter is facebook friends with her also.</p>
<p>if my mom joined, i'd be a bit concerned. mainly because she doesn't understand the tiniest thing about computers or the internet, and she types with the point-and-peck-with-one-finger method, so it would take forever for her to type anything back. i think i'm safe. hopefully.</p>
<p>Haha, I know someone who pressured her mom to join facebook. (Her mom is a professor though)</p>
<p>they have whats called a limited profile. put her on that</p>
<p>^^yeah do the limited profile thing.</p>
<p>My sentiments exactly. If you're concerned about privacy, add her to the limited profile list, and then accept her request.</p>
<p>Titled "omg my mom joined facebook!!!"</p>
<p>Asking her to leave would be kind of rude, I guess, because you don't own Facebook and it's her choice to be on there. I agree with limited profile.</p>
<p>I put all my relatives on limited profile. My mom doesn't use facebook (yet, hehe), but I have some uncles and aunts in far off places that do. It's a good way to keep in touch. </p>
<p>That being said, I don't really put anything on facebook that I wouldn't show to an employer, family member, etc. if asked (although I would stop to ask them why they needed to know!). The vast majority of my pictures are from family holidays, and the worst on my page is probably some of the more politically-oriented groups I'm in that could turn someone off if they held the opposite view. Facebook is only incriminating if you let it be that way - the internet is a public space after all.</p>
<p>What works for me and my D...I read these stories about people who solicit unsuspecting students on platforms such as myspace and facebook, and I share that concern w/D. She reassures me that she is not "lame" and would never invite someone she did not personally know. She sometimes shares with me the pictures of her friends. Based on her position-I am reassured, and have no desire to join facebook. This may be one way to handle facebook-as I believe it should be private-just like mail. But the reality is that it is the web, and people including college admissions officers & employers can gain access to your postings-and you have to plan your postings accordingly.</p>
<p>lmao humans are amusing creatures who don't trust each other's intentions and consequently like to put up barriers involving informational asymmetries</p>
<p>I literally burst out in laughter upon reading this thread.</p>