<p>Facebook has changed a lot. I remember signing up for facebook three years ago when it was only available for students in the ivies but now anyone can join. I'm not saying it's bad or anything but I miss the days when facebook was only for college students. I actually find myself using facebook less frequently now because it has so many new features and applications that I find to be useless.</p>
<p>Just make it so she can only see your limited profile. You decide what information is and is not included in your limited profile. For example, maybe you're fine with her seeing your favorite books and movies, but not your pictures.</p>
<p>When I first saw this thread, I chuckled.</p>
<p>Then my mom requested to add me as a friend. Her reason: she wants a convenient way to see pictures of me.... E-mailing carefully selected photos isn't good enough anymore.</p>
<p>I've since stopped laughing.</p>
<p>For those who believe that Facebook and its accompanying pictures are "private" if you mark your profile that way:</p>
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[Amy] Polumbo [Miss New Jersey]'s mother, Jen Wagner, said her daughter was just like millions of other young people who thought that just because their Facebook or MySpace page was set to "private," their photos would remain that way.</p>
<p>"They don't realize how many people can eventually see these photos," she said.</p>
<p>The photos of Polumbo came from her Facebook page, which has since been taken offline.
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<p>Those pictures fell into the hands of a blackmailer and almost cost Amy her crown.</p>
<p>I created a facebook account fairly recently because a bunch of my college friends invited me to. I can see that my children have a facebook, but I haven't asked them to friend me and I don't intend to. </p>
<p>They do sometimes share news with me that they've gotten on facebook - 'hey mom, so-and-so was in Greece, there are pictures on her facebook', but I don't even look at the pictures. </p>
<p>Sometimes, it's really NOT all about the kids.</p>
<p>The only thing I don't like about facebook is the insane amount of bs applications! I won't even mention the number of 'invites' I get a day...</p>
<p>I find it amusing that this thread was just resurrected. I was reading this past weekend's USA Weekend, and one of the articles SUGGESTED that parents should join facebook as a great way to connect to the kids.</p>
<p>While I show my parents my facebook page once in a while (nothing to hide on it), and would even give them the limited profile if they joined and added me, I would never give them my password.</p>
<p>You can block her, allow her to see a limited profile or create a fake account.
Honestly, you shouldn't post anything controversial, as employeers now look at your facebook.
I doubt your mother is going to "invade your privacy", she may just be concerned about what pics your posting etc. And she probably won't add your friends(its ok for your friends to deny it). If your going off to college, she may just want to keep in touch through facebook</p>
<p>My dad told me he needed the password to my school account to pay tuition (the account is used check grades, pay bills, etc. along with check email), so I gave it to him (and yes, I realize this was probably dumb). When I came home this summer...2 years after I first gave him my password (and changed it a couple times, with him complaining that he couldn't pay for school expenses without it and thus informing him each time my password changed), I was looking through our home computer's history and noticed that he went to my school's email website every single day.</p>
<p>I suspected he checked my email after I sent a friend a very personal email and my dad gave me a "talk." (This is what motivated me to check our computer history.) The next day, when I told him I suspected that he checked my email, he said, "No! I would never! Never suspect that!"</p>
<p>Apparently, you can set up a "parent account" with a separate email/password to pay bills. When I went to set one up, I noticed one was already set up and in active use.</p>
<p>I'm not sure why I trusted my dad during college because he had uber-strong parental controls on my computer when I was in middle school / high school, meaning he could read IM, email, and see every web page I ever went to. I realize trusting him was a bit more than a little dumb. Anyways, after my last confrontation, he no longer has my email...I hope (as I have a new password that no one else knows).</p>
<p>What sucks is that when he yells at me, saying something along the lines of me being the worst person in the world (the actual words...you don't want to hear), he says "all you ever can do is suspect me of checking your email." (note: I'm the type of girl who stays home on Friday nights, goes to church, never drinks to get drunk, is open about things...so, if you're wondering, he's not suspecting me selling drugs or anything like that) I know you'll say i should grow up and say something back, but when he yells at me, it's scary as anything, and I know in my heart that he tried his very best raising me as a single parent from when I was very young. I'm not sure if that's enough to forgive him for lots of the things he's said to me because as mature as I try to be, sometimes I randomly think of something he said to me during my childhood and it still hurts, but oh well.</p>
<p>So yeah, I guess that's worse than a parent having a facebook.</p>
<p>Okay, that's beginning to come off as a bit emo...umm...just letting everyone know that I don't have any major psychological problems, my grades are above average, I can stand on my two feet (most of the time), I have lots of wonderful relationships with people, and I'm not uber-socially inept or anything like that. (Basically, I'm a happy person with a bright future and an active social life.)</p>
<p>I think the only thing worse than my mom friending me on facebook would be if she learned how to text message.</p>
<p>My mom made a facebook about a month ago. I made almost everything on my page limited (from my wall to pictures and to bumper stickers). She doesn't even realize that almost everything in blocked from her which is good. I did the same thing for my uncle when he friended me.</p>
<p>I'm glad my mom doesn't really know how to use a computer so I won't have to worry about this. I got rid of myspace when my brother got one (he never requested me, but I knew he eventually would find me).</p>
<p>i friended my friend's mom on facebook, she is so hot.</p>
<p>^^ lol i can totally see guys doing that</p>
<p>I told my dad to get a facebook, because his twin brother/my uncle had one too and that way he could see pictures of his new nephew. I did friend him but he's on permanent limited profile. I don't really have anything to hide though, I try to keep my profile as pg13 as possible for everyone who views it.</p>
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I think the only thing worse than my mom friending me on facebook would be if she learned how to text message.
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<p>Hahahaha, my dad's text messages are always hilarious. Writes them like mini-letters.</p>
<p>Knights09,</p>
<p>How was school?</p>
<p>DAD</p>
<p>Money in the bank.</p>
<p>My mother texts like this:
I lOvE u. cOme Home soOn.
hU nn y.</p>
<p>my boyfriend's aunt befriended me on facebook and sent me a message informing me how happy i make him and how sweet i am and how glad they were that i came to their barbecue, etc.
then his mom got facebook and befriended me, too. and wrote on my wall..</p>
<p>kind of awkward because you can't like..deny the request, but you'd rather them not see your 900 drunk pictures..thank god for limited profile haha</p>