<p>OK be honest. Can you relate?</p>
<p>Someone posted this a few weeks back. I thought it was hilarious and posted it on my facebook. My adult parent facebook friends thought it was hilarious too. No comments from my college age daughter or her friends hmm.</p>
<p>I hasten to add my daughter and her friends friended me - not the other way round. I didn’t even tell my kids I had a facebook. I joined facebook to stalk (not really) my friends not my kids and their friends :rolleyes: . Now I have to watch what I put in facebook. (yea - Like my life is so exciting that I anything to be careful of).</p>
<p>My D and I friended each other but then we decided to unfriend. We both needed room to be ourselves.</p>
<p>I stalk my son by sending him one text message a day with some variation on, “Love you, hope you have a good day. Call me if you need anything.”</p>
<p>Which he ignores.</p>
<p>DS would not friend me. I am OK with it, so far ;)</p>
<p>I don’t do Facebook because I’m afraid I would be tempted to check on the kids(boys). I don’t think it would be good for me or them.</p>
<p>My daughter friended me a long time ago and my son didn’t friend me until the end of his junior year in college. It’s worked fine. He is more into Twitter than facebook for communications. Before he friended me I did have some means to stalk him electronically, which was a mixed bag, but something I felt was necessary in the case of this particular kid. I asked him once why there weren’t any pictures of him on facebook that didn’t include a girl draped over him and an alcoholic beverage (he was 21 by then) in his hand. His reply was that he was not normally photographed while he was sleeping or studying. As the kids have gotten older, we have mutually enjoyed being “friends” with their former coaches, neighbors etc.</p>
<p>My son sent ME that link awhile ago. My kids have all friended me, but then they are adults with nothing left to hide.</p>
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I asked him once why there weren’t any pictures of him on facebook that didn’t include a girl draped over him and an alcoholic beverage (he was 21 by then) in his hand. His reply was that he was not normally photographed while he was sleeping or studying.
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<p>This made me laugh. Hard to argue with that. There must be a hint here as to where your screen name came from.</p>
<p>HAHAHA! This is why my kids won’t friend me 
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<p>I don’t have Twitter and don’t want to. Unless one of my kids was on some sort of Grand World Tour and wanted to use Twitter to keep me updated, I can’t see the need for it.</p>
<p>I’m not FB “friends” with my kids. They have good common sense and don’t need me hovering over them in cyberspace. They’re friends with their aunts, uncle, cousins and grandma though. My mom reminds me of the woman in the Onion video, a little too involved…</p>
<p>I don’t even quite understand twitter to be honest. I will probably get around to it just as it goes out of fashion and the next thing takes off.</p>
<p>I believe that as parents we are required to call it “the Twitter”. At least that’s what it said on the Google.</p>
<p>There’s been some threads on Twitter here. I find it very useful and fun. My son is actually quite accomplished at the proper use of Twitter and “tweets” funny and informative things. One recent one was “News Flash. No Penn student has 10+ years of marketing experience. Take your CMO listing elsewhere and stop mucking up our job search.”<br>
I get local news and traffic updates, follow Lance Armstrong and follow and am followed by a Bishop in Texas (so I’m a little careful…).</p>
<p>Tip: if you kid friends you on FB, do not post anything on the wall, or comment or any pictures, or anything. Don’t mention anything about it to the kid either, unless and until you see something appalling.</p>
<p>None of the kids or kids friends that friended me put anything appalling on their walls. I don’t think they would have friended me. I think it is probably the difference between having a Junior in college as opposed to a High schooler or a college freshman. They have either matured some or have learned not to post inappropriate stuff.</p>
<p>Like husky’s kids, mine haven’t friended me, but they are friends with my mother, a few of my siblings, and some of their cousins. I think my daughter has me on permanent ignore status, while my son has told me that he will keep me in FB purgatory by not doing anything to my friend request. C’est la vie. If I feel the urge to stalk, I have one of my relativesw check for me :-)</p>
<p>We were discussing this in the office today. Freshman parents have seen communication dwindle to near nothing, They’ve resorted to threats already (which worked).</p>
<p>I was ok with my sons not friend me. At least until they accept the friend request from my sister and their former principal…haha!</p>
<p>My D refuses to friend me but has friended my mom!</p>