<p>Neither of my parents have Facebooks, but I definitely wouldn’t be friends with them if they did. I’m friends with an (extremely cool) aunt, but that’s where I draw the line. I don’t really post anything I wouldn’t want people to see, and I’m the only one who can see my tagged photos and albums, but I would still feel weird about it. For one thing, I can’t control what other people post on my wall, which could definitely include stuff I wouldn’t want my parents to see. I also think they might not understand things that teenagers understand, e.g. why Facebook says I am in a relationship with my friend.</p>
<p>My kids and I have a deal. I’m not on my space or on face book - they are not on college confidential. As on being on friends on face book - We have always been very clear that I am a parent and not a friend. I’m a friendly parent, but it is not the same as being friends.
We all need our private space. Tell your dad your face book is your place. He can befriend others if he wants to be on there.</p>
<p>If your dad’s actually gonna use it it’s different…</p>
<p>My dad got one b/c ppl from work just kept requesting him (like sending emails or something). He has like 13 friends or something. Originally he just had my sister listed as his daughter (and not me), and I was like ***? But I think he just didn’t, like, understand… lol. Yeah. Pretty sure he NEVER checks it.</p>
<p>Heck I haven’t friended my brother.</p>
<p>My step-dad friended me a while ago but I put him as my father on facebook. FB has the option to limit things to certain people, so yeah, that’s exactly what I did. I want my privacy.</p>
<p>I would not add my parents. It is your choice to add them or not. And u can always block them from your facebook so that they cant see anything u say.</p>
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<p>I know a lot of people in that age group who are on facebook. Probably about 8% of my friends are in that range or older.</p>
<p>My own parents aren’t on facebook, but if they ever do join (my dad keeps saying he will someday, but that he doesn’t want to waste the time), then I’d friend them.</p>
<p>I think your parents should be some of your closest friends. If you’ll add some random guy you met for 2 minutes at a conference, and you won’t add your parents, then you’ve got your priorities seriously messed up.</p>
<p>not to mention what romani says: if there’s something you don’t want everyone to know DON’T PUT IT ON FACEBOOK!</p>
<p>Fortunately my parents don’t have facebook. I definitely wouldn’t friend them.
Its not that I have anything too incriminatory, but I believe they wouldn’t appreciate photos of my friends getting drunk, or how a real party looks like (not so much the “we r just gonna have some pizza and watch a movie with a couple friends”).</p>
<p>Facebook is just not meant for parents.</p>
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No really. I totally agree. They didn’t do any of those things when they were a kid. They have no idea what teenagers REALLY do because they’ve never been one. </p>
<p>/sarcasm</p>
<p>My dad loves facebook. My mom could care less. My dad has gotten in touch with a lot of elementary and high school friends via facebook. They do the same things on it we do.</p>
<p>I understand that my parents would understand the teenage thing [funny story- my dad was having this party at his house in high school and this one girl was throwing up in the bathroom. my dad’s friend went to go check on her. she bit him in the leg and then told my dad “i wonder what it would be like to date you.” my mom was right there and they were dating. My dad’s friend still has a scar on his inner thigh, and the girl is now a famous Christian music singer. incidentally, my parents know this because they are facebook friends with her. but i digress]. While I have no doubt that they would understand certain choices i might make or things i might do, I would prefer that line in our parent/child relationship to remain uncrossed, and i’m sure they feel the same way. It’s not so much that i have something to hide, i would just prefer certain aspects of my social life to remain in the social realm of my peers. </p>
<p>/somewhat off-topic anecdote&opinion</p>
<p>^^i am curious though… did your parents really never do any of those things? or are you under the flawed [though common] assumption that parents never got drunk or partied when they were kids?</p>
<p>I wish it wasn’t this way, but I’m ‘friends’ with my mom on Facebook, because she threatened to not let me use any electronic devices if I didn’t. Same with Twitter following.</p>
<p>^^ My dad was like a library-freak nerd when he was a teenager, with absolutely no social life, and my mom was naturalist vegan Buddhist yogue, so she wasnt much of a party girl too.
Of course they’re not idiots and know that kids drink and party and stuff, but they are doctors and despise adolescent drinking, so they don’t like me hanging out with drinkers/potheads.
Plus, when they were young things were a bit different, so they don’t really understand the concept of going to a party and kissing half a dozen random strangers.</p>