There's news for the younger set: Mom and Dad are on Facebook!
Eeeewwww!!
According to the Wall Street Journal, parents are using social networking sites to monitor their young.
Check it out (but watch out for the click-through ad):
"Facebook is kind of like a parenting tool," says Joel O'Driscoll, a 41-year-old father of eight in Woodside, Calif. Mr. O'Driscoll likes to keep tabs on whom his 18-year-old daughter, Holly, is friends with on Facebook—especially the boys ... several times recently, he says, he's used information he discovered on his daughter's Facebook page to spark a discussion with her in person, most recently about the need for a boy to ask her out by calling, rather than texting or emailing ... "It's a good way to have some contact in your child's life," says Mr. O'Driscoll, an executive at a consulting firm ... Holly O'Driscoll says she's fine with her dad monitoring her friends on Facebook. "I think it's sensible," she says. Still, she admits she sometimes blocks him from seeing her status updates, explaining she doesn't want him to see how often she's on Facebook.
While this isn't quite the same thing, often the first scrap of news my own parents may get from my world might be this blog, or my Twitter account. OK, I'm sometimes a little tardy writing email. Again, this isn't the same thing, and keep in mind I'm probably older than most of the parents who are keeping track of their offspring.
Meanwhile, the kids are fighting back -- with tongue firmly implanted in cheek:
... so, you finally caved. You've accepted a friend request from your Mom, Dad, crazy Aunt Ida, and your college roommate’s newly divorced mother. Well here's your chance to get back at them for taking away your public privacy ... email us at:
myparentsjoinedfacebook@gmail.com
because we want to laugh at your Mom’s ridiculous Facebook status and the embarrassing message your Dad wrote on your wall too! If you want your relative to remain anonymous include that in the email ...
... Family. Can't Facebook with 'em, can't unFriend 'em!
Eeeewwww!!
According to the Wall Street Journal, parents are using social networking sites to monitor their young.
Check it out (but watch out for the click-through ad):
"Facebook is kind of like a parenting tool," says Joel O'Driscoll, a 41-year-old father of eight in Woodside, Calif. Mr. O'Driscoll likes to keep tabs on whom his 18-year-old daughter, Holly, is friends with on Facebook—especially the boys ... several times recently, he says, he's used information he discovered on his daughter's Facebook page to spark a discussion with her in person, most recently about the need for a boy to ask her out by calling, rather than texting or emailing ... "It's a good way to have some contact in your child's life," says Mr. O'Driscoll, an executive at a consulting firm ... Holly O'Driscoll says she's fine with her dad monitoring her friends on Facebook. "I think it's sensible," she says. Still, she admits she sometimes blocks him from seeing her status updates, explaining she doesn't want him to see how often she's on Facebook.
While this isn't quite the same thing, often the first scrap of news my own parents may get from my world might be this blog, or my Twitter account. OK, I'm sometimes a little tardy writing email. Again, this isn't the same thing, and keep in mind I'm probably older than most of the parents who are keeping track of their offspring.
Meanwhile, the kids are fighting back -- with tongue firmly implanted in cheek:
... so, you finally caved. You've accepted a friend request from your Mom, Dad, crazy Aunt Ida, and your college roommate’s newly divorced mother. Well here's your chance to get back at them for taking away your public privacy ... email us at:
myparentsjoinedfacebook@gmail.com
because we want to laugh at your Mom’s ridiculous Facebook status and the embarrassing message your Dad wrote on your wall too! If you want your relative to remain anonymous include that in the email ...
... Family. Can't Facebook with 'em, can't unFriend 'em!
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