My parents are on Facebook. In fact, they might spend more time on the site than I do. I'm okay with it. I feel like I've reached a point in my life where I'm comfortable with my parents seeing my full online presence. And, everyday I make choices about what to post and what not to post (it's truly the question). Honestly, I'm more worried about a potential employer or business contact finding something embarrassing online than what my folks might see. My parents already know me and they know I'm awesome. So, it's the people who don't know me (yet), but who might want to get to know me, who I'd like to get the best impression possible from my online profiles.
And yet I've heard a lot of people talking lately about this whole "my parents are online" fiasco. And yet, what's really funny is what kids are learning about their parents through their online personas. (My mom definitely did the "25 Random Things" Note on Facebook -- and, it was fantastic.) Two smart cookies, Jeanne and Erika, started this hilarious site: Oh Crap. My Parents Joined Facebook. Kids (and I use that term loosely) send in screen caps from Facebook of funny interactions that their parents have had on the site. And, they're posted for all to see, with TMZ-like captions.
Check out the site. What's your favorite entry? Are your parents on Facebook?
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The numbers back this up >> http://blog.wired.com/business/2009/03/facebook-isyour.html, as does many of my older relatives opening Facebook pages in the last six months.
ReplyDeleteLast June, my grandpa turned to me and said, "Allison, how do I get on this thing? I want to be part of it." In November, my dad turned me and said, "I've got 201 friends! 60 more just over the weekend! How many do you have?" It's cute and weird all at the same time.
There are boundaries that I think everyone is still trying to figure out in this newly crowded space - My dad tagged my sister in some of her friend from college's untagged photos and the whole family was like "gasp gasp how could you do that?" He replied, "What? That was her in the picture, right?"
Hi, my parents are definitely on Facebook. well, my mom and some of my aunts. My mom sent me a bulleted list of urls of photos she thought i should delete haha.
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