Your mom is facing your books

[Valdus]

I'm not a typical internet douchebag, so I'm not afraid of others seeing what I type. If they know me, they know I won't say anything here that I wouldn't say to their face.

And it's not an invasion of privacy. If you want privacy DON'T POST ONLINE! Nothing compels you to put anything on FB.

 

[SL33TBL1ND]

Even if I had one, I wouldn't really care that much. She already has a look at my twitter every now and then, but mostly just because she finds the stuff I say funny, she doesn't stalk me or anything.

 

[Secret world leader (shhh)]

When i first got facebook i was oblivious to the existence of privacy settings so my mum saw some of my wall posts (including sex in the snow discussions and anal insertion jokes invlolving huge icicles) after she confronted me about it, i changed my privacy settings to "friends only" and i've continued cursing like a motherfuckin' sailor ever since.

 

[Elosandi]

Also: Today's Captcha WTF moment:

o.o You have an Ohm key?

 

[Nouw]

This may mean that she goes on your computer and sees what you're doing.

 

[NLS]

Not that I would really care.
It's not like I live with them anymore.

 

[Aetera]

I'm friends with my mom and uncle on Facebook. However, I am 23. My mom has flat-out said that she doesn't really care and won't disapprove of anything weird posted there since I'm an adult.

...I should probably mention that she's also a hippie.

 

[Titan Buttons]

My mum doesn't even know I have a facebook and it's goning to stay that way

 

[Mr. Bojangles]

I used to be friends with my dad on Facebook, but I unfriended him pretty quickly. He didn't even notive for a few months.

I never accepted my mum.

 

[superbatranger]

I do have my mom as a friend on Facebook. That's why I never use it.


Also: Today's Captcha WTF moment:

Oh, you just divide the horseshoe by the o to the power of 2. Simple.

Ahem, this thread was not what I was expecting. Anyways, I don't have my mom on Facebook. She doesn't have one.

 

[LiberalSquirrel]

My Facebook's so innocent that a five-year-old could read it. I don't put anything on the internet that I wouldn't want my likkle nieces to see. I figure that's a good rule of thumb.

However, my mom has said (and I quote) "I'm never adding you on Facebook, even if I wanted to get on there. Parents stalk their kids on Facebook are insane."

 

[Princess Rose]

A recent survey seems to confirm the worst fears of today's youth: your mom is probably trying to read your facebook. And if she can't figure out how to do it, she probably wishes she could.

I cunningly avoided this by not having a facebook page.

Makes sense, though. Why not keep track of your kids like that?

 

[Dags90]

I just friended my dad on Facebook after talking him into making one. It helps my family organize meetings and such. I already have a bazillion family members on my Facebook anyway. Cousins, aunts, in-laws, etc, the whole shebang.

It's as simple as not posting "Does anyone know how to get rid of the taste of hooker breath?" as a status update. Or even better, don't kiss hookers.

 

[StBishop]

A recent survey seems to confirm the worst fears of today's youth: your mom is probably trying to read your facebook. And if she can't figure out how to do it, she probably wishes she could.

The survey of 2,000 British parents, carried out by OnePoll, found that 55% of respondents use social media to track their kids' online activities, with a further 5% admitting that, if they knew how to do the same thing, they would.

Source: http://techland.time.com/2011/07/18/more-than-50-of-parents-use-facebook-to-spy-on-their-kids/?hpt=hp_t2

I don't use the book of faces myself, but I met one young lady of asian descent that keeps a secret account under a pseudonym specifically to hide her activities from her parents. I thought she was exaggerating.
My question is, would you change your online habits if you knew your parents were watching?

No. I'm 21. My dad is one of my facebook friends. I use it to keep up with his life since moving out, I like to see that he's happy now.
I'm sure he does the same, in fact I know for a fact that my nan keeps tabs on us (in a caring "I like to know what's happening in your life" kind of way) through facebook.

 

[AbsoluteVirtue18]

though my mom saw me in a picture with a girl from school while looking at my page while passing by, and said, loudly
"Ooh! Who's that? She's cute!"
And commented on her breasts.

My mom does that, but for different reasons I'm guessing.

OT: My mom's one of my friends, but I'm hardly on often and if I was I wouldn't be stupid enough to post anything that would get me in trouble.

 

[concrete89]

Meh. There are plenty of other places to go online if I want privacy. Anyone who posts anything of any real importance on facebook kinda has it coming.

 

[Aranialis]

I've flat out told them that I will never add them to facebook, even if they made one and sent an invite. Not because I'm hiding anything, but because it's an invasion of privacy. I told them I would show it to them if they wanted me to, but I won't add them to it. They're ok with that at least, though they never really ask to see it. I have good parents I guess lol.

Let me see if i understand this right, you allow others, friends of friends (perfect strangers) to look at your facebook (its inevitable), but you don't allow your family?

Makes no sense to me, I have a facebook and i hate it, if i want to share my experiences I do it to those I so choose to. I really don't care about how awesome my cousin thought that beer fest was, or if my little teen cousin finds bieber great or not. i don't care much about being bombarded with info I really don't want to know. Its also an invasion of privacy, which in my opinion is all that Facebook and other like it are.

i said it, and I will again, I hate it.

Also On Topic. No I wouldn't change my actions just because my parents can look at it, maybe that's because i share what i share first and foremost with those I deem important. My parents raised me, they have a whole lot more life experience than me... so yes I will open myself more about my life to them then to Facebookness.

 

[SonicKaos]

Let me see if i understand this right, you allow others, friends of friends (perfect strangers) to look at your facebook (its inevitable), but you don't allow your family?

Well, I do have mine set so that people not on my friends list can't see anything. If friends of friends look at my facebook at one of those friends houses then I guess I can't stop that, but they won't see much either since I don't post much. If you don't want anything to be known, then don't tell anyone. Therefore I don't put anything I wouldn't want someone to find out on my facebook anyway. I'd wonder why friends were showing other friends my profile though lol.

 

[Aranialis]

Let me see if i understand this right, you allow others, friends of friends (perfect strangers) to look at your facebook (its inevitable), but you don't allow your family?

Well, I do have mine set so that people not on my friends list can't see anything. If friends of friends look at my facebook at one of those friends houses then I guess I can't stop that, but they won't see much either since I don't post much. If you don't want anything to be known, then don't tell anyone. Therefore I don't put anything I wouldn't want someone to find out on my facebook anyway. I'd wonder why friends were showing other friends my profile though lol.

I Agree with you and, i see where you are going.

About friends showing other friends their friends facebook. Why not if its there its to be seen, if something interesting or amusing was to come around, why not show it, its on the internet after all. But I understand, and its just the same if, as you say, the posts are rare and Widely public.

 

[scorptatious]

I have both my parents on my Facebook. Which means that I have to be careful about what I post on there. As both my parents use their Facebook accounts as ways of contact for potential clients in their business. If I said anything foul or inappropriate I'd catch hell from them.

This one time I commented on one of my friend's posts about how pissed he was that celebrities like Kim Kardashian gained their fortune for nothing, while he has to struggle paying for college. He ended his post with "fuck the world". Foolishly, I commented on how I agreed with him, then later, my mom saw that I commented on his post, thought that I was the one who swore and got angry with me.

Looking back, I thought it was pretty funny. But from now on I hide my friend's posts whenever I comment on them.