Would you add your parents to your facebook page? (boyfriend, siblings, person)
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I recieved a facebook request from my dad...lol. First i'm surprised he has a page at all and secondly, I'm not sure if I want to accept his invite, but I still love him.
Hah. My parents would have to A. own a computer B. have internet access. Neither of which is the case.
Oh, and C. be interested in spending time online, which wouldn't happen, because if that were a want of theirs, A and B would be true.
I do have my boyfriend's mom on my friends list, and all three of his living grandparents. I have every single one of my siblings and sibling-in-laws who has a facebook page, and most of my cousins and aunts and uncles, though. Some of SO's, too.
We live 500-1500 miles away from nearly everyone in our respective families. Facebook helps us stay in touch immeasurably. It's how I see photos and videos of my infant niece and nephews, etc. There's no reason for us NOT to add our family members if they are able to and want to use facebook.
I wish parents wouldn't do that. I worked with a woman once that knew exactly everything her daughter wrote on fb because it came up on her phone. She would text or add some stupid comment ASAP. Really? This person really needed to get a life and leave her children alone.
On saying that, my daughter asked me if I wanted to be her friend on fb when she first started a couple of years ago. I really have no idea whether I'm still her friend or not on fb because I don't go into her page and look and see what she's doing. That's her space and her time with her friends. I trust her so I don't need to be one of the "girls" or know exactly what she's doing.
I don't know what to tell you. That's a hard call.
No problem. You can always hide posts you dont wish your parents to see from them, thats what my kids do and it bothers me not at all. There are things parents shouldnt know about their kids and vice versa. Mine are older though and realize that their parents are people too so having us on facebook isnt as creepy as it might be for the younger kids. To be sure I did not ask my kids, they friended me. I figured if they wanted to share that space they would, if not, not.
No. TMI.
And while I can access my minor child's site - I have defriended her - much like my parents - she should have no visibility to what I share on FB.
No problem. You can always hide posts you dont wish your parents to see from them, thats what my kids do and it bothers me not at all. There are things parents shouldnt know about their kids and vice versa. Mine are older though and realize that their parents are people too so having us on facebook isnt as creepy as it might be for the younger kids. To be sure I did not ask my kids, they friended me. I figured if they wanted to share that space they would, if not, not.
My kids also. I know I am on their fb but I know that they hide posts from me which I think they should. I don't need to know everything about them as well as they don't need to know everything I say and do too.
I recieved a facebook request from my dad...lol. First i'm surprised he has a page at all and secondly, I'm not sure if I want to accept his invite, but I still love him.
Of course! Both my mother and my son are on my FB "friends" list.
Hah, yeah, it probably merits mentioning that I'm in my thirties, not a child, and I have an adult relationship with my parents, and other family members, and family members of my SO. I'm kind of past the point of not wanting the grownups to see pics of me drinking, not to mention kind of past the point of plastering evidence of debauchery all over social media...actually, we never DID have a big "I don't want you to know what goes on in my life" relationship, even when I WAS a teen/college student.
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