Is your mum on facebook? (or other parent?

Nope! Thank goodness.

My daughter is, and I’m her friend. If this weren’t the case, she wouldn’t be on Facebook. I am not, however, allowed to post anything on her wall.

yes my mom is, its totally weird. And my wifes aunts and uncles are on too. Its becoming a place for the entire family, not just the youth anylonger.

Oh well atleast i still have Twitter…....for the moment.

My mother and sister are on facebook. It’s not really at that weird for me.

My mother, 82 yrs old, is on Facebook as well as about 12 of my cousins, both sons, and brother and sister. You want to be a little careful there as you never know who may show up!

My mother is on myspace, but doesn’t get on much. My husband’s entire family is on facebook.

All of my family are on Facebook and we use it pretty regularly. My cousin’s family is also all on Facebook and actually support each other in various games on the site. Everyone here (we’re in Canada) seems to be pretty supportive of it, it’s the most popular network in the country. People have taken to using it to communicate certain things textually or visually instead of verbally – for instance my partner’s mother put a photo and description of the cake she recently made, which was an excellent way for us to comment on the cake and see it in its 100% perfect form versus her describing it to us. I am also seeing glimpses of the way members in my family think. I am very careful to monitor all of my online exclamations, including my Twitter feed, blog posts, and Flickr posts, because once it’s on the internet it’s always on the internet. I think Facebook is a way that people will learn the benefits of a mind to keyboard filter in this digital age where we are always online and essentially are a mini broadcast station that anyone can tune into.

My father just got one the other day, it was so cute. My mother also has one, so do quite a few of my aunts and uncles. I was friends with all my cousins, with no issue. But now I feel really weird.
And my poor cousin-in-law. Apparently he is now in a relationship and the entire family commented on it. I’d be mortified (he’s in high school, i think)
My in-laws are my friends too, which is soo bizarre. Especially since my father-in-law likes to get drunk an peruse facebook.

My mother can barely turn on a computer. She calls everything “a hard disk” and when something’s wrong, she says it was “disconnected” (even if the reason was a virus).

My dad is even worse. He once tried to turn on the PC by pressing the “Pentium inside” sticker. He does not even understand how the mouse works and if you finally set him up on Word to type something, he bangs the keys like he did with his typewriter back in the 50s.

So no, they’ve never even heard of facebook. My sister is on it, but she is not as involved as normal people. She only got round to adding a picture last week.

I saw my biological father on it, after my half-sister and I met and started talking. Then a week later, he stopped showing up in search results. All very skeevy if you ask me.

@MrItty – Aw, gee. He may have blocked you or adjusted his settings to his profile to be seen only by those he’s friended . My settings are “Friends only” and I’ve blocked a couple of people I don’t want finding me.

@MrItty I used to be unsearchable as well. I only became searchable after friends basically hounded me to do so. I much prefer to have a fairly full and detailed profile that only friends I search out and add can see. Which generally means being unsearchable.

My parents are. They’re pushing 50, so I wouldn’t say Facebooking is a top priority in their lives, but yeah, they check it once in a while. No status updates though, thank GOD.

I’m a mom and I keep an eye on my kids (who are adults) and my nieces and nephews. It’s funny that sometimes I know what’s going on in their lives more than their parents do!

I AM the mom, and I have a Facebook. For a few years now. In fact, had it before my son. I use to mostly to keep up with family and out-of-town friends and to share pictures and events.

@Judi Don’t you love that about Facebook and other social networking sites? It’s so easy to keep up with everyone!

It has been great to reconnect with people I had lost touch with too.

My mother is on facebook and it drives me nuts because sanity occassionally escapes her and she posts completely inappropriate things on my wall, sometimes asking me about bills or being mushy or just other things which really shouldnt be out there for the entire facebook community to see.

Im 30 years old and my mother embarrasses me on facebook regularly, so in my world deleting moms weird wall posts has become an art.

My parents aren’t I cringe with the idea. My mom would hassle me about every comment made or picture, not that their are any incriminating evidence, but she is judgmental like that. I am however friends with some of my friends parents which I find funny, but they are much more open minded and have a more of a friend relationship with their mom.

My dad is
ugg lol
My best friends Mom LIVES on facebook, her and my friend have fights over facebook while they’re in the same house.

I’m on myspace, but not yet on facebook.
I made an account so I could see what my son, nieces and nephews were up to (and their friends).
Now that they are mostly over 21 I don’t check up on myspace that often, but it is fun to see the pix they post and comments from their friends.

My 86 year old grama is on it! She Rocks!

My mom’s on facebook. I told her to create an account because she was always asking me to send her pictures, and it is such a hassle to send pictures over email. I told her that I post all of my pictures on facebook, and she would be able to see more of them more easily if she just got a facebook account. Now we’re facebook friends, and she loves it.

Both parents, the bulk of my aunts and uncles, and yes my maternal grandmother are on facebook. My grandma recently wrote on my mothers wall, “I hear Sara lost some weight!” nice.

my whole family has a facebook and im not allowed to have one.
its just not fair!

rebel
get a fluther instead
:P

My parents are on Facebook, and it’s not awkward at all. They don’t use it that much though. Lots of mutual respect and trust though. Sorry to hear all these challenging stories – makes me grateful for how smooth most things are in my family.

I’m on FB, am 52 and, at last count, have 124 friends. About 25 of them are friends of my daughters’. The rest are high school friends, ex-boyfriends, extended family and coworkers. And a few people I met through FB groups.

i hope not

yes, sadly… my mom thinks it’s some sort of dating site, sends my friends friend requests, and then puts up seductive pictures with very little clothes on… *sigh, she is clueless sometimes. And I’m quite disturbed whenever she updates the pictures.

@RandomMrdan that’s brilliant :)

not only is my mother on facebook, she signed ME up for it after i resisted for years.

my mom’s on myspace, not facebook. i don’t feel that weird about it anymore, but i do feel weird about her adding my friends. like, when my friends tell me the next day something about how my mom’s bulletin was really strange/awkward/etc. i’m just like D: can we not talk about my mom’s online life? haha. other than that, i don’t really care that much at all though.

i have seen a girl’s mum comment her like, constantly on her facebook though, and the comments she leaves are so awkward. maybe it’s not weird to the girl, but when i see a mom commenting her daughter sounding like she wants to party with her 16 year old daughter, i feel weird. but hey. whatever you’re cool with i guess. (:

my uncle is…on facebook…i haven’t added him though…sometimes i curse on my status update and i don’t want him to see my cursing lol

my mom is, i will never add her

My mother is. My father isn’t.