Parents Researching Kids' Roomates on Facebook

by Terrence O'Brien, posted Aug 8th 2007 at 2:00PM

Parents Researching Children's Roommates on Facebook

Facebook has become popular enough that even your parents are using it. In fact, parents are using it not just to keep an eye on their kids, but also their kids' college roommates.

It seems that colleges across the country are receiving complaints from parents who don't like their kids' roommates' Facebook profiles. Messages about parties, pictures including the ubiquitous red keg cup, and other questionable content, has put parents on edge.

Colleges will be mailing out roommate assignments in the coming weeks and the higher learning institutions are bracing themselves for a large influx of requests from parents for changes to their children's' living arrangements.

From USA Today

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Tags: college, facebook, parents, research, roommate

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Mia @ Aug 9th 2007 4:06PM

Are they looking at their own kids profiles? Maybe these kids need to set their profiles to private and if they suspect that their friend request is from some 40 year old parent with nothing better to do than look up roomates then they should not except them

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