http://www.switched.com/2009/01/06/parents-joining-facebook-kids-horrified/ Switched Comments for Parents Joining Facebook, Kids Horrified http://www.switched.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.switched.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.switched.com/2009/01/06/parents-joining-facebook-kids-horrified/http://www.switched.com/2009/01/06/parents-joining-facebook-kids-horrified/Actually its great way to reconnect with friends and those paying sites are just too much trouble-and get expensive after you join certain amount of them!
For now, Facebook is great-and if you are grandmother, you really arent into reading teens postings. And smart kids won't put stuff online that they don't want their family or others(grands,parents,sibs,teachers etc, bosses) to know. Still in this day and age, some things shouldn't be posted for all the world to know. Just my "old age" thought! lol- boomer of class of 65]]>Jan 6th 2009 2:32PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/01/06/parents-joining-facebook-kids-horrified/http://www.switched.com/2009/01/06/parents-joining-facebook-kids-horrified/Jan 6th 2009 5:36PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/01/06/parents-joining-facebook-kids-horrified/http://www.switched.com/2009/01/06/parents-joining-facebook-kids-horrified/Jan 6th 2009 3:28PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/01/06/parents-joining-facebook-kids-horrified/http://www.switched.com/2009/01/06/parents-joining-facebook-kids-horrified/Jan 6th 2009 6:49PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/01/06/parents-joining-facebook-kids-horrified/http://www.switched.com/2009/01/06/parents-joining-facebook-kids-horrified/
If you don't want your parents to see Photos that you are tagged in, or your status updates, or even who your friends are -- all you need to do is set up a Friend Group and stick your parents in it. Then you go to your privacy permissions and don't allow your parents to see those things in your profile.

It's very simple, just learn how to use Facebook and you'll be fine. ]]>Jan 6th 2009 5:49PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/01/06/parents-joining-facebook-kids-horrified/http://www.switched.com/2009/01/06/parents-joining-facebook-kids-horrified/"My children" who were bullied on FACEBOOK. Thanks
for the excellent advice to continue the bullshit, name calling
trailer trash of FACEBOOK. Shows your intelligence. I am sure
anyone who is UPSET by this does not kids who have been threatened or bullied. FACEBOOK does not have ethics]]>Jan 6th 2009 6:21PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/01/06/parents-joining-facebook-kids-horrified/http://www.switched.com/2009/01/06/parents-joining-facebook-kids-horrified/
She has other adult relatives as friends, but will not accept either of her parents as friends ('too creepy' ?). Her choice, I suppose.

I'm not the type of parent to be overly restrictive and say, "Then you can't have one." That is more problematic than a teen wanting to have something that is 'theirs', and excluding her (or his) parents.

She is a fairly responsible kid, and I trust her. ]]>Jan 26th 2009 9:23AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/01/06/parents-joining-facebook-kids-horrified/http://www.switched.com/2009/01/06/parents-joining-facebook-kids-horrified/
Either way, its social networking for a reason. Perhaps parents are trying to communicate better with their children by joining. The children with nothing to hide are surely not the ones talking. ]]>Feb 24th 2009 1:16PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/01/06/parents-joining-facebook-kids-horrified/http://www.switched.com/2009/01/06/parents-joining-facebook-kids-horrified/Grow up! ]]>Mar 4th 2009 4:40PMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/01/06/parents-joining-facebook-kids-horrified/http://www.switched.com/2009/01/06/parents-joining-facebook-kids-horrified/Mar 8th 2009 4:27AMhttp://www.switched.com/2009/01/06/parents-joining-facebook-kids-horrified/http://www.switched.com/2009/01/06/parents-joining-facebook-kids-horrified/
That being said, several years ago one of my kids was expelled from an elite private school because of a fictitious character created on another social network who blogged ignorant remarks about other classmates. A bunch of kids were in on it, he was the only honest one about it and got the boot.

Be careful what you put out there....everyone!]]>Mar 12th 2009 9:47AM