The Status

Personally I do understand what the big deal is about accepting your mom or your dad on Facebook will do. Although I don’t care about the social implications of being known to have friended one or both of my parents, it’s the security issue that could be potentially problematic. Today’s blog is about the Facebook Status. This is probably what I changed the most about my Facebook use once I friended my parents. I act a certain way at home and I act a certain way around my friends and those I am friends with on Facbeook and they are not similar. I don’t voice my every thought at home and I don’t swear at home. Those are the two things that help me communicate to my friends my “status” at any particular moment. 99% of these statuses are not suitable for my parents because it’s either about them because they wouldn’t let me do something and I didn’t want my parents to know my every thought.

The article in the Washington post talks about kids who are having similar problems and people vent by communicating through “No parents on facebook” groups. I eventually learned to live with the change and never really panicked or acted out by writing on such groups to vent my frustration, I exclude my parents from any incriminating photos because I have an image to uphold to their standards and that is basically the only thing people are worried about. I became a more decent human being on my statuses and stopped reporting useless things, so actually it made my behavior improve! I think its just an age barrier that one has to cross before they become friends with their parents, before Facebook it was an emotional barrier that had to be crossed, and now it is an electronic barrier where you can literally “friend” your parents. The status on Facebook was really the only thing that was affected in my usage, and it was affected for the better so I have no complaints to adding my parents on facebook.