When my mom got a facebook, it wasn't a huge deal. I just removed a couple of semi-incriminating bumper stickers, a couple of wall comments, and accepted the friend request. She leaves me alone for the most part, and it's not much of a problem. Unfortunately, she has apparently become the bridge for the rest of my extended family to get in on my social life. I'm now "friends" with my sister, mother, three cousins, and my aunt. But the reason I'm writing this is because of the friend request I got last night: my grandmother.
I love my family. They're great. But I really don't like the idea of my parents and grandparents seeing all my interactions with my friends. It's not like I have anything to hide; it's just annoying - like having those relatives come with you and your friends to the movies or something. And having comments from your mother like "This should TOTALLY be your profile pic!" on your pictures and "Want to talk?" on a status that subtly alluded to sex...it's embarrasing, juvenile as it sounds. I want to delete the comments; I want to de-friend her. But how do you explain that to your mother, who just wants to connect with her daughter who spends way too much time on the computer? How do you explain to your grandmother why you ignored her friend request?
I might sound like an annoying teenage brat when I say it, but parents (and grandparents) don't belong on facebook. If they want one to stay in touch with their friends, that's fine. But please, leave me and my page alone.
On a totally different note, I've been listening to Avril Lavigne a lot recently. I had stopped for a while, but I'm getting back into her music. Her songs make me feel...different somehow. Better, definitely. Stronger. I dunno. It's also helping my desire to write my own songs (which was sparked by The Hatnappers, actually).
So I'm gonna go back to rockin' out to the Avril I'm blasting in my room. =)
To walk within the lines
Would make my life so boring.
I want to know that I
Have been to the extreme.
So knock me off my feet.
Come on now, give it to me.
Anything to make me feel alive.
Is it enough to love?
Is it enough to breathe?
Somebody rip my heart out
And leave me here to bleed.
Is it enough to die?
Somebody save my life.
I'd rather be anything but ordinary, please.
Let down your defenses,
Use no common sense.
If you look, you will see
That this world is a beautiful accident,
Turbulent, succulent,
Opulent, permanent, no way.
I wanna taste it,
Don't wanna waste it away.
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I don't think parents need to be that intimately involved in their children's social lives. It's important to be open with your parents and it's good for them to know your friends, but I think that they don't need to be involved in your social life, especially on the internet. The internet is where things are taken out of context; I'd hate to get in trouble for something I posted on the internet.
I predict that Sarah will say it's okay for your parents to be friends with you on Facebook and for them to interact with your friends, but that yes, it can be annoying when they follow you out with your friends sometimes.
ANYWAY, there is a handy function that you can use to let people only see your limited profile (your network information, picture, etc., but not any information or wall posts), and I believe you can restrict certain parts of it.
You'd think that they'd have a "hide this picture/note/whatever from this list of people" function for just this situation...