As does my stepfather, my aunt, and various other members of my family.
And recently my old church sent out an e-mail encouraging members to create Facebook accounts in order to "keep in touch" with their children, and to "monitor illicit internet activities". Excellent alliteration aside, I'm having a serious problem with the whole idea of anyone over the age of 30 on any of these sites. Or at least interacting with their children on them.
Facebook in particular is meant to be a social networking site, not the latest in a series of parental spy networks. And while it's perfectly fine for parents to use them as a means for social communication, it's really unacceptable for them to be monitoring their children via Facebook.
Because everything is centered around the internet nowadays, sites like facebook provide a fairly safe and easy way for us to interact with our friends and to have ~internet time and space~ that is ours and not easily accessible by parental units.
The reason I'm ranting about this here and not on facebook itself is because (you guessed it) I'm friends with various family members and didn't want to offend any of them. Also my computer is being really annoying and slow so I'm going to end this now and write more on a different subject later.
erika, it's called limited profile. take advantage of it. cherish it. my grandmother has a facebook.
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