Should our parents be allowed to have Facebook?
Jacki Carlson
Issue date: 4/8/09 Section: Viewpoint
As I stared at the picture of myself in a tank top and my mother's zebra skirt with my parents' eyes glaring into my back, I knew it was over. I can still feel the tears running down my cheeks as my mother told me that she had stumbled upon my MySpace page, something I was forbidden to possess at sixteen years old. And by "stumbled", clearly my mother meant that she sat in front of her computer, ravaging the internet for hours, hoping to find clues that would link her to my page. Although the MySpace was private, my mother said that because my name was listed as "Jacaliciouz" and that I was wearing her zebra skirt in the picture, gave my position away. Why a forty-five-year-old woman owns a zebra skirt and how I fit into it continues to boggle my mind. Nevertheless, I was grounded for a month and forbidden to use the internet for over a year. Three years later, you can imagine my surprise when I discovered that the bane of my existence, Lisa Carlson, had friend requested me on Facebook. Folks, the apocalypse is upon us.
It is not okay for anyone to be friends with their parents on Facebook. I do not care if you are best friends with your mother and tell her "everything." There is a line, and it has been crossed. Would you let your father read your text messages? Would you allow your mother to go through all of your friends' digital cameras? Would you consent to your parents reading your diary? Anyone who responds "yes" to any of these questions deserves to be slapped across the face, because you are basically a disgrace to sons and daughters everywhere. If you know anyone who makes these ridiculous claims, please submit their names to me because if you are looking for someone to be the parental bounty hunter, I'm your girl.
Facebook was once only used as a site for college networking. One was not even allowed access to the site without submitting a legitimate college e-mail address. After allowing admittance to everyone nationwide in September of 2007, however, the marketing research company, Comscore, reported that users over the age of twenty-five increased by 279%...in one year. Talk about scary statistics. Before I knew it, my younger and older cousins began friend requesting me. Then, my father and mother joined in the plight to ruin my social life and freedom. What is next? Is Nana going to buy a Blackberry, learn how to text, and start listening to Kanye West?
It is not okay for anyone to be friends with their parents on Facebook. I do not care if you are best friends with your mother and tell her "everything." There is a line, and it has been crossed. Would you let your father read your text messages? Would you allow your mother to go through all of your friends' digital cameras? Would you consent to your parents reading your diary? Anyone who responds "yes" to any of these questions deserves to be slapped across the face, because you are basically a disgrace to sons and daughters everywhere. If you know anyone who makes these ridiculous claims, please submit their names to me because if you are looking for someone to be the parental bounty hunter, I'm your girl.
Facebook was once only used as a site for college networking. One was not even allowed access to the site without submitting a legitimate college e-mail address. After allowing admittance to everyone nationwide in September of 2007, however, the marketing research company, Comscore, reported that users over the age of twenty-five increased by 279%...in one year. Talk about scary statistics. Before I knew it, my younger and older cousins began friend requesting me. Then, my father and mother joined in the plight to ruin my social life and freedom. What is next? Is Nana going to buy a Blackberry, learn how to text, and start listening to Kanye West?
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