Parents own their own kid using facebook

spidey07

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Got a big chuckle out of this one. Kid always complained about not having any money, but yet pictures of him at bars, restaurants, movies, concerts were on his facebook.

http://online.wsj.com/article/...74392880216314184.html

"David Rivera recently had someone "unfriend" him on Facebook: His own child.

For months, Dr. Rivera, an obstetrician in Lombard, Ill., had been exasperated that his 25-year-old son, Nate, often complained he was broke and asked for money, yet posted photos of himself on Facebook taken at bars, restaurants, movies and concerts.

Dr. Rivera says he tried to talk to his son, a senior in college, about his spending habits, but his son refused to listen. Frustrated, he finally wrote on his son's Facebook wall: "I can see what you are blowing your money on, so don't come whining to me about money."
 

Locut0s

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I don't get families that friend each other on social networking sites. I'm closer to my parents than most yet to me, my and my parents online lives are PRIVATE.
 

mugs

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I wouldn't really call that helicopter parenting. It would be if the father signed up for Facebook with the intention of monitoring what his kid was doing, but a lot of older people are signing up for Facebook for the same reasons that young people use facebook. Seeing what his son was going was just the result of that. He's letting the kid live his life how he wants to live it, he just let him know that he (the father) isn't going to fund it.

:thumbsup: to the father
 

thecoolnessrune

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Fun article. I can see the benefits and disadvantages to both sides. Hopefully some of the parents doing this are smart about embarrassment etc in front of their children.

One thing I don't understand though is why parents will try to add friends that are their son or daughter's friend? I mean, that person is going to know that that parent is just trying to weasel information out of them. makes no sense to me.

On a creepy note, as an obstetrician, you think the daddy is the daughter's doctor? :laugh:
 

bobross419

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Originally posted by: Locut0s
Originally posted by: MyThirdEye
Originally posted by: Fayd
this makes a news article?

this

this, Obama indoctrinating the youth of America, and occasionally a dog on a skateboard.

OMG PN is that way >>>

I almost had a Scanners incident earlier listening to coworkers bicker about Obama :(
 

spidey07

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Originally posted by: Fayd
this makes a news article?

The article is about parents keeping tabs on their kids with facebook. I just particularly liked the opening story.

 

Locut0s

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Originally posted by: bobross419
Originally posted by: Locut0s
Originally posted by: MyThirdEye
Originally posted by: Fayd
this makes a news article?

this

this, Obama indoctrinating the youth of America, and occasionally a dog on a skateboard.

OMG PN is that way >>>

I almost had a Scanners incident earlier listening to coworkers bicker about Obama :(

Scanners?
 

spidey07

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Originally posted by: thecoolnessrune
Fun article. I can see the benefits and disadvantages to both sides. Hopefully some of the parents doing this are smart about embarrassment etc in front of their children.

One thing I don't understand though is why parents will try to add friends that are their son or daughter's friend? I mean, that person is going to know that that parent is just trying to weasel information out of them. makes no sense to me.

On a creepy note, as an obstetrician, you think the daddy is the daughter's doctor? :laugh:

It's so they can ask for pics, you noob.
:D
 

Wheezer

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This is not "helicopter parenting" this is using resources to adequately manage money.

I think the boy was on the losing end of this battle....sure, he shut his dad out of his facebook but dad shut him off of the piggy bank, good for him.
 

CPA

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Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: Fayd
this makes a news article?

The article is about parents keeping tabs on their kids with facebook. I just particularly liked the opening story.

I use a keylogger. Screw Facebook.
 

magomago

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Originally posted by: CPA
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: Fayd
this makes a news article?

The article is about parents keeping tabs on their kids with facebook. I just particularly liked the opening story.

I use a keylogger. Screw Facebook.

What if he figures out about it one day?
 

nakedfrog

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Originally posted by: Locut0s
I don't get families that friend each other on social networking sites. I'm closer to my parents than most yet to me, my and my parents online lives are PRIVATE.

Get back to us when you have teenage kids.
 

nerp

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Originally posted by: Fayd
this makes a news article?

Considering the number of articles that appear in the WSJ every day, I'm not surprised at all that they cover lifestyle and social trends as well as everything else. Of course, arguing with you would be pointless since you read every other article word for word so you're an expert on newsworthiness in their publication.
 

nageov3t

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moral of the story: don't friend your parents on facebook

my aunt tried to friend me a couple months ago and got a prompt "ignore."
 

spidey07

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Originally posted by: loki8481
moral of the story: don't friend your parents on facebook

my aunt tried to friend me a couple months ago and got a prompt "ignore."

Guess who won't be getting any more birthday or christmas presents from their aunt anymore.
:present;
 

yllus

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When Dave Hill's twin 14-year-old daughters Maddie and Megan wanted to create Facebook profiles in May, he laid down rules: They would have to be friends with him, and he would have to be friends with all their friends.

Friends with a bunch of 14-year-old girls - I'm sure he laid that down as a rule purely for their safety. :p
 

moshquerade

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Originally posted by: Locut0s
I don't get families that friend each other on social networking sites. I'm closer to my parents than most yet to me, my and my parents online lives are PRIVATE.

this.
 

nageov3t

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Originally posted by: Locut0s
I don't get families that friend each other on social networking sites. I'm closer to my parents than most yet to me, my and my parents online lives are PRIVATE.

/agree

I friend'd my sister, brother-in-law (and his sister), and two cousins... but only because I actually consider myself friends with them. I like getting status updates about my cousin's art shows in LA or joking with my sister in law about her hang-overs and giving my sister terrible parenting advice (her daughter is having problems sleeping through the night in the new house... my suggestion is to put the baby in the garage overnight to get a full 8 hours of sleep for herself :p).

I apply the same rule with coworkers... coworkers that I'm friends with outside of work and that I'd remain friends with if they (or I) were suddenly fired? sure. anyone else? /ignore.

I think if you're going to put that much of your life out there on the internet, you should be selective with who you allow to read it.
 

Ruptga

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Originally posted by: mugs
I wouldn't really call that helicopter parenting. It would be if the father signed up for Facebook with the intention of monitoring what his kid was doing, but a lot of older people are signing up for Facebook for the same reasons that young people use facebook. Seeing what his son was going was just the result of that. He's letting the kid live his life how he wants to live it, he just let him know that he (the father) isn't going to fund it.

:thumbsup: to the father