Parents on Facebook? - Reader Response

Stanford U. Researcher Teaches Noncredit 'Facebook for Parents' Course

When first thinking on this subject I thought it was crazy, I mean my parents getting a facebook. I don’t want them to see everything I am doing, any pictures that I may be in, or even if any girls that are talking to me. What would that do to my social status if I have my mom started writing on my wall? I might have to change a few things around. In the end I might be able to accept it, it could be a good way to keep in contact with my parents.

When I first started reading this article I chuckled a bit to myself because they were offering a class teaching parents how to use facebook. It’s like a facebook for dummies crash course, like the book. I don’t need to make fun of anyone it’s just I am like a facebook fanatic now and anybody that doesn’t have one is out of the loop. It’s great that Stanford University is offering a non-credit course “Facebook for Parents” under the collected data of researcher BJ Fogg. I wonder if my parents would even be interested. In the post they have a website that has tips for parents for facebook called Facebook for Parents.

I’m actually debating whether or not I want to show them. Part of me says to do it because it might make me more aware of what I am actually doing. I think I might actually talk to them more then I do now if I were to get more of a connection. I wonder what facebook would be like if everyone’s parents had one. It might just get corrupted and then a new social networking site would popup out of nowhere getting everyone away from the parents. Then they would have to have another class teaching them how to use the next site. The possibility of a simpler site made for family trees would be pretty cool. Make a way for all of your relatives to connect at one place that is exclusive to their tree. I might want to copyright this. There is probably a site for this created already that I just haven’t found or maybe there is one in the works.

This post was good it really got me thinking about the possibility of my parents getting on social networking. It also got me to think of a new site idea. Maybe someday there will be a time when my parents are talking to me over the internet. It may be a while though considering the fact that my parents have a hard enough time texting.