Comments on: Why you should not be Facebook friends with your parents…or grandparents

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By: crazybeachcat

crazybeachcat — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:08:25 +0000

i’m 31 and finishing up grad school in a few months. technically i could have been done by the age of 24, but not everyone goes straight through perfectly.

in my undergrad classes i always had lots of “older” people in my classes. and now in many of my grad classes, the majority of my classmates have been 40+…i’ve pretty much always been the youngest or one of the youngest in the class. it’s not exactly unheard of to go back to school.

By: crazybeachcat

crazybeachcat — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 08:02:22 +0000

dearjane, my parents don’t even HAVE debit cards, so your mom’s at least a step above them. i’m not sure why they don’t, my mom probably thinks they’re somehow dangerous and my dad just doesn’t give a shit. my mom’s becoming increasing pressured to stop using checks…so many places won’t take checks anymore and she just can’t believe it.

it’s getting a little embarrassing to be standing there with her while she take 3 1/2 hours to write out those damn checks.

By: crazybeachcat

crazybeachcat — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 07:38:06 +0000

whenever i see the old folks on facebook i’m so proud of them, which is really cheesy, but i’m so proud of them for accepting modern technology. my mother is terrified of facebook and myspace; i’m pretty sure she’s convinced everyone on there is either a pedophile trying to gain access to pictures and/or the location of all children (especially my son and niece), a rapist trying to lure women to meet him or to figure out ways to find unsuspecting women in the dark of night (especially my sister and me), or burglars trying to figure out when people are out of town so they can clean out houses (especially mine and my sister’s). no matter how many times i try to explain to her that you can make your page PRIVATE and no one can see our information, like your dad mamarilla2, i still don’t think she believes that it’s true. or she thinks that they’re all experienced evil genius hackers.

now that i’ve said all of this, my son and niece will likely be kidnapped by a pedophile, and my sister and i will be raped while we’re out of town and come home to completely empty houses.

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By: Ellen

Ellen — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 15:39:46 +0000

Boomers invented the internet and everything that makes it work. If your parents are boomers, they invented this. Get over it.

By: love, dad

love, dad — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 02:36:45 +0000

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By: Splieve

Splieve — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 01:26:48 +0000

Well I’m from a border state in the US, and “home-time” is the period of time between when an illegal Mexican gets deported, and when he sneaks back in the US. My gardener has been on “home-time” for 2 months now, and I really miss him!

By: MAMARILLA2

MAMARILLA2 — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:31:07 +0000

At least he understands how the internet works.
My father , after asking about lap tops and asking questions like he knew his stuff, asked me if -when he got on the internet in Mexico, would it reach me in the States…..I still don’t think he believed me.

By: Mishee™

Mishee™ — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:10:27 +0000

you know, I’ve heard of things like this where parents actually go back to school after their (their!) kids are old enough to watch themselves (them!), either for personal fulfillment or to get a better job… its been known to happen, haven’t you ever seen the Rodney Dangerfield classic “Back To School”?

Personally, my mother went back at age 37 to get her CMA…

But if the person who posted at #27 really is submitter Halley, then we already know that her mother is a teacher.

Try reading a few of the comments before making yourself sound like an ass.

By: anglophile

anglophile — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:09:57 +0000

keep reading, katie

By: katie

katie — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:05:20 +0000

Wait wait wait. I don’t understand how this could be Halley’s mom and grandpa. That would only work if Becky was going back to school years after she originally graduated, like to get a Master’s or something. Even at the upper ages of a person who’s still in school on a normal track, it wouldn’t make sense. If we give Halley the minimum age for signing up on facebook (13), and say her mom is in her last year of earning a graduate degree (and I’ll give her a year to backpack across Europe to “find herself,” so 25), that would mean Becky had Halley when she was 12.

Halley, confirm/deny? Please do clarify what’s going on here.