Mom Pays Daughter $300 to Stay off Facebook - Great Idea or Controlling?
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Obviously Facebook can be addicting. However, one mom may have gone too far by paying her college aged daughter $300 to stay off Facebook.
Melynda Rushing Bribes Daughter Alyssa With $300 to Stay off Facebook
Melynda Rushing, actually bribed her daughter Alyssa to stay off of Facebook. Alyssa is a University of South Carolina student, and the mom wanted her child to focus on her studies at college. The $300 was just for a month too. That seems extreme.
Alyssa says that she actually had a tough time living up to her end of the bargain especially at first. Many people think that Rushing went too far in the bribe, but Facebook is actually a real problem for teens and young adults. There are half a billion users world-wide, and is the subject of a top movie called “The Social Network.” People are obsessed with the social networking site.
Are People Obsessed With Facebook and Other Social Network Sites?
Often, Facebook is the first thing that people do in the morning. In a Lightspeed survey, 39 percent of women ages 18 to 54 check Facebook first thing every morning. Out of those, 21 percent of them actually get up to check their accounts in the middle of the night. There is a real concern that people are addicted to social media.
However, it is probably not a good idea for parents of adult children to set a precedence of bribing their adult children to stay of Facebook to focus on college. Once the month long Facebook fast is over, there is no telling if Alyssa will end up staying off the site, but her mother tried. Do you think the mother went too far here? Shouldn’t an adult be able to decide how much time she wants to spend on Facebook?
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Melynda Rushing Bribes Daughter Alyssa With $300 to Stay off Facebook
Melynda Rushing, actually bribed her daughter Alyssa to stay off of Facebook. Alyssa is a University of South Carolina student, and the mom wanted her child to focus on her studies at college. The $300 was just for a month too. That seems extreme.
Alyssa says that she actually had a tough time living up to her end of the bargain especially at first. Many people think that Rushing went too far in the bribe, but Facebook is actually a real problem for teens and young adults. There are half a billion users world-wide, and is the subject of a top movie called “The Social Network.” People are obsessed with the social networking site.
Are People Obsessed With Facebook and Other Social Network Sites?
Often, Facebook is the first thing that people do in the morning. In a Lightspeed survey, 39 percent of women ages 18 to 54 check Facebook first thing every morning. Out of those, 21 percent of them actually get up to check their accounts in the middle of the night. There is a real concern that people are addicted to social media.
However, it is probably not a good idea for parents of adult children to set a precedence of bribing their adult children to stay of Facebook to focus on college. Once the month long Facebook fast is over, there is no telling if Alyssa will end up staying off the site, but her mother tried. Do you think the mother went too far here? Shouldn’t an adult be able to decide how much time she wants to spend on Facebook?
http://news.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474978608132
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