Parents on Facebook: 'friends' or 'stalkers'?

I just got my mom in a list that makes she can't see any of my photos nor videos, problem solved. :D

I've been living abroad for quite some time and, back in the days of expensive international phone calls, my parents would call occasionally - just to check I was still alive.

Now that they've learnt to use Skype, MSN, etc. they contact me every two seconds. Sometimes, they even check my Current profile.

Yes, I am being "stalked."

It seems silly that if you're worried about being stalked by anyone, that you'd join up on a website that allows people to keep up to date on what you're up to. Seriously, if you don't want someone knowing what you're doing, don't post it for the world to see, duh...
Perhaps that should be a good rule of thumb for kids as they grow up to be adults - if you wouldn't want your mother hearing what you're doing, maybe you shouldn't be doing it, yes? Self respect, and the fact that employers go to these sites, should make one exercise caution when posting to these sites.

in high school and when i started college my mom and aunt were constantly tracking my every move via myspace. i just put it on private, problem solved

Yes. social networking sites like facebook allow EVERYONE to stalk...most people do it, not just parents. So for most people, I imagine it's pretty hard to point fingers if you're probably doing some stalking yourself.

both.....

Thankfully my parents have "LIVES" to deal with so they don't bother me with facebook.

Forget parents, atleast they are stalkers with your 'best wishes' in mind. What about them friend stalkers?? Ugh!

Parent stalkers of juveniles is an oxymoron.

Don't we have bigger ethical issues to ponder?
Who cares about fucking mums & pops on Facebook trying to catch a glimpse into their own kids lives with the crisis in Darfur, & Gaza taking place.

I have very mixed feelings about social networking sites. I can use Facebook to annoy and solicit my friends with my latest music, and I get to keep in contact with crew who live in nearby states I haven't seen in years. On the other hand, it becomes essentially public domain. Ya know, I'd be extremely surprised if my mother knew how to get to my facebook profile, but I'm a grown-ass man (even though it would still be awkward). I mean real awkward...when there's pictures someone tagged of me 'double fisting' a bottle of Jameson and a 40oz or something.

The moms are like....I hope my daughter isn't posting pics of her breastfeeding?!?

You're parents? Stalkers. Friends parents? Just weirdos.

Thats creepy no matter if ou have facebook or not! I don't want my parents checking up on my, yikes!!

Hahaha. You guys are silly. I made my mom's facebook for her! and all my family, even the older people, are on facebook and we're a big family facebook. Of course I have my friends on facebook. But it's not like I do something terrible that I hide from everyone!

(Losers)

If you are emberassed for your parents to see something you have on facebook then I dont think that anything else need be said.

I am a parent on facebook. It's great to see what everyone is doing without being intrusive. Almost all of the messages I've seen from young people 'and old' are life happening. They are not a terrible surprise or a great shock. There are times when I wish there were acceptable and easy ways for some experiences to be shared with some people and not with others on facebook. As a parent, I want to know what I need to know but I certainly do not what to know everything. Young people need room to take care of themselves. They just don't need more room than they can reasonably handle.

Hahahaha!!!! this is hilarious...I am a parent and I have a facebook account...but I don't stalk my kids...I have a life and my greoup of friends...fortunatelly, I trust my kids and they aren't as stupid to be doing stuff that would backfire them on facebook :P
And I won't say this is a lie but I do have friends who have a facebook account to "take care" closely of their kids. (losers, get a life)

Why is it that parents stalking their children on Facebook is considered creepy and annoying, but when you lurk on strangers' profiles, it's completely acceptable?

Well...if you do...I don't consider stalking if people look at my profile that I agreed on posting for the public to look and if it's my friends who do that...go ahead. they know me!!!

OMG I am so scared that my mom will find out that i have some really slutty friends if she sees my face book account and wonder WTF I am doing going out and getting drunk for the hell of it?!

Like I would put anything online that I would be embarrassed if my mom saw it? Oh please, I'm not stupid.

I love Skype, I use it with my parents all the time, but never Facebook ... I don't know if my mum would know how to use it ...

My mom just got a facebook...but only because a bunch of her friends in her sorority from college are on there now. She has no interest in being friends with me or my siblings on facebook.

Wouldn't matter anyway, I've personally shown her all my pics that have gone onto facebook. I have a very open relationship with my parents...I even just had a conversation about how I tried weed, and it led to an interesting conversation. I think teens and college age students need more open relationships with their parents, and then it wouldn't be such a big deal.

There can only be two types of parents on social networking sites who are online because of their child:

1. those sad people who live vicariously through their child's online life because they don't have an actual life
2. stalkers

It was a sad day when my mother got a facebook. A sad, sad day. Now, through her, I have to be awkward friends with extended family I don't even know. And she knows which of my friends drink, smoke, and do drugs.

I didn't ask for that. She stalks my friends... and tells me about the things she sees on their facebooks, as if telling me she saw them at the store.