Wednesday, June 17th, 2009

What To Do When Your Mom Joins Facebook

Facebooked Mom T-shirt
The internet has turned us all into open books. We blog about how much we hate work and Twitter about our latest bowel movements. With our friends, there are no secrets or boundaries anymore. However, I think there’s still a stigma about sharing this info with mom and dad.

Unfortunately, there’s nothing you can do. Facebook was once limited to college students. Now they’ve opened the floodgates, turning their site into the most popular social network ever — but that means parents can get profiles too. That’s probably the best reason possible to join Facebook Has Jumped The Shark.

So mom’s got a profile. Now what? Well, it’s tricky. When MySpace became uncool, we jumped to Facebook. However, there isn’t currently an heir apparent to Facebook. Twitter is popular, but doesn’t have all the features of Facebook, like all those wonderful zombie bite applications. Having an unironic Friendster account is pretty much unthinkable. What is Bebo? Since jumping to another site isn’t an option, and your social life is totally Facebook-centric, I see three options:

1. Continue using Facebook normally, even though your mom will see that you wrote “now spread those ass cheeks, lol” as a comment on a girl’s photo. (She’ll call you and ask, “so who is this girl?”)

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