abcnews.go.com — The Facebook group entitled "For the love of god -- don't let parents join Facebook" has 5,819 high school and college-aged members who want to stop the growing number of parents who are joining Facebook, the massively popular social networking site, from "spying" on them.
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irvin666Jan 5, 2009
Is that even possible?
zippoJan 5, 2009
There's a reason why the limited profile was invented.
minorgodsJan 5, 2009
Just ask the kind people at digg to add a sexction where we can post our glitter graphics, post drunken comments to friends, and push our eccentricities to others that we are friends with. Oh yea, it's called facebook...
Closed AccountJan 6, 2009
Do you realize there are two sides to that coin? A lot of "hands-off" parents end up with some pretty out of control children. "Oh but we trust him." Yeah, maybe in some cases you shouldn't.
raustinJan 6, 2009
this happened to me... does this make facebook significantly less cool? I find myself going there less now...
bayoubengalJan 8, 2009
Sure, minors have protection from the government but from mom and dad? Not so much.
secrityFeb 2, 2009
I find the whole discussion rather strange. When I was a kid whe had black and white TV with four channels. My parents were very hands off and in high school I did essentially what I wanted to to do. I always had decent cars to car to drive, and one of them was a 1970 Chevelle SS-454. During my senior year of high school, my parents moved to another city and rented an apartment so that I could finish high school. I never got a traffic ticket and I was never in trouble with the law. I smoked while in jr high and high school (there was no age limit to buy cigarettes at that time), but I did not drink -- I turned out alright.