Fakebook, When Parents Join..

For this week's blog assignment, think about Alice Mathias' essay "The Fakebook Generation" from our text.  Read the "Writing Suggestions" and "For Further Study" questions/ideas that follow the essay.   Focus, in some way, on social networking or Facebook in this week's blog.''

1.Mathias uses a colon to introduce a list on one topic. Like when she introduces "comedy" and states why after the colon. 

2.I believe Myspace and Facebook change so much because people get bored with it. Ranging from different age groups determines what they use facebook for. It could be for: pure entertainment, drama, to timeline their life, photo albums socializing, making new friends, and even finding people to date. As for older people such as my grandparents I know they use it to watch the grand kids grow up and see things that they would otherwise completely miss.

Parents On Facebook.

The first thing I do when I wake up is check to see if I have any text messages, or notifications on Facebook. Now that mobile apps are available and technology is growing vastly, it is easier to consume our lives with these social networking sites. Normally when I receive friend requests it's from a friend or new acquaintance. But nothing shocked me more then when I checked my friend requests and saw my fathers name. I was in high school and it was "weird" to be friends with your parents on Facebook. I couldn't handle the embarrassment, nor could I stand the thought of hurting his feelings. So, I let the friend request sit in the inbox. After weeks  had gone by my father had mentioned his friend request said it was "still pending" and he couldn't see anything. I was defensive and told him I had forgotten about it. Next day I accepted. The following week I deleted him. he approached me once again and told me he saw we weren't friends anymore and if it had bothered me so much I should have just told him. In all honesty i did not want him to know what I was thinking, doing, feeling. I knew he would judge and go into instant "dad mode" and try to talk about it. 

Now that i have had a few years to mature I'm not bothered by being friends with my father, mother, grandma, and grandpa on Facebook. I know that they are curious and concerned about me. And frankly Facebook makes it easy to follow day to day life, vacations, or special holidays when your family can't be there. 

Now that I'm friends with my entire family on Facebook (moms & dads side) it makes talking to them at family functions a lot easier. "Oh I saw you went to the Bahamas this summer! The pictures were amazing" instead of.. "Hey how are you?" "I'm great! how are you?" "Good" "Okay, great catching up!" I know not all families are that awkward, but mine definitely is.

Now that Facebook has been taken over by everyone and their mother, literally. I now have a social outlet where I don't have to censor, and I can have fun with it. "Twitter." I'd talk about it more.. but I'm afraid it will be taken over within a matter of months by my grandparents so I'll just let people stumble upon it when it becomes the new daily online check in. Until then, I'm going to enjoy my 140 character limit and multiple status updates a day without family following me. Ta-Ta for now.