When your mum tries to add you as a friend on Facebook...

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Disaster! I've just had an email notifying me that my mum has tried to add me as a friend on Facebook.

This puts me in a sticky situation as I don't wish to offend my mother. However nor do I wish her to see every time someone posts a video of me 'misbehaving' or sticks a pornographic video on my wall.

My brother just texted me saying 'ignore ignore ignore' but really that's not a solution. Eventually she's going to ask me 'so did you see my Facebook friend request?' at which point I will either have to lie and say no, or say yes but I ignored it.

I could say that I don't use Facebook anymore, but she will still say I could add her and will probably give me a guilt trip if I don't.

Why do mums bother with this kind of thing? Surely she realises that this is an attempted invasion of my privacy? Adding her and exposing her to the resultant material will lead to many questions and comments, trust me, and my mum always wants to know more about my private life.

Do any of you have parents on your Facebook? Is there a way of 'managing their exposure'?
 
some guy at work said you can create groups that can see selected items in facebook - maybe thats an option? I dont use it so dont know :)
 
The thread is 3 mins old and still no "poke her!" comments, GD is losing its way *tuts* :rolleyes:
 
My mum added me on Facebook, but I don't use it much so it doesn't bother me.

Why not add her as a friend, wait it out a month or two and then delete her.
 
You can defiantly create access groups.

You can add someone to a group, then restrict what the group can see.

e.g. wall, status updates, pictures etc etc.

Have a play round in the settings, its easy.
 
Happened to me a couple of weeks ago :s Was surprised she even knew how to set up an account! lol.

I just put her on limited profile so she can't see my wall. Pictures I don't really care about since those I usually show her in any case. But if you wanted, you could do that too? All she'l be able to see is your profile page and some info about you i'm guessing.
 
My mum added me and some of my mates... some of my mates have even added her :eek: (in which case i hunt down their family and add theirs :) )

You can set up users to go to restricted access, like no photos, wall etc but there is no point in this because she will know.

Im not bothered that theres loads of pictures/videos on my on facebook smashed or on dance nights in amsterdam etc. She added me and if she doesnt like it then she can delete me. She started to put a few stupid comments on pictures to which i sent her a message saying "block and delete"

At the end of the day i'm 25, dont live at home anymore and cant do what i want.

Just add her
 
my mum added me, I accepted, she sees the occasional status that she shouldn't andI get quizzed on it, but she accepts it's my life, and things aren't always glitter and sunshine.

and thankfully I don't usually have pictures of me being promiscuous >.<
 
unless your still a child and have stuff to hide add her :P

most people are with the real world and know adults get upto anyway.
 
Ah the joys of having a younger sister (21) you get to add her friends and in some cases her friends mums, it really is a win win situation.
 
My mum signed up to Facebook to keep in touch with some of the more distant family, but now it's a daily thing for her. She probably uses it more than me :D

At first she took all my status updates seriously and would call me in a panic when I made a joke, or put something flippant up, but I think she's getting the hang of it now. However, I can't do anything on there, or appear in any photos, without a comment being made, usually along the lines of, "so you had a good night on Friday then, you looked a little drunk..." - in fact, she probably knows what photos I've appeared in before me!
 
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