You have nothing to worry about. This is the 21rst century and the right to privacy is a long gone dream of the past. Your son is an adult and is well aware that by posting any personal information, it will be available to the entire PUBLIC, which includes his Mama.
Folks when your children are sent away to college how can you not believe they are having provocative sexual encounters with strange men/women, drinking and doing drugs. Regardless of how well you have raised your children, they are influenced by their peers and will engage or these activities. Many of the Columbia students I know lie to their parents almost religiously. Since the children are at college and getting good grades, there's no way they are going to act the way every other person aged 18-22 acts.
I feel for you, in that you are upset your son is not sharing this information with you. I wouldn't worry too much, take it from a student, it's nothing personal, typical teenage propaganda.
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My son (graduated in 2006 and working at a permanent job) told me a friend of his posted a message on his Facebook wall congratulating him on being offered a new job at a great company. He had to quickly remove the post because at that time he did not want his current employer to know that he was considering leaving for the new job. His friend, whom he had told about his offer, did not realize that it was not to be broadcast to the general public and was trying to do something nice by congratulating him on Facebook. But if my son had not quickly removed it and it was seen by the wrong people, he could have been in major trouble with his employers.
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I'm not surprised. For some reason folks have a difficult time believing that they are giving up far too much privacy by joining social networks. It is difficult for some people, especially students to understand that these sites (especially facebook) are extremely sneaky with their attempts to reform advertising agenda in order to attempt to blow up much like Google.
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Facebook users raise privacy complaints
The concern for privacy has been growing on me, and I wonder how many people have been in trouble due to their privacy being invaded on sites such as Facebook. Folks please consider that any personal information you make available to even one person on one of these websites, can relatively quickly become very visible to just about anyone. BE CAREFUL KIDS!