<p>So my parents wanted to friend request me on facebook and after a long time I finally gave in. However, they soon got pretty annoying. For example, they would critique everything in my profile (“You’re a republican??”, “I don’t think you should be listening to this music”), and also they would stalk my profile in depth, checking up my events, reading convos I was having with friends and then emailing me about this. I asked my parents if they could stop stalking my profile. They took offense to this and are now assuming that I do not want them to be involved in any way in my life now. They removed me as their facebook friend but they seem to be pretty mad and are telling me I am being disrespectful and they told me I can come home when I actually want to talk with them. How do I fix this situation? I’ve never been able to get along with my parents and I want them to know how I am doing but on the other hand, there is some stuff on facebook that I would like to keep private.</p>
<p>One word. Skype. 
If you don’t have a webcam, than IM works just as well.
You can also try Twitter.</p>
<p>Write them a long email and a few short emails once a week. They just don’t want to loose touch with you. So if you keep up your part of the “meaningful” communication I’m sure they won’t mind not reading all the “Wats-Up” stuff on your facebook.</p>
<p>I was initially my daughters “friend” but it was TMI. You can block lots of stuff and still be “friends”. They probably won’t even know things are blocked. </p>
<p>Texting and IM’ng have been great.</p>
<p>You can set some of your posts to public and others to “friends only” and not include your parents in your circle of “friends.” Your parents will be able to see your public posts but not those you wish to keep them from. This might be a better compromise.</p>
<p>No more facebook for me this year. D1 let me browse through using her account sometimes but I’ve sworn off it now. On to my next passion.</p>
<p>Pierre, you can use facebook privacy settings to block specified users from seeing things, even if they are your “friends”.</p>