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<p>AGREE!!! It’s free for god’s sake…why would they share? That is creepy.</p>
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<p>Engineer…why did you even ask this question?</p>
<p>I put logging into FB as though you are your child the SAME way I put kids and parents SHARING CC accounts. Shouldn’t be done. :)</p>
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<p>Another thumbs-up for this comment. It’s been an evolutionary thing in many households, evidently. People had a family email account like they had a family phone number. H and I started out emailing when working in the software industry, so we’ve never shared an email account. For a long time, we’d actually get grief over having two. Organizations and businesses that started collecting email addresses only had one “email address” field per household.</p>
<p>In the present day, though, people who haven’t evolved to separate personal email accounts need to catch up with the times. My late-70s parents even got it, eventually. I agree, it’s just weird and surprising nowadays to get an email from an account named “John Smith” and find the contents signed “Mary Smith.”</p>
<p>Engineer4life, can you explain why you asked this question? We’re all a little perplexed why anybody would ever do this.</p>
<p>In my hometown, people will tag pictures of their kids (or other people’s kids) with the parents name. Talk about creepy. That allows picutures of their teens to be seen by grandma or Aunt Ruth if they are not friends, but I still think it is odd. My own DS would kill me if I did something like that.</p>
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<p>Especially since your comment above AGREES that this is not good practice.</p>
<p>and especially since the original comment didn’t ask “is this a bad idea” but “at what age should one stop?”</p>
<p>We’re all dying of curiosity for the explanation behind this question.</p>
<p>What would be the point of “liking” something on your kids’ page? I’ve never heard of this before.</p>
<p>weatherga: Haha! I had actually forgotten about that! It was so long ago that my family shared an email account (1992 to… I think 1996 was when I got my own). Family email was pretty easy for 3/4s of my family, though. Except for one of us, we all have a first name that begins with the same letter. So we just had <a href=“mailto:firstinitiallastname@whateveritwas”>firstinitiallastname@whateveritwas</a>…</p>
<p>MizzBee: My friends do that with young children (ones that are far too young to get an account). I don’t see an issue with it. I would find it odd, though, if the child was old enough to have their own account.</p>
<p>On-topic: I would be horrified if my mom logged in as me. I don’t hide anything from her, but she has her own account. </p>
<p>Adding my voice to the curiosity over what this question was about.</p>
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<p>Well, a year or so ago, my son snuck onto my FB when I had it open, and surreptitiously “liked” Rush Limbaugh, Being Conservative, Sarah Palin, etc. Har de har har.</p>
<p>Don’t know any parents who would use their kids’ facebook accounts…and any kids being accepting of such parental micromanagement. A bit too Blackhawkish even for some of the more helicopterish parents among them. </p>
<p>I have seen married couples share facebook accounts…but that seems localized to one particular friends’ close-knit extended rural family where it seems the wives are in charge of maintaining the couples’ facebook presence. </p>
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<p>You can have similar “fun” next time he leaves his facebook open by “liking” The Spice Girls, Justin Bieber, Hannah Montana, or the Jonas Brothers. :D</p>
<p>My SIL tags pics of her preschool son with her & her DH’s names now that I think of it. Which I kind of get but I wonder when it ends. I guess there’s a generation of kids for whom that will almost be a norm from when they were young.</p>
<p>I have noticed a trend of kids jumping on their parent’s FB pages when they’ve left it logged on and posting statuses like “Susie is my favorite daughter. I love her so much more than Bobby” as a joke.</p>
<p>^I know two grown up sisters that will do that to each other when visiting. As soon as i see, “X is the most wonderful sister I could ever have” I know that X has been visiting her sis again.</p>
<p>I know that my younger cousin logs onto her mom’s facebook account to play like Farmville and such. She’s around seven and her mom’s profile is just spammed with seeds, cows, and farming stuff, haha. Her mom doesn’t really use facebook much, but it does get confusing as to who I am talking to sometimes.</p>
<p>That is ridiculous. In my opinion if someone isn’t old enough to have their OWN Facebook page, they are not old enough to play those games.</p>
<p>No one has the password to MY FB account except me.</p>
<p>One of our dogs has a Facebook acccount. I’ll admit right now that both I and my husband press the ‘like’ button for him and occasionally we help him leave commentary (often in the form of dog puns). He’s already 10 and doesn’t seem to really mind. ;)</p>
<p>Count my as one other who doesn’t get it… about the only thing I can imagine is some parents of infants or toddlers who think it’s cute to set up a FB account in their child’s name, kind of like the people who set up accounts for their pets… (Quite a few dogs have facebook pages, I assume that their owners do the status updates and the “likes”, as dog slobber isn’t really good for keyboards).</p>
<p>I think Farmville is the perfect game for a 7 year old…</p>
<p>I’m surprised at the vehement reaction to shared marital email addresses. How do you divvy up which address to use for schools, banks, soccer teams, etc?</p>
<p>Whoever signs the child up gives their email, in my experience as a league director. It’s never been an issue that only one parent gives their email. </p>
<p>However, the vast majority of parents have facebook accounts so both parents “like” our league and they both get messages we send out.</p>
<p>In my family, my dad always gave his email address because my mom works and my dad was a stay at home dad for most of my life. So he handles most of the day to day stuff. We all have access to each other’s email accounts if we ever really felt the need to go in. Between organization emails that my father and I run, work, personal, and school my parents and I have well over a dozen email addresses.</p>