<p>I am only in my 40’s, but I won’t join it and my kids are glad. They find it embarrassing when their aunts and friends parents try to befriend them, esp. since it started out as a chat site for college age kids (my space was for HS). I just can’t do it to them, so I’ll stay over here!</p>
<p>I never friend a young kid–but will accept their offer if they friend me first.</p>
<p>For my poor kids there is a great aunt (she is close to 60) and everyday she tries to get them to accept her…they haven’t. Their uncle, my BIL has tried also. When he was here visiting he even brought it up and they both said no insult Uncle XXXX, but you do know facebook is for kids our ages, right?</p>
<p>He was taken aback and argued with them about it, but he didn’t win them over. In the end he even said I guess that is why my 2 daughters won’t accept me either. Our eldest told him that if we did that it would feel like an invasion of privacy, since their page is set to private. His point was he wanted to see what they were saying. I told him there is an easy solution to that, which I have with my children. They must give me their password to log on. They never know if today is the day I will check out their page, so I never worry about it and then they are not embarrassed by Dear Old Mom!</p>
<p>The way I keep in touch with old classmates is through classmate.com</p>
<p>My sister has a facebook, but she hates the company right now since she can’t figure out how to dis-enroll.</p>
<p>I joined. The best thing is seeing up-to-the hour photos of my kids, (in college) and the rest of my extended and far-flung family. One relative is in Iraq and benefits from easily staying in touch with everyone. My 88 y.o. mom has a page (she feels very hip) and likes seeing photos, etc. I like having “friends” of various
ages- it lets me know what gen xers, millennials are thinking. Some people are so very witty! On the negative side, sometimes people send updates which are self-serving-- fundraising announcements, shameless self-promotion about their businesses, etc.
Once, I admit, I mentioned to one son that he had put something offensive on his
site and he immediately took it down. I don’t look at my kids’ pages often; this was sort
of an unusual goof of his.<br>
All in all, facebook isn’t something I spend a lot of time on, and I basically don’t post
anything except photos- don’t want my thoughts to be so public, etc.</p>
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My kids would much prefer being my friend to my having their password. I have never asked anybody under 40 to friend me, but many nieces and nephews have as well as my own kids. My mother and father joined recently too so they could keep up with pictures and see what relatives are up to. They were pleasantly surprised when some of the grandchildren friended them too.</p>
<p>I might have considered joining until I heard my kids all bemoaning the LAAAAME posts and gifts that my SIL sends them and how weirded out they were when she joins in the commenting on photos, etc. I don’t want to be that lame person who does not get that we are different generations :D</p>