Too much information is available on Facebook. And available for everyone to see.
If we could put a man on the Moon, someone techie can figure out how to devise a nuclear-proof fire-walls between parents’ and their children’s Facebook pages. If you want to know the threat to family values, finding out too much about your parents or your kids can really cause embarrassing (or worse) moments.
For example, how does a father explain to his daughter that his nickname in college was Spanky, or The Fiend? How does a daughter explain those inappropriate pictures at a party where there are social lubricants in evidence.
I hope that Facebook and its progeny don’t exist when my son is old enough to have a page. I know I won’t want that information.
I couldn’t agree more. There are some things from ones past that should never be repeated…the nickname “Spanky” being one of them 🙂
Amen to that. Facebook is a fascinating and scary thing in many ways. You can’t put the genie back in the bottle but Peggy Orenstein pointed out that for kids facebook prevents them from being able to recreate themselves over time and for new experiences. Remember going away to college where nobody knew you and you could invent a completely new persona? Not so much anymore, your facebook page gives you away – tant pis for the kids, but looks like it’s not going away. Link below to the Orenstein piece for the NYT magazine. Fascinating. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/15/magazine/15wwln-lede-t.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=peggy%20orenstein&st=cse