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I’m filing these articles for future reference: they’re recent articles about what happens when your mom and dad join Facebook.
- New York Times: ‘omg my mom joined facebook!!’
- Toronto Star:
- Jezebel: Ask a highly-flawed specimen of humanity: Your Daughter Is Entirely Too Comfortable With Her Body
- Daily Princetonian: Your Mom is on Facebook.com
- Personal Democracy Forum: Can it Still be Facebook if Your Mom’s on it?
- Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Cool parents opt out of Facebook
- WDBJ7.com: Do you know what your child is posting on their MySpace or Facebook page?
Bonus Facebook Reading Material for You Kids Out There
Kids: if you’re going to plan something illegal such as, say, a bush party (that’s Canadian slang for an underage drinking party held in a secluded wooded area), don’t announce it publicly on Facebook. The cops are watching.
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I guess this would be a bad time to remind these folks that HR departments also prowl Facebook, checking the names/profiles of job candidates.
@Chris Taylor: Oh yeah, that’s worth an article all by itself. Maybe I’ll write a “How to get hired and not fired because of your Facebook” article soon.
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okay,how exactly do i get my mom off of facebook,its killing my social life
You get off Facebook and head to a club or bar. Facebook isn’t social life.