Although I've been my daugher's Facebook friend for about as long as she had her page, I don't visit it as often as I should. One would think that if your mom is your Facebook friend, one would consider that before each status update. Clearly, teens don't always use the good sense God gave them. When I needed to get a message to my daughter when her cell phone wasn't an option, Facebook was the next best thing because I knew she'd be checking her page shortly after she woke up this particular morning. Initially the message I was leaving only entailed her "to do" list for the day. However, after the things I'd come across on her page, it became necessary for me to advise her of some revisions she needed to make:
1. Changing status from married to single! The chile' is 15 yrs old and has the nerve to be referring to herself as somebody's wife.
2. Just because you insert punctuation marks in place of a few letters in curse words, you're still cursing as far as I'm concerned.
Yes, she was pretty surprised that I was checking out her page and making her change stuff, but I explained to her that it's my job as her mom to make sure she's representing herself appropriately in every area of her life, even the World Wide Web. After that little experience, I decided to add her to my favorites on Facebook so I can keep up with her daily posts. Boy, the things a parent has to do!
Sunday, April 25, 2010
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