Social Media and Your Mom
Today, on Twitter I asked my fellow twitterati this question: “Have you told your family to join and follow you on twitter?” and the results were generally “no” or “they don’t care to”. I wasn’t surprised, because my own answer would have been a solid “hell no” as well. Social networks are our space to share stories with only our friends, and perhaps the odd relative, but stories about where you actually went last Saturday? Not really family dinner table conversation.
But here’s where it gets interesting. For net-saavy parents such as @johnchow, @themacmommy, and @multimom, they’re already on most social networks (and all of the ‘cool’ ones). They probably already know things like Facebook Partial Friends and the art of the unfollow. So when the kids start doing the online socializing thing, what’s going to happen? Will we start to here fights like: “Sally, unblock me now”? Or will ‘cool*’ parents like the fore-mentioned be wise enough to give their kids space?
Yes, generations past have long lived without things like computers and Facebook, but I’m curious to see what your thoughts are. For once, I’m glad that my dad still thinks he can break his computer by typing with Microsoft Word.
*Calling John cool was a typo.
