My kids' friends are on Twitter...weird? creepy?
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My kids (who are teens) think I'm totally lame for being on twitter (like I care). But they tell me they have high school friends on twitter too! And they've told them I'm there also, though not by @name...still, I want to run and hide...takes all the fun out of complaining about those snarky kids if I'm found out!
How would you feel, or have you run into this? It's not like facebook where you have to be a friend to see what is said...no privacy. Even if they don't follow you, they can read what you write! ps. I have no idea who they @are and don't want to!!
How would you feel, or have you run into this? It's not like facebook where you have to be a friend to see what is said...no privacy. Even if they don't follow you, they can read what you write! ps. I have no idea who they @are and don't want to!!
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Permalink Reply by Annette Holland on -
I just checked mine. Unprotected responses to my tweets show up, but not my tweets. For example http://search.twitter.com/search?q=dananner+thelaughingimp
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Permalink Reply by Linda Sellers on -
Great!! Thanks for checking!
Annette Holland said:I just checked mine. Unprotected responses to my tweets show up, but not my tweets. For example http://search.twitter.com/search?q=dananner+thelaughingimp
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Permalink Reply by Astrid Nicole on -
When I complain, I complain with dignity. When I am anxious, like in these trying economic times, I am anxious like an adult. I know some of my followers are teens that follow me because I'm also a crafter. I'm not one to 'let it all hang out' anywhere, so mixing it up, age wise, doesn't bother me or cause me embarrassment. I find young people mostly to be very creative and respond to me with respect.
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Permalink Reply by Ilonalive on -
As a previous commenter noted, if your mother were reading your tweets, it might change what you write a bit. I can see how it'd be like letting the teens attend an adult-only party: there would be some things you just mightn't want to discuss with them around. I confess to being grateful that none of my kids (15, 19, 22) uses Twitter, but they are my friends on Facebook, so we can eavesdrop on each other if we choose.
My teens are used to me by now. I write about them on Mid-Century Modern Moms. Knowing they're reading, I'm not as open as I might be in a private conversation with my best friend -- but then, I'm not going to snark about them too harshly in any public forum. Any more than (I hope!) they'd do to me. That's family loyalty/respect. And lord only knows what they might say about me if they had a mind to... because, you know, sometimes I'm just the MEANEST, MOST CONTROLLING MOTHER ON EARTH!!!!
Bwah-hahahahaaaa....
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Permalink Reply by Pam on -
Actually, my oldest is my friend on Twitter, Facebook, etc. Even a couple of her friends added me. She did an interview for a local online news site about it here:
Video with my daughter (She's Samantha)
We're pretty close, though, and always have been. My 13 year old is banned form the computer and MySpace because he's not responsible enough for it yet. We gave him a shot at it about 6 months ago and he blew it big time. But he's never been quite as mature as our oldest.
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Permalink Reply by Tricia on -
It wouldn't bother me. The whole reason I got a myspace was because my son wanted one. He's too young still, but only by a year, and he's chomping at the bit to get one. We told him when he is 14 he can have one, but I have to be on his friends and have access to his a/c. I guess I'm kind of big brother-ish, but I want to knwo what my kids are doing out there in cyberspace. I think I'd want to know their friends names so I could watch them and see what they are tweeting about though.
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Permalink Reply by Renée on -
yeah, more and more real-life and virtual-life are clashing. I'm finding the same problems with facebook. There are parents I see at my kids' soccer games adding me as friends and I'm just not sure how I feel about it because I'm not really "friends" with them irl to begin with...my online persona is very much the same as my real-life self but sometimes the typed word can be misunderstood or misconstrued, kwim?
I guess if I were you, I'd keep names and specific details out of tweets.
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Permalink Reply by JuneIn2 on -
Hi, my daughter is on twitter also (college age) on facebook on myspace. To me when she leaves the comm. college to move to major U I won't feel like the strings are so cut, because we will have the virtual strings of all these social apps.
Of course, she and her friends respect my space, and dont comment or wall write anything off color but the do sometimes use as a way to say thanks for the barbque etc. Funny thing is how many moms of at least my daughters friends are not FB or TWEETing,
As such I think that sometimes, with teens being so open in these formats, (more so than in face to face at times) they actually comment on my FB or tweet me that they FB'ed me, and share what & how they are doing at school.
Facebook, if you have your setting done correctly and they are not on your friends list they can not read your posts etc. and twitter well its the nature of the beast, if they dont know your @ name they cant follow you unless your using your actuall name, would be equiv. of needle in hay stack.
In your twitter settings you can select the box by the bottom which will only allow the approved followers to see your tweets
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Permalink Reply by Kim on -
I'm not in that boat, but my semi-elderly mother is now on facebook which disturbs me a little. Maybe I should tell her about twitter moms now that she's feeling all social media savvy. :)
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Permalink Reply by Monica on -
there are teens on twitter?? no way! I thought we moms, like, OWNED twitter.
geez, those crazy teens. who knew they could be so hip? ;)
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Permalink Reply by Nadia Merhai on -
This question is driving me nuts especially since I have really small children. To think that one day I might have chance encounters with them on Facebook, MySpace or Twitter is nerve wracking. I don't know what I would do or how I would handle it. But it starts as I was already told by my 6 yr old that I'm too old to use the word cool, then she quickly redeemed herself by saying that you're still really pretty mommy!
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