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[Aversa]

My parents are actually cool on Facebook.

Well, dad made an account, and got addicted to FarmVille then deactivated after that. But mom never is rude to people, or interferes with my FB other than to inform me of things such as "Bring your key to school" or stuff like that.


I have cousins on FB too, and one of my uncles, but I never interact with most of them. I'm good friends with one of my cousins though, and she's friends with my friends, so there's no negativety there.

[Hyde]

A good portion of my family can be found on Facebook. Most of them play silly games like Farmville or otherwise act as they normally would. I occasionally see a few of my relatives spouting some nonsense (such as objecting to giving aid to Japan after the tsunami), but I fully expect the people who say things like that to behave that way regardless of whether they're on Facebook or standing right in front of me.

[Lord Raven]

I think it's too late to mention how my mom facebook chatted me and said "don't be a moron, stupid" randomly while I was at college? They don't really tend to do anything.

[Aran613]

Being part of a fairly prestigious New England marching band means that I have to pretty much at least have some coordination with Facebook, as a lot of the meetings and discussions about tournaments and competitions are posted within the group. However, I tend to not pay a great deal of attention to anything else, but when I do, it's atrocious, even my own family. Half of them are deeply obsessed with games on there, while the others constantly swear and act way differently than they would in person. I think it's a bit annoying, and I think it does affect the rest of my family.

However, I tend to stay away from keeping too much contact with them on Facebook, while I do admit I'll talk a bit too much to friends on there, however, it's usually the people that are good friends, and we actually talk about helpful things instead of normal anticlimactic conversations.

[Nestling]

I have a lot of family on Facebook, and I've pretty much everything I've learned from their Facebook is what I've learned from real life. I know that my aunt is kinda cool but kinda crazy, I already knew that two of my female cousins were pretty much parallels of my brother and I, I already knew that my younger cousin was kinda silly. In fact, if anything, opening myself to them on Facebook made them learn more about ME then I've learned about them. In fact, I think my intricate and long statuses were so wtf that my uncle actually deleted me off of Facebook (Although he deleted the rest of my family except for his son (but he deleted his daughter and her husband o-o) and his dad).

I guess its impact depends on what kind of family you have. I've been lucky enough to have a family that isn't crazy, or at least doesn't show it on Facebook. My grandmother and grandfather were total badasses on Farmville, though. I wasn't annoyed by their game requests though, mostly because they only sent requests for games that I actually played, and I played Farmville with them until they quit (after they hit like, 105 on their individual accounts).

But I've seen a few people who do post that extremist political/religious stuff, and I can imagine how much it would suck if it was someone that you know. I'm religious, but I've read the chain mail, and some of it is kinda motivational, but most of it is "boy u crazy"

[Soul]

I think you are being a little intolerant over them. They do things that seem to embarrass you, and that seems to be it. I don't see them causing any direct harm. I suggest you not to worry about them doing those kind of things. People that aren't quite adept to technology and the internet will tend to act like that.

Personally, I only have my father on FB. I don't add my mother out of embarrassment. I don't have any other family member. My father doesn't post things on his wall reguarding a certain statement anyway.