Everyone
knows that all American teenagers – save those being raised on
religious compounds or in hippie treehouses – are on Facebook. They go
there to talk, laugh, share their intimate feelings – all the things
they once did with us, their parents, and now do with 928 "friends"
instead. For parents who consider themselves close to their kids, it
can be a little hard to take, this feeling that while you're the one
paying the bills and making their dinner and washing their socks, their
true emotional lives are happening somewhere else, or nowhere at all.
So, remembering the old adage "if you can't beat 'em, join 'em,"
thousands of middle-aged parents of teenagers now find themselves on
Facebook, stalking their own children.
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